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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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David Spielman

David Spielman is the director of IFPRI’s Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit and has been with the institute since 2004. His research agenda covers a range of topics including agriculture and rural development policy; agricultural science, technology, and innovation; plant genetic resources and seed systems; agricultural extension and advisory services; and community-driven rural development.

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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a United Nations agency dedicated to helping advance and invest in the lives of rural people around the world through low-interest loans and grants. IFAD seeks to empower rural people to increase their food security, improve the nutrition of their families and increase their incomes through funding of grants and low-interest loans to several projects. IFAD works in areas where poverty and hunger are most prominent.

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Projects

Ensuring Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Efficiency of Food System Transformation in the ASEAN and BIMSTEC countries

Ensuring Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Efficiency of Food System Transformation in the ASEAN and BIMSTEC countries

The project “Ensuring Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Efficiency of Food System Transformation in the ASEAN and BIMSTEC Countries (ATMI-II)”, is being led by IFPRI as the……

Supporting ReSAKSS and CAADP

Supporting ReSAKSS and CAADP

From 2006 to 2020, IFPRI facilitated the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development……

Spatial Typologies for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Interventions

Spatial Typologies for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Interventions

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Climate-smart agriculture for sustainable agriculture in Bhutan: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward

2025Pathak, Himanshu
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Climate-smart agriculture for sustainable agriculture in Bhutan: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward

This discussion brief is part of the knowledge management and capacity building component of the Consortium for Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agriculture in South Asia (C-SUCSeS) project. C-SUCSeS is a joint initiative between the SAARC1 Agriculture Centre (SAC), International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). It aims to promote bottomup applied research on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies through active participation of smallholder farmers based on the participatory research experiences in the region.

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2025

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Pathak, Himanshu

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Pathak, Himanshu. 2025. Climate-smart agriculture for sustainable agriculture in Bhutan: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward. South Asia Policy Perspectives 6. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

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Bhutan

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Asia; Southern Asia; Agricultural Technology; Capacity Development; Climate-smart Agriculture; Smallholders

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Climate-smart agriculture technologies in Nepal: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward

2025Pathak, Himanshu
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Climate-smart agriculture technologies in Nepal: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward

This discussion brief is part of the knowledge management and capacity building component of the Consortium for Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agriculture in South Asia (C-SUCSeS) project. CSUCSeS is a joint initiative between the SAARC1 Agriculture Centre (SAC), International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). It aims to promote bottom-up applied research on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies through active participation of smallholder farmers based on the participatory research experiences in the region.

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2025

Authors

Pathak, Himanshu

Citation

Pathak, Himanshu. 2025. Climate-smart agriculture technologies in Nepal: Adoption, policy barriers, and way forward. South Asia Policy Perspectives 7. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

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Nepal

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Asia; Southern Asia; Agricultural Technology; Capacity Development; Climate-smart Agriculture; Smallholders

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Digital literacy training to promote diffusion of digital agricultural tools to smallholder farmers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Egypt

2025Abdelaziz, Fatma; Abay, Kibrom A.
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Digital literacy training to promote diffusion of digital agricultural tools to smallholder farmers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Egypt

Despite growing enthusiasm about the potential of digital innovations to transform agrifood systems, adoption among smallholder farmers in Africa remains low and heterogeneous. While the proliferation of digital tools targeting smallholder farmers is encouraging, the vast majority remain at pilot stages, facing important demand and supply-side barriers to adoption. This paper evaluates alternative digital literacy interventions designed to address these demand-side barriers. Following a Training of Trainers (TOT) model, we designed and implemented a randomized control trial to test three variants of digital literacy training: standard classroom-based digital literacy training (T1), digital training complemented (preceded) by a video-based play (T2), digital training complemented (preceded) by a live community play (T3), and a control group (C). We find that all variants of digital training significantly increased the uptake and utilization of digital tools by smallholder farmers. Specifically, the standard digital training alone increased uptake by 20 percentage points and utilization by 26 percentage points. The interventions also significantly enhanced farmer trust in digital tools by 8–13 percentage points. Surprisingly, for some outcomes, the digital literacy training alone outperformed the combined approaches that incorporated edutainment nudges. We explore possible explanations, including group size effects and social influence dynamics during the plays. We also document heterogeneity in the impact of these interventions across farmers’ gender and age. Our findings offer insights for designing cost effective and scalable interventions to build digital capabilities and trust among smallholder farmers.

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2025

Authors

Abdelaziz, Fatma; Abay, Kibrom A.

Citation

Abdelaziz, Fatma; and Abay, Kibrom A. 2025. Digital literacy training to promote diffusion of digital agricultural tools to smallholder farmers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Egypt. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2359. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176520

Country/Region

Egypt

Keywords

Africa; Northern Africa; Digital Literacy; Training; Digital Agriculture; Smallholders; Technology Adoption

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English

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Open Access

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Project

Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa

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Working Paper

Events

IFPRI South Asia Discussion of the 2020 Global Food Policy Report
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July 6, 2020, 4:30 – 6:00 pm

IFPRI South Asia Discussion of the 2020 Global Food Policy Report

IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was officially launched on April 07 and highlights the critical role that inclusive food systems can play, looking specifically at the obstacles and opportunities as well as the tools and technologies for building inclusive food systems. COVID-19 is having an immense impact on our health and food systems […]

Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the ASEAN Region: Responding to Food Security and Inclusiveness Concerns
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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December 13 to 14, 2018

Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the ASEAN Region: Responding to Food Security and Inclusiveness Concerns

​​​​​Structural transformation in Southeast Asia poses challenges to the region’s food security and inclusive agricultural growth agenda. Integration of agricultural markets within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is high on the policy agenda given the current pressure on moving towards the establishment of a common market. This process though may prove unattainable unless appropriate policies […]

Pro-WEAI: A New Tool for Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Development Projects
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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October 25, 2018, 9:00 – 12:00 pm

Pro-WEAI: A New Tool for Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Development Projects

The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative […]

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Blogs

Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform: Approaches to helping rural women secure their resource rights
Research Post
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October 14, 2024

Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform: Approaches to helping rural women secure their resource rights

By Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Anne M. Larson

Avenues to empowerment.

Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects
Research Post
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May 13, 2024

Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects

By Carlo Azzarri, Sedi-Anne Boukaka, Jessica Heckert, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Greg Seymour, and Sara Savastano

A new tool developed by IFPRI and IFAD.

Sowing the seeds of resilience among smallholder farmers in Bangladesh
Issue Post
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July 19, 2023

Sowing the seeds of resilience among smallholder farmers in Bangladesh

By Himanshu Pathak, Taslima Zahan, Apurbo Chaki, and Mamata Pradhan

Benefits of climate-smart strip-planting.

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