AgUnity is an Australian-based startup founded in 2016 with the ambition to help change the lives of over 1 billion smallholder farmers in the world. AgUnity provides a mobile and blockchain solution, Axsari, which improves trust and cooperation among smallholder farmers. and It is also used as a platform for a range of problems, including mobile banking for the financially excluded, and data collection for developed world farmers.

[Session Summary] [Opening Video] Welcome remarks by Takehiko Nakao, President, Asian Development Bank at the Rural Development and Food Security Forum, 28 October 2019, ADB headquarters, Manila, Philippines.

ADB’s Youth for Asia team ran a preliminary survey with farmers in Tarlac and Bulacan in the Philippines to assess the interest of youth’s interest in farming. This presentation shares the results of the focus group discussions and surveys held in the chosen provinces. It also enumerates some possible solutions given by the respondents.

[Session Summary] [Voices from the Field] Since 2002, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development has been helping farmers help themselves through a number of initiatives. Download this presentation to know more.

[Session Summary] We cannot solve poverty without addressing financial inclusion; and we cannot bring about financial inclusion at any sort of scale without technology that is relevant and useful to the people you are giving it to. Learn how AgUnity works to achieve this through the use of smartphones.

This presentation discusses how Sri Lanka-based Silvermill empowers farmer communities.

Turkey is the world’s fourth largest producer of fresh vegetables and 7th largest producer of fruits. Learn how the agriculture sector is growing rapidly in the country.

Check out how Thailand is mixing social and environmental dynamics with new technologies to improve the country's food supply chain.