Resources
The e-Agriculture produces some Policy Briefs and/or Discussion Summaries, Newsletters, Audiovisual Materials and Publications when carrying out various activities, also in conjunction with the partners.
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Digital vouchers as a market-based instrument for seed sector commercialization in Afghanistan. Phase I: Early findings
20/01/2026
Under the Emergency Food Security Project (EFSP), funded by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a large‑scale seed commercialization initiative in Afghanistan. The new approach responds to challenges including liquidity constraints among farming households, seed price affordability for smallholders and weak, fragmented market linkages between farmers and domestic seed producers. These constraints are often more pronounced for women farmers, who face additional mobility and access barriers to agricultural inputs and services.
Categories: Digital technologies in Agriculture (ICTs) , commercial farmers
Digital Agriculture and AI Innovation Roadmap
31/12/2025
The Digital agriculture and AI innovation roadmap crystallizes a shared vision: an agrifood future where innovation is inclusive, trusted, and relentlessly focused on impact. Developed through a multistakeholder dialogue, the roadmap translates the high-level ambition of more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems (AFS) into a three-year action plan that moves the sector decisively beyond fragmented pilots towards an ecosystem that fosters collaboration, reuse, and contextual adaptation.
Categories: Artificial Intelligence
Farmers’ willingness to pay for a digital extension tool in Sri Lanka. An economic application of list experiments
11/11/2025
List experiments utilize indirect survey questions to reduce social desirability bias in measures of sensitive behaviours and sentiments. While often used to assess retrospective behaviour or opinions of respondents, list experiments have not been widely applied to assessing “deep” parameters of economic models, such as willingness to pay. Common stated preference methods of estimating willingness to pay may be impacted by social desirability bias, particularly when a product has been provided to survey recipients for free.
Categories: extension-advisory services , digital financial services
Gender-responsive digital extension and advisory services in Bangladesh and India
10/11/2025
Digital technologies are rapidly transforming how agricultural knowledge and services are delivered, offering promising avenues to bridge gaps in access to information, markets, and decision-making for rural populations. In South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and India, digital extension and advisory services (EAS) are increasingly being adopted to support smallholder farmers. However, these innovations often fail to adequately account for gender-based disparities in access, use, and benefit.
Categories: extension-advisory services
Brief on Innovation Portfolio of the Digital agriculture. FAO Programme Priority Area
23/10/2025
In mid-2024, FAO conducted two workshops to pilot the innovation portfolio approach within the Digital Agriculture PPA, assessing 62 projects totaling approximately USD 270 million. Using criteria such as scaling stage, strength of evidence, and required capabilities, the assessment found most investments concentrated in mid-to-late scaling phases, with limited focus on early-stage or exploratory innovations. Participants emphasized the need to diversify investments, strengthen digital ecosystems, and build capacities—especially around AI and scaling partnerships.
Categories: capacity development , Digital technologies in Agriculture (ICTs)
Bhutan rural and digital finance ecosystem assessment 2024
08/10/2025
The Bhutan Rural and Digital Finance Ecosystem Assessment 2024 was jointly conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) under FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative. The assessment is part of a regional project to improve inclusive rural financial systems in five Asia-Pacific countries.It responds to challenges in rural Bhutan, including poverty, limited access to finance and markets, gender and digital gaps, and climate vulnerability.
Categories: financial inclusion