Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-based App—“YeZaRe”—for disseminating climate and market information to smallholder farmers developed and is being tested in northern and southern Ethiopian highlands through a public-private partnership

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. 2018. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-based App—“YeZaRe”—for disseminating climate and market information to smallholder farmers developed and is being tested in northern and southern Ethiopian highlands through a public-private partnership. Reported in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Annual Report 2018. Innovations.

Through SMS, market information has been disseminated to 5,000 smallholder farmers in two districts (Bossana Worana and Doyogena) in Ethiopia, with a potential to reach 52,000 farmers. Commodity prices is disseminated twice a week for crops that the farmer produces. The climate information and agro-advisory system is being refined.