There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda
Rapidly expanding mobile network coverage in developing countries offers new ways to reach poor farmers in isolated places. This article explores the potential for Information and Communication Technology to provide agricultural information and extension services to smallholder farmers, and links th...
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2017
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| author | Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
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| description | Rapidly expanding mobile network coverage in developing countries offers new ways to reach poor farmers in isolated places. This article explores the potential for Information and Communication Technology to provide agricultural information and extension services to smallholder farmers, and links this to empirical insights of an intervention in Uganda, where community knowledge workers rely on mobile devices to deliver context- and time-sensitive data to farmers. Consistent with theoretical insights related to information inefficiencies, we find that the intervention leads farmers to move away from low-risk low-return crops toward more commercially oriented commodities. Our analysis also suggests that, for the case of maize, the intervention causes farmers to sell less on the market, but at significantly higher prices. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1484442024-11-15T12:44:39Z There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda Van Campenhout, Bjorn mobile phones agricultural extension market information services Rapidly expanding mobile network coverage in developing countries offers new ways to reach poor farmers in isolated places. This article explores the potential for Information and Communication Technology to provide agricultural information and extension services to smallholder farmers, and links this to empirical insights of an intervention in Uganda, where community knowledge workers rely on mobile devices to deliver context- and time-sensitive data to farmers. Consistent with theoretical insights related to information inefficiencies, we find that the intervention leads farmers to move away from low-risk low-return crops toward more commercially oriented commodities. Our analysis also suggests that, for the case of maize, the intervention causes farmers to sell less on the market, but at significantly higher prices. 2017 2024-06-21T09:24:42Z 2024-06-21T09:24:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148444 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2017. There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda. Information, Communication & Society 20(4): 530 - 550. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1200644 |
| spellingShingle | mobile phones agricultural extension market information services Van Campenhout, Bjorn There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title | There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title_full | There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title_fullStr | There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title_short | There is an app for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda |
| title_sort | there is an app for that the impact of community knowledge workers in uganda |
| topic | mobile phones agricultural extension market information services |
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