Biosensor for agriculture and food safety: Recent advances and future perspectives

Climate change and the growing world population leading to agriculture and food safety are global challenges facing humanity, while biosensors have long been regarded as one of the powerful tools for providing solutions. Biosensors can aid in sustainable agriculture by providing continuous monitoring or early detection of disease outbreaks that can be averted. It also plays an important role in monitoring food risk factors such as pesticides, veterinary medications, heavy metals, pathogens, poisons, and illegal additions. Currently, this field includes a series of reviews covering the topic, but surprisingly, there tend to focus more on a single level and ignore the role across the food value chain. In this Perspective, we emphasized on the importance of all sectors from farm to fork for developing better biosensors.