Electronic Agriculture Research Network

Electronic Agriculture Research Network: "Agriculture plays a crucial role in supporting livelihoods through alleviation of hunger and poverty in Africa. Access to market information remains one of the most important impediments to smallholder agriculture in Africa. Lack of market information retards access to better markets for agricultural inputs and outputs, reduces access to improved agricultural technology and hence reduces productivity. Recent attempts to overcome the problem of poor access to markets have spurred a number of ICT-based interventions for providing agricultural information to smallholders farmers in Africa."