While the Green Revolution is still not yet complete in many parts of the world, recent new innovations promise to be "leapfrog" technologies that will allow smallholder farmers to rapidly increase productivity. This Fourth Agricultural Revolution (aka Agriculture 4.0) makes use of precision application of inputs, use of drones and robotics, advanced gene-editing techniques, and other technological advances.

The Closing Plenary session at ICTforAg 2022, co-created by USAID, highlighted some of the technological advances from Agriculture 4.0 best positioned to benefit smallholders in LMICs.

Speakers:

• Tim Hammerich, Creator, Future of Agriculture Podcast, Senior Director, Cogent Consulting and Communications Inc.

• Daron Acemoglu, Professor, MIT

• Dr.Agnes Kalibata, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

• Dr.Jim N. Barnhart, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID/RFS

• Michael Michener, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID

• Matthias Berninger, EVP, Public Affairs, Science, Sustainability & HSE, Bayer AG

• Dr.Heike Hoeffler, Project Leader Sector Project “Agriculture”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH