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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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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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"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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Commercial Rural Radio Program: The Emerging Effective Means to Improving Rural Livelihoods. The Case of INUKA
Dodoma (TZ): Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2011), 32 pp.
"INUKA’s primary objective was to address the interests and needs of the rural producers in the CC. Capacity building of radio staff proved to be an essential element to overcome the shortage of tailored expertise on agriculture and rural related radio programming and marketing. Listeners gave a p
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Extensión, comunicación y desarrollo rural: Lineamientos para una extensión rural eficaz
Asunción: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2011), 277 pp.
"Este es un libro que abarca diferentes enfoques, modalidades y metodologías de extensión de ayer, de hoy, con visión de futuro. Hace revivir la teoría de difusión de innovaciones y el proceso de innovación-decisión. Además, hace mención a metodologías y medios tradicionales de extensión
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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.
"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five
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Agricultural Radio That Works
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 8 pp.
"Participatory Radio Campaigns (PRCs) were developed by Farm Radio International as a way to help farmers learn about, evaluate, and introduce new agricultural practices that they are interested in trying. With training and facilitation support from Farm Radio International, selected radio stations
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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.
"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to
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Rádio Comunitária como estratégia de comunicação da Extensão Pesqueira para o Desenvolvimento Local
Signo y Pensamiento, volume 30, issue 58 (2011), pp. 80-93
"O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o rádio comunitário como estratégia de comunicação da Extensão Pesqueira para o Desenvolvimento Local em comunidades cuja pesca é a principal atividade econômica, a exemplo da Ilha de Deus, no Recife, Pernambuco. A análise parte da recepção da Rádio C
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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.
"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements
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Food Security Communications Toolkit
Key Guides
Rome: FAO (2011), 213 pp.
"This toolkit is geared towards helping food security professionals develop a communication strategy and communicate more effectively with their target audiences. Specific sections of the toolkit focus on policy makers and the media, because of the important role they play in implementing and influe
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Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
Washington, DC: Center for Global Development (2011), 36 pp.
"This article outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in developing countries. It then reviews existing programs using ICT for agriculture, categorized by the mechanism (voice, text, internet and mobile money
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GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small Grants That Made Big Changes for Women in Agriculture
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2010), 45 pp.
"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and
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Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture
New Delhi: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (2010), 46 pp.
"The study found evidence that mobiles are being used in ways which contribute to productivity enhancement. However, to leverage the full potential of information dissemination enabled by mobile telephony will require significant improvements in supporting infrastructure and capacity building amongs
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