Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269
By Jenny C. Aker. 2011
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems, Media Technology
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Citations in the corpus
- Experience versus expectation: farmers’ perceptions of smart farming technologies for cropping systems across Europe (2019, neutral): “This hindering factor has been reported on in a number of references (e.g. Aker 2011; Kutter et al.”
- Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, positive): “Aker (2011) estimated that instead of traveling to visit a farmer, extension agents may use mobile phones for a comparative cost of one-fourth of the price of a visit (Figure 4).”
- Agricultural advisory and financial services; farm level access, outreach and impact in a mixed cropping district of Punjab, Pakistan (2018, neutral): “Despite a huge investment globally on the provision of agricultural advisory and financial services (Aker, 2011), there is no consensus in the available empirical studies regarding the effectiveness of these services (Aker, 2011; Anderson and Feder, 2007).”
- Socio-economic Factors Affecting Adoption of Modern Information and Communication Technology by Farmers in India: Analysis Using Multivariate Probit Model (2016, positive): “The prevalence of diverse information sources has enabled farmers to access information more quickly, timely and has helped them to make more informed and better decisions (Aker 2011; Mittal, Gandhi, and Tripathi 2010; Mittal 2012).”
- Do farmers gain internet dividends from E-commerce adoption? Evidence from China (2021, neutral): “It is also widely known that many studies of ICT impacts might have suffered from methodological issues (Aker 2011; Labonne and Chase 2009) related to the fact that ICT applications is not random.”
- Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review (2016, positive): “…as local adaptation processes (Millar and Connell 2010), and innovation platforms working on a match between technologies and a conducive institutional and market environment (Kilelu et al. 2013) or diffusion mechanisms such as mobile phone based information services (Aker 2011; Baumüller 2016).”