Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Using Web 2.0 to Empower Farmers and Entrepreneurs in Improving Economic Welfare

Agriculture and exploitation of natural resources go together. Such exploitation of natural resources are aimed at solving the problems of man, mostly of which are economic in nature. The world is grappling with problems of climate change on one hand as a result of unsustainable use of natural resources. On the other hand the world inhabitants have to meet up with the challenges of the growing world population estimated at 6.9 billion who needs more food, hence we talk of food security. Food security attainment  is globally hampered by issue of poverty. Now there has to be a marriage between meeting this challenge of hunger and endangering the planet. Natural resources are getting endangered and we need to catalogue some of the available ones that we can utilize sustainably to meet our basic agricultural needs and economic growth, then move out of poverty. One of the importance of Web 2.0 Development tools is its adaptability to rural setting and virtually all kinds of people who can generate desirable and valuable contents necessary for enriching web media especially for the purpose of development. Development in this instance includes growth of income, improvement in the overall well being of the people, change in attitude and adoption of more efficient ways of doing things.Web 2.0 enables one use the web resources to get individuals who have access to these natural resources to feed the world with information on where they are, what they are, how one can utilize them productively and also make money from such natural resources. Through Web 2.0 farmers can interact with buyers of their products; users of farm products will also locate their supply sources and together these group of people can maximize their returns or benefits in their endeavours by using Web 2.0 as represented by this blog site. You are welcome to this site. Read and make your comments. If you have contributions on how these issues can be properly addressed or you like this, post your comments.