Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia
This paper examines the impact of mobile phones on farmers’ marketing decisions and prices they receive based on household- and village-level information collected from rural Ethiopia. It explains the reason for the weak impact of mobile phones observed in this study as well as in previous studies i...
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| author | Tadesse, Getaw Bahiigwa, Godfrey |
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| description | This paper examines the impact of mobile phones on farmers’ marketing decisions and prices they receive based on household- and village-level information collected from rural Ethiopia. It explains the reason for the weak impact of mobile phones observed in this study as well as in previous studies in Africa. We argue that even though many farmers participate in information searching, the number of farmers who use mobile phones for information searching is very small. The reason for such low use of mobile phones for information searching seems to be lack of relevant information that can be accessed through mobile phones. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1498772024-10-25T07:55:05Z Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia Tadesse, Getaw Bahiigwa, Godfrey mobile phones marketing smallholders information exchange This paper examines the impact of mobile phones on farmers’ marketing decisions and prices they receive based on household- and village-level information collected from rural Ethiopia. It explains the reason for the weak impact of mobile phones observed in this study as well as in previous studies in Africa. We argue that even though many farmers participate in information searching, the number of farmers who use mobile phones for information searching is very small. The reason for such low use of mobile phones for information searching seems to be lack of relevant information that can be accessed through mobile phones. 2015-01-15 2024-08-01T02:50:08Z 2024-08-01T02:50:08Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149877 en Open Access Elsevier Tadesse, Getaw; and Bahiigwa, Godfrey. 2014. Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia. World Development 68(April 2015): 296-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.010 |
| spellingShingle | mobile phones marketing smallholders information exchange Tadesse, Getaw Bahiigwa, Godfrey Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title | Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Mobile phones and farmers’ marketing decisions in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | mobile phones and farmers marketing decisions in ethiopia |
| topic | mobile phones marketing smallholders information exchange |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149877 |
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