How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico
Mobile phone apps can be a cost-effective way to provide decision support to farmers, and they can support the collection of agricultural data. The digitisation of agricultural systems, and the efforts to close the digital divide and to include smallholders, make data ownership and privacy issues mo...
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| author | Molina Maturano, Janet Verhulst, Nele Tur-Cardona, Juan Güereña, David T. Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea Govaerts, Bram Steur, Hans de Speelman, Stijn |
| author_browse | Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea Govaerts, Bram Güereña, David T. Molina Maturano, Janet Speelman, Stijn Steur, Hans de Tur-Cardona, Juan Verhulst, Nele |
| author_facet | Molina Maturano, Janet Verhulst, Nele Tur-Cardona, Juan Güereña, David T. Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea Govaerts, Bram Steur, Hans de Speelman, Stijn |
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| description | Mobile phone apps can be a cost-effective way to provide decision support to farmers, and they can support the collection of agricultural data. The digitisation of agricultural systems, and the efforts to close the digital divide and to include smallholders, make data ownership and privacy issues more relevant than ever before. In Central and South American countries, smallholders’ preferences regarding data licenses and sharing have largely been ignored, and little attention has been paid to the potential of nonfinancial incentives to increase the uptake of digital solutions and participation by farmers. To investigate incentives for smallholder farmers to potentially use an agricultural advisory app in which they share their data, a Discrete Choice Experiment was designed. Based on a survey of 392 farmers in Mexico, preferences for attributes related to its usage were revealed using a conditional logit (CL) model. To explore heterogeneity, groups and profiles were explored through a latent class (LC) model. The CL model results revealed, for example, farmers’ positive preference to receive support at first use and access to training, while negative preference was found for sharing data with private actors. The LC identified three classes which differ in their preference for attributes such as the degree of data sharing. Furthermore, for example, a farmer’s connectedness to an innovation hub was found to be one of the significant variables in the class membership function. The main contribution of the study is that it shows the importance of nonfinancial incentives and the influence of data sharing on farmer preferences. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1271102025-12-08T10:29:22Z How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico Molina Maturano, Janet Verhulst, Nele Tur-Cardona, Juan Güereña, David T. Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea Govaerts, Bram Steur, Hans de Speelman, Stijn smallholders computer applications agricultural innovation systems experimentation Mobile phone apps can be a cost-effective way to provide decision support to farmers, and they can support the collection of agricultural data. The digitisation of agricultural systems, and the efforts to close the digital divide and to include smallholders, make data ownership and privacy issues more relevant than ever before. In Central and South American countries, smallholders’ preferences regarding data licenses and sharing have largely been ignored, and little attention has been paid to the potential of nonfinancial incentives to increase the uptake of digital solutions and participation by farmers. To investigate incentives for smallholder farmers to potentially use an agricultural advisory app in which they share their data, a Discrete Choice Experiment was designed. Based on a survey of 392 farmers in Mexico, preferences for attributes related to its usage were revealed using a conditional logit (CL) model. To explore heterogeneity, groups and profiles were explored through a latent class (LC) model. The CL model results revealed, for example, farmers’ positive preference to receive support at first use and access to training, while negative preference was found for sharing data with private actors. The LC identified three classes which differ in their preference for attributes such as the degree of data sharing. Furthermore, for example, a farmer’s connectedness to an innovation hub was found to be one of the significant variables in the class membership function. The main contribution of the study is that it shows the importance of nonfinancial incentives and the influence of data sharing on farmer preferences. 2022-03-12 2023-01-14T12:50:05Z 2023-01-14T12:50:05Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127110 en Open Access application/pdf MDPI Molina-Maturano, J., Verhulst, N., Tur-Cardona, J., Güerena, D. T., Gardeazábal-Monsalve, A., Govaerts, B., De Steur, H., & Speelman, S. (2022). How to Make a Smartphone-Based App for Agricultural Advice Attractive: Insights from a Choice Experiment in Mexico. Agronomy, 12(3), 691. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030691 |
| spellingShingle | smallholders computer applications agricultural innovation systems experimentation Molina Maturano, Janet Verhulst, Nele Tur-Cardona, Juan Güereña, David T. Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea Govaerts, Bram Steur, Hans de Speelman, Stijn How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title | How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title_full | How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title_fullStr | How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title_short | How to make a smartphone-based app for agricultural advice attractive: Insights from a choice experiment in Mexico |
| title_sort | how to make a smartphone based app for agricultural advice attractive insights from a choice experiment in mexico |
| topic | smallholders computer applications agricultural innovation systems experimentation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127110 |
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