AgrotechA Grow Asia and IFAD report drawn from four years in Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam says digital agriculture lacks a delivery system, not technology, and calls for public digital infrastructure and farmer-centred design.
At a World Food Day seminar at BARC, speakers called for precision agriculture, drone and digital training for young farmers, and climate-smart farming built on gene editing and artificial intelligence.
AgrotechIFAD and EU-funded Innovatech 2.0 linked tech startups with 811 producer organisations in Bangladesh and five Latin American countries, putting market, finance, crop-management and traceability tools in farmers' hands.
AgribusinessAt the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, IFAD agreed to mobilise up to US$750 million with the Islamic Development Bank and signed a new five-year co-financing framework with the World Bank.
The roughly Tk 7,000 crore PARTNER programme has reached 22 percent implementation in three years and three months; on 6 October Dr Md Shakhawat Hossain Sharif, who helped design it, was made project director.
AgribusinessThe $112 million CRALEP, run by LGED with Danish support, and the $212 million GREEN project, run by PKSF, aim to reach 2.5 million people with flood-proof infrastructure, early warning, finance and skills.
LivestockThe $2 million SMART-Herders project in Bayankhongor and Dundgobi will build solar water stations and rainwater banks, run 144 field schools and link herders to early warning of dzud and drought.
AgribusinessThe Nigeria AgriConnect Compact aims to mobilise about $5 billion over five years to lift smallholder productivity, targeting food security for nearly three million people and 2.56 million jobs by 2031.
The framework, signed at UNGA81, moves the two lenders from project-by-project deals to joint investment in the first mile of food systems.
Launched with Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, the World Bank Group and IFAD, the compact targets 10,000 producers, a 25% rise in livestock output, 44% in horticulture and 5,000 jobs, with US$243 million of investment needs to 2030 to be co-financed by IFAD, AfDB, IsDB and FAO; IFAD has put
Flows to low- and middle-income countries have grown 94% since 2016 to more than four times official development assistance; 220 million migrants support 1.1 billion relatives, about US$233 billion reached rural areas, and recipient families invest an estimated US$22 billion a year in rural agrifood
