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The focus of this change is on the improvement of overall rural livelihoods versus a specific focus on agriculture. In the midst of this change, extensionists are grappling with the question of how best to harness information and communication technologies.
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Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing.
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This Inventory of Innovative Farmer Advisory Services (66 pages) is the result of an online consultation with the FARA Regional Agricultural Information & Learning System (RAILS) held during the month of October 2008 + desk study.
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Many developing country governments and developing agencies are focusing on extending telecommunications services into rural areas, as they seek to alleviate poverty, encourage economic and social growth, and overcome a perceived ‘digital divide’....
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This paper focuses on local governance institutions in relation to natural resource entitlements, use and decision-making on management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. In these countries, most poor people live in rural areas and depend for their...
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Geographical location of farmers is one of the factors under consideration when strategies for client-oriented agricultural extension approaches are being outlined. A large number of men and women are engaged in farming in thousands of small, medium...
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This study has three specific objectives: to identify the costs incurred at radio stations (start-up costs, operating costs – including production costs – and the cost of programming with community involvement); to identify and analyze the revenue...
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The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and country...
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This report is a critical review of 17 case studies that assess the effectiveness of farm and rural radio in helping smallholder farmers improve their productivity and food security. These studies, which are based on experiences in eight different...
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This report is a review of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water...
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Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She used to ride her bicycle for twenty miles in order to come to the nearest small town with electricity to charge her mobile phone battery. Not any more.
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Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found. Research by Manchester University shows that the practice, known as gold-farming, is growing rapidly.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a US $19 million grant to a poverty reduction and women's empowerment project supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and designed to boost the productivity and income of women farmers using low-cost, mechanized power.
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Berbice River farmers are moving away from traditional farming and delving into harvesting the heart-of-palm fruit and crabwood seed oil production as an alternative source of income as continual rainfall and flooding prevent them from cultivating their lands.
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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.
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