08/02/2012
Source: Akvo.org
In the rural areas in Ethiopia, farmers do not have access to reliable market information to help them sell their products. This ICT innovation, supported by six NGOs, three Unions, and over one hundred Farmer Marketing Organizations (FMOs), attempts to provide these farmers...
10/01/2012
"The Market Information Organization of the Americas (MIOA) is a cooperation network comprised of government institutions or those institutions so delegated by the government, whose principal functions and aims is the collection, process, analysis and dissemination of information relative to...
09/01/2012
Journal article published by Bjorn Furuholt, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway and Edmund Matotay, Mzumbe University, Tanzania in The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries.
ABSTRACT
The most widespread information and communication technology (ICT) in developing...
02/12/2011
"The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Improvement of Agricultural Value Chains"
Sponsored by IICA.
This Policy Brief is based on the input of e-Agriculture Community members who participated in the online forum held from 26 July to 6 August...
21/11/2011
The First Mile Project, launched in 2005, enables people in rural communities to learn from one another by sharing their experiences and good practices via mobile phones, email, and the Internet. By increasing communication and trust, farmers, traders, processors and others learn to build...
24/10/2011
The possibility to use ICTs for better information and a reduction of the transaction cost was studied by de Silva and Ratnadiwakara (2008) on small-holder farmers in Sri Lanka. They show that 11% of the total cost is informational search costs (NB: this case is within the scenario of a...
21/10/2011
A study of the ICTs access for rural farmers in Tanzania, Mwakaje (2010), shows that on a survey population with 90% of farmers which own at least one ICT, 25% and 23% of the people used their mobile or a radio to get market information. A regression which explains 45.3% (R²) of the factors...
23/09/2011
The workshop on Business process modelling in agriculture will be held in Paris - in English - from 18-21 October 2011, and is adressing to every levels.
"The workshop aims at sharing the various approaches developped in Europe in Business process reengineering (BPR)/ Business Process...
09/08/2011
The USAID FACET Project (Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies) project has created a series of Briefing Papers designed to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use information and communications...
02/08/2011
In this MobileActive Research report, a rural coffee cooperative in Guatemala participated in the design and evaluation of two camera based application to automate procurement and monitoring activities.
The report is presented as a 5 minute video.
03/07/2011
Les forums de discussion en ligne : retours d’expériences d’un jeune animateur de réseau
Je souhaite apporter une illustration au blog introductif de Marina Cherbonnier sur l’information et la mise en réseau, facteurs de renforcement des jeunes...
21/03/2011
Un Piloto Móvil Exitoso para el Mercado Electrónico del Agua (MEDA), Chile
El Mercado Electrónico del Agua (MEDA) es un proyecto diseñado para apoyar a pequeños agricultores chilenos con derechos para el uso de agua para regar sus cultivos, efectuar ventas y...
16/02/2011
The enthusiasm for the latest ultimate (mobile) device, revolutionary app, or sms-based market information system seems to imply it's that simple. I only wish it were.
So concludes Ugo Vallauri in his thought provoking new blog for the e-Agriculture Community.
Ugo writes a thoughtful,...
14/02/2011
This article reviews the challenges faced by post-harvest and ICT projects focused on agricultural development in Tanzania.
The launch of eKilimo, an online trading platform for agricultural commodities, is highlighted as a potential new breakthrough. Trading will feature agricultural inputs and...
07/02/2011
The 2nd Edition of this Policy Brief is now available (PDF) in English, Spanish and French.
"The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Improvement of Agricultural Value Chains"
Sponsored by IICA.
This Policy Brief is based on the input of e-Agriculture...
13/01/2011
The government of Uttar Pradesh state in India is asking its 130 sugar mills and 4 million cane farmers to increase the use of ICT for improved information exchange and transparency in the industry. The sugar mills have been asked specifically to create or upgrade their websites, and to disseminate...
06/12/2010
Focused on "New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation", the Rural Poverty Report 2011 from IFAD provides a comprehensive look at rural poverty, its global consequences and the prospects of eradicating it.
Opportunities to alleviate rural poverty,...
01/12/2010
From Daily Nation, Kenya - The local dairy industry is set for a major revolution with the planned migration of services to a single digital platform next week.
This will put Kenya among few countries with a digitalised dairy value-chain globally, according to the Kenya Dairy Board managing...
19/11/2010
Coinciding with their 2010 ICT4D conference "ICT for Rural Economic Development", GTZ has published a new topic sheet on the potential impact of ICTs on rural economies. Macro-economic impacts such as on employment, investment and exports are considered. The Sector Project ICT for Development,...
28/10/2010
Hosted by FAO, Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 11:00-12:30.
Marking the launch of the 2010 Information Economy Report "ICTs, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation", FAO’s Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension organized this special event focusing on ICT and rural...
06/10/2010
FAO and members of the e-Agriculture Community are organizing a special half day session at the ICTD2010 Conference called e-Agriculture perspectives: enhancing the impact of ICT in rural development. Below you will find an abstract and description of the session focus. Comments on this text...
11/02/2010
Attached is the summary of week 1 of the Forum:
"The Role of ICTs in Agricultural Value Chains" which took place durin 7-11 December 2009.
10/12/2009
CIAT's experiences in Central America
"Often, buyers are unaware of the power that they wield in the supply chain"
Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Mark Lundy of the Agribusiness Group at the Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT. They talk about CIAT's "learning community" around...
10/12/2009
The Economic Report on Africa 2009 (ERA 2009) is organized into two parts:
Part I examines global economic developments and their implication for Africa (chapter 1), analyses recent economic and social trends (chapter 2) and highlights emerging development challenges to the continent in 2008...
26/11/2009
Value chains encompass the full range of activities and services required to bring a product or service from its conception to sale in its final markets—whether local, national, regional or global. Value chains include input suppliers, producers, processors and buyers and are supported by a...
23/12/2008
Presentation: Linking Sri Lankan farmers to the high-end global markets: ICT-based traceability opportunities
Workshop: Workshop on the Potential for ICTs in the Agriculture Value Chain
Location: Kandalama, Sri Lanka
Dates: 21-23 February 2008
The Online Forum on "The Role of ICT in Agricultural Value Chains" held 7-18 December 2009.
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