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Resources

Insights, stories, and media shaping the future of digital agriculture.

Reports & Insights

In-depth research and policy papers driving the future of digital agriculture.

briefing paper 

Scaling Digital Technologies for Women in Agriculture:   The Case of Coffee 

March 2026

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In Collaboration with IDH

REPORT

Shaping the Deep-Tech Revolution in Agriculture

November 2025

report

Agritech: Shaping Agriculture in Emerging Economies, Today and Tomorrow 

April 2024

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In Collaboration with PwC

report

Agritech for Women Farmers: A Business Case for Inclusive Growth

Dec 2024

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World Economic Forum

report

Using technology to improve Billion Livelihoods 

Oct 2022

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In Collaboration with Adani Group

cOMMUNITY PAPER 

Artificial Intelligence for Agricultural Innovation

March 2021

Agenda Blogs

Voices from the field, expert opinions, and real-world applications of agri-tech innovation.

AGENDA BLOG

How gender-intentional digital infrastructure can transform agriculture

Sept 2025

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In Collaboration with Microsoft

AGENDA BLOG

Scaling digital technology for rural prosperity

June 2023

AGENDA BLOG

Beyond data: How to unlock agriculture's full potential 

May 2025

AGENDA BLOG

Farms of the future: How can AI accelerate regenerative agriculture?

September 2024 

DEEP DIVE

From predicting heatwaves to developing climate-resilient seeds: Here’s how agritech can help farmers

April 2024

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World Economic Report

AGENDA BLOG

AI for agriculture: How Indian farmers are harvesting innovation

11 Jan 2024

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

AGENDA BLOG 

India's farmers are on the cusp of an Agritech revolution: AgriStack

14 Nov 2023

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In Collaboration with UPL 

DAVOS AGENDA 

Here's how the agricultural sector can solve its data problem

17 Jan 2023 

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

DAVOS AGENDA 

Here’s how bioscience is revolutionizing food systems without synthetic chemicals

10 Jan 2023 

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

AGENDA BLOG

How India can finance and scale digital innovations in agriculture

24 Aug 2022

AGENDA BLOG

How rural entrepreneurs are driving agritech adoption

4 April 2023 

AGENDA BLOG

AI and drones are revolutionizing farming across Asia

18 Mar 2022

Media

Media features, thought leadership, and global recognition of AI4AI’s work.

MEDIA

WEF says AI, robotics, nanotech to transform agriculture; cites case studies from India

Nov 2025 

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LiveMint.com 

mEDIA

AI4Agri 2026: India’s global convening on AI for agriculture

Feb 2026 

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Agro Spectrum India 

MEDIA 

The next green revolution: WEF unveils 7 deep-tech innovations to revolutionise agriculture

Nov 2025 

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Business Today 

MEDIA

WEF, GoI launch AI playbooks for SMEs and agriculture

Oct 2025 

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PTI

MEDIA

Women farmers drive agri-chains but earn 60% less than men: WEF

Dec 2024 

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Fortune India 

VIDEO

How can innovative technologies help bring about food security?

May 2024

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Video Report

VIDEO

Shaping Agriculture

April 2024

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Video Report

MEDIA 

WEF says India's agri sector can scale new highs with AI, other emerging technologies

21 Jul 2023 

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The Economic Times 

MEDIA 

India, Bangladesh and UAE are transforming modern agriculture – with data innovation

