ICT and Ag in the Bank, 2007:
different cultures, shared opportunities
Agriculture
 Problem focused
 Growth for equity
 Market orientation
 No light, low density
ICT
 Creation and intuition
 Transformation
 Trying out and ……..?
 The grid, high density
Opportunities in: land tenure, rural finance, natural resource
mapping, precision farming, sanitary management, regulatory
information, technical assistance, risk management, market and
value chain management, networking, e-learning etc……
Chile: virtual agricultural extension
• Berries, wine, honey,
maize
• Agricultural calendar,
virtual and classroom
training, questions,
networking
Uruguay: control of foot and mouth
disease
• Animal Identification and
Registration System helps
Uruguay comply with
• epidemiological control
• quality assurance
• food safety standards
• National Livestock Information
System
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Innovation
Marketplace: www.africa-brazil.org
The website allows
• Finding partners
• Joint project
development
• Project selection
• Project monitoring
ICT in Agriculture, 2011:
hybrid vigor?
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Increasingly accessible and affordable
Lowering transaction costs at all levels
A self-sustaining source of innovation
Enhancing and complementing traditional sources of
change (breeding, agronomy, biotechnology,
logistics)
 Strengthening the focus on the private sector
 New source of rural employment and rural quality of
life
 Greening growth!