The FAO Smart Farming approach empowers small-scale farmers to improve their livelihoods through good horticultural practices using affordable technologies and efficient resource management – enabling them to produce more and better food with less inputs.

It focuses on producing high-value, nutritious fruits and vegetables, focusing on six core areas: protected cultivation systems, good horticultural practices, local technical capacities and support, high-quality inputs, market-orientation, and digital technologies.

The Smart Farming approach has been implemented in Uzbekistan and Viet Nam since 2019 and is being replicated in Honduras and Zambia from 2024.

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