ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies systems used by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) service providers and assesses their impacts on value chain governance and upgrading activities. In Africa, it is believed that ICT can contribute to fast agricultural and agribusiness value chain development if it is refocused to expand the level of productivity and exposure to marketing activities. The chapter also identifies the bottlenecks to effective use of ICT products in agribusiness value chains. ICT has grown to a key factor in socio-economic development and has been associated with successes in agricultural value chain governance and upgrading. Value chain actors are those involved in supplying inputs, producing, processing, trading, or consuming a particular agricultural product. The chapter evaluates the role of ICT products in agricultural and agribusiness value chain development in Tanzania. The role of market information in facilitating efficiency and performance as well as equity in agribusiness value chain development is widely acknowledged in Tanzanian societies.
