Providing farmers with essential agricultural information and training in the era of COVID-19 has been a challenge that has prompted a renewed interest in digital extension services. There is a distinct...
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Background
Digital technologies are promoted as transformational for smallholders in Africa through the potential to enhance access to knowledge, increase productivity and food security. Despite the anticipations for...
Digitalization of agriculture (DA) has emerged as a powerful rural transformative force. However, the dynamics of how digitalization is changing smallholder farming practices at the heart of rural life...
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...
With the growing impact of climate change on agriculture and food, its threat to human existence can no longer be dismissed. This threat is global, but producers and consumers in less...
Highlights
Mechanization, digitalization, and youth are key to agri-food system transformation.
Little is known about local stakeholder perceptions on these contested topics.
This can...
A trial of three nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings in rural Odisha, India, found improvements in maternal and child dietary diversity, limited...
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...
Climate Change and Food Systems: Transforming Food Systems for Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resilience
Many promising innovations and policy approaches show potential to address climate change...
Recommendations
The following recommendations are provided to strengthen efforts by FOs to empower rural youth to participate in agriculture and the rural economy in a profitable and sustained way. It is...