Food system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation

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dc.creatorBenfica, Rui
dc.creatorChambers, Judith A.
dc.creatorKoo, Jawoo
dc.creatorNin-Pratt, Alejandro
dc.creatorFalck-Zepeda, José B.
dc.creatorStads, Gert-Jan
dc.creatorArndt, Channing
dc.date2021-05-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:27Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:27Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:11:51Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142989
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/97410
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUnited Nations Food Systems Summit
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBenfica, Rui; Chambers, Judith A.; Koo, Jawoo; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin; Stads, Gert-Jan; and Arndt, Channing. 2021. Food system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation. United Nations Food Systems Summit. https://doi.org/10.48565/scfss2021-6180
dc.subjectinnovation
dc.subjectvalue chains
dc.subjectagricultural bio-innovations
dc.subjectagricultural value chains
dc.subjectinvestment
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectresearch
dc.subjectagricultural productivity
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectdigital technology
dc.titleFood system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation
dc.typeBrief

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