Improved access to information appears to have greatly amended the performance of markets in many rural areas, especially in markets for perishable products. The emergence of money transfer and payment mechanisms has potentially enormous implications for access to finance and payment mechanisms for a huge population of people currently without access to banks.

 

“Agriculture in an Interconnected World” is intended to capture the widespread adoption of new communication technologies. The theme embraces a wide range of interconnections that are contributing to unprecedented changes in global agriculture, such as: