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Digital Transformation

A hemispheric look at public-private interventions for the agri-food digital transformation



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Investments and Public Expenditure
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Smart agriculture for sustainable development in Guyana: Precision agriculture, AI and IoT
This project integrates precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things technologies with climate-smart agricultural practices and bioeconomy models to improve productivity, resilience, and food security for smallholder farmers in Guyana. Through three components (precision technology adoption, technical and institutional capacity building, and integration of bioeconomy practices and value chain strengthening), the project directly benefits 25,000 farmers, indigenous communities, and Afro-descendants in regions 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 of the country.
AGRAYU: PhyGital Platform for Rural Agriculture
A non-reimbursable technical cooperation aimed at improving agricultural profitability and environmental sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon through a PhyGital (physical and digital) platform that combines AI-based personalized agronomic advisory with traceable distribution of agricultural inputs for small cacao producers in the provinces of Juanjui and Tocache (San Martín). The initiative integrates blockchain-based digital identity, a decentralized network of local entrepreneurs called "Inges Agrayu" with a gender focus, and satellite deforestation monitoring, targeting a 19% productivity increase and a 17% reduction in the local deforestation rate. It was selected through the Amazonía BioBuilders call (RG-O1711) and is framed within the IDB Group's Amazonía Siempre Program, with a projected scale-up to over 20,000 producer families across the Amazon region.
CARICOM E-Agriculture Strategy
The CARICOM E-Agriculture Strategy is a key component of the flagship 25x2025+5 initiative, aimed at modernizing the regional agricultural sector through digital innovation, including artificial intelligence, mobile platforms, and smart farming tools to boost productivity, strengthen climate resilience, and expand market access. The strategy is built on six pillars: rural connectivity, precision agriculture, digital financial services, digital skills, e-commerce, and policy and governance frameworks. It focuses specifically on youth, women, and agri-entrepreneurs, seeking to position agriculture as a modern, innovative, and attractive sector across the Caribbean region.


Policy frameworks
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Who is Who in Prices Program
Who is Who in Prices is a program and online tool of Mexico’s Federal Consumer Protection Agency that provides retail price information for regularly consumed products. The tool allows users to search for specific product prices, compare minimum and maximum prices across stores, calculate the cost of a shopping list, and support informed consumer purchasing decisions.
Law 2539 Of 2025: Inclusion Of Rural Youth In The National System Of Agrarian Reform And Rural Development
Law 2539 of 2025 amends Law 160 of 1994 and Decree Law 902 of 2017 to explicitly include rural youth in the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. The law guarantees and prioritizes their progressive access to land, to productive projects aligned with their life plans, to sustainable rural productive activities, academic and technical training, financing mechanisms and associativity. It also secures their participation in territorial governance bodies, creates a specific budget tracer for rural youth, promotes innovation, the use of ICTs, cultural rootedness and special measures for young people who are victims of armed conflict, thereby contributing to comprehensive rural reform with a territorial, generational and ethnic approach.
Rural and Peasant Youth Law (Bill 034-24, Colombia)
This legislative document proposes a Statutory Law to recognize rural and peasant youth in Colombia as rights-holders, establishing affirmative measures to ensure their access to education, health, employment, rural entrepreneurship, financial services, political participation, and digital connectivity. It includes definitions, protection measures, institutional mechanisms, and provisions to strengthen rural generational renewal, peasant agriculture, and socio-economic inclusion.


Good practices
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E-KAKASHI: The Agricultural Intelligence Brain
The project seeks to improve the productivity and sustainability of rice cultivation in Colombia through an innovative technological solution that combines Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems. This technology, developed by PS Solutions (Softbank Group), transforms agriculture into a science based on data by collecting real-time information from the environment and crops to determine optimal levels of agricultural parameters. The project will benefit 16,000 Colombian rice farmers, especially small producers from areas affected by armed conflicts who face productivity problems due to lack of access to technologies and financial services. Additionally, e-kakashi contributes to solving environmental problems by optimizing water use and reducing methane emissions from rice paddies, which represent approximately 20% of global emissions of this gas. The project has two phases: demonstration of efficacy under real conditions in collaboration with CIAT and commercial expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, combining non-reimbursable technical cooperation (up to US$500,000) with equity investment (up to US$1,500,000).
Agricultural Policies for Food Security, Competitiveness and Sustainability in Mexico
This technical cooperation aims to strengthen the institutional capacities of the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) through the development and implementation of strategic tools and specialized instruments that increase the effectiveness of public policies oriented towards sectoral competitiveness and sustainability of the Mexican agricultural and fishing sector. The TC will support studies, methodologies and specialized consultancies that will strengthen the registry and program roster system, the agricultural and rural statistics system, including support in remote sensing methodologies and direct marketing models between small and medium producers. It will also finance the development of a Master Plan for Sustainable Development of Fishing, Aquaculture and Mariculture in the Peninsula and Gulf of California. The project seeks to address the structural challenges of the Mexican agricultural sector related to limited institutional capacities, fragmented information systems and barriers to the inclusion of small and medium producers. The initiative contributes directly to strengthening national food security through more effective and sustainable public policies.
Support for the Development of Coffee Forest Information Systems in El Salvador
IDB technical cooperation aimed at designing a national system that generates and disseminates relevant and timely information for the design, monitoring, and evaluation of competitiveness and sustainability policies for Salvadoran coffee growing. The project seeks to strengthen the coffee sector's information systems by developing a statistical system comprised of a coffee grower registry, a georeferenced coffee census, and complementary surveys that generate dynamic data with national coverage. It includes the design of mechanisms for capturing and analyzing information from national and international markets, as well as traceability systems using blockchain methodology. The project addresses the problem of the lack of specialized information that limits the design and implementation of effective policies for a sector that represents 22% of the country's forests and has historically been a national economic driver. The initiative supports the execution of loan ES-L1135 "Strengthening the Climate Resilience of Coffee Forests in El Salvador."


Dialogue rooms
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