New programme, "Shamba Shape-Up," explores typical problems encountered by smallholder families on the outskirts of Kenya's towns and cities, then brings in a crack team of experts to sort them out.
Ruter, Dorine (author) and Piepenstock, Anne (author)
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Article
Publication Date:
2008
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Bolivia
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29018
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Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 26-29 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
The Netherlands: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D10107
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9 pages., Via website., This thematic brief describes the work that IICD and local Burkinabe organisations have been implementing since 1997 to bring about ICT-enabled development at the grassroots level. It includes short case studies on: using television and puppetry for market price information services, strengthening the production and marketing of women's shea products and imprving linkages in the shea value chain, the establishment and use of a community radio station for women-led community development, and using grassroots multimedia to enhance rural sanitation and hygiene.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29015
Notes:
Pages 8-11 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
