The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA)’s tasks are to
develop and provide services that improve access to information for agricultural and
rural development, and to strengthen the capacity of African Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) countries to produce, acquire, exchange and utilize information in this area.
CTA’s programmes are organized around three principal activities: providing an
increasing range and quantity of information product and services and enhancing
awareness of relevant information sources; supporting the integrated use of appropriate
communication channels and intensifying contacts and information exchange
(particularly intra-ACP); and developing ACP capacity to generate and manage
agricultural information and to formulate information and communication management
(ICM) strategies, including those relevant to science and technology. These activities
take account of methodological developments in cross-cutting issues (gender; youth,
information & communication technologies – Information Communication Technologies
(ICTs), and social capital), findings from impact assessments and evaluations of ongoing
programmes as well as priority information themes for ACP agriculture.