The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

By Shawn Cole, A. Fernando, Harvard Kennedy School. 2013

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Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, unknown): “Context specific factors and various marketing and institutional constraints can blunt benefits  Rwanda; Range of Crops; Mobile phone adoption; Futch and Mcintosh (2009)  India; Range of Crops; SMS; Fafchamps and Minten (2012)  West Bengal, India; Potato; SMS; Mitra et al (2015)  Ethiopia; Cerea”
Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana (2020, unknown): “Recent field applications include Cole and Fernando (2012), Cole et al. (2014), Guiteras and Jack (2014), Guiteras et al.”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “Cole and Fernando (2012) show 16 Other examples of the role of information in improving market function are discussed in the section on distribution. that access to other types of information, specifically to phone-based agricultural consulting services, may have a substantial effect on farmer…”