Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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A research project compared horticulture in Benin, cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire and milk collection in Senegal to understand how infrastructure, costs and local relationships shape digital adoption.
An EU-supported programme reported 12 locally developed digital applications and platforms, combining farmer services with training, research and policy work across five West African countries.
An 18-partner European consortium proposed farmer-led pilots and open-source digital tools, with the aim of making agricultural services useful in remote and poorly connected locations.
The ATLAS project documented an interoperability network linking farm software, machines and sensors, including analytical services for fertilisation management, irrigation, livestock monitoring and satellite-data analysis.
IRRI and IWMI brought digital agriculture stakeholders together in New Delhi to review an early Digital Inclusion Index and discuss how technology services reach underserved groups.
A December 2025 research account examined GPS records from Kenyan rental tractors, finding that remote monitoring was associated with machines serving more distant fields as owners gained experience with the system.
DeLaval’s 2025 V300 update introduced a larger milking box and flow-responsive operation, while optional digital services and milk-cell sensing aimed to extend the information available for herd management.
Bosch and eight agricultural partners received a silver Agritechnica Innovation Award in 2019 for NEVONEX, a platform intended to run connected digital services directly on agricultural machinery.
A Nairobi agreement creates a collaboration framework for agroecology, climate resilience and evidence-based rural development in Africa.
