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Coverage of Digital Green's work with smallholder farmers, from FarmerChat and open research to the extension networks behind them.
2026
- Daily Nation
Digital tools bridge Kenya's extension gap as farmers face climate shocks
Kenya's extension officer to farmer ratio has slipped to roughly 1:1,380, and the Climate desk looks at how FarmerChat is closing that gap, with field coordinator Kista Ogot on officers retiring faster than they are replaced.
- CSIS
Using AI to Fight World Hunger: Guided Agriculture
A feature on how AI is reaching farmers, with FarmerChat named among the extension services pairing generative AI with local agronomy.
- Gates Foundation
Ensuring AI speaks everyone's language: A joint commitment
Digital Green signs on alongside the Gates Foundation, Google, Anthropic and nearly 60 other organizations, committing to build AI that works in the languages people actually speak.
- The Better India
Just A Photo, a Problem & a Solution: How This Free AI Is Helping India's Farmers Identify Crop Diseases Early
How farmers across India photograph an ailing crop and get a diagnosis back in their own language, with CEO Nidhi Bhasin on why reach, not information, was always the hard part.
- OpenAI Foundation
AI forecasting for smallholder farmers
Sharper weather forecasts are coming to FarmerChat, with farmers' own read on whether a forecast held up feeding back to the teams building them.
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