Edited by David J. Grimshaw and Shalini Kala. Through its collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in the Programme for Knowledge Networking in Rural Asia and the Pacific (ENRAP), IFAD took the opportunity to examine how information related constraints in poor rural areas are being overcome and how information technology is being employed to the benefit of men and women, young and old who live there. It supported studies in China, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. It looked at the use of ‘information communications technologies’ (ICTs) in providing agricultural extension services, getting timely market price information, finding out about rural wage labour opportunities, helping rural communities to build a sustainable asset base and understanding crop diseases and soil nutrition.
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