FAO and Smart Africa Launch Third Innovate Africa Challenge to Push AI Agriculture Tools From Pilot to Deployment

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, working with the Smart Africa Secretariat, has opened the third edition of the Innovate Africa Challenge, a continent-wide push to get artificial intelligence solutions for climate-smart agriculture out of the lab and into farmers’ hands. This year’s theme, “From Ideation to Deployment,” signals a deliberate change in emphasis from previous rounds: rather than rewarding clever concepts, the challenge is built around identifying one pro