Soft Launch of e-Sourcebook: "Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture"

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Launch of e-Sourcebook focusing on the support to poor smallholder farmers and the intermediate institutions that serve them, and within this classification of producers, on female farmers in addition to women who are otherwise employed in rural nonfarm economies.

Publishers: The Word Bank, ARD, GlobalForum and infoDev

Source: infoDev

An expert workshop focusing on the use of mobile technology in agriculture and management of forestry resources will be held today, starting at 14:00hr (GMT+1), at the InfoDev Global Forum, in Helsinki, Finland. 

This event will feature the soft launch of the e-Sourcebook "Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture" which describes a wide variety of ICT innovations and discusses the potential they carry for stakeholders engaged in agricultural development. 

The e-Sourcebook will be released in October, 2011. The "e-Sourcebook is being designed as an e-publication to maximize its outreach, with the intent of maintaining it as a 'living' updatable document"

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