The African Cashew initiative (ACi) aims to give people in the cashew business direct access to modern technology, enabling them to increase their yields, improve business links and develop advanced marketing strategies. Link | Read more...
Revitalizing Zambia’s Agricultural Marketing Information Centre (AMIC)
Zambia's AMIC suffers from a range of weaknesses all along the supply chain for price information. Data collection and transmission is irregular and unreliable, data management is unstructured and lacks strategic supervision, and dissemination is entirely supply driven. Link | Read more...Fostering agricultural competitiveness – employing ICTs
The USAID FACET Project (Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies) has created a series of briefing papers designed to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa to use ICTs more successfully. Link | Read more...National Livestock Marketing Information
The Kenyan National Livestock Marketing Information system is a market intelligence tool designed for use in the livestock sector. In an attempt to improve the links between the various participants in this particular value chain, the system uses cell...Link | Read more...eRAILS
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), in collaboration with the German Centre for Documentation and Information on Agriculture (ZADI), has implemented an electronic advisory service that connects farmers with experts in value chain development. Link | Read more...OPPAZ
The Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia (OPPAZ) is using a variety of ICTs, including the internet, cell phones and handheld computers, to monitor quality and improve crop production. Link | Read more...KIT Information Portal – Value Chains for Development
This website from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) provides access to free, full-text electronic documents on pro-poor value chains. It is an information portal that is also an entry point for all other internet sources on the subject, including... Link |Read more...The Farmer’s Toolkit
As part of their rural market intelligence project, the not-for-profit Ugandan organisation, i-network, developed an illustrated guide for farmers who want to access market information. Available for download as a PDF, the guide outlines the processes... Link | Read more...ABIS Jamaica
The Agricultural Business Information System for Jamaica, offers a range of web-based market information that is aimed at anyone involved in agricultural value chains in Jamaica. As well as pricing information for a wide range of commodities,... Link| Read more...Value chain approach to poverty reduction and development of livelihoods
This website provides an introduction to how value chains can be implemented in poverty-reduction strategies in developing markets. Developed by Research in Use, the site provides in-depth explanations of value chain terminology, compares traditional... Link | Read more...Agricultural Economics Research Review; Vol. 24 January-June 2011 pp 169-181. This paper is a synthesis of many research projects on value chains for smallholder and poor farmers in India. The last section of the article is dedicated to research into the role that ICTs have in enabling development. Link | Read more...
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