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  • Publication | 2025

Innovation and technology for achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation

Global Food and Nutrition Security

This paper examines how shifts in innovation and technology can foster resilient, inclusive rural transformation, focusing on farming systems and value chains. It highlights opportunities for innovation to create rural jobs, improve smallholder livelihoods, combat malnutrition, and address climate impacts.

Key levers for change include:

  1. Investing in equity-sensitive, gender-responsive agricultural R&D
  2. Amplifying marginalized voices
  3. Ensuring equitable access to technology
  4. Supporting small- and medium-scale agrifood enterprises
  5. Prioritizing rural employment amid automation and evolving value chains

The paper challenges traditional rural transformation models and offers a vision for more inclusive, resilient agrifood systems.