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The enabling environments for the digitalization of African agriculture

In: 2020 Annual trends and outlook report: Sustaining Africa's agrifood system transformation: The role of public policies

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  • Baumüller, Heike
  • Addom, Benjamin K.

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This chapter explains the four pillars of digitalization for agriculture (D4Ag) and takes a closer look at two of those pillars that are required to build a strong enabling environment. D4Ag holds great promise for the transformation of African agriculture, but only if it is carried out holistically—that is, if it is well defined and appropriately deployed as part of broader agricultural and rural development strategies. In other words, digitalization must be understood as an agricultural development tool rather than a technological tool so that its application is problem- rather than technology-driven.

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  • Baumüller, Heike & Addom, Benjamin K., 2020. "The enabling environments for the digitalization of African agriculture," IFPRI book chapters, in: 2020 Annual trends and outlook report: Sustaining Africa's agrifood system transformation: The role of public policies, chapter 13, pages 159-173, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Matthew Ayamga & Abdelaziz Lawani & Selorm Akaba & Arsene Birindwa, 2023. "Developing Institutions and Inter-Organizational Synergies through Digitalization and Youth Engagement in African Agriculture: The Case of “Africa Goes Digital”," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-17, January.

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