Digital agriculture is no longer an optional luxury; it is a necessity

The climate emergency is here. Yet in the face of increasing commitments to decarbonizing energy or supporting electric vehicles, one of the most influential climate adaptation tools, digital agriculture, is on the periphery, misapplied, or accessible only to affluent, high-tech farms in the global north.

This isn't a missed opportunity. It is a perilous omission. Unless we act quickly to expand digital agriculture based on equity and place, the world risks losing its capacity to feed itself.

Droughts in Spain, floods in Nepal, and heat waves in India and North America are no longer stand-alone climate events but indicators of a speeding global breakdown in agricultural stability. In 2023 alone, extreme weather events disrupted large parts of the world’s agrarian belt, causing widespread crop failures, supply chain collapses, and explosive increases in food insecurity.