Predictive and agentic intelligence can identify vulnerable farmers early, coordinate timely interventions and make agricultural supply chains more resilient. India’s artificial intelligence conversation has largely focused on productivity. Policymakers speak of higher yields, precision farming and digital marketplaces. Technology companies...

While global farm policy obsesses over land, capital and climate, it still ignores the health of the person behind the plough. The world’s agricultural debates have acquired an oddly abstract quality. Ministers and leaders argue over climate finance, development banks...

The economics of agricultural trade has rested on a convenient assumption that labour is a factor of production, much like land or capital. Workers appear in equations as an ‘input,’ their contribution measured largely through productivity and wages. Yet in...