FAO: Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI)

The increasing demand for animal protein in low- and middle-income countries provides an opportunity for the rural poor to improve their livelihoods. However, the nature of livestock farming is determined by policy and institutional frameworks that rarely favour of the poor. Link | Read more...

The Knowledge Access in Rural Inter-connected Areas Network (KariaNet)

KariaNet aims to enhance networking among IFAD-funded rural and agricultural development projects in the region in order to improve knowledge sharing and information/experience exchange through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). | Read more...

Knowledge Networking for Rural Development in Asia/Pacific Region (ENRAP)

ENRAP, an IFAD-IDRC programme, leverages a growing body of useful information generated by development projects and made available on the internet. The programme, now in its third phase and running until 2010, is designed to bring the benefits of... | Read more...

Ghana Agricultural Information Network Collaboration Using ICT (GAINS)

GAINS acts as the referral centre for information requests on agriculture. It also links electronically with eighteen participating libraries and information centres of agriculture-related research institutes. | Read more...

Community-based agricultural and rural development programme

This programme runs in eight northern Nigerian states where poverty is widespread, and builds on previous community-based projects in the northern states of Sokoto and Katsina. The objective is to help the most vulnerable groups improve their incomes... | Read more...

Toro Development Network

The ICT Resource & Research Centre comprises of a Computerized Information System (CIS) that is aimed at gathering, interpreting, processing, documenting and disseminating correct and relevant information on sustainable youth, men and women development activities. Link | Read more...

Kubatana: Join the NGO network alliance project

Freedom Fone (Mobile Information Service) addresses communities’ requirements for a simple, affordable technology to communicate with one another. Freedom Fone leverages the fastest growing tool for personal access to information 24/7 – the mobile... Link | Read more...

Full Belly Project

The vision of the Full Belly Project is that the residents of rural communities in developing countries live lives of abundance - that they awake each morning to days of economic possibility and go to sleep each night with bellies that are full. Link | Read more...

Development Outreach: Promoting aid effectiveness from the bottom up with ICTs

Isabel, from Camillaya in the Inquisivi region of western Bolivia, has never heard of aid effectiveness, but she knows what has made her become a more successful entrepreneur. For two years now, she has been using a camera to record the activities of... Link | Read more...

CarbonFlow nets funding for carbon software

CarbonFlow’s software, which is still under development, is being designed for managers of carbon emissions-reduction projects that want to monetize their carbon credits. For example, a developer could install a solar energy project that replaces the use of kerosene lamps. Link | Read more...

Practical Action: Rural agriculture and pastoralism programme

This programme has made remarkable contributions to policy debates in animal health, biodiversity and plant genetic resources, and indigenous knowledge in development. It is gradually expanding into natural resource management and strengthening non-agricultural aspects of local people's livelihoods. Link | Read more...

ICT for improved crop marketing in rural Tanzania

The CROMABU project is aimed at empowering small-scale farmers economically by enhancing their access to price information and insights in trade flows. While stakeholders in the agricultural sector are demanding the government ensure a fair-competition... | Read more...

Africagrowth Institute

Africagrowth Institute Ltd. is an independent company with its headquarters based in Cape Town, South Africa. The company focuses on growth opportunities in Africa and also houses the Xstrata Graduate Development Program. Link | Read more...

CETRAD

CETRAD is based in Nanyuki, Laikipia District, Kenya. It is concerned with research and training to design strategies for sustainable development, promote land use planning for sustained livelihood and optimal resource use, foster sustainable resource... | Read more...

FIDAFRIQUE

FIDAFRIQUE is a network devoted to the rural development and the fight against poverty. It has been assigned as an objective the facilitation of information processing, exchange and dissemination among the projects community and their partners as well. Link | Read more...

International Fair Trade Association

IFAT is the global network of Fair Trade Organizations. IFAT’s mission is to enable producers to improve their livelihoods and communities through Fair Trade. Link | Read more...

Agriculture Research Extension Network (ARENET)

ARENET is dedicated to helping anyone involved in improving rural farming to readily access practical, technical and relevant agricultural information from various national and international sources and to ensure that service providers, rural development... | Read more...