End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

Increasing farmers’ income and food security through digital solutions

Power of digital

Digital solutions can help drive efficiencies in local food production and timely access to information for rural farmers, e.g. through better monitoring and learning possibilities. Digitally driven microfinance solutions could also empower underserved populations

Opportunities

• Technology-supported efficiency gains and access to information
• Market linkage platforms and reducing asymmetry with buyers
• Digital early weather-warning systems and parametric insurance

Potential risks & digital harms

• Further alienating marginalized, non-digital farming communities
• Exclusion of people with low levels of literacy and/or digital skills
• Few business models to ensure the affordability and adoption of digital solutions

Jiva

Jiva provides smallholder farmers in Indonesia and India with a single platform to access microfinancing, market prices, world-class agronomy advice, and an ecosystem to buy agricultural inputs and sell their produce

Examples of countries implemented

Indonesia and India

Power of digital

1. Helps smallholder farmers to thrive
2. Enables quick, low-cost scaling across regions
3. Ensures cutting-edge knowledge is accessible

“To improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, at scale”
_{Jiva mission statement}

CODA

CODA is a digital solution designed to simplify and streamline nutrition programme guidelines and record and track individual data, using a mobile device and durable smartcard

Examples of countries implemented

South Sudan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uganda, and Madagascar

Power of digital

1. Allows for customization of any conditional-assistance programme
2. Monitors individual data and type of assistance
3. Accessible via cloud-based platform with offline features for remote settings

“CODA is faster than paperwork and can bring results automatically […] so you can visit more people because you don’t have to waste time with paperwork”
_{Community nutrition volunteer}