Watch the video: IICD interview: Shafiu Shaibu, ECAMIC project, Ghana

Small-scale food crop farmers in the Eastern Corridor of the Northern part of Ghana have difficulties in accessing timely and accurate information that helps them to decide what to produce, and when and how to market it. Initiated by the SEND Foundation, the ECAMIC project set out to develop two market information centres in Kpandai and Salaga, providing 24 community-based farmers’ cooperatives with market information and data. Recently, the project has been experimenting with mobile phones (SMS) to enhance the sending and retrieval of market information. It is not only much cheaper than the internet and land-line services available, but it gives farmers direct access to information when and where they need it. This allows farmers, as Programme Officer, Shafiu Shaibu, phrased it, to “put their destinies in their own hands.”

More information: IICD supported project: Eastern Corridor Agro-Market Information Centre (ECAMIC)

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