{"id":17581,"date":"2026-06-20T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/online-anthology-african-farmers-in-the-digital-age-launched\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:19:09","slug":"online-anthology-african-farmers-in-the-digital-age-launched","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/online-anthology-african-farmers-in-the-digital-age-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Online anthology \u201cAfrican farmers in the digital age\u201d launched"},"content":{"rendered":"A special edition anthology, published in partnership with\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, brings together the views of 20 leading thinkers on all aspects of food systems, smallholder farming, and the transformative opportunity presented by digital technology. An infographic explaining this process is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/c\/document_library\/get_file\/?uuid=833b967b-ddcf-4322-b932-fba373de150c&amp;groupId=25357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ici<\/a>.\n<div id=\"attachment_384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-384\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-384 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024-300x169-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Foreign-Affairs_1024-450x253.jpg 450w\" alt=\"Picture of African farmers in the digital age story on Foreignaffairs.com \" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African farmers in the digital age story on Foreignaffairs.com<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nCo-curators Kofi Annan, Sir Gordon Conway, and Sam Dryden assert that \u201cThe combination of digital technology and human creativity in deploying it will revolutionize life for Africa\u2019s farmers by overcoming isolation, speeding up change, and taking success to scale.\u201d\n\nSam equates the transformative potential of the digital revolution to the electrification of rural Kentucky in his childhood. He illuminates the role that unique IDs, invisible to most of us, play in making each of us visible to others, and he challenges future leaders to put these in place for every single African farmer.\n\nDon\u2019t miss the rare personal stories shared by the authors at the end of each essay. View and download the Foreign Affairs anthology\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/sponsor-anthology\/african-farmers-digital-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ici<\/a>. A PDF compilation of all the essays is also available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/brollehfaioea2o\/Foreign%20Affairs_African%20Farmers%20in%20The%20Digital%20Age_FINAL.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ici<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special edition anthology, published in partnership with Foreign Affairs, brings together the views of 20 leading thinkers on all aspects of food systems<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17582,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[2337],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17581","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bulletin-no-2314","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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