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Africa, Case Studies, Inputs & Tools, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Regions, Subjects

Dial “A” for Agricultural Markets in Africa

March 29, 2009 No comments yet

The West Africa AgriTrade Network provides information on the latest available prices from selected agricultural markets, buy and sell, news, contacts and other information required for commercial decision-making in all 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States.
Farmers can receive all this information via text message on their mobile phones.
For example, the

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Africa, Case Studies, Market Access, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Regions, Subjects

Empowering African Cooperatives to Access Markets

March 25, 2009 2 comments

TradeNet, a Ghana-based trading platform allows users to sign up for SMS alerts for commodities and markets of their choice and receive instant alerts for offers to buy or sell as soon as anyone else on the network has submitted an offer on their mobile phone.
Users can also request and receive real-time prices for more

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