SEADRIF Executive Director Benedikt Signer joined a fireside chat on innovative agri-fintech and digital finance for improving rural livelihoods across the region at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit 2025. The discussion explored how technology, data, and financial innovation can expand access to risk financing, strengthen resilience for smallholder farmers, and support inclusive growth in Asia-Pacific’s agri-food systems.
Panelists discussed how digital finance is transforming agriculture - from tailored banking and payments to better credit access and enabling policies for agri-fintech growth and how emerging digital infrastructures blend with existing physical ones.