CTA Technical Brief
CTA Technical Briefs document experience and learning in topical issues of interest to the ACP agricultural development community. They are intended as a practical guide for people involved in an issue professionally or for people with a strong interest in the topic.
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Advice on beans: Farmerline’s Mergdata farm-advice service in Ghana ICTs
Farmerline provides users with farm advice, weather forecasts, market information messages on mobile phones in ...
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Aflatoxin and the agriculture – nutrition nexus in Africa
Aflatoxins are a silent threat to health on the African continent. They are a group ...
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An app for fishers: The University of the West Indies’ multifunctional mFisheries app
A mobile application called mFisheries was developed by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ...
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Beyond the hype: Mobile phones and the web to improve agricultural value chains
Mobile phones are already surprisingly common in many parts of the developing world, and they, ...
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Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri’s Agripol advocacy platform in Burkina Faso
The 2014–15 season was a difficult one for women’s rice-marketing cooperatives in Burkina Faso. Locally ...
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Cashew on your phone: N’kalô: RONGEAD’s market-advice app in West Africa
Cashew prices were low in 2008, and cashew growers in northern Côte d’Ivoire were worried. ...
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Learning to pay by phone: MOBIS, Ensibuuko’s mobile-money app in Uganda
Ensibuuko provides a mobile banking app called MOBIS to its clients: rural savings and credit ...
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The agriculture–nutrition nexus in Haiti
More than one-third of Haiti’s population remains food insecure, despite the efforts of international donors, ...
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The agriculture–nutrition nexus in North and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The provinces of North and South Kivu, in the far east of the Democratic Republic ...
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Water next Tuesday: eLEAF’s irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan
Many people in Sudan communicate with text messages on their mobile phones – mostly with ...