Digital Agri Hub tracks the evolution of the digital agriculture (D4Ag) ecosystem in low- and middle-income countries. In collaboration with sectoral stakeholders, it regularly publishes curated information on digital solutions to generate new insights and updates on important developments in the domain of digital agriculture. Acting as a multi-actor data and knowledge broker, the Hub focuses on leveraging inclusive digital solutions for development and provides unique perspectives for adopting or investing in digital agricultural innovations.

https://digitalagrihub.org

• Africa
• Asia and Pacific
• Eastern Europe
• Latin America and the Caribbean

• Youth
• Women
• Remote and rural communities
• Small-scale agricultural producers, digital innovators and service providers (Small, Medium-sized and Micro Enterprises), researchers, educators, incubator schemes, venture capital investments, consultants,

It could be replicated, assuming it would focus on different digital environments, like health, education, employment or other.

Economic sustainability
In its incubation period, the Hub benefitted from external funding. Once such funding ceased, WUR invested its own resources in maintaining and further developing the Hub. Year 2023 registered success in terms of output delivery, gained recognition and consolidated reputation. Institutional partnership memoranda are under negotiation. In 2023 a MoU was signed with AGRA, a major player in the African development sector. In line with the WSIS Action Line C1, these multistakeholder institutional alliances - are vital to the development of the Information Society. While at present WUR is funding the Hub’s operations, in 2024 financial sustainability is likely to be achieved via these alliances.

Human sustainability
At present the Hub operates thanks to WUR human resources and benefits from voluntary ad-hoc contributions from subject matter specialists. During its inception phase human resources were pooled by different organisations. The current move to establish new partnerships with major development agencies will result in shared contributions to the Hub operations. Delegating data entry responsibilities to solution developers and service providers, makes them part of the Hub’s human capital.

Social sustainability
The way the Hub is operating offers Information Society’s actors equal opportunities for registering their products and services on its database as well as potential users to consult it. Open access and Creative Common Licensing are at the core of the Hub’s operations. In terms of data governance, the Hub collects data and operates along the lines sound and ethical data protection.

Environmental sustainability
For years, WUR has held the title of ‘Most Sustainable University in the World’ (The GreenMetric ranking 2016-2023 https://tinyurl.com/ykqxna2x ). As part of this list, scientific institutions all over the world are ranked based on matters like energy use, climate, waste, transportation, water, biodiversity and infrastructure.

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We collect, curate, and publish transparent and reliable data, insights, and M&E metrics on innovative digital solutions deployed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), transforming small-scale producer’s farming and food systems.