Renforcer les stratégies TIC pour l’agriculture ACP

Article publié dans le magazine ICTUpdate, Numéro 73, août 2013 (traduit de l’anglais) – English version.

Les SMSI de 2003 et 2005 ont appelé à l’élaboration de stratégies TIC dans tous les secteurs. Mais il en faut bien plus pour formuler des stratégies d’e-agriculture dans les pays ACP.

Dans ce « village global » qu’est aujourd’hui le monde, rares sont les communautés qui n’ont pas ressenti les effets de la révolution des TIC. Nous

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Seeds 2.0 to Modernise and Boost the Agricultural Sector

(Opinion piece published originally in the E-learning Africa 2013 Report, May 2013)

“Really? But what has the agricultural sector got to do with Web 2.0?” That was the sarcastic question I was asked one day when I was describing the Web 2.0 training that I provide to CTA (the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation).

It was an understandable question; on the one hand the Web 2.0 concept seemed to be a current reality reserved only

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Mobile services strengthening agricultural value chains for smallholder farmers in ACP countries

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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Blogging to enhance agriculture: results and findings of the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition

(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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