Using ICT to Provide Agriculture Market Price Information in Africa

  • Date Posted: November 30, 2010
  • Organizations/Projects: AED
  • Document Types: Primer or Brief
  • Donor Type: U.S. Agency for International Development

The Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies (FACET) project aims to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use information and communications technology in sustainable and scalable approaches to improve the impact of their agriculture-related development projects.

This Briefing Paper focuses on ICT applications and tools that provide market price information to a variety of actors within an agriculture value chain.