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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan

Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15

"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more

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ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
Key Guidance

Washington, DC: World Bank, updated ed. (2017), xxiii, 436 pp.

"This resource is designed to support practitioners, decision makers, and development partners who work at the intersection of ICT and agriculture. In this revised e-Sourcebook you will find updated modules on ICT in the work of producer organizations; in research, extension and innovation; and in v ... more

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Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri’s Agripol Advocacy Platform in Burkina Faso

Sylvestre Ouédraogo, Théophile Assane Sawadogo

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 6 pp.

"Agripol is a platform that facilitates lobbying and advocacy of government, decision makers and the public by farmers’ organisations and others interested in agricultural development. Yam Pukri, which maintains the site, runs workshops and training courses to help its clients gain lobbying skills ... more

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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
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Paul Mundy, Benjamin Kwasi Addom, Krishan Bheenick

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 16 pp.

"CTA’s ICT4Ag project (2014–15) enabled seven organisations in Africa and the Caribbean to develop, test and promote information services for smallscale farmers and fishers, traders and lobbying groups. Key recommendations: Understanding users’ needs requires intensive interaction with potenti ... more

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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture

Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.

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Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy
Top Insights

Rome: FAO;University of Queensland (2017), viii, 90 pp.

"This publication is the first scoping study aimed at compiling existing evaluation cases in the field of Communication for Development as applied to agricultural and rural development initiatives. It draws on a literature review and 19 cases across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribb ... more

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Building an Ecosystem Around Data: Using Interactive Radio for Accountability to Farmers in Tanzania

Francesca Feruglio, Heather Gilberds

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS);Farm Radio International (2017), 15 pp.

"In 2015, Farm Radio International applied to Making All Voices Count for a practitioner research and learning grant. Farm Radio International (FRI) is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organisation working in direct partnership with approximately 600 radio broadcasters in 38 African countries to figh ... more

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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Quick Overview

FHI 360;Rockefeller Foundation (2017), 103 pp.

"This inventory was developed by FHI 360, with grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, to support resilience practitioners and the broader development community to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. It was primarily popu ... more

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The Retirement Project of George Stuart Atkins: Development Radio in the Time of Cybernetics

Ian Smillie

Development in Practice, volume 27, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1133-1140

"For years after its start-up in 1979, Farm Radio International (FRI) sent radio scripts and other material to broadcasters in more than 100 developing countries, believing it reached as many as 100 million people. By 2000, however, its unidirectional scattershot approach was being questioned by bot ... more

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Community Radio for Change

Basudev Mahapatra, Biswajit Padhi

Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid;Young India (2017), 85 pp.

"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for ... more

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Communicating Climate Change in the Rice Sector

Jaime A. Manalo IV et al.

Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice);Bureau of Agricultural Research (2017), xi, 95 pp.

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A Passion for Video: 25 Stories About Making, Translating, Sharing and Using Videos on Farmer Innovation
Inspiring Practice

Jeffery Bentley, Eric Boa, Mundie Salm (eds.)

Nairobi; Wageningen: Access Agriculture;Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2016), 56 pp.

"The stories in this volume were gathered as part of a Writeshop held in Nairobi on 9–10 November, in the context of the Access Agriculture Week 9–13 November, 2015. People are story-tellers as well as creatures who walk and make tools. Stories are important to us. Statistics tell us what happen ... more

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Exploring the Potential for Interactive Radio to Improve Accountability and Responsiveness to Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania

Heather Gilberds et al.

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 36 pp.

"The research examines the possibilities of new digital technologies along with radio to facilitate adaptive management processes through rapid feedback to help ensure that agricultural development projects are farmer-centered, and meet the needs of those they intend to serve. Grounded in assessing ... Farm Radio International’s Listening Post—a methodology for collecting real-time, unfiltered feedback from farmers through a multi-channel platform linked to radio—the research highlights barriers to success and articulates lessons learned during the process of designing and implementing the model [...] The research demonstrates that linking a mobile-based crowd-sourcing tool with radio is effective at ensuring engagement from a large number of farmers. The radio stations offer a simple way to recruit participants from among the regular listeners of farmer radio programs. Also, the radio stations tend to be trusted sources of agricultural information among farmers, increasing motivation to participate. Further, the radio programs offer an easy way to close feedback loops by disseminating information about actions that stakeholders are taking in response to feedback. The Listening Post faced many of the same challenges documented by organizations utilizing similar tools—it was difficult to incentivize stakeholders to adequately respond to farmers, and competing motivations between extension officers, farmers, funders and partner organizations made it difficult to collect high-quality information that was usable and actionable. Moreover, an overarching focus on developing and implementing the technology and engaging a large number of farmers at the exclusion of other factors meant that many of the processes and mechanisms for effectively using the data collected and for responding to what farmers were saying weren’t fully developed. Despite these issues, there is significant evidence that the Listening Post model holds potential to act as a conduit for civic action if the correct stakeholders are engaged from the outset, if mechanisms for analyzing and disseminating relevant data from the platform to partners, local stakeholders and farmers is further refined, and if stakeholders ensure farmers can effectively use the technology." (Executive summary) more

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African Rural Radio Program Analysis (ARRPA): Final Report

Farm Radio International (2016), 106 pp.

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Rural Communication Services for Family Farming: Contributions, Evidence and Perspectives

Rome: FAO (2016), x, 52 pp.

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Desarrollo territorial, innovación y comunicación rural: Hacia un enfoque integrado en apoyo a la agricultura familiar

Brasilia: FAO (2016), ix, 80 pp.

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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture

Evelyne Kiptot, Steven Franzel, Cara Nora, Anne-Marie Steyn

Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS);World Agroforestry Centre (2016), 4 pp.

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Shamba Shape Up Series 6 - Kenya: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Survey Report

The Media Company (2016), 48 pp.

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Communication at FAO

FAO (2016), 16 pp.

"FAO communication in numbers: Over 1.5 million followers on its social media networks. More than 100 000 articles published every year in the media, containing information or statements by FAO experts. Every month millions of users access fao.org to read news or find information. Every year more th ... more

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Planning Communication for Agricultural Disaster Risk Management: A Field Guide

Maria Protz et al.

Rome: FAO (2015), vi, 104 pp.

"Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication for Agricultural Disaster Risk Management (ADRM) is a field guide to orient ADRM teams and concerne ... more

ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions Key Guidance

Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains Inspiring Practice

Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy Top Insights

Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific Quick Overview

A Passion for Video: 25 Stories About Making, Translating, Sharing and Using Videos on Farmer Innovation Inspiring Practice

ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
Key Guidance

Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
Inspiring Practice

Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy
Top Insights

Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Quick Overview

A Passion for Video: 25 Stories About Making, Translating, Sharing and Using Videos on Farmer Innovation
Inspiring Practice