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Agriculture plays an important role in feeding the global population, fostering rural development initiatives, and reducing the overall global carbon footprint for climate resiliency. Furthermore, the agriculture ecosystem spans many industries both urban and nonurban across the globe.

The IEEE SA Transdisciplinary Framework for 5G and Future Networks Enabled Applications and Services Industry Connections (IC) white paper discusses the end-to-end agriculture ecosystem in the context of the food supply chain, rural development, and climate resiliency. A transdisciplinary framework that includes ecosystems, networks, and governance may address the end-to-end agriculture ecosystem in a sustainable and systematic manner. The food supply chain includes the natural environment and resources, food production, processing and packaging, distribution, and consumption. Rural development is discussed within the context of connectivity, cross-ecosystem touchpoints, and local economic development. Climate resiliency is addressed through changes in land use and land cover (LULC).

Numerous opportunities and challenges may be addressed in a phased approach that caters to local priorities, capabilities, and constraints. The transdisciplinary approach facilitates collaboration across different stakeholder groups that strive toward comprehensive solution development across the endto- end agriculture ecosystem. Potential opportunities include technology innovations, standards development, access to services, economic development, policy development, and resource management.