s:2230:"TI Integrated information and communication technologies for farm-level access to natural resource management information: case of South western Uganda 
AU Masuki K F G 
AU Mowo G J 
AU Kamugisha, R.N. 
AU Tanui J K 
AU Tukahirwa J M B 
AU Adera E O 
AB Small-scale farmers inhabiting the highly dissected highlands in Kabale district, Uganda lack access to appropriate information necessary to apply methods and technologies for sustainable land management for increased agricultural productivity. The farmers’ information needs are characteristically changing over time while access to information is often poor due to limitations in communication services. To address this shortcoming, African highlands Initiative (AHI) implemented a project which integrated information and communication technologies that connected farmers to appropriate information using multiple information sources and media including telecentres and village information centres. The centres were equipped with portable phones, printed materials like leaflets, brochures, pamphlets, research reports and books. This paper discusses the dynamics of using integrated information and communication technologies among smallholder farmers isolating challenges and opportunities while analysing insights associated with results patterns. Research findings showed that rural communities appreciated the use of integrated information and communication technologies as convenient way to communicate and get desired information. Farmers were more excited about the use of phones than other information and communication technologies like radio and the print media. There was a dynamic use of mobile phones for accessing information at parish level. The radio messages also offered prices of selected commodities in different markets within the district and in other neighbouring towns in the region. The information enabled the farmers to bargain for higher produce prices. Print media were particularly useful for information on sustainable land management. Different print media in the form of leaflets, pamphlets, booklets and posters were developed both in English and local languages and disseminated to village information centres and telecentres 
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