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Issue no. 35
December 2006

Escaping the rising sea

Researchers in American Samoa are employing GIS, satellite imagery and t...
Hurricanes and Hams

Jamaican amateur radio operators serve their communities as extreme weat...
Dakoro calling

As global warming exacerbates food insecurity in Africa, satellites are...
Need to know

Communities need information on climate change, yet the subject is hardl...

Perspectives

Climate, ICTs, the FAO…

Holistic approaches No less interlinked are the various aspects of the ways in which climate change affects agriculture. This, naturally, necessitates an integrated appr...

Q&A

Q&A: Africa’s monitoring stations feeling a little ‘under the weather’

Is there a problem with Africa’s weather monitoring system? The current networks of weather stations in Africa - and their spatial coverage - are insufficient for monitor...

EXPLORE ICT update

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Making the marketplace mobile..

With internet and SMS TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops....

Linking civil society..

Initially known as Worknet, with trade union connections, the history of SANGONeT is closely linked to the social and political changes experienced by South Afri.....

A climate mashup..

‘In many parts of the world agricultural systems are based largely on tradition. Farmers have been able to rely on the methods used by their forefathers because.....

Going Local..

Using television, radio, the web and printed publications, a project in the Pacific island of Pohnpei restores interest in traditional crops and promotes healthy......

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