Dear Colleagues,

Dairy farms play a fundamental role in the food security of the rural population by supplying food with high nutritional value. Open data from territorial information can be a good tool to improve farm management systems and to implement open innovation actions in sustainable production models linked to the territory. In this way, the dairy farms sector will be able to increase its viability using a sustainability and circular economy approach.

In this context, the purpose of this Special Issue is to deepen our knowledge of the use of open data in dairy farming systems, as well as strategies to address the problems faced by the sector. In this context, it is interesting to deepen our understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by local dairy farming systems, as well as strategies to address the problems faced by the sector.

We invite original manuscripts concerning the characterization and reuse of open data of dairy farming systems and strategies to improve the open innovation and sustainability of dairy farming systems through open data.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Re-use of open data in the field of dairy farming.
• Identification of a set of technological, social, environmental, and economic management indicators of dairy farms related to open data.
• Development of productive and organizational strategies for the different production models related to the use of open data.
• Open data entrepreneurship in the field of dairy farming.
• Proposal of management models that increase the open innovation and sustainability of dairy farms, linking these to territorial development and the use of open data.

Prof. Dr. Antón García-Martínez
Prof. Dr. Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero
Prof. Dr. Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• open innovation
• open data
• territorial development
• improving sustainability
• farm resilience
• rural livelihoods