A survey of information systems reaching small producers in global agricultural value chains

2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Parikh, Tapan S ^a   Patel, Neil ^b   Schwartzman, Yael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECONOMIC VALUES; EXTERNAL INPUT; GLOBAL MARKETPLACES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION FLOWS; MARKET PRICING; PEER TO PEER; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; SMALLHOLDER FARMERS; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS; TECHNOLOGY TRENDS; VALUE CHAINS;

AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 67650554824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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