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Embracing Web 2.0 and Social Media: A Life-Changing Pathway for Agricultural Development Actors
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2015), 61 pp.
"Featuring a range of examples from ACP countries, this booklet includes testimonies on how Web 2.0 and social media have contributed to policy dialogue and advocacy (Chapter 1), value chain development (Chapter 2) and provision of information services (Chapter 3). The booklet features 18 stories co
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Farmer Participation in Radio Campaigns for Technology Adoption: Lessons from AFFRI’s Hybrid Maize Campaign in Mangochi, Malawi
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2015), pp. 1-17
"This ethnographic study used focus group discussions to investigate and gather ideographical information about why statistics from the Nankumba region of Mangochi in Malawi, where, from 2008 to 2010, Farm Radio International implemented the African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) - a meticul
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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (2015), 2 pp.
Participatory Visual Research with Subsistence Farmers in Papua New Guinea
Development in Practice, volume 25, issue 7 (2015), pp. 997-1010
"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p
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Communication for Rural Development Sourcebook
Key Guidance
Rome: FAO (2014), xiii, 321 pp.
"This sourcebook is meant to equip development and communication professionals with a useful set of guidelines, reference materials and learning resources to apply communication in rural development initiatives. The main goal is to enable readers to design and implement rural communication strategie
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Videos That Speak for Themselves: When Non-Extensionists Show Agricultural Videos to Large Audiences
Development in Practice, volume 24, issue 7 (2014), pp. 921-929
"In 2008, an NGO showed videos about rice to farmers in 19 villages in Benin. A study in 2013 showed that farmers remembered the videos, even after five years had passed. In most of the villages at least some farmers experimented with rice farming or with new technology after the video screenings, w
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Farming for the Future: Communication Efforts to Advance Family Farming
Rome: FAO (2014), ix, 57 pp.
"This document has been prepared to inspire reflection about the role of communication in advancing family farming. It includes an analysis of examples of ComDev approaches applied to smallholder farming and rural development and the issues that they encompass: food security, natural resource manage
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Farmer Radio in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Snapshot Final Report of the African Rural Radio Program Analysis (ARRPA)
Farm Radio International (2014), 108 pp.
Farmer Field Schools: From Agricultural Extension to Adult Education
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2014), 38 pp.
Shamba Shape Up Series 4: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Survey Report
The Media Company (2014), 46 pp.
"Good Information is in Short Supply": Kenyan Farmers and Their Assessment of Information on Agricultural Innovation
Zürich: Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW); Multimedia University College of Kenya (MMU) (2013), 50 pp.
"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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Delivery Models for Climate Information in East and West Africa
Frederiksberg: Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change (2013), 66 pp.
Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 53-59
"The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension initially employed research push models, it gradually moved towards research pull and collaborative research models. The
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Information Technology and Farm Households in Niger
UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (2012), 17 pp.
"This technical report seeks to understand the impact of improved access to information technology on farmers’ agricultural production and marketing practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Niger. Related research suggests in that access to mobile telephony can reduce communicatio
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Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guidance
USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiii, 195 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe
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Participatory Video with Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Program Report
Oxford: InsightShare (2012), 57 pp.
"In 2011 five UK-based development agencies were given a unique opportunity to pilot the use of participatory video with farmers in six sub-Saharan countries, through small supplementary grants awarded by Comic Relief. The UK-based funder Comic Relief recognises that the impacts of climate change th
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Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guidance
USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiv, 196 pp.
"Using low-Cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created in the field by your staff, the cost will be lower
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FAO Expert Consultation: Communication for Development. Meeting Today's Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges
Rome: FAO (2012), ix, 53 pp.
"[...] FAO’s Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension (OEK) organized an Expert Consultation on Communication for Development: Meeting Today’s Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges, that was held at FAO headquarters from 14 to 16 September, 2011. The main purpose was to identi
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Sustainable Food Lab (2012), 33 pp.
"Despite the massive uptake of mobile phones by agricultural producers, there are few quantitative studies that provide hard evidence of a link between technology and poverty reduction. Those studies that have explored this, however, found that farmer access to market information through radio, mobi
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