Policy & regional vision

FarmGate Briefings

Digital agriculture · policy visions

Briefings

How a single digital trade-and-finance platform — built on national digital ID and mobile money — can raise smallholder incomes, protect exports, formalise trade and strengthen food security. One vision, adapted region by region.

West Africa

ECOWAS A Regional Digital Layer for West African Agriculture Read → How a digital trade-and-finance platform can raise West African smallholder incomes, protect cocoa exports under EUDR with verified traceability, and build intra-regional food trade.

India

West Bengal A Digital Trade & Finance Layer for West Bengal's Farmers Read → How a platform on Aadhaar, UPI and AgriStack can raise West Bengal's farm-gate incomes, protect its GI and tea exports, and connect farmers to markets.
Assam A Digital Trade & Finance Layer for Assam's Farmers Read → How a platform on Aadhaar, UPI, DBT and AgriStack can lift Assam's small tea growers and GI producers, cut export rejections and build flood resilience.
Gujarat A Digital Trade & Finance Layer for Gujarat's Farmers Read → How a platform on Aadhaar, UPI and AgriStack can raise Gujarat's farmer incomes, formalise trade and convert the state's export strength into value for growers.

Development & humanitarian

A Digital Backbone for Inclusive, Accountable Food Systems Read → How a verified digital platform can give development and humanitarian agencies a shared backbone for smallholder market access, accountable cash and voucher delivery, and impact-grade data against the SDGs.

Global

working paper Global Impact Thesis: The Stakes, Stated Carefully Read → A sober, scenario-based exploration of the economic-development potential of placing the world's farmers, trade and food-system data on a single trusted digital layer — channels, stakes, and the honest limits.