Femi Royal, Senior Advisor (governance and systems), Malcolm Durosaye, Consultant, and Ahmad Raji, Associate Consultant, are co-authors of the AGX AI discussion paper on localized Agri-LLMs for small-scale producers in Africa and India. The panel unpacks how frontier AI models fail without local crop, soil, and market data; how India's AgriStack and Bhashini contrast with Africa's fragmented data systems; how tools like PlantVillage Nuru and FarmerChat are reaching farmers through voice and SMS in low-connectivity environments; and why donor-funded agricultural AI collapses without blended public-private business models.

Femi Royal is a Senior Advisor at Dev Afrique Development Advisors, a partner organization in the AGX AI initiative focused on responsible AI for smallholder farmers. He co-authored the AGX AI discussion paper "Localized Ag ...