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Highlights: How digitalisation drives effective policy-making in fisheries is poorly understood. We test effects of real-time fisheries monitoring on development and management objectives. Digital adoption...

The report highlights challenges faced by the agricultural sector in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zambia, including productivity issues and food security concerns due to factors such as limited inputs...

Child undernutrition in Cambodia is a persistent public health problem requiring low-cost and scalable solutions. Rising cellphone use in low-resource settings represents an opportunity to replace in-person...

Highlights: Digital breakthroughs have the power to transform smallholders' agriculture. Digital agriculture fits flexible adaptation to fluctuating situations. SSA's farmers recognized the advantages...

This paper explains the need for digital tools and how they enable commercialization and scale, the impact on users, and the risks and benefits with examples of projects and partners along the value chain...

Highlights We assess the impact of technology, especially information & communication technology, on food security. We use a sample of 106 countries over the...

Highlights Food system projections need to consider a range of potential shocks scenarios. Connectivity in food systems can increase volatility and vulnerability to shocks...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are considered a possible game changer in boosting agricultural productivity, profitability, sustainability, and resilience worldwide. Yet, more evidence is needed...

LDCs are suffering more from the negative economic impact of COVID-19 than from its health effects. The COVID crisis will lead LDCs to their worst economic performance...