The value of getting timely quality information to smallholder farmers should not be underestimated. The agricultural research and development community is trying to increase the farmers' knowledge base through an integrated approach including information and communication technologies (ICT), as noted by several researchers (Kesavan and Swaminathan, 2008; Ballantyne, 2009; Christoplos, 2010). With the challenges of poverty, food insecurity, decreasing agricultural productivity and climate change, creative approaches are needed to enhance access to information and make it useful to smallholder farmers. Such approaches should unlock farmers' capabilities to manage soils, water, biological resources, pests, disease vectors and genetic diversity innovatively and to conserve natural resources in a culturally appropriate manner.
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