Mobile phone enabled agro-advisory services provide a means to empower women farmers. The services disseminate climate-smart agro-advisories to farmers in CCAFS CSVs using ICT tools such as mobile phones. The talk presented on March 19th, 2015 in Paris discussed how these services can help close the gender gap in agriculture by providing information to women farmers.

1. Mobile phone enabled
agro-advisory services: A means
to empower women farmers
Surabhi Mittal, M.L. Jat and C.M. Stirling
s.mittal@cgiar.org
CIMMYT
Lightening talk on 19th March, 2015, Paris at “ Gender, Climate
Change and Agriculture- Closing the Gender Gap ”

2. M (obile) Solution: Using ICT tools to disseminate climate-smart
agro-advisories to farmers in CCAFS CSVs