"Digital resources for inclusive climate change action in agriculture" was presented at the Aim 4 Climate Summit in Washington, D.C., USA, May 2023, by Lini Wollenberg, Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT. The presentation provided an overview of the Agroecological TRANSITIONS Programs' Inclusive Digital Tools Project (ATDT) and learnings from its first year of work. Prof Wollenberg describes the challenges to scalling digital tools for smallholder farmers and how the ATDT project plans to address the dearth of climate mitigation and agroecology information in digital tools. Learn more about the TRANSITIONS Program and the ATDT project: https://bit.ly/AgLEDxATDT

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Digital resources for
inclusive climate change
action in agriculture
Lini Wollenberg
Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
AIM4C Summit, May 8, 2023
Digital Tools
Digital tools

2. The Scaling
Challenge
Digital tools can be a powerful
means for scaling practices while
also addressing farmer- specific
conditions.
Yet smallholder farmers in LMICs
don’t have the means or influence
to develop digital resources that
reflect their priorities.
How can digital resources improve
social inclusion of smallholder
farmers in scaling up climate
change action?
https://www.acdivoca.org/2021/02/av-ventures-invests-in-agrocenta-supporting-digital-and-financial-inclusion-of-ghanaian-smallholder-farmers/

3. Beef supply chain:
E-extension
Inclusive Digital Tools Project: Climate action at scale
Pará
VIETNAM
Mekong
Delta
Rice supply chain:
Performance
assessment

4. Review of 230 advisory and performance
assessment tools
• <20% of tools supported climate change action.
• Adaptation functions focused on technical
assistancefor climate information and early
warning services.
• Mitigation functions focused on performance
assessmentusing GHG calculators.
• ~30% of tools included features for communication
with tool users,
• Iconography, chat, voice recognition, video or
audio messages.
• Coaching and hotline functions were important
complements.

5. Co-creation of practices with farmers is a gap
Review of current
principles
Proposed principles to
guide inclusionand co-
creation

6. Looking forward
Improve climate change and scaling functions of
digital tools in critical adaptationand mitigation
hotspots and supply chains.
Develop open-source climate change modules for
digital tools to enable rapid scaling.
Link tool development and intermediary
capacities to best reach smallholders.

7. L.Wollenberg@cgiar.org
Project websites
• https://bit.ly/InclusiveAE
• https://bit.ly/InclusiveDTs