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Role of Farm-Radio Agricultural Programmes in Disseminating Agricultural Technology to Rural Famers for Agricultural Development in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology, volume 2, issue 1 (2013), pp. 54-68
"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
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"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
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Oxfam's Grow Campaign: Mid Point External Evaluation
Owl RE (2013), 87 pp.
"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
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"SMART" Photovoice Agricultural Consultation: Increasing Rwandan Women Farmers' Active Participation in Development
Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 496-510
"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
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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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FAO Expert Consultation: Communication for Development. Meeting Today's Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges
Rome: FAO (2012), ix, 53 pp.
"[...] 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
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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
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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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"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
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Participatory Video with Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Program Report
Oxford: InsightShare (2012), 57 pp.
"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
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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
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Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guides
"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
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Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 53-59
"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
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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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