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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Reality Television Programmes & Daily Talks
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Shamba Shape Up (Agricultural Reality TV Programme, Kenya)
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Development Communication: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Radio for Development
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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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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Development Communication Projects: Case Studies
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Communicating Development Projects, Media in Development Programmes
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Development Journalism & Media Representation of Development Issues
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ICTs and Development
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Audiovisual Media in Education
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Environmental Radio Programmes
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Risk Communication
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Video Production Skills
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
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Agricultural Development & Policies
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Book Marketing, Branding & Promotion
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Development Education
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Development Studies, Development Research
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Entertainment Education, Edutainment
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Electronic Commerce
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Social Media
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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TikTok
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Development Websites, Blogs & Online Communities
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Artificial Intelligence
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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 Policies
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Disaster Risk & Preparedness Communication, Disaster Prevention Communication
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Infectious Diseases' Outbreak Communication
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Data Bases, Digital Libraries, Open Access Repositories
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Documentation Systems
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Information Centres
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Library / Iinformation Personnel Education & Training
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Rural Libraries
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Alternative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Social Economy Businesses, Fair Trade
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Education and Communication / Media
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Curricula: School Education
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Educational Broadcasting
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Educational Effects of Media, Educational Role of Media
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Environmental Education
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Illiteracy, Non-Literate Persons
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Learning Processes
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Training
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Environmental Communication
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Information Products & Services: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Health Information Materials
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Indigenous Media, Indigenous Language Media Productions
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Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Competencies
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Local Radios, Local Radio Programmes
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Media Assistance
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Communication Networks
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Communication & Conversation Skills
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Print Media Management
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Radio Programmes & Genres
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Radio Programming, Programme Structures & Schedules
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Research in Media & Communication
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Data Collection, Data Collection Methods
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Resilience
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Theories of Change
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GIS, Geospatial Services
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Technological Change, Technological Developments, Technological Progress
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Audio Slide Shows, Sound Image Shows
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"More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies of digital literacy and inclusion models, all from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes engineering, social sciences, and education. Digital Literacy and Inclusion also highlights a show ... 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 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.
"[...] 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
"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
"Ziel des Buches ist es, ein grundsätzliches Verständnis zu schaffen und methodische Herangehensweisen darüber zu vermitteln, was erfolgreiche Kommunikation in diesem Branchenkontext auszeichnet und welche Wirkungen sich mit Kommunikation erzielen lassen - veranschaulicht an vielen Fallbeispielen ... more
"Knowledge sharing in rural agricultural communities is vital to the success of farmers and sustaining high yields. A range of actors in the knowledge landscape participate in knowledge sharing, and with this, a variety of complexities are introduced. In this paper, we report on a set of field visit ... more

On Air Dialogues: Listening to Rural Africans 2022

Farm Radio International (2022), 12 pp.
"In partnership with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Farm Radio International led On Air Dialogues to gather thousands of small-scale farmers' and other rural peoples' perspectives on climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience. We worked with seven radio stations in Burkin ... more
"Adoption of innovative technologies is central to improving agricultural productivity. Farmers in developing countries rely heavily on social learning in adopting new technologies. Barriers to social learning such as heterogeneity or social fragmentation can therefore limit technology adoption and ... more
"This is the annual report for the Interactive Radio for Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Practises (IRESAP) among small scale farmers in Northern and Central Tanzania. The reporting period was from January 2021 to December 2022." (commbox)
"It aims at providing a holistic view of digital transformation in the agriculture sector of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s digital agriculture landscape is assessed through six key themes, namely: infrastructure, digital penetration, policy and regulation, business environment, ... more