Digital Agri Hub newsletter

In this January issue of our newsletter, we update you on the latest developments around Digital Agri Hub and digitalisation for agriculture. We are excited to announce our new data editing facility, which allows digital solution providers to feature their solutions on the Hub and keep them up-to-date. With more than 800 solutions deployed in low- and middle-income countries, we are gradually working towards a global coverage. We have also published valuable new insights on the digital agriculture ecosystem, covering a wide variety of topics.

Entering the next stage

Digital Agri Hub has been online for a bit more than one year now. In that period, we have grown towards covering the global agriculture data ecosystem, tracking digital solutions in agriculture world-wide. We publish information on 800+ solutions deployed in low- and middle-income countries, thanks to collaboration with and engagement of many D4Ag stakeholders, our partners GSMA, Grameen Foundation and the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing (NAB), and with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO and USAID. 

After this incubation period, Digital Agri Hub is now entering it's next stage as an independent entity, hosted and maintained by Wageningen University & Research. We will keep tracking the evolution of the D4Ag ecosystem, generating new insights, supporting matchmaking between stakeholders and providing updates on important developments in digital agriculture.

Get featured on Digital Agri Hub

The Hub has just opened its data entry facility for digital solution providers. This responds to the demand for crowd-sourcing opportunities, and offers a new way to register digital solutions for agriculture or to update existing data in our database. Submitted solutions will be featured in our dashboard and become more visible for investors, donors and other stakeholders in the D4Ag sector. Click here and get more information on how to request for an account or edit your data.

Strengthening digitalisation policies and pathways in Asia

Starting from the CTA heritage on digitalisation in Africa, Digital Agri Hub has extended its reach to other global regions. To engage with the #D4Ag network in Asia, a dialogue was organised with Asian stakeholders to discuss ways to improve on two main challenges for digital agriculture: sustainability and scaling. In our blog on this dialogue, we discuss country level experiences on the Asian continent and the emerging insights on the importance of a well-functioning multi-stakeholder ecosystem and strengthening required policies and pathways to bring together governments, private organisations and development partners.

Our journey towards a global data ecosystem

Digital Agri Hub is now a bit more than one year on its way in tracking digital solutions for agriculture world-wide. Building on the heritage of CTA on digitalisation in Africa, we now publish information on 800+ solutions in low- and middle-income countries, offering a wealth of information to investors, donors and other stakeholders in the sector. This has been a challenging journey, with many fruitful interactions and collaborations with the larger global D4Ag community of stakeholders. We have just published a blog on our experiences and the challenges we have encountered, and of course all collected information is provided through our digital solutions dashboard. 

Smart Farming for small-scale producers

Smart Farming solutions can play an important role in helping smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) increase their productivity and resilience to disaster by opening access to assets and mechanisation, optimising the use of inputs, labour and natural resources and reducing crop and animal losses and waste. The assessment of Smart Farming solutions for smallholders, performed by GSMA as a partner in Digital Agri Hub, explores the emergence of Smart Farming solutions in LMICs and identifies opportunities to scale these solutions, providing valuable insights to sectoral stakeholders.

Digital Agri Hub is hosted and maintained by Wageningen University & Research.

Digital Agri Hub is developed by Wageningen University and Research (WUR), in partnership with GSMA, Grameen Foundation and the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing (NAB). The work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).