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Improving Farmer Livelihoods Through Digitised Agricultural Value Chains: Results and Lessons from the GSMA Innovation Fund
London: GSMA (2023), 143 pp.
"Digital agriculture services supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund were scaled across 17 value chains and profiled more than 1.4 million farmers combined. Most of the farmers profiled are male (70.3%), smallholder farmers cultivating on less than two hectares of land (79.3%) and over 40 years of ag
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 482 pp.
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodologica
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Inclusively Advancing Agri-Food Systems Through AI and Automation
Genesis Analytics; USAID (2023), 96 pp.
"This study has identified myriad potential benefits of AI and automation solutions in agri-food systems, with the largest being significant enhancements in agricultural productivity and outputs. Data collected from sensors, satellites, or drones can help SSPs prepare and use their available land op
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Pimp my farm: Eine Reality-TV-Show in Kenia verändert nicht nur die Ernte der teilnehmenden Bauern, sondern auch das Leben der Zuschauer
Die Zeit, nr. 51 (2023)
"[...] Tonny Njuguna ist Schauspieler und einer der beiden Moderatoren von Shamba Shape Up, einer Reality-TV-Show aus Kenia. "Shamba" bedeutet Farm in der Landessprache Kisuaheli, "shape up" ist Englisch und heißt so viel wie aufmotzen oder pimpen. Allein in Kenia schauen Woche für Woche bis zu ne
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Annual Report: Interactive Radio for Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Practices (IRESAP) Among Small Scale Farmers in Northern and Central Tanzania. Reporting Period: January 2021 to December 2022
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2022), 37 pp.
"This is the annual report for the Interactive Radio for Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Practises (IRESAP) among small scale farmers in Northern and Central Tanzania. The reporting period was from January 2021 to December 2022." (commbox)
Agrarkommunikation: Eine Einführung in Theorie, Konzeption und Umsetzung
Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler (2022), xv, 395 pp.
"Ziel des Buches ist es, ein grundsätzliches Verständnis zu schaffen und methodische Herangehensweisen darüber zu vermitteln, was erfolgreiche Kommunikation in diesem Branchenkontext auszeichnet und welche Wirkungen sich mit Kommunikation erzielen lassen - veranschaulicht an vielen Fallbeispielen
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The Climate Emergency: How Africa Can Survive and Thrive
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) (2022), vi, 42 pp.
"The stories in this AFSA Barefoot Guide show that African farmers, long seen as victims, are beginning to implement lasting, sustainable solutions to the climate crisis in Africa. Indeed, they are examples that could well be followed by all farmers. Through agroecology practices, not only can they
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Radio and Technology Adoption During India’s Green Revolution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
SSRN (2022), 39 pp.
"Adoption of innovative technologies is central to improving agricultural productivity. Farmers in developing countries rely heavily on social learning in adopting new technologies. Barriers to social learning such as heterogeneity or social fragmentation can therefore limit technology adoption and
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Understanding the Information Landscape in Agricultural Communities in Rural Bangladesh
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 89, issue 1 (2022), 20 pp.
"Knowledge sharing in rural agricultural communities is vital to the success of farmers and sustaining high yields. A range of actors in the knowledge landscape participate in knowledge sharing, and with this, a variety of complexities are introduced. In this paper, we report on a set of field visit
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Factors Affecting Digital Technology Adoption by Small-Scale Farmers in Agriculture Value Chains (AVCs) in South Africa
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 558-584
"Digital technologies enable small-scale farmers to reduce some constraints to participate in Agriculture Value Chains (AVCs). Small-scale farmers face significant challenges and barriers to adopting digital technology. This study contributes to the literature on digital development in three ways: p
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"It aims at providing a holistic view of digital transformation in the agriculture sector of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s digital agriculture landscape is assessed through six key themes, namely: infrastructure, digital penetration, policy and regulation, business environment,
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Data sovereignty in agricultural value chains
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 50 pp.
Agroenvironmental narratives of transformative resistance: How participatory videos frame climate change in India
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-63
"Shifting attention from the United Nations’ focus on perpetrators of climate change to climate change victims, this qualitative content analysis uses a constructivist paradigmatic approach to examine the participatory video narratives produced by local media producers in rural India. Based on the
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Digitalising Rural MSMEs: Thailand’s Agriculture and Tourism Sectors
London: GSMA (2022), 58 pp.
"Thailand faces the dual challenge of swiftly navigating the disruptions caused by COVID-19 while also enabling sustainable and inclusive development. To enable inclusive development, Thailand must focus on building resilience and enhancing the productivity of micro, small and medium enterprises (MS
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A Review of Food and Nutrition Communication and Promotion in Ghana
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, volume 22, issue 2 (2022), pp. 19602-19623
"As part of the process to develop food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) for Ghana, this rapid evidence review examined the nature, extent, sources, and medium of food and nutrition information dissemination and promotion in Ghana. PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and Open Access Theses Dissertatio
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Usos y representaciones de las TIC en el agro argentino: Repensar el espacio desde la virtualidad
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2021), 296 pp.
Pesquisa comercialização solidária na Amazônia brasileira
Brasilia: Rede Eclesial Pan-Amazônica - REPAM Brasil (2021), 32 pp.
"A pesquisa apontou que em 91% das arquidioceses, dioceses e prelazias da Amazônia Legal brasileira contam com espaços permanentes de comercialização de produtos agroecológicos, da agricultura familiar e economia solidária. A maior parte desses espaços são as tradicionais feiras que reúnem
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