Feeding Futures—Digital Finance, Innovation, and India’s Livestock Sector: Bridging tradition and technology for inclusive livestock resilience

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dc.creatorBanerjee, Rupsha R.
dc.creatorMittal, Nimisha
dc.creatorSingh, Kanika
dc.creatorDhulipala, Ram
dc.date2025-10-30
dc.date2026-01-05T12:24:10Z
dc.date2026-01-05T12:24:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T17:05:41Z
dc.descriptionThis workshop report documents a one-day workshop held in Bengaluru, India, under the CGIAR Digital Transformation Accelerator. The event convened diverse stakeholders to explore pathways toward inclusive digital and financial innovations tailored to the livestock sector in India, addressing persistent service delivery gaps including high costs, limited localized solutions, technological complexity, and weak trust among livestock keepers across cattle, dairy, and semi-arid pastoral systems. The workshop began with an overarching overview of the Indian livestock sector, highlighting its socio-economic significance and the specific challenges facing smallholder and pastoral systems. Sessions showcased innovations from startups and agritech solutions spanning nutrition, credit and insurance platforms, biometric animal identification, and IoT-enabled dairy supply chain technologies. Panel discussions reflected on barriers and opportunities for digital and financial inclusion, emphasizing the need for reliable data, gender-responsive design, integration with government schemes, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Participants identified key levers for scaling impact such as integrating digital platforms with risk management tools and enhancing access to finance and markets while underscoring the importance of co-creation and contextualized solutions that resonate with local realities. The report summary includes actionable insights and follow-up tasks aimed at advancing digital innovation in the livestock economy.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/179389
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/142018
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Livestock Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBanerjee, R., Mittal, N., Singh, K. and Dhulipala, R. 2025. Feeding Futures—Digital Finance, Innovation, and India’s Livestock Sector: Bridging tradition and technology for inclusive livestock resilience. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
dc.subjectinnovation systems
dc.subjectdigital agriculture
dc.subjectfeeding systems
dc.subjectlivestock
dc.subjectresilience
dc.titleFeeding Futures—Digital Finance, Innovation, and India’s Livestock Sector: Bridging tradition and technology for inclusive livestock resilience
dc.typeReport

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