Issue 41:
February 2008
Issue 41: Wi-Fi
Documents
A 'Center for Commercial and Agricultural Information' (PICA) for the collection and the publication of price lists via the internet has been launched in Togo to enable farmers and traders to interact over prices and availability of products by...
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This 14-page report traces patterns revealed through a global online survey conducted as a follow-up to the November 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. This research was carried out based on the growing agree...
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This 12-page paper addresses the current role of rural radio in Africa and explores how researchers can improve communication with farmers via radio. It also discusses research relationships among civil society where media is an influential but...
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Africa faces a difficult challenge in meeting the main target of the first Millennium Development Goal—to halve the number of people suffering from malnutrition and hunger by 2015. Bridging the digital divide through the development and use of...
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Radio and video are key forces of agricultural innovation and transformation in Africa than usually considered, a study revealed. Two-thirds of rural women creatively applied ideas illustrated by videos demonstrating improved food processing te...
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The range of locally initiated internet services in developing countries is remarkable. Many of these services have emerged with little or no external support, and many have become viable commercial services or not-for-profit services operated...
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Food security and hunger are global concerns. This Technology Watch Report examines some of the main ways in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used locally and globally to address the problems of food security and hu...
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For all of our technical wizardry, human survival relies on a thin layer of soil, seeds and the occasional thunderstorm, Cary Fowler told the TEDGlobal audience in Oxford. It is a picture of the delicate balance that nurtures life on Earth, and...
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Indigenous knowledge and technologies play major roles in biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and prospecting. In addition, their contributions to increasing food production, fighting HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and stemming environmenta...
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Nature examines some of the most pressing issues concerning the loss of biodiversity, as well as ways to address the problem. The fact that upper levels of government are beginning to focus their attention on the biodiversity crisis gives some c...
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