ICTs certainly play a key role to contribute to reduce
asymmetries of information and communication
between stakeholders of an agricultural value
chain, and to help reduce the vicious circle of rural
poverty. However, the positive impact that ICTs may
play in agricultural value chains depends in large
part on the boost of supportive public policies and
innovative initiatives in the use of ICT that tend
towards equitable access to the most sociallydisadvantaged and vulnerable groups in rural
communities, particularly, agricultural producers,
as the fundamental link in the value chain