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Following the recent outbreaks of livestock diseases in Europe, the identification and registration of individual animals has become an essential element of the EU´s livestock management programme.

Studies in Information Technology Applications (SITA) is a gender empowerment project sponsored by infoDev.

T.P. Rama Rao explains how an ingenious, smart card-based computer system is helping Indian farmers to improve their dairy herds and the quality and quantity of their milk.

The Agri-Business Information System (ABIS) is being developed by the Jamaican Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) to provide timely and accurate information for small farmers, to improve the production and marketing of commodities and food pr

by Charles Mahoney Charles Mahoney describes how Honduran extension officers have been equipped with a wide range of ICTs to support smallholder farmers after the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch. ICTs such as a global positioning syste

Suppose you are an extension officer and you need information about the boundaries of a farm or on the soil properties in a particular district - life would be a lot easier if you could retrieve these data at will.

FAO-AgriMarket is an MS Access-based software package for market information services (entry, processing, transmission, reporting and electronic dissemination of data such as prices and quantities of agricultural products and inputs) is available on CD-RO

MIT´s e-Development Group invents systems that empower, enrich, and inter-connect developing communities. In particular, we study new e-commerce, communication, and system software that are appropriable and appropriate to emerging communities.

AGRINET is the communication backbone for the implementation of Ghana´s agricultural growth and development strategy.

by Niama Demélé Since its creation, officials of the Agricultural Market Watch (OMA) regularly visit 64 local markets across the country to gather information on the prices of crops such as rice and millet, as well as l