World Bank2025-11-172025-11-172025-11-02https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43990The global agrifood system stands at a critical inflection point. Climate shocks, rising input costs, fragile supply chains, and widening inequality are placing unprecedented pressure on food production and distribution. Small-scale producers (SSPs), who produce one-third of the world’s food, are especially vulnerable. Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a timely and powerful tool to help reimagine agricultural transformation in ways that are more productive, sustainable, and inclusive. This report presents a comprehensive and development-oriented analysis of how AI can be responsibly deployed across agrifood systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It moves beyond hype to deliver a grounded roadmap of applications, prerequisites, and investment priorities, while emphasizing ethical, inclusive, and scalable use.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOFOOD SECURITYZERO HUNGERGLOBAL AGRIFOOD SYSTEMCLIMATE CHANGECLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTUREDIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE (DPI)ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)ReportWorld Bank