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Broadband brings new hope to Africa’s poor, elderly- ITU

info@e-agriculture.org — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:25:35 GMT

By Michael Ouma

Source: The East African

Effectiv...

Crop Price Radio Programme for Farmers goes Nation–Wide in Bolivia

info@e-agriculture.org — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:53:33 GMT

Source: Stijn van der Krogt
Country: Bolivia
Sector: Livelihood opportunities

The IICD-supported radio broadcast that provides information on crop prices to Bolivian farmers in...

Agrovoc Thesaurus: Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

info@e-agriculture.org — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:29 GMT

AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environm...

A starter for mobile phone services ...

info@e-agriculture.org — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:52:51 GMT

Throughout the 3 days of CTA’s 2009 ICT Observatory , mobile services were discussed from many different angles. The enthusiasm for mobile phones is...

Online fertiliser service for farmers from June 2010

info@e-agriculture.org — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:29:15 GMT

From the New Nation, Bangladesh - The government is planning to introduce online fertiliser recommendation service for the farmers across the country by June 2010 to increase yield of crops ...

Impact of Digital Technologies on Soybean Supply Chain in India

info@e-agriculture.org — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:10:02 GMT

How can ICTs contribute to rural development in poor countries? What are the principal weaknesses in marketing systems in developing countries? If you would like to conduct an analytical study to ...

Bridging the Digital Divide through Open Access

info@e-agriculture.org — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:57:17 GMT

From Science and Development Network: SciDev.net
Opinion by Joseph Juma Musakali, 6 January 2010 - Kenyan researcher Joseph Juma Musakali asks what African rese...

Geographic targeting efforts to reduce micronutrient deficiency

info@e-agriculture.org — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:26:24 GMT

This new article (in Spanish) in the Pan American Journal of Public Health is the first of two recently published articles on geographic targeting ...

Ministry of Food and Agriculture to introduce Electronic Extension

info@e-agriculture.org — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:33:06 GMT

From Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and GNA 20 January 2010: Dr Kwame Amezah, the National Director of Extension of the Ministry Of Food and Agriculture, has sa...

Podcasts can inform poor farmers

info@e-agriculture.org — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:28:34 GMT

Podcasts are helping people progress from subsistence farming in Zimbabwe, says Practical Action researcher Lawrence Gudza.

People in developing countries often lack information that could t...