An AGX AI Podcast

Grounded Intelligence is a podcast from AGX AI about what it really takes to build AI that works for smallholder farmers. Hosted by Dr. David Bergvinson, each episode brings together the researchers, practitioners, and funders shaping the future of agricultural AI to dig into a single question: what does it actually take to build technology that reaches the 84% of the world’s farms run by small-scale producers?

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Grounded Intelligence

International Day of Rural Women: Why Trust and Inclusion Drive AI Adoption

Participants, Not Data Sources: Building Farmer Data Systems That Give Back

Beyond Translation: Why Localization Requires Trust, Governance, and People

The Benchmark Gap: Why Standard AI Metrics Fail Smallholder Agriculture

Models: Why Translating the Interface Isn’t Localization

Data Corpus: Why Smallholder AI Starts With What We Don’t Collect

Credits

Music by Shuko Musemangezhi, Principal Advisor, Dev-Afrique