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Issue 21 GenARDIS award-winning projects 2003
September 2004
This special issue of ICT Update features reports on the nine winning projects in the first round of the Gender for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund.
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Issue 20 Agrometeorology
August 2004
When Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in 1843, meteorologists were among the first to promote the new technology, as it allowed them to communicate weather observations over large distances in real time.
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Issue 19 Forest management
June 2004
Theodore Roosevelt once said that ‘to exist as a nation, to prosper as a state and to live as people, we must have trees’. His words still reverberate more than half a century later, as the world...
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Issue 18 Mainstreaming ICTs
May 2004
The editors of ICT Update congratulate CTA on its 20th anniversary. This special issue is different from the regular ICT Update in that it focuses on the forward-looking theme Mainstreaming ICTs, digital futures in ACP agriculture.
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Issue 17 Land tenure
April 2004
In a world with limited arable land and growing populations, ICTs are increasingly becoming part and parcel of land policy. It’s easy to see why – ICTs offer affordable, efficient means of mapping...
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Issue 16 Fisheries
February 2004
While ICTs offer cost-effective means to discover new fishing grounds, monitor environmental impacts and combat illegal fishing activities, they are also accelerating the decline of fish populations,...
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Issue 15 Livestock
December 2003
Over the last decade the growing global demand for livestock products has given rise to a real ‘livestock revolution’. In order to address the environmental, health and economic challenges posed...
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Issue 14 Agricultural extension
October 2003
This issue of ICT Update highlights various projects that are pioneering the use of ICTs and, in the process, are reinventing the traditional ways of doing agricultural extension.
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Issue 13 Microfinance
August 2003
Since the mid-1970s microfinance has become serious business. According to recent estimates, about 10,000 microfinance institutions (MFIs) are now providing small loans to 23 million people.
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Issue 12 Water management
June 2003
Agriculture is the world’s biggest water consumer, accounting for 70% of all freshwater use. With their growing populations, one in five developing countries will face water shortages by 2030, so...