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With numerous actors developing, implementing and using a range of digital agriculture solutions globally, there is an urgent need to strengthen partnerships and increase investments across the digitalisation for agriculture (D4Ag) ecosystem. To this end, Digital Agri Hub acts as the connecting glue, bringing together a broad spectrum of stakeholders, and facilitating conversations around D4Ag and the potential it offers for small-scale producers in low-and-middle-income countries...

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Digital Climate Advisory Services (DCAS) are digital services (mobile apps, radio and climate information platforms) together with digitally-enabled services (printed bulletins and extension services) offering climate information that target small-scale producers (SSPs), helping users to adapt to climate variability and change. Digital technologies have transformative potential for climate finance, deploying effective climate services and bringing them to the last mile – small-scale producers...

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In a world where digitalisation is gaining traction at an unprecedented rate, it is important to look beyond smallholder farmers as a homogenous entity. In low-and middle-income countries, core agricultural actors, such as women and minority communities, are often excluded from digital agricultural solutions...

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As key enablers, digital innovations can play a catalytic role – especially in the wake of COVID-19 – by improving the capacity of small-scale producers (SSPs) to adapt to external shocks and increasing productivity and profitability. With more than 33 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists [2] already registered on such platforms, sub-Saharan Africa alone has seen a rapid increase in the adoption of digital solutions, recording an annual growth of 44 per cent over the three-year period ending in 2018...