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Discussion forum: ICT enabling rural financial services and micro-insurance for smallholders

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Smallholder farmers are the world’s largest group of working-age poor. Much of the world’s...

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ICT Update Issue 71: Small Islands and e-resilience

In this issue of ICT Update:

Issue 71 | April 2013

The rise of ICTs in the...

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How ICT is helping farmers and combatting climate change

Greenhouse gases from agriculture account for over ten percent of total emissions globally, roughly equivalent to the entire global transport sector. Meanwhile, it is estimated that...

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Bringing the field to the farmers: how video is transforming agriculture

Farm yields are low not because improved practices do not exist, but because farmers are unaware of them. According to estimates from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, as much as ...

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Tanzanian farmers want in on the Mobile Revolution

Farmers in the Tanzania, who constitute about 75 per cent of the workforce, will reap more benefits from use of cellular phones only if experts can design appropriate software to help users access information cheaply. ICT experts are of the opinion that cellular phones fitted with special...

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On-demand mobile electricity: The Buffalo Project

Many millions of people at the bottom of the economic pyramid are expected to acquire mobile phones, greatly benefiting their lives, business activities and access to information. Having an operational phone means access to services such as m-banking, water point mapping, and many other...

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