MW4D Agriculture

Synopsis

This document will focus specifically on m-services related to Agriculture.

Resources

To be completed and organized.

• The impact of mobiles on agricultural productivity
  Vodafone Report - Jan 2009
• E-Tic
  Initiative for agriculture in the regions bordering the Sahara
• Colombian coffee growers using IVR
  2007
• Android in the Bush
  G. Borriello
  Feb 2009
• List of references provided by Fara (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa)
  March 2009
• The Digital Provide: Information (technology), Market, Performance, and Welfare in the south Indian Fisheries Sector
  A paper describing the impact of the use of a mobile based service for fishermen in Kerala
  August 2007
• Livelihood Changes Enabled by Mobile Phones-the case of Tanzanian fishermen
  A story about the impact of mobile phones for tanzanian fishermen
  2007
• Market Intelligence: How Mobiles are Helping Farmers and Fishermen
  A video presenting diverse use case in Kenya and India
  2008
• Trade at Hand
  An ITC project which objective is to make innovative use of mobile phones to empower exporters from developing economies. It started by delivering international fruit and vegetable market quotes by SMS. Other business applications are being built, such as a mobile marketplace for Liberian farmers and marketers.
• Mistowa
  MISTOWA was an USAID-initiated project to increase regional agricultural trade and food security by improving and linking the regional efforts to generate, disseminate (including by SMS), and make commercial use of market information.
• KACE
  The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) provides crop growers with up-to-date commodity information - farmers can access daily fruit and vegetable prices from a dozen markets through SMS.
• Grameen phone Application Lab
• e-agriculture forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas Novembe 4 2008
• Inventory of Innovative Farmer Advisory Services using ICTs
  Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
  December 2008
• List of Mobile Market Place Projects in Developing Regions
  2008
• Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a Rural Sugarcane Cooperative
  Veeraraghavan, R.; Yasodhar, N.; Toyama, K.
  2009
• Digital Green
  successful adaption of “P2P” video content to agricultural extension/training in India
  MSR India
  2009
• Mobile use and agricultural markets: new study from Uganda
  This post from J. donner research blog includes hos specific comments on how a recent study by Muto both expands and bounds our understanding from the Jensen Kerala fish case
  January 2009
• [http://knol.google.com/k/jorge-luis-alonso-g/empleo-efectivo-de-mensajes-de-texto/dtpu6rmsvefd/1?domain=knol.google.com&locale=en# Empleo efectivo de mensajes de texto (SMS) para mejorar la comercialización de productos agrícolas de pequeños productores) - in spanish
  Jorge Luis Alonso G.
  July 2009

Contributors

• StephaneB
• RaphaelD

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