Read the final story on CRS's work in ICT for business planning and management in smallholder farmers' groups.
The e-Sourcebook is provided freely and electronically on this website. Please click on the banner to access the 15 modules.
Click here to read the newly released summary of the 'Strengthening Agricultural Marketing through ICT' e-forum.
Expanding our capacity: Coders4Africa
Creating working software solutions is a serious factor in the effectiveness of using ICT in agriculture projects. Yet the demand for these solutions is high. Learn how one organization is answering the demand for African solutions by building capacity in African IT specialists.
Large study on critical components of m-ARDMobile applications for agriculture and rural development (coined m-ARD) have great potential to increase farmers' incomes; however current impact studies are anecdotal. Click here to read one of the most comprehensive reports on the sector, covering 92 applications from Kenya, Sri Lanka, and elswhere.
FrontlineSMS is a leader in open-source technology for pushing information through SMS messages. Complete with a laptop or computer, modem, and mobile phone, FrontlineSMS can be used to send and receive messages from thousands of users. The system has been used in multiple countries and in poor, rural areas.
