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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Shamba Shape Up (Agricultural Reality TV Programme, Kenya)
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ICTs and Development
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Land Property, Land Grabbing, Land Reforms
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Mobile Phone Markets
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Famines: Media Representation & Reporting
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Environmental Radio Programmes
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Local Television
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Weekend Nation (Weekly, Malawi)
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Media Effects
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Research in Media & Communication
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Rural Areas, Rural Communities, Rural Development
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Rural Television
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Television
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"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 ... more

Error 404, farmer not found: Why agricultural information services must consider how smallholders use their phones

Alliance of Bioversity International;International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT);CGIAR (2024), 7 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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"[...] 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 ... more
"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 ... more

Empowerment Journalism: A Model for Reporting Women Farmers’ Constructive Struggle

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 30 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 ... more