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Communication for Rural Development: Guidelines for Planning and Project Formulation
Key Guides
Rome: FAO (2014), 55 pp.
"Communication for Development (ComDev) is a participatory approach that integrates community media, low-cost ICTs, mobile phones and other communication tools to facilitate access to information, knowledge sharing and social dialogue. Well-planned and managed ComDev activities are crucial to ensure
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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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Oxfam's Grow Campaign: Mid Point External Evaluation
Owl RE (2013), 87 pp.
"On 1 June 2011, Oxfam launched the GROW campaign to tackle food injustice and build a better food system. The GROW campaign is broad and diverse, operating at national, regional and international levels, across 4 thematic areas – land, investment in small-scale agriculture, climate change and foo
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"SMART" Photovoice Agricultural Consultation: Increasing Rwandan Women Farmers' Active Participation in Development
Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 496-510
"Through two case studies, this paper evaluates the value of the feminist visual methodology Photovoice as an interactive consultation tool with rural Rwandan women working in agriculture. This exploratory study suggests that it is possible, through an adapted Photovoice process, to engage and empow
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"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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Role of Farm-Radio Agricultural Programmes in Disseminating Agricultural Technology to Rural Famers for Agricultural Development in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology, volume 2, issue 1 (2013), pp. 54-68
"The finding of the research reveals that majorities (90%) of the farmers were males, within their active productive ages (31-42 years) and 50% of them had attained Islamic education. Most of the farmers obtained agricultural information through radio agricultural programmes (97.8%) out of which maj
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Seventy-Five Ways to Fix Your Farmer Program
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2012), 16 pp.
"In 2010, Farm Radio International gathered information about farmer radio programs from radio stations in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. We visited twenty stations and two production houses and listened to their farmer programs. We posed hundreds of questions to the people making the
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"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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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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"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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Extending the Learning Community: Rural Radio, Social Learning and Farm Productivity in Ghana
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2012), 20 pp.
"This paper examines the potential role of indigenous knowledge sharing through rural FM radio stations in Ghanaian agriculture. To identify social learning effects, we examine crop productivity trends and their association with participation in radio programs, and compare the strength of these asso
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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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Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guides
"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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