This project is one of the winners of the  Karianet competition (June 2017): Youth Initiatives in Rural Development in the Arab Region. The project is a television program that offers successful models of agriculture and rural development to the public. The purpose of these episodes is to be marketable on Facebook to reach as many people and farmers as possible; episodes must also be adequate in terms of information. Each episode is designed to be only eight minutes long and, at the...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Alger...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Alger...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Alger...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Alger...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Alger...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Algeria,...

This report was part of an assessment of ICT and rural community services for rural development and family farming in the NENA region. To assess the trends, experiences and perspectives in the NENA region, Karianet, in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming and the Communication for development team, launched an online survey and facilitated an online discussion involving specialists and practitioners from seven countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Algeria,...

The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture has launched the mobile extension initiative through cooperation between the Central Administration of Guidance, the Agricultural Research Center and Vodafone Telecom, through a working protocol and coordination with Quick Surf to obtain the database and receive information from the Central Administration for Agricultural Extension and send it to the farmers. This initiative has been launched in 2011.

The Bashaier Project (www.bashaier.net/) represents one of the most important services in the ICT field. The Bashaier project works to link farmers through agricultural associations with stakeholders from companies, factories, exporters, traders, intermediaries and transport companies through finding marketing opportunities by displaying the quantities of crops available at the farms. It also allows the contracting of factories, companies and exporters with farmers through agricultural associati...

Shoura has one of the first initiatives to use information and communication technology (ICT) tools to provide information to farmers. The company uses SMS messages to send information about the company's products to overcome the limited number of sales and marketing staff. In addition to its website (http://www.shourhemicals.com/en/home), the company's experts answer technical farmers' inquiries through a company page on Facebook. The following is a presentation of the company's...

The aim of this study is to identify the technical characteristics of mobile phones used by the farmers, to determine the relationship between the estimated value of the mobile phone and some of the personal characteristics of the respondents, and to identify the use of mobile phone by farmers to contact individuals and destinations for agriculture purposes. In addition this study identifies individuals and entities that call farmers for agricultural purposes, and identifies the extension ser...