This policy brief investigates how digital technologies could help improve the sustainable performance of smallholder farmers.
Key Messages
- An increased global population is a major threat to food sustainability, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
- It is critical for stakeholders to pursue sustainable agricultural performance that is based on achieving a balance between environmental protection, economic growth and social development.
- Leveraging digital technologies in agri-food supply chain has achieved many successes in the food supply chain of developed economies.
- Despite the potential benefits of digital technologies to the agri-food supply chain, adoption rate among smallholder farmers in SSA remains low.
- A clear understanding of the low adoption of digital technologies in the agricultural context in SSA would help formulate policies to enhance the diffusion of digital technologies among smallholder farmers.