CGIAR Digital Transformation

🌍 Today is Earth Day. At CGIAR we believe that caring for the Earth starts with how we produce our food. 🌱 What we grow and how we grow it shapes our planet, our health and our future.

This week, join us and @IFPRI for "AI for Food Systems Research" webinar series' next session, entitled "Farmer-Centric AI for Livestock Systems: Design, Explainability, and Responsible Innovation" 📆 March 26, 2026 🕔 2:30–3:30pm CET 🔗 Registert: on.cgiar.org/4ltqBDT

What do an Ag-specific LLM for farmers & an AI platform for @CGIAR Genebanks have in common? 🔍 They're both products of #CGIARAIHub & transform 50 years of science into practical AI tools! 🔗 Explore the tools in the Hub's pipeline & learn more at: on.cgiar.org/4lg8Wzq

Catch our next session in the AI for Food Systems Research webinar series, co-organized with @IFPRI and @CGIARPolicy. "Large Language Models for Policy Makers: Exploring RIAPA-AI and PEPA-AI" 🗓️ Thursday, March 12, 2026 🕒 2:00–3:00pm CET 🔗 Register: on.cgiar.org/4ldu7SX

The IWD2026—an initiative by IRRI & IFPRI as part of the GAIA initiative & CGIAR's DTA & GEI—leans into the UN theme "Investing in Women Farmers" by looking beyond the technology and into the social fabric of how agricultural advice actually works. Read: on.cgiar.org/3OWcw5U

A global community stress-tested Fairgrounds and we saw the future of AI for Ag! 3 key users: Strategists—disaster forecasting & climate policy Innovators—deep learning & precision ag Academics—Fairgrounds integration & brings in new talents Read more: on.cgiar.org/4ubYxch

📢 Don't forget to register for our next webinar with @IFPRI! "Two Sides of the Data Governance Coin: AI Innovation and Regulation for Producers and Users" 📆 March 5, 2026 ⏰ 9:30 – 10:30 am EST Learn more and register here: on.cgiar.org/4rzCZ7A

Digital transformation experts met at iTNT Agricultural University in India to turn high-res drone data into actionable Ag science—analyzing rice, maize & soybean to unlock new spectral “fingerprints” of crop health, powered by CGIAR’s Fairgrounds. Read: on.cgiar.org/479tjIM

Don’t miss the next session of our AI for Food Systems Research series with IFPRI, entitled "Two Sides of the Data Governance Coin: AI Innovation and Regulation for Producers and Users". 📅 March 5, 2026 ⏰ 3:30 – 4:30 pm CET 🔗 Register: on.cgiar.org/4rzCZ7A

🎙️ We’ve partnered with @farmradio & @IFPRI to launch Longa, an AI tool that transcribes & translates local languages like Luganda & Bambara Finally, the voices of farmers in Africa can be heard & turned into data for better ag advice, policies & more ⤵️ on.cgiar.org/4aAvkyx

In a new @ScienceMagazine op-ed, @IsmahaneElouafi explains how AI must augment, not replace, human expertise in agriculture 🚀 To succeed, AI must: • Put farmers at the center • Partner with scientists • Build FAIR data systems • Stress-test tools ⤵️ on.cgiar.org/4tquKfs

In Abu Dhabi, we’re improving access to crop diversity! 🌱 With the UAE Presidential Court & @ai71official, we are building an #AgriLLM to help users find traits across our genebanks 700k accessions, in seconds 🧬 The teams are now scoping the product & defining the roadmap! ⤵️

AI can either bake in old biases or build a more gender equitable future. Studies show that current AI models often struggle with gender inclusivity. But @CGIAR believes that when AI is designed intentionally, it becomes a powerful catalyst for women, girls to excel in STEM.🔬👩‍💻

📢 Our webinar, "From Lab to Field: Designing and Testing Agricultural LLMs," is happening today! As part of our joint series with @IFPRI, there is still time to join us. 📆 February 12, 2026 | 9:30 – 10:30 am EST 🎫 Register here: on.cgiar.org/3Msen1g

This week, in recognition of the International Day of Women & Girls in Science (#IDWGS), we highlight Lina Yassin. Lina leads #CGIARaiHub, connecting CGIAR science with leading AI partners to turn data into practical tools for farmers. #WomenInScience #AgriculturalAI

Don’t miss the @IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026📍New Delhi, if you're based in #India 🇮🇳! We recommend “From Vision to Action: Scaling Equitable AI Advisory Systems through #AGXAI”, on scaling AI advisory systems for farmers 🗓️ Feb 16 | 9:30 AM 📍 Bharat Mandapam

Missed our "AI for Food Systems Research" webinars with @IFPRI? Catch up on the recordings! 📽️ 🔗 Watch the latest session on lessons from Microsoft & Valorem Reply here: bit.ly/3Yx4L7p 🔗 Explore the full series: bit.ly/40D5zN8

Pleased to share a paper recently published by our team on developing a research agenda for responsible Generative AI for agriculture 🌱 The key? Participatory design processes taking stakeholder realities into account Read the study in @agdevresearch ⤵️ on.cgiar.org/4kcdEhj

📢 There is still time to register for the next webinar of our series with @IFPRI on AI for Food Systems Research! From Foundations to Field: Lessons from Microsoft and Reply’s Work in Agriculture 🗓️ Jan 29, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST 🔗 Register here: ifpri.org/event/from-fou…

In 2025, Anthropic settled a $1.5B copyright lawsuit - a turning point for genAI The era of “free” large-scale web scraping is fading! @CABI_News explores content licensing as a sustainable path forward for AI in agriculture based on work with @IFPRI ⤵️ on.cgiar.org/462huU7