Project

Minimum Dataset for the Trading of Agricultural Produce

Client

Catholic Relief Services

Year

2007

Description

The work involves developing a system for capturing and managing real-time price and commodity information for farmers and farmer groups in Africa.
The project is developing a system for capturing, storing and disseminating information on agricultural prices and volumes to farmers and agricultural cooperatives in Africa. The overarching objectives are to facilitate the capture and compilation of real time information for farmer groups, partners, CRS and traders. The key project goals are to:

Provide real time price and produce information.
Provide M&E information for reporting at country and regional level.
Provide a platform for the real-time exchange of information between farmers and traders.
Provide access to greater markets for farmer produce.