Forum: "Challenges and Opportunities for Capturing Impact in ICT initiatives in Agriculture" September, 2011

Katalyst and e-Agriculture organized this online forum to discuss the challenges of linking impact with the use of ICTs in agriculture - 25 September to 6 October 2011

This forum discussed the present practices and critical issues (regarding both implementation and monitoring) of ICT initiatives in agriculture. Forum participants concluded that ICT will only become an effective and mainstream tool for poverty reduction and sustainable development if the proponents of ICT for development can provide more rigorous evidence, strategies, benchmarks, indicators, and promising practices that are directly relevant to the core poverty-reduction and development priorities of developing countries and their international partners.