Sustainable Food Value Chains Knowledge Platform

ICT Uses for Inclusive Agricultural Value Chains

2013

This document describes the different kinds of ICT solution available around the globe to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of agrifood value chains and agricultural activities, and to demonstrate how ICT can mitigate the inherent risks in these chains and activities. While the parties implementing the ICT solutions described in the examples are widely varied – such as governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private companies – the use and value of the different ICT solutions are portrayed from the farmer’s or producer group’s perspective, with examples from typically larger upstream or downstream players’ perspectives, such as banks, cooperatives or processors.

Countries: Non-country specific
Commodities: Non-Commodity specific
Topics: Non-financial services, Inputs and services support upgrading
Personal author: Calvin Miller, V.N. Saroja, Chris Linder
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Type: Discussion
Format: Document
References (Download): EN