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After the ICT Observatory meeting in 2002 - on Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society - CTA, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International Institute of Communication and Development (IICD) established a grants fund. Known as GenARDIS (which stands for 'Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society'), its aim is to support effor...

What services we offer How to join a CTA e-forum / e-consultation Online discussions are featured in many of our activities - particularly workshops and seminars. Some of these discussions may run for a few weeks prior to a seminar, some for just the duration of a seminar, others for several months. Whe...

For information on our rural radio programme and on what the RRRPs contain, go to Rural radio. To become a member of the radio network, download the form or contact us. To order a pack, send us the completed order form or send us an

Our co-publications cover a range of materials, in both print and electronic format –books, CDs, databases, movies and video. We work with a range of partners, particularly ACP authors and publishers, to produce these materials. We support publications in different ways. We sometimes fund production costs and buy back a limited number of copies for free distribution; or we fund t...

Our Publications Distribution Service (PDS) operates on a subscription basis. The subscriptions are free-of-charge.

Database Subscription Services Under our Database Subscription service, we support ACP research institutions, government agricultural departments and universities to access agricultural databases. Partners select the databases that are most relevant to their institutions and after reviewing their requests according to set criteria, CTA sub...

To be eligible for the SDI service, you need to be: an ACP national working in the agricultural research system a team leader or senior scientist actively conducting research, or a research manager of a public institution dealing with agricultural research topics (including fisheries and forestry) of national and/or regional importance ...

For some years now CTA has provided a QAS in partnership with ACP institutions. CTA supports them with technical support and funding.

What services we offer How to obtain CTA’s magazines – Spore, Agritrade and ICT Update All three CTA magazines – Spore, Agritrade and ICT Update – are fr...

What services we offer How to get CTA support to attend a non-CTA seminar Each year we sponsor the attendance of ACP nationals in regional and international seminars and conferences organised by other institutions. The meeting must be on a topic of relevance to ACP agricultural and rural development (particularly in...