Information and communication technology in support of food security and sustainable development

Abstract

Recent developments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field are positively changing ways research is being done in the world and may be used to improve food distribution networks, development of population surveys and censuses and expansion of early warning systems in Africa. Indeed with the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web cheaper means of information acquisition, dissemination and exchange are becoming available and Africa can no longer be left behind. It is in this context that the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has taken the lead in helping prepare African countries to overcome the information and communication technology (ICT) gap and the disparity between the information rich and the information have-nots by developing the African Information Society Initiative (AISI).