Shaun Ferris explains how FOODNET, an ASARECA marketing and agro-enterprise network for East and Central Africa, is delivering reliable market information to farmers in Uganda, using a mix of conventional media, the Internet, mobile phones and other ICTs. In Uganda, FOODNET's market information services currently reach over 7 million people each week.
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Issue 18:
June 2004
GenARDIS: a small grant fund for gender-related work in ICTs
Gesa Wesseler reports on the success of GenARDIS and highlights the importance of a gender-sensitive approach to ICTs in ACP agriculture.
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FOODNET: information is changing things in the marketplace
2020: a wireless video conference in Kenya
Rutger Engelhard describes a day in the life of an agricultural extension worker in Kenya and the ICT equipment that he might be using in the year 2020.
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Mainstreaming ICTs: challenges for CTA
Kevin Painting outlines the enormous challenges for CTA and its partners in ACP countries in mainstreaming ICTs into their programmes and projects.
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