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.”
In this short video
(1:20 min) Caroline Figuères –
Managing Director at IICD, talks about the role of IICD in
the future. Watch the video and read the complete interview.
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