How ICTs-in-Agriculture Impact Rural Resilience: New Paper

[Richard Heeks]

What impact do ICT-in-agriculture projects have on rural resilience?

 

A new open-access paper analyses 45 ICT4Ag cases from Africa and Asia.  It finds an uneven impact: household resilience is built far more than community resilience, and equality is undermined almost as much as strengthened.

 

A new conceptual model is developed to explain the uneven impact of ICTs on rural resilience.  Policy and practice recommendations and a future research agenda are set out.

 

Do please pass on to relevant colleagues.

 

With thanks

Richard Heeks

Director, Centre for Development Informatics

GDI, SEED, University of Manchester, UK