CELAC uses various information and communication technology (ICT) methods to foster knowledge sharing in the effort to enhance poverty reduction and food security, especially among women farmers. Specifically:


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• The project has its own website that it uses as one medium for disseminating information. Farmers' participation is key here; for instance, the website seeks to stimulate exchange on the crop and animal farming practices that have worked for Uganda's farmers through such sections as "Farmers Advice".
• CELAC also uses cell phone short message service (SMS) to send text messages on local agro-related information to the project’s database of phone numbers every Monday. This service is designed for farmers, community development workers, agricultural extension workers and any other interested persons.
• The project has both a monthly online and quarterly printed newsletter called “CELAC News”. All of its articles are written in both English and Luganda, the widely spoken local language in Uganda.
• Radio call-in programmes are offered on a monthly basis.
• CELAC uses music, dance and drama to portray farming practices and their challenges. These activities are recorded on video and burned onto DVDs for use by farmers' organisations, farmers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as tools to enhance further learning.

Other CELAC strategies include:

• Developing content for agricultural digital dissemination: The CELAC Project seeks to adopt content that is suitable for rural users by repackaging existing information to suit rural users, the majority of whom are illiterate.
• Establishing Community Knowledge Brokers: The CELAC Project seeks to establish village-level community knowledge brokers by empowering women and men with skills to collect, store, analyse and disseminate agricultural knowledge in the communities. They also represent the villages at the agricultural network for collecting and exchanging of local agro-content (AN - CELAC) which is based in Mayuge at BROSDI.
• Routine knowledge sharing: Using national and international networks, BROSDI regularly acquires agricultural information that is organised into local content and shared among communities. For example, in November 2005, the project brought together key persons from the targeted districts and beyond for a two-day people-to-people knowledge sharing forum on “local agro-good practices”. It is hoped that this type of activity will foster learning from diverse experiences, increase work effectiveness, and help farmers engage in more efficient problem-solving.

Agriculture.

Women farmers are the major earners in Uganda - especially at grassroot level. According to BROSDI, in Uganda, 72% of all employed women and 90% of all rural women work in agriculture; only 53% of rural men do so.