28 Oct 2023

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The Print

MEDIA 

WEF to focus on emerging technologies to help small, marginal farmers

10 May 2022

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The Hindu Business Line 

MEDIA 

Artificial Intelligence to help in farming now

13 Aug 2020

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The New Indian Express 

Case Studies 

Featuring partner case studies on digital agriculture

India’s smallholder farmers often face two persistent challenges: unknowingly purchasing counterfeit agricultural inputs and lacking meaningful incentives to remain loyal to trusted brands. To address this, Bayer’s FarmRise platform launched a tech-enabled intervention that embeds each Bayer product with a unique QR code. Farmers can scan the code via the Bayer FarmRise mobile app to verify product authenticity and earn “Bayer Coins” digital rewards redeemable as cashbacks.Each Bayer product featured a scannable QR code, enabling farmers to verify authenticity and earn digital rewards. This created a seamless phygital ecosystem connecting offline product purchases with a digital engagement and rewards platform.The initiative leveraged key technologies such as AI-driven scan analytics, geo-targeted WhatsApp communication, and loyalty-based conversion tracking. The initiative targeted millions of registered farmers across under-served rural regions in multiple Indian states. To date, around 8 million QR scans have been recorded, reflecting widespread farmer participation and a growing shift toward the use of safe and informed inputs.The initiative was implemented through partnerships with independent agri-retailers and over 1,500 Better Life Farming (BLF) Centers—Bayer-supported agri-entrepreneurs - creating a seamless phygital ecosystem linking offline product purchases with digital engagement and rewards
India | Food & agriculture
QR-Driven Anti-Counterfeit System to Empower Smallholder Farmers in India
Bayer
Digital skills are a key enabler for the adoption of technological solutions. As a response, Yara Africa & Asia’s Capacity Building Programme, launched in 2022, is a digitally-driven initiative empowering rural MSMEs in India and Kenya—particularly women and youth— through formal business education. The 15-week MBA-inspired curriculum is delivered via pre-loaded tablets and a custom-built mobile app, enabling access even in low-connectivity areas. Participants learn business planning, financial literacy, and customer engagement through interactive, self-paced content.In India, the “Plus-One” model promotes female inclusion by inviting male participants to nominate a female family member. Starting with 500 Yara channel partners and expanding to 699 participants—including FPO members, Bayer BLF centers, SHG women, and rural youth—the initiative blends tech with community.Each participant receives weekly mentorship from trained Impact Champions, reinforcing learning and building confidence. Now certified by NCVET and MEPSC, the programme combines digital tools, inclusive pedagogy, and local mentorship to create a growing pipeline of certified, tech-enabled rural entrepreneurs and changemakers ready for the future.
India | Food & agriculture
Empowering Rural Entrepreneurs: Yara’s Digital Capacity Building Programme in India
Yara India
Indian farmers bring deep agronomic knowledge and strong dedication to their fields by consistently investing time and effort to sustain productivity. However, farmers continue to struggle with increasing cultivation costs, fertilizer shortages, labour constraints, and inadequate access to affordable and timely farm support services, advisory solutions, and mechanized equipment.In the absence of dependable and accountable service providers, many farmers rely on informal sources of guidance often leading to delays and inconsistencies in farm operations and decision-making. These challenges are further compounded by the lack of precise and field-level recommendations and labour shortage during season. This results in inefficient input use, including the excessive application of fertilizers and other agri-inputs. This not only increases cultivation costs but also impacts productivity, profitability and long-term sustainability outcomes.
AI-Powered Drone Solutions for Early crop Stress Detection and Optimized Input Use
ChallengesTraditional agricultural extension can't keep pace, it struggles to deliver timely, scalable advice, especially in remote and underserved regions. Farmers face compounding barriers such as literacy, language, patchy digital access, and too few trusted agronomists to go around. And as advisory goes digital, a harder problem surfaces: keeping AI-generated recommendations accurate, context-specific, and farmer-centric across wildly different geographies, crops, and farming systems. Scale and trust usually pull against each other.SolutionsFarmerChat is a conversational, AI-powered advisory platform that lets smallholder farmers get real-time, localized guidance through text, voice, or a photo, in their own language, across 15+ languages. It answers field-level questions on crop planning, pest and disease management, weather, inputs, and market readiness, drawing on fine-tuned language models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and expert-validated datasets, and refined through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) so that answers stay grounded in verified agronomy rather than generic AI output. It's built for low-connectivity settings and for the way farmers actually communicate not just the language they speak.
An AI-powered, multilingual, and multimodal advisory app helping smallholder farmers access trusted, localized support at scale
Digital Green
ChallengesThe food industry faces increasingly fragmented supply chains, limited traceability, inconsistent raw material quality and growing pressure to meet sustainability and responsible sourcing commitments. These challenges are further compounded by climate variability, making it difficult to ensure resilient, transparent, and reliable agricultural value chains while improving farmer livelihoods.InterventionThe Food Value Chain (FVC) Partnership, led by Bayer Crop Science addresses these challenges through an integrated, multi-stakeholder platform that directly connects farmers with food processors, retailers, exporters, and other industry partners. The model combines strong backward integration with Bayer's Regenerative Agriculture Framework, providing farmers with quality inputs, technical advisory, traceability systems, sustainable production practices, and market linkages. Operating across multiple crops, the partnership enables scalable, sustainable sourcing while supporting companies in achieving their sustainability and Scope 3 commitments.
Food Value Chain - A partnership platform enabling sustainable, resilient agri-value chains through direct farmer-to-industry integration across multiple crops.
Bayer
Nagro Agro Crédito, a Brazilian fintech company, specializes in tailored financial solutions for the agricultural sector, with a strong focus on empowering women farmers. Using its advanced data platform, AgriSK, Nagro tackled a persistent issue in rural finance: the misuse of women’s identities as “laranjas” (fronts) by male partners, who were the actual managers of farms. This practice led to poorly managed loans and higher default rates.To address this, Nagro restructured its credit assessment process and introduced robust verification protocols to ensure that women listed on loan applications were the true operators of their agricultural businesses. The initiative also included a direct engagement strategy, where credit officers worked closely with women applicants, helping them strengthen their managerial skills and access the resources they needed to run their farms effectively.
Brazil
Empowering genuine female agricultural entrepreneurs
Nagro

AI4AI Starter Toolkit

A practical PPP framework to help governments scale AI-driven agritech.

Proven across 4 Indian states (2021–2024)Step-by-step, modular playbook from strategy to executionReady-to-use templates for rapid deploymentGuidance on project management and ecosystem setup

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