Improving Agricultural Productivity and Markets : The Role of Information and Communication Technologies
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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Raising the productivity of smallholders
is a necessary condition for increasing incomes and
improving livelihoods among the rural poor in most
developing countries. This increased productivity is
essential to both household food security and to
agriculture-based growth and poverty reduction in the larger
economy. Smallholder productivity is limited by a variety of
constraints including poor soils, unpredictable rainfall,
and imperfect markets, as well as lack of access to
productive resources, financial services, or infrastructure.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are also
vitally important to commercial and large-scale agriculture,
and to agriculture-related services and infrastructure such
as weather monitoring and irrigation. This note focuses on
the sometimes less-obvious importance of ICT in improving
the information, communication, transaction, and networking
elements of smallholder agriculture in developing countries.
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION, AFFORDABLE ACCESS, AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION, AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, AGRICULTURE, BUSINESS MODELS, BUSINESSES, CELL PHONE, CELL PHONES, COLLECTIVE ACTION, COMMODITIES, COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, COMMUNICATION SERVICES, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE, COMPETITIVE MARKETS, CONNECTIVITY, DIGITAL DIVIDE, ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, EXTENSION, EXTENSION SERVICES, FARMERS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL SERVICES, FISH, FISHERIES, GENDER, GLOBAL MARKETS, GOVERNMENT POLICIES, GOVERNMENT SERVICES, ICT, INCOMES, INFORMATION ACCESS, INFORMATION ECONOMY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, INNOVATION SYSTEMS, INNOVATIONS, INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS, INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION, LIVELIHOODS, MARKET INFORMATION, MARKET OPPORTUNITIES, MARKET PRICES, MARKETING, MIDDLEMEN, MOBILE PHONE, MOBILE PHONES, MOBILE SERVICES, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, NEW MARKET, PHOTO, PRICE INFORMATION, PRIVATE INVESTMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES, PRODUCTIVITY, PUBLIC SERVICES, RADIO, REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS, RELIABLE ACCESS, RESULT, RURAL ACCESS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SEARCH, SERVICE DELIVERY, SERVICE MODELS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, SOCIAL SERVICES, SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, SOILS, SUPPLY CHAINS, TELECOMMUNICATION, TELECOMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT, TEXT, TRANSACTION, TRANSACTION SERVICES, TRANSACTION SYSTEMS, VALUE CHAIN, WEB