Information from Markets Near and Far: Mobile Phones and Agricultural Markets in Niger

By Jenny C. Aker. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology

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On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “Private sector AR&D, though growing, remains nascent.15 The spread of information and communication (ICT) technology unlocks further potential, in particular by making markets more efficient and reducing price dispersion (Aker 2010, Aker and Mbiti 2010).”
Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 (2011, neutral): “The reduction in search costs associated with mobile phones could increase farmers’ access to information via their private sources, such as members of their social network (Baye, Morgan and Scholten 2007, Aker 2010, Aker and Mbiti 2010).”
Mobile Money, Agricultural Marketing, and Off-Farm Income in Uganda (2017, background): “This has contributed to economic growth and poverty reduction, especially in rural areas where mobile phones have helped households to access better market information and fetch higher prices for their products (Torero and Von Braun, 2005; Jensen, 2007; Muto and Yamano, 2009; Aker, 2010; Aker, 2011;”
Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa (2014, positive): “Similar to Aker (2010), we also include a binary variable equal to one when only one market in a pair has mobile phone coverage (column 4).”
Young rural women’s participation in the e-wallet programme and usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria (2018, background): “They include: Aker (2008, 2010, 2011); Aker and Mbiti (2010); Duncombe and Boateng (2009); Furuholt and Matotay (2011); Kirui (2013); Labonne and Chase (2009); Lee and Bellemare (2013); Mittal and Mehar (2012, 2016); Mittal and Tripathic (2009), etc.”
Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa (2010, background): “Simple and affordable mobile phones are being used as a means to promote literacy for adults in Africa (Aker, 2009).”
Mobile Phones, Financial Inclusion, and Growth (2012, background): “Along the same line, Aker (2010) find that mobile phones reduce price dispersion by 10 percent across grain markets in Niger. On the other hand, Muto and Yamano (2009) find that in Uganda, mobile phone coverage expansion improves market participations of producers of more perishable goods.”
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, neutral): “Aker and Fafchamps (2015) also find that the effect of mobile phones varies by crop in Niger.”
Can Mobile Phones Improve Gender Equality and Nutrition? Panel Data Evidence from Farm Households in Uganda (2017, background): “…effects of mobile phone use on market access, input and output prices, agricultural production patterns, and household income (Donner, 2007; Jensen, 2007; Aker, 2010; Aker and Mbiti, 2010; Aker, 2011; Kikulwe et al., 2014; Aker and Ksoll, 2016; Nakasone and Torero, 2016; Sekabira and Qaim, 2017).”