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Agriculture is the predominant sector of Ethiopian economy. The Ethiopian Agriculture Portal is a platform in which relevant, timely, accurate, and appropriate information on various aspects of Ethiopian agriculture may be found.
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The Knowledge Map builds on and updates existing research, adds new evidence and experience from the field, maps the current state of knowledge in the area, and recommends a way forward both in the international community’s framing of the issues and...
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New communication technologies have been successfully integrated in developing countries and have really revolutionized everyday life. The majority of the urban population has access to the internet. Numerous countries have well developed mobile telephone networks.
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Livelihoods Connect aims to provide researchers, policy makers and development practitioners with up-to-date, diverse and credible information on the application of livelihoods approaches to development, research, policy and practice.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame says mobile phones are no longer a luxury for Africans, but a necessity. Yet the majority of African governments levy luxury taxes on air time, handsets and equipment. These taxes are borne by consumers and have a negative impact on affordability.
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Using GPS handsets to pinpoint sacred sites and hunting areas, these nomadic forest dwellers are literally putting themselves on the map to protect their livelihoods and habitat against the chainsaws and bulldozers of commercial loggers.
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Even the poorest people have information and communication needs. Reducing the number of individuals and families living in poverty is a fundamental goal of the international development community. Yet it is a goal that has proved elusive in many countries.
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This text-to-speech (TTS) telephone service provided farmers in Kenya with information related to how to plant, grow, and harvest a wide range of crops, in either English or Kiswahili.Because anyone with a land line or mobile phone can access the...
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The Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme undertook a pilot project to see how vulnerable people benefit from cellphones. Ten cellphones were provided to women's farming cooperatives in Lesotho in August 2006 - to people with similar profiles to the beneficiaries of cash transfer schemes.
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The digital divide is ending not through a burst of civic responsibility, but mainly through market forces. Mobile phone technology is so powerful, and costs so little per unit of data transmission, that it has proved possible to sell mobile phone access to the poor.
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Mobile phones are being used to diagnose and treat crop diseases that cause massive losses to farmers, presenting an opportunity to increase yields as location-specific information about disease threats is made available.
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The FSN Forum is an on-line community whose members share experiences, identify resources, provide peer coaching and support and find collective solutions to food security and nutrition (FSN) issues, focusing on FSN policies.
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Movirtu is a for-profit social enterprise that provides innovative mobile technology and business models for wireless telecommunication service providers servicing rural poor communities in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia to help them realise shared...
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Getting the food and agriculture system moving faster is crucial for structural transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. This requires investing in basic productive and market infrastructure, and expanding appropriate research, knowledge, and...
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The Kenyan Government has started rolling out the digital villages, the pilot projects that will set the standards to be replicated all over the country by the end of the year. It will also provide employment opportunities through information dissemination.
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There is some degree of scepticism about whether ICTs are appropriate tools for addressing the needs and challenges of the poor, particularly the rural poor. Yet even the poorest people and families in rural areas have information and communication needs.
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