Eventos | 05 mayo 2021

La agricultura digital y los pobres de las zonas rurales: Desafíos y oportunidades para obtener resultados

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El FIDA organizó la cuarta charla sobre Innovación (Innovation Talk) para debatir los avances, los principales retos y las oportunidades de la implantación de servicios digitales de asesoramiento agrícola para los pequeños agricultores.

En esta charla sobre la agricultura digital y su potencial para reducir la pobreza rural participaron el profesor Michael Kremer, ganador del Premio Nobel de Economía en 2019; Owen Barder, director general de Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD); panelistas del FIDA y del IFPRI; y representantes gubernamentales.

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Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) is transforming agricultural extension in developing countries by utilizing digital technologies and rigorous research methods. PAD works with partners to build, scale, and improve mobile phone–based agricultural extension with the goal of increasing the productivity and incomes of 100 million small-scale farmers and their families.

In 2020, IFAD and PAD established a partnership that aims to deliver personalized agricultural advice to farmers through their mobile phones, establishing a two-way information channel by which farmers can receive low-cost, customized advice to improve on-farm practices, input utilization, pest and disease management, environmental sustainability, and access to markets.

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