Information and Communication Technologies at the Service of the Rural Poor of Latin America and the Caribbean

Report

A 2005 report prepared by Francisco Proenza of an FAO Investment Centre mission, under the FAO/World Bank Cooperative Programme, on ICT interventions serving the rural poor in Latin America and the Caribbean. It draws on broad regional experience and on case studies of two World Bank-sponsored projects, the Agricultural Technology Project (PTA) in Nicaragua and the Poverty Reduction and Local Rural Development Project (PROLOCAL) in Ecuador.