This report was prepared by a team led by Kateryna Schroeder (Agriculture Economist and Task Team Lead), Ghada Elabed (Senior Agriculture Economist and co-Task Team Lead), and Maria Claudia Pachon (Senior Digital Development Specialist and co-Task Team Lead), under the overall guidance of Julian Lampietti, Practice Manager. The team comprised Hanane Ahmed, Mekbib Haile, Eva Hasiner, Alexandra Horst, Marie-Agnes Jouanjean, Armine Juergenliemk, Laura Ralston, and David Treguer. The team expresses its gratitude to Martien Van Nieuwkoop (Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice) and Boutheina Guermazi (Director, Digital Development) for providing strategic guidance and serving as invaluable sources of encouragement.

A series of background papers used in the study were prepared by Derek Baker (Professor of Agribusiness and Value Chains, University of New England), Elinor Benami (Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Regina Birner (Professor and Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development, University of Hohenheim), Michael Carter (Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis), Thomas Daum (Research Fellow, University of Hohenheim), Madhu Khanna (Agricultural and Consumer Economics Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Don Larson (Independent Consultant), John Nash (Independent Consultant), Valeria Pesce (Independent Consultant), Carl Pray (Distinguished Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University), Caroline Pulver (Independent Consultant), and Ashley Rootsey (Innovation Manager, Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre).

Chapter 5 was prepared by Marie-Agnes Jouanjean and Francesca Casalini of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with inputs from Kateryna Schroeder (World Bank). The team is also thankful to Emily Gray of OECD for assisting with the clearance process.

Katie Freeman provided the box on the digital technologies for sustainable intensification in Uruguay. Marina Kayumova provided the box on measuring good regulatory practices for access to digital technologies in rural areas.

Michael Norton conducted spatial analysis. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations provided support in developing the Digital Agriculture Profiling tool. Ina Ajazi, Elizabeth Ash, Rebecca Chamberlin, John Dearborn, John Downes, Kyle Farrell, Aolin Gong, Sinan Hatik, Randolph Kent, Dong Ku Lee, James Lee, Joseph Massad, Yulia Mitusova, Sheva Tabatabainejad, Olga Thomas, Fang Zhang, and Jenny Zhang provided invaluable research support.

The team is grateful to Rabah Arezki, Thomas Bauer, Regina Birner, Christopher Brett, Diego Arias Carballo, Peter Cook, Thomas Daum, Marianne Fay, Madhur Gautam, Georges Houngbonon, Alan Johnson, Marc Lixi, Oksana Nagayets, Carl Pray, Parmesh Shah, Adam Struve, William Sutton, and Hans Timmer for the thoughtful guidance and comments on the report.

The team thanks World Bank communications experts Flore Martinant de Preneuf and Xenia Zia Morales for their continuous support; Funda Canli, Teguest Demissie, and Rosalie Trinidad for the administrative assistance; and Joe Brinley, Joe Caponio, Mike Crumplar, and Bruce Ross-Larson at Communications Development for editorial support. The World Bank’s Formal Publishing program coordinated the design, copyediting, typesetting, printing, and dissemination of the book.

This publication was made possible by the generous support of the members of the Digital Development Partnership—the World Bank’s program helping developing countries leverage innovation and technology to solve their most pressing challenges. For more information, please visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/digital-development-partnership.