Videos, community radio, smart phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), notebooks, and SMS-messaging platforms are some of the many combinations of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that can help key players in agriculture create, unearth and collect the information they need. This paper draws on the experiences of several farmer organizations in Africa that have first-hand experience of this. With help from ICT, they have successfully increased their yields, entered new markets, obtained organic certification and accessed market price information.
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