I am on mission in Uganda and the colleagues here are very interested in good practice examples of ICT integration into provision of finanacial services in East Africa, especially Uganda. Pointing us to some of these would be much appreciated. Eija

There are indeed several ways how ICTs have enahnced farmer to farmer sharing, digital green being one platform a salready notes, honeybee for recording farmer innovations another, and just direct phonecalls between farmers in rural communities, which in fact is emerging as a very powerful means for information sahring.

In the agriculture development discussion nutrition linked with agriculture is emerging as a new theme. Would anyone have examples of farmer to farmer sharing of nutrition information? any agencies facilitating this among and between farmers?

The ARD-Infodev team in the World Bank is delighted to join forces with e-Agriculture to engage in a series of discussions on how to improve small farmer access and use of services facilitated by ICT. Recent years have shown an increase in the need and interest by our partners in client countries to explore ICTs in agriculture. 

To respond, we pooled together the ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook containing over 200 specific case studies and good or promising practices across different sub-sectors in agriculture. While doing this work we realized how fast moving this field is, and how much knowledge and experience there already exists. We are looking forward to our exchanges and your inputs and comments during the coming 2 weeks on the theme of small farmer access to markets.