The Malabo Montpellier Panel has identified a set of policies and practices summarized in this infographic that, if brought to scale, could significantly improve the resilience and livelihoods of rural communities and spur overall agricultural growth...
The Government of Senegal has shown a clear commitment to promoting greater ICT penetration and provision of ICT services, including in the agriculture sector, through carefully designed policies and regulations. The country’s EBA ICT score of 4.5 ou...
Digitalization in Nigeria’s agriculture sector is advancing rapidly. The government’s drive to shift away from oil revenues and toward less-developed sectors is providing a strong stimulus to modernize the agriculture sector. Nigeria’s score of 4.5 o...
The Government of Morocco has been ambitious in carefully designing policies and regulations that can promote greater ICT penetration and the provision of ICT services to different sectors of the economy, including the agriculture sector. The country...
The use of digital technologies in Rwanda’s agriculture sector is advancing rapidly. Yet, despite visible developments in the ICT sector, Rwanda scored just 3.8 out of 9 in the 2017 World Bank’s EBA ICT Index. While this indicates some progress, ther...
Kenya has an advanced digital environment. According to the World Bank’s EBA ICT index, Kenya ranks top among African countries on the index. With a score of 7.0 out of 9, Kenya offers a superior system of laws, regulations, and policies that promote...
The Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been ambitious in developing policies and regulations to promote greater ICT penetration and the provision of ICT services to different sectors of the economy, including the agriculture sector. The country’s EBA IC...
The current report — Byte by byte: policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies— summarizes the key findings of a systematic analysis of what seven African countries at the forefront of progress on digitalization...
As the largest network of agricultural research organizations in the world, CGIAR is uniquely positioned to be a thought leader and global convener on the use of big data and information technology in agriculture. The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in A...
Commodity exchanges can provide emerging market economies with orderly, transparent, and efficient markets by acting as mechanisms that mitigate price risk, discover equilibrium prices, and connect buyers and sellers. Exchanges can also reduce tran...
Agriculture is central to emerging market economies. In Africa, it accounts for as much as 65 percent of employment and 32 percent of output. Globally, two-thirds of the world’s poor—some 750 million people—work in rural areas. But as economies exp...
Agriculture is central to emerging market economies. In Africa it accounts for as much as 65 percent of employment and 32 percent of output. Globally, two-thirds of the world’s poor—some 750 million people—work in rural areas. Bu...