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Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-based App—“YeZaRe”—for disseminating climate and market information to smallholder farmers developed and is being tested in northern and southern Ethiopian highlands through a public-private partnership

Through SMS, market information has been disseminated to 5,000 smallholder farmers in two districts (Bossana Worana and Doyogena) in Ethiopia, with a potential to reach 52,000 farmers. Commodity prices is disseminated twice a week for crops that the farmer produces. The climate information and agro-...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: 2018
Subjects:
farmers
crops
climate
technology
development
highlands
rural development
prices
information systems
information
systems
agrifood systems
smallholder farmers
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/123183
Summary:Through SMS, market information has been disseminated to 5,000 smallholder farmers in two districts (Bossana Worana and Doyogena) in Ethiopia, with a potential to reach 52,000 farmers. Commodity prices is disseminated twice a week for crops that the farmer produces. The climate information and agro-advisory system is being refined.

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