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ICT in Agriculture e-SourcebookConnecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, & Institutions
www.ICTinagriculture.org
Motivation for book
• Centrality of agriculture to development
• Challenges facing agriculture
Agricultural Context
• The rise of rural connectivity• Enormous diversity of on-
the-ground implementations
ICT Context
www.ICTinAgriculture.org
---ICTs hold great promise for transforming agriculture, but research and lessons learned are scattered and often anecdotal---
www.ICTinAgriculture.org
Creating Sustainable
in the Knowledge EconomyBusinesses
Expanding Our KnowledgeTHE SOURCEBOOK IS:• Two-year long effort to synthesize and develop reliable information
about the impact of ICTs on agriculture and projects around the world• Effort to spark enthusiasm about promising applications and tools • Contributions from 50+ experts (internal and external)• Over 200 examples from five regions (including OECD countries)• Easy to use, modular structure—aimed at agriculture sub-sectors• Challenges, key enablers, lessons learned...
THE SOURCEBOOK IS NOT:• A cookbook!• An academic paper!• A policy report!
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Module Topics
Forest Governance
Agricultural Marketing
Farmer Organizations
Financial Services
Agricultural Innovation Systems
Increasing Productivity
Gender EqualityThe Role of Mobiles
Access & Affordability
Food Safety & Traceability
Risk ManagementSupply Chain Inclusion
Land Administration
Governance & Participation
Cross-Cutting Themes
Enhancing Productivity
Markets & Value Chains
Public Service Provision
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Sourcebook includes:
Key Findings and Themes
• Focus on the demand for services, not the technology
• Understand your users and their constraints (e.g.
language, time availability, literacy)
• The enabling environment matters
• Sustainable business models, partnerships and scalability
• Be aware of differential impacts (e.g. including gender, age,
socio economic status)
• Smart and higher capacity tools becoming more affordable
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www.ICTinAgriculture.org
What’s next at the World Bank?• Module on operational challenges
• Developing Regional Task Force
• e-Fora on selected topics with FAO e-agriculture community (first
one on “Strengthening Markets” conducted in December)
• Continuing updates of emerging good practices and lessons
learned on the website
-----> GOAL: enhanced development efficiency and effectiveness
through mainstreaming of ICT in agriculture operations
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