<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>hi edith</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>it is a good program. i try to see how can kenyans benefit from the program, then i remember that what we are facing in northern kenya is probably out of ignorance especially when it comes to addressing food security. example if we are facing a cultural block in development especially in northern kenya then it becomes very difficult to have a nomad change to
farming, or trade there cattles. with a program as such it could help address the issues of agricultural information asymmetry concerning agricultural markets, weather infomation and food reserve.</span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, February 7, 2014 1:43 PM, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4686909534">
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<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Listers,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Sharing a story, written by Reuters Foundation, of one of our projects in Uganda that is transforming the way communities receive climate/weather information to make critical farming decisions. Digital and non-digital
technologies are being explored. </span></div>
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<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">This goes to show the power of ICTs/mobile technology, which can go beyond “money transfer” needs to addressing food insecurity, an issue that we’re currently grappling with as a country.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">COMESA has shown interest in scaling the system through one of their ongoing climate change adaptation projects in the region. For more details see the link </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140206191047-2fyx7/?source=hptop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">http://www.trust.org/item/20140206191047-2fyx7/?source=hptop</span></a></span><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Edith</span></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="EN-US">________________</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="EN-US">Edith Ofwona Adera</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="EN-US">Senior Program Specialist</span></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="EN-US">Climate Change and Water, Agriculture and Envionment Program</span></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="FR-CA">International Development Research Centre|Centre de recherches pour le développement international</span></div>
<div class="yiv4686909534MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;" lang="FR-CA">Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa | Bureau Régional de l’Afrique Subsaharienne</span></div>
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