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April 3, 2012 |During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked gover...
April 3, 2012 |In this CGD Note, post-doctoral fellow Jenny Aker assesses the impact of mobile phones on grain market performance in one of the world’s poorest countries. She finds that the introduction of mobile phones is associated with a 20 percent reduction in grain pr...
April 3, 2012 |This Inventory of Innovative Farmer Advisory Services (66 pages) is the result of an online consultation with the FARA Regional Agricultural Information & Learning System (RAILS) held during the month of October 2008 + desk study. It is an attempt to docum...
April 3, 2012 |Mobile phones have grown at an extraordinary rate throughout the developing world in recent years. They are potentially an invaluable economic asset to the poor and an important tool for strengthening social ties. Mobile phones may also help women overcome phy...
April 3, 2012 |This paper investigates a series of questions that explore this topic: What kind of information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do mobile phones and mobile-enabled agricultural services have an impact on agriculture? What are th...
April 3, 2012 |Grameen Foundation’s Community Knowledge Worker Initiative is based on the belief that a distributed network of intermediaries, or Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs), can use mobile devices to collect and disseminate information to improve the livelihoods of...
April 3, 2012 |The State of Food and Agriculture, FAO’s major annual flagship publication, aims at bringing to a wider audience balanced science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture. Each edition of the report contains a comprehensive,...
April 3, 2012 |Through its collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in the Programme for Knowledge Networking in Rural Asia and the Pacifi c (ENRAP), IFAD took the opportunity to examine how information related constraints in poor rural areas a...
April 3, 2012 |Agriculture for Development, the 2008 World Development Report, showed that agriculture is a critical source of livelihoods for women in many developing countries, and a key pathway out of poverty.1 It also portrayed women in many rural societies as especially...
April 3, 2012 |This paper presents the findings of a review undertaken on gender and the adoption of agroforestry in Africa. The concept of gender as used in this paper is not about women, but rather as an organizing principle in society, which is used as a process and pract...
April 3, 2012 |Informed by a research study in Punjab, a model for the use of ICTs in agricultural extension services in Pakistan is proposed which is compatible with the current telecom infrastructure within Pakistan. It uses mobile phones as the user interface for field us...
April 3, 2012 |The purpose of this study is to estimate the benefits that Indian farmers derive from market and weather information delivered by their mobile phone. We conduct a controlled randomized experiment in 100 villages of Maharashtra. We find no statistically signifi...
April 3, 2012 |There has been a lot of interest during the last two decades in employing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for achieving development. While many of these initiatives have benefited rural women by way of access to new information and new employ...
April 3, 2012 |Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricu...
April 3, 2012 |The commoditization of consumer audio-video electronics offers a tantalizingly low-cost channel for disseminating information to under-educated, possibly illiterate, populations such as those living in remote rural areas in developing countries. Examples inclu...
April 3, 2012 |IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) is a tri-lateral joint venture between the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO), the largest farmers’ cooperative in India and airtel, the largest mobile network operator, along with Star Global Resources Limit...
April 3, 2012 |This briefing paper on ICT applications that support distribution and supply chain management is one of a series of papers to help USAID missions and im-plementing partners in sub-Saharan Afri-ca use ICT more successfully to improve the impact of agriculture-r...
April 3, 2012 |This is one of a series of briefing papers to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use information and communications technology more successfully—via sustainable and scalable approaches—to improve the impact of their a...
April 3, 2012 |This paper provides a brief overview of the fundamentals of warehouse receipt systems (WRSs) and commodity exchanges (CEXs), describes several ways in which ICT tools are being mobilized, and captures key lessons learned with a focus on sustainability without ...
April 3, 2012 |This document explores the opportunities for Agricultural VAS* and covers emerging best practice on marketing, service design and business modelling. It is primarily addressed to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), other service providers, and agricultural organi...
April 3, 2012 |This is one of a series of briefing papers to help USAID missions and their im-plementing partners in sub-Saharan Afri-ca use ICT more successfully to improve the impact of their agriculture related development projects including FTF (Feed the Future) projects...
April 3, 2012 |At the design stage of any new product or service, it is critical to understand the user’s needs and to identify the unique demographics that exist within the target market. This is especially crucial for Agri VAS as base of pyramid users tend not to be surv...
April 3, 2012 |Irrespective of the nature of the target market, a successful Agri VAS design will always endeavour to provide information that is timely, actionable and relevant.
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April 3, 2012 |When introducing new products and services, the role of marketing is twofold and serves to: 1. Understand the consumer and their changing information needs (continuously incorporating new insight into the marketing strategy and service design). 2. Drive consum...
April 3, 2012 |Agri VAS should be set up with a long-term commercial and financial model in mind. Although many Agri VAS will leverage ‘seed’ funding for their initial piloting and start-up phases, it is important to avoid the ensuing strictures of donor dependence by ad...
April 3, 2012 |Cell phones are quickly transforming markets in low-income countries. The effect is particularly dramatic in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where cell phones often represent the fi rst development in telecommunications infrastructure.
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April 3, 2012 |Grameen Foundation’s (GF) Community Knowledge Worker Initiative is based on the belief that a distributed network of intermediaries, or Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs), can use mobile devices to collect and disseminate information to improve the livelihoo...
April 3, 2012 |This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture addresses Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development. The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries, and one of the key reasons is that women do not have equal access ...
April 3, 2012 |This briefing paper on ICT applications that provide market price information to those within agriculture value chains is one of a series of papers to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use ICT more suc-cessfully to impro...
April 3, 2012 |The Indian agricultural sector, at present, suffers from decelerating productivity growth rate. It is essential to catalyse agricultural productivity, raise rural incomes, and release land for urbanisation and industrialisation to feed the growing population.
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April 3, 2012 |Agriculture is referred to as the backbone of Pakistan’s economy; it is the single largest sector employing almost half of the country’s total workforce and contributing one-fourth to the GDP. Pakistan’s current and potential agricultural land is under e...
April 3, 2012 |Agricultural informatics is a new concept that has arisen following the rapid development in information and communication technologies (ICTs), and of the internet.
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April 3, 2012 |The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has, for decades, been interested in the way in which information, and networked technologies, can play a role in spurring development outcomes. Amongst the most promising areas, the improvement of rural liv...
April 3, 2012 |Innovations in Rural Extension presents the evolution of methods, outlines them in contextual detail, and presents the reader with the keys to success and some of the difficulties he or she may encounter while implementing them.
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April 3, 2012 |Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main farmers or producers, but their roles remain la...
April 3, 2012 |Mobile phones may help women overcome physical boundaries, especially in places where they are separated from their support networks and bound within their husband’s social sphere. This paper examines the impact of mobile phones on the status of women in Ind...
April 3, 2012 |Over the past twenty years, the number of mobile phone subscriptions has risen from 12.4 million to more than 5 billion. The majority of them, equaling 3.8 billion, are in developing countries, where the mobile telecommunications industry has expanded most qui...
April 3, 2012 |This is one of a series of briefing papers to help USAID missions and their im-plementing partners in sub-Saharan Afri-ca use information and communications technology (ICT) more successfully —via sustainable and scalable approaches—to improve the impact o...
April 3, 2012 |The lives of girls and women have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. Today, more girls and women are literate than ever before, and in a third of developing countries, there are more girls in school than boys. Women now make up over 40 percent...
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