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Research shows that digital innovations can increase small-scale farmers’ incomes, boost the adoption of better practices, and increase resilience to climate shocks while reducing the gender gap and managing food system risks. However, these benefits are not universal. Over 600 million people and 40 percent of small farms are still not covered by mobile internet, especially in those countries most

Washington, DC/Nairobi, Kenya, September 14, 2022 – CGIAR and the Linux Foundation have formed a research partnership to develop a standard way of sharing data about agricultural fields at scale, which could deliver global benefits, including for the estimated 500 million smallholder farmers that produce about a third of the world’s food.   Accurate data on the location and size of