- Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations
Report · 23 November 2025
This report provides a comprehensive, data-driven snapshot of the global AI landscape. It highlights a stark divide: Most innovations remain concentrated in high-income countries. Yet, a promising…
- Zambia develops a roadmap for small businesses to go green
Report, Strategy · 17 November 2025
The article describes Zambia’s Roadmap for Greening MSMEs, developed by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning with AFI’s support, to help small businesses adapt to climate change and adopt…
- AFI and partners put IGF front and center at COP30
News · 17 November 2025
The article reports on three AFI-led side events at COP30 in Brazil that highlighted the critical role of central banks and financial regulators in advancing Inclusive Green Finance (IGF). The…
- Pakistan learns from Thailand’s experience in climate-smart agriculture financing
News · 28 November 2024
The article covers a study visit to Thailand by staff from the State Bank of Pakistan and 11 Pakistani banks, organized by AFI and the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association. The…
- An Analysis of Farmer Field School (FFS) as a Potential Source of Advanced Technology Dissemination Among the Farmers of District Faisalabad, Pakistan
Report · 19 January 2012
Pakistan is a developing country with agro-based economy. Several extension approaches, designed primarily to improve the living standard of rural people through increased agricultural production and…
- Development and Deployment of Rust Resistant Wheat Varieties in India – Insights from Technology Transfer and Policy Response from the National Seed Production Program
Report · 10 March 2021
Wheat, a major Indian staple food crop is largely prone to rusts infection. Inter alia, wheat producers have been advocated to adopt the recently released innovative technologies (rust resistant high…
- Blockchain Technology for Agricultural Supply Chain Management to Enhance Farming-A Review
Report · 12 June 2025
Blockchain(BC) is used in the agriculture to track information about the entire growth from the seed, plant and crops. Initially it is used only in the financial domain, now it is implemented in all…
- Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Report · 8 September 2014
We report the results of a randomized experiment testing impacts of subsidies for modern agricultural inputs in rural Mozambique. One-time provision of a voucher for fertilizer and improved seeds…
- Facilitating Agricultural Technology Adoption Among the Poor: The Role of Service Delivery Through Mobile Phones
Report · 24 March 2013
The use of mobile phones in poverty reduction and development has ignited much interest over the past decade. To take advantage of the rapid expansion of mobile phones in developing countries…
- From Access to Persistence: Rethinking Technology Adoption Through Agricultural Service Models in Rural China
Report · 17 June 2025
Understanding the behavioral mechanisms underlying the sustained adoption of green agricultural production technologies (AGPT) is essential for advancing the green transformation of agriculture. This…
- Ai-Driven Financial Technology Mitigates Agricultural Supply Chain Risks
Report · 16 April 2025
The agricultural supply chain has long faced problems such as difficulty in financing, high credit risk, and low operational efficiency due to its long production cycle, large market fluctuations…
- National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence-India
Strategy
National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence The Strategy is focused on leveraging AI for inclusive growth in line with the Government policy of "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas" to develop the research…
- Foresight Africa viewpoint – Fulfilling Africa’s agriculture potential: The role of technology
Report · 19 January 2018
This report, featured in Brookings' Foresight Africa 2018, examines how modern agricultural and digital technologies can catalyze a paradigm shift from "agriculture as a way of life" to "agriculture…
- Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development
Report · 18 January 2022
This report explores a series of technological "breakthroughs" that could significantly improve the human condition by 2030, particularly for the world's most vulnerable populations. A collaboration…
- Modernizing congressional tech will require old fashioned collaboration
Blog · 12 July 2021
This commentary explores the reform recommendations proposed by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, focusing on how organizational collaboration can enhance the…
- How emerging technologies can boost Africa’s agriculture and agribusiness
Blog · 27 January 2025
Today, Botswana is just one example of the many African countries that have set out detailed plans for their economic future centered around the implementation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)…
- Population dividend, technological leapfrogging, and high growth rates signal opportunities for African economies
Report, Podcast · 8 July 2025
Host Landry Signé speaks with Acha Leke, chairman of McKinsey & Company’s Africa Region and senior partner in their Johannesburg office, about Africa’s many advantages in human and natural resources.…