Digital technologies have the power to increase inclusion in the food system, linking farmers directly to markets, speeding their payments and their fair returns . It can improve access to information, rural advisory services, resources, and equipment, including for smallholde rs. Digital Agriculture can also allow farming to be more nature positive, by making the most efficient use of resources and farming with precision to each ecological zone – even zones within a field. It can also help measure the changes in the food syst em through use of technologies like near - infrared sensing to see how our soils and crops are doing.