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„Das größte lösbare Problem der Welt“: Die mediale Vernachlässigung des Globalen Hungers
Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (2025), 293 pp.
"Hunger gehört zu den elementarsten menschlichen Erfahrungen. Etwa jeder zehnte Mensch auf der Welt hungert. Jeden Tag sterben etwa 24.000 Menschen an den Folgen von Hunger, etwa alle 13 Sekunden ein Kind unter 5 Jahren. Hunger ist aber keineswegs ein unabwendbares Schicksal. Das Welternährungspro
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ICTs, Smallholder Agriculture and Farmers’ Livelihood Improvement in Developing Countries: Evidence from Tanzania
Information Development, volume 41, issue 2 (2025), pp. 368-387
"Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are among the profound tools to help the poor and marginalized rural smallholder farmers make a difference in their lives. This paper seeks to understand how the recent development of ICTs helps increase agricultural productivity and improve smallho
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E-empowerment tips for facilitators: Information and communication technologies for farmer field schools
Rome: FAO (2024), viii, 56 pp.
Connected farmers: A casebook of good practices and inspiring stories from Europe and Central Asia
Budapest: FAO (2024), vi, 127 pp.
Rural communication services: Trends and experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Rome: FAO (2024), vii, 79 pp.
Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: The role of informant-recipient homogeneity
Journal of Developpment Effectiveness (2024), 28 pp.
"This study uses a randomised experiment targeting wheat producers in Ethiopia to examine the impact of providing market price information through Facebook on farmers’ sales behaviour. To identify the effect of informant homogeneity, we distinguished the informants’ nationality as either Ethiopi
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Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications
Big Data & Society (2024), 15 pp.
"The global food system is characterized by market concentration and oligopoly. In our article, we focus on the most powerful input supply and machinery companies and analyze how these firms create value, both economic and otherwise, from big data. In digital capitalism, data is valorized across sec
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Deconstructing the role of ICTs in agricultural development using the diverse economies framework
Information Technology for Development, volume 30, issue 4 (2024), pp. 696-716
"ICT4D research is predominantly governed by discourses of instrumental usage of ICTs and measurable ends dictated by official policies. Particularly in agricultural production, farmers are cast as tool-users expected to use ICTs to achieve pre-determined goals. The article argues that such approach
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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.
"This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector. We examine this phenomenon through the lens of Van Dijck e
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Effects of Radio-Based Extension Services on farmers’ Adoption of Organo-Mineral Fertilizers, Biofertilizers, and Manure in Lesotho
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 17 pp.
"This study examined the effects of radio-based extension services on farmers’ adoption of organo-mineral fertilizer, biofertilizer, and manure in Lesotho using a sample of 1659 farmers extracted from the 2019/2020 agricultural production survey database Bureau of Statistics (BOS). Data were analy
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Digital Agriculture: A Standards Snapshot
Geneva: ITU (2024), xi, 14 pp.
"Numerous barriers hinder mobile information services in delivering information effectively to smallholder farmers. Many of these barriers can be explained by farmers’ habits in using their phones. Therefore, carefully considering how exactly farmers use their phones in specific local context is c
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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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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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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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