http://www.digitalopportunity.org en_GB_DOC DigitalOpportunity Channel - MainstreamingICTs & Poverty Despite early warning, drought strikes hard on Greater Horn of Africa http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/135071/1/ According to the UN estimates, at least 11 million people in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in crisis, making this the region’s worst drought in a decade. The impact of drought has been most severe in pastoral areas on the Ethiopia–Kenya–Somalia border, with reports of malnutrition levels far beyond emergency thresholds. Bridging communications gaps between scientists and farmers http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134912/1/ The need to enhance information flow to farmers led to the inception of the Information and Communication Support for Agricultural Growth in Nigeria Project (ICS-Nigeria). The hope is that access to information will trigger an increase in farmers’ use of agricultural technologies, which in turn will increase their productive capacity. Increasing water productivity in irrigated agriculture through GIS http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134909/1/ Reliable information on water depletion for agricultural production is much needed when freshwater resources are getting scarcer. This is the case in the irrigated Indus basin. Mapping agricultural income distribution in rural Syria http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134907/1/ Poverty is subjective, complex, and multidimensional. While poverty is primarily about income, limited access to the necessary natural resources for agricultural production is a major constraint to poverty alleviation in the dry areas. New version of ‘DevInfo’ released http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134728/1/ DevInfo is a database system which maintains indicators by time periods and geographic areas to monitor commitments to human development.