The regional agricultural information and learning systems (RAILS) is a five year project funded by the African Development Bank. The major objective of RAILS is to enhance access, retrieval and use of agricultural information and technologies by African agricultural research for development (ARD) stakeholders in the global knowledge exchange arena. RAILS implementing partners are the SROs, i.e., ASARECA-RAIN, CORAF/WECARD, SADCFANR and the North African SRO. Others include NARS and international service providers working in agricultural information systems and management in Africa.

The RAILS implementation workshop took place in January 2007 with the purpose to to review and validate an implementation framework for the project for immediate application by Africa’s sub-regional organizations (SROs), national agricultural research systems (NARS) and related actors and stakeholders in agricultural information and technology exchange.

The report is available here.