Résumé
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted all the weaknesses of manufacturing systems and supply chains. In thischallenging context, smallholders have faced several crises mainly related to the difficulty of finding manpower for harvestingactivities and the impossibility of distributing food, due to the forced closure of many distribution channels. The main consequenceswere lost sales and wasted food. With the aim of increasing the responsiveness of smallholders in the face of COVID-like crises,this paper provides an overview of methodologies and approaches currently available in the literature in terms of: ICT tools,blockchain-based solutions, business models, sustainability-oriented frameworks, simulation models. The analysis of the literatureprovides two main outputs: (1) a list of challenges to be faced in the coming years to improve the working conditions ofsmallholders, (2) the definition of future research developments, which mainly concern the design of an ICT platform, whichintegrates multiple technological aspects.