National Assessments of Agricultural Information needs

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)’s programmes are organised around three principal activities: providing an increasing range and quantity of information products and services and enhancing awareness of relevant information sources; supporting the integrated use of appropriate communication channels and intensifying contacts and information exchange (particularly intra-ACP); and developing ACP capacity to generate and manage agricultural information and to formulate information and communication management (ICM) strategies, including those relevant to science and technology.

CTA has completed in the course of 2008 a number of assessments to improve collaboration strategies with ACP agricultural organisations and relevance of CTA’s support to African ACP countries. The expected results of those National Assessments of Agricultural Information needs were as follow:

• status of infrastructure, information services and ICM capacity of institutions involved
  in agriculture and rural development described and analysed;
• information and capacity building needs in the area of ICM identified for key
  institutions and potential CTA partners involved in agriculture and rural development;
• baseline data on the status of ICM and ICT in agriculture and rural development
  compiled for monitoring purposes and improved outreach

The assessments provide updated country profiles on the status agricultural information services, the status of ICM/T in the country, which will allow CTA to make informed decisions on the type and mode of intervention as well as partner selection. Following countries were covered in anglophone Africa: WEST AFRICA: Liberia, Nigeria / EAST and CENTRAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mauritius, Seychelles / SOUTHERN AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique.

1. Jeremiah Njeru Lewis Gitonga and Veronica Machira; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Kenya November 2008, 169 pages
2. Mary C. Shetto; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Tanzania December, 237 pages
3. NG Kee Kwong, R. Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Mauritius November 2008, 234 pages
4. Dr. James S. Kiazolu & Mr. Arthur R. Tucker; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Liberia December 2008, pages 137
5. Terry A. Olowu; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Nigeria July 2008, 288 pages
6. Mermedah Moustache; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Seychelles December 2008, 159 pages
7. Alice Kinengyere Mango; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Uganda December 2008, 148 pages
8. Simon Norfolk, Vera Ribeiro, Kees Groenendijk; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Angola July 2006, 108 pages
9. Simon Norfolk, Vera Ribeiro; Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in ACP States: Country study Mozambique July 2006, 138 pages

Following countries were covered in francophone Africa: WEST AFRICA: / EAST and CENTRAL AFRICA: / SOUTHERN AFRICA:

1. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Bénin
2. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Mali
3. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur la Mauritanie
4. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Niger
5. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Sénégal
6. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur République de Guinée
7. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Burkina Faso
8. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur la Côte d'Ivoire
9. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Djibouti
10. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Togo
11. Evaluation des besoins en information agricole dans les Etats du Groupe ACP : Etude sur le Madagascar

Reference:
CTA Virtural Resource Center