Article by a journalist on a session I moderated during the international conference Making the Connection: value chain for transforming stakeholder agriculture, organized mainly by the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA). The theme of the session was on mobile phones and agriculture value chains. The conference was organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 05 to 09 November 2012. KL
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Mobile services strengthening agricultural
…(Paper presented at the IAALD Chapter Conference 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21-23 May 2012)
Summary:
Strengthening the involvement of youth in agriculture and addressing the challenges they face in embracing agricultural professional activities are pressing issues that determine the prosperity of that sector in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions (CTA, 2011). The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can also play a pivotal role in that context (SPC-PAFPNet,
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Agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) faces many challenges. Most of these developing economies are heavily reliant on this sector for food security and economic growth. Agriculture accounts for over 50 percent GDP in some countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. This coupled with the high percentage of population (up to 60 percent in Africa) living off the land, means that the need to secure the continued interest of youth in agriculture is imperative.
However, global
…This is the result of an activity in which I was involved – KL
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CTA Contest “Telecentres, bridges to rural development in the Caribbean”
The telecenter competition was launched in two categories:
Category 1 “Initiatives in operation” targeted outstanding services already implemented and
Category 2 “Innovative Projects”, targeted small innovative project ideas that will receive small grants for their implementation.
In each case, services have been classified in two sub-categories: “agricultural services” and “non-agricultural services”. 18 submissions were
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