Background: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption across the agricultural sector has grown and changed rapidly over the past years, which may contribute significantly to addressing global challenges. However, ICT adoption is facing technology-integrating challenges in business operations and business model innovation. Thus, to develop and strengthen a sustainable, competitive agricultural sector and to achieve profitable development, it is important to increase the knowledge of ICTs and their impacts, especially when it comes to animal welfare. Moreover, it is important to empower developed business models and governance of innovation ecosystems to release the full potential of ICT and its widespread adoption. 

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the literature on ICT and business model innovation in the Agricultural sector. The research aims to stimulate the use of ICT in the agricultural sector, recognizing the role of business model innovation in releasing the full potential of ICT and promoting the widespread adoption of ICT, and address the sustainable aspect of animal welfare.

Method: This study combines a systematic literature review approach with bibliometric analysis. To develop the Bibliometric Literature Review, Scopus and Web of Science databases were used together with software: Rayyan and VOSviewer. Rayyan was used to manage the collaboration between the researcher team during the review process. Then, the maps were created by VOSviewer. We conduct a science mapping to examine the relationships between research constituents. The techniques for science mapping include citation analysis, co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, co-word analysis, and co-authorship analysis.

Findings: The study shows an increasing trend of year-on-year publications, authors' performance, publication journals, associated institutions, and research-driving countries, along with key insights from co-citation network analysis. Different perspectives showed the multidisciplinary nature of the topic. It is a fragmented literature regarding the authors and countries' publications.  The results map and discuss the main issues that are covered in ICT fields and business models in agriculture, thereby providing suggestions for future research and policy. The bibliometric analysis reveals the descriptive statistics on this field and the main themes through the authors' keywords.

Research limitations/implications: The research explores a topic in the early stage to define key strands of literature. Limitations arise from the sources used to develop our analysis and how the topic appears as a frontier innovation.

Originality/value: Originality is the integration of literature strands related to ICT and business model innovation in the Agricultural sector, highlighting its multidisciplinary nature to provide a holistic understanding of the themes. 

This Bibliometric Literature Review provides a supporting output that can help both research and policies that aim to boost innovation in the agricultural sector. The paper contributes to the knowledge by organizing, rationalizing, and extending the extant literature with valuable insights about the current status of research; most cited articles, authors, journals, keywords, and contributing communities using various bibliometric techniques.

This report is based on case studies from Sweden, indicating that the local context can be developed into a competitive advantage when using sustainable and digital solutions. The study also draws on findings from a consumer study, targeting sustainable shopping habits and interest towards new ways of purchasing food in the future. Results indicate that new sustainable business models can provide sustainable values for both farmers as well as end-consumers, but the traditional value chain need to be evaluated on value adding aspects and traceability along the process. Additionally, the end-consumer indicate an interest to purchase food directly from the farmer, which is considered as an important aspect for better animal health and welfare. This is an important aspect to include when doing business model innovation in the agricultural sector.