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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...

Highlights: A new traceability platform for tracing fish and derived products from sea to fork. The platform comprises a microservices backend, and kiosk and mobile user apps. Platform allows...

Highlights There are high hopes but little evidence concerning the potential of digital agriculture, i.e. regarding livestock We take stock of digital livestock...

CONTEXT Digitalisation impacts value creation and capture in all industries economic sectors. One of the somewhat less researched and less well-understood contexts is agriculture. OBJECTIVE To...

CONTEXT Digital technologies have the potential to address several sustainability challenges of the coffee value chain, however, given potential backlash consequences, this process must be...

Gender productivity gaps in agriculture are large around the world, even though women comprise 40–50 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries. Gender...

Agriculture is the mainstay of Uganda’s economy, contributing about 25% of the GDP, a third of the export earnings and almost all the country’s food requirements. Yet, the sector still faces...

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...

This study reviews the main applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in fisheries and identifies current challenges for fisheries that have the potential to be dealt with through AI. Legal...

Technology innovations, and their supporting enabling environment, have the potential to support positive food system transformation. This report, developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey...