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Food system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation [Pub: 01-05-2021]
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Benfica, Rui Chambers, Judith A. Koo, Jawoo Nin-Pratt, Alejandro Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin Stads, Gert-Jan Arndt, Channing |
| Organization | IFPRI - United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) |
| Organization | IFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division |
| Description | This brief looks at food system innovations and digital technologies as important drivers of productivity growth and improved food and nutrition security. The analysis emphasizes a mix of research feasibility and technology-enabling factors necessary to realize pro-poor benefits. Given their transformative potential and the urgency of developing the enabling R&D and trajectories required for impact, we highlight genome editing bio-innovations, specifically CRISPR-Cas9, to address sustainable agricultural growth; and digital technologies, including remote sensing, connected sensors, artificial intelligence, digital advisory services, digital financial services, and e-commerce, to help guide the operations and decision-making of farmers, traders, and policymakers in agricultural value chains. The analysis points to the need to close critical gaps in R&D investments, capabilities, and enabling policies as well as regulations to accelerate the scaling and adoption of innovations. At the global level, the engagement of low- and middle income countries with global players should be facilitated so as to strengthen intellectual property (IP) access and management of innovations; and North– South, South–South, and triangular cooperation should be promoted to strengthen LMICs’ regulatory capabilities. At the national level, countries need to invest in science-based participatory approaches to identify and adapt technologies to local conditions; close regulatory gaps through evidence-based frameworks that enable the rapid development, employment, and safe use of innovations; close institutional and human capacity gaps by addressing limitations in institutional capacities and coordination, while training a new generation of scientists with the skills needed to develop and deliver innovations; develop an understanding of political economy factors for a nuanced knowledge of actors’ agendas to better inform communications and address technology hesitancy; close digital infrastructure gaps in rural areas by promoting simultaneous investments in digital infrastructure and electrification, reducing data costs, and improving digital literacy; and develop sustainable business models for digital service providers to help them achieve profitability, interoperability, and scale to reach a sustainable critical mass, and thus facilitate the adoption of food systems innovations. |
| Sponsorship | United States Agency for International Development |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/51b4e17c-6129-4f8f-a54b-dfa08ca43a00 |
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| DOI | 10.48565/scfss2021-6180 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | United Nations Food Systems Summit |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Policies, Institutions, and Markets Innovation Value Chains Agricultural Bio-innovations Agricultural Value Chains Investment Technology Research Agricultural Productivity Food Systems Digital Technology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Report |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
