Access to agricultural extension and crop advisory services can play a crucial role in ensuring widespread and appropriate use of new and improved agricultural technologies, but the delivery and use...
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Agrifood value chains represent an important element of food systems and economies around the world. For example, intermediary agri-food value chain actors—those operating enterprises that transport...
Ethiopia hosts one of the largest extension systems in Africa, with approximately 43 development agents (DAs) per 10,000 farmers, more than 15,000 farmers training centers (FTCs)...
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...
Can digital technologies also be used to train agricultural producers or increase their skills and knowledge? This brief provides insights and investment recommendations on the use of digital...
Adolescents’ consumption of healthy foods is suboptimal in low- and middle-income countries. Adolescents’ fondness for games and social media and the increasing access to smartphones make apps suitable for collecting...
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...
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Many digital innovations have been developed and deployed in recent years in Africa, many of which have only been implemented at pilot...
This policy note showcases two examples on how remote sensing data can be used for monitoring agricultural production and economic activities. The first case aims...