The report stresses AI’s potential to help smallholder farmers do more with their limited resources through tailored agricultural advisory services, localised information, and decision-making support.
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How can the use of AI help improve agricultural productivity and build more resilient agrifood systems? This could be helpful to many smallholder farmers as they face income and productivity challenges due to climate change, conflict, and economic volatility, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists, and fishers.
The 2026 Goalkeepers Report notes that AI could help these farmers do more with their limited resources through tailored agricultural advisory services. In addition, it also highlights three key conditions for maximizing AI’s impact – support for local languages, solutions built on local data, and investment in digital capacity and access.
