Detailed study on egriculture strategies

By Ken Lohento, CTA

1. Supporting awareness raising, best
practice sharing and capacity building
on e-agriculture strategies in ACP
countries
Documenting the
situation, policy brief,
guidelines, etc.
Ken Lohento, ICT Programme Coordinator, CTA
ICT Observatory 2013
Wageningen
24 -26 April, 2013

2. •Weak awareness on developing and implementing
agricultural ICT policy in ACP countries;
•Limited knowledge on the state of implementation
of Agricultural ICT Policies in ACP countries;
•Limited exchange of best practices on e-agriculture
strategies in ACP countries.
Rationale

3. Study (1)
Objective : Document best practices; lesson learned;
status of the process in countries
How
•Cover each ACP region
•Regional consultants : 1 or 2 countries covered + desk
research by region
•In total, about 8 to 12 countries for field research and other
countries/regions covered via dest research
•Regional online synthesis + one print document

4. Study (2)
Follow-up actions to study
•Publicize results during conferences/workshop to
favour
•Many discussions lists
•Leaflets?
•Collaboration?
Who is interested?
Who can contribute what?
Be involved?

5. Policy brief

6. Policy brief