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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Rural Communication for Development
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Rural Radio Programmes, Rural Radios, Rural Development & Radio
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Food / Nutrition Communication & Media Representation
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Food, Food Security, Nutrition
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Reality Television Programmes & Daily Talks
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Agriculture
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Shamba Shape Up (Agricultural Reality TV Programme, Kenya)
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Agroecological Agriculture
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Peasants / Farmers & Communication
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Educational Radio Programmes
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Family Farming
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Participatory Communication
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Communicating Development Projects, Media in Development Programmes
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ICTs and Development
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Media Assistance: Radio
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Land Property, Land Grabbing, Land Reforms
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Audience Clubs & Listener Groups
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Interactive Radio: Audience Participation, Interaction & Feedback
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Radio Campaigns
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Educational Films & Videos
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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Development Education
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Development Communication: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Farm Radio International (NGO)
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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Alternative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Social Economy Businesses, Fair Trade
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Communication for Sustainable Development
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Agricultural Development & Policies
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Environmental & Land Conflicts
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Media Use: Rural Populations
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Development Education: Films
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Strategic Communication Planning
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Community Radios
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Edutainment Television Programmes
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Radio for Development
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Electronic Commerce
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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ICT Development Assistance
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Disaster Risk & Preparedness Communication, Disaster Prevention Communication
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Documentation Systems
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Information Management
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Commodities, Raw Materials, Extractive Industries, Mining
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Adult Education
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Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation
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Water Resources Management, Water Access & Supply
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Women (General)
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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Developing Countries Reporting & Representation in Foreign / International Media
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Local Radios, Local Radio Programmes
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Video Production Skills
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Research Methods
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Technological Change, Technological Developments, Technological Progress
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Access to Media & Information
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Advertising Effects: Children
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
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Agricultural Issues: Reporting & Media Representation
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Fishing
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Forestry, Deforestation, Forest Protection
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Audiences & Users
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Reading, Reading Habits, Reading Skills
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Book Marketing, Branding & Promotion
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Book Publishing
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Behaviour Change Campaigns
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Basic Film Production Skills
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Editorial Independence: Influence of Media Owners
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Associations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Development
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Development Assistance
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Development and Media
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Development Communication: Effects & Effectiveness
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Development Communication Organizations
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Development Communication Tools & Methods
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Information for Development
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Visual Aids for Development
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Social Media
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Social Media & Web 2.0 for Development
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Websites
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Development Websites, Blogs & Online Communities
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Artificial Intelligence
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Mobile Phone Markets
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ICT Policies
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Famines: Media Representation & Reporting
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Infectious Diseases' Outbreak Communication
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Data Bases, Digital Libraries, Open Access Repositories
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Rural Libraries
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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Education and Communication / Media
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Audiobooks & Audio Cassettes
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Educational Television
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Interactive Audio Learning, Interactive Digital Learning, Interactive Radio Instruction
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Media Assistance: Educational & Instructional Media
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Media Didactics, Media Use in Education
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Training
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Training Courses, Course Development
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Vocational Training
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Tourism & Travel
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Environmental Radio Programmes
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Sustainable Development
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Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Tools
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Impact Assessment & Outcome Evaluation
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Information Products & Services: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Self-Assessment, Self-Evaluation
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Female News Sources
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Women's Radio Programmes
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Innovations
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Indigenous Media, Indigenous Language Media Productions
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Translations & Translating
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Local Television
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Communication Networks
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Crowdsourcing
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Media, Mass Media
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Knowledge Management
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Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge
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Low-Cost Solutions, Low Budget Calculation
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Marketing & Branding
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Print Media Management
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Photography
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Public Administration
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Magazines
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Newsletters
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Weekend Nation (Weekly, Malawi)
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Scholarly Journals
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Radio Debates, Radio Talk Shows, Call-In Radio Programmes
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Media Effects
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Visual Perception, Visual Reception
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Research in Media & Communication
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Data Collection, Data Collection Methods
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Participatory Research Methods
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Research Report Writing
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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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Theories of Change
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Radio Production Equipment & Technologies
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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Television
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Visual Communication
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"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 ... more

"Good Information is in Short Supply": Kenyan Farmers and Their Assessment of Information on Agricultural Innovation

Zürich: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM);Multimedia University College of Kenya (MMU) (2013), 50 pp.
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

Assessing the Role of Information and Communication Technologies to Enhance Food Systems in Developing Countries: A Focus on Eastern and Southern Africa

Michigan State University, Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI);U.S. Global Development Lab (2013), 39 pp.

Delivery Models for Climate Information in East and West Africa

Frederiksberg: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (2013), 66 pp.
"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 ... more

Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo ... more
"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 ... more

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 ... more
"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 ... more
"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"[...] 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 ... more

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Sustainable Food Lab (2012), 33 pp.
"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 ... more

Shamba Shape Up: Series One Evaluation

InterMedia (2012), 58 pp.
"The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension initially employed research push models, it gradually moved towards research pull and collaborative research models. The ... more

Landraub: Reisen ins Reich des neuen Kolonialismus

Alexander Knaak (transl.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 254 pp.