Using ICT to integrate smallholder farmers into agricultural value chains : the case of DrumNet in Kenya; paper presented at IAAE eARN Africa Symposium, Beijing, August 19, 2009

Files

129629.pdf (1.03 MB)

Date

2009

Authors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

Abstract

This presentation looks at the effect of the DrumNet intervention in smallholder sunflower production in Kenya. DrumNet is a mobile service that allows farmers to check current market prices for their produce at a range of locations. It aims to resolve the constraints of small farmers through a mobile phone-based platform. Poor market linkages contribute to the “low equilibrium poverty trap” (low investment, low harvests, low marketable surplus). DrumNet provides three sets of business support services – marketing, finance, and information – as an integrated package for small farmers that have typically been unable to move into better paying output markets.

Description

PowerPoint presentation

Keywords

SMALLHOLDER FARMERS, MARKET ACCESS, ICT ACCESS AND USAGE, AGRICULTURAL MARKET CHAINS, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MOBILE PHONES, SMALLHOLDERS, ACCESS TO MARKETS, KENYA, SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS), SUNFLOWER SEEDS, SOUTH OF SAHARA

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10625/42078

DOI

Collections

IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2000-2009 / Années 2000-2009
Research Results (ACACIA) / Résultats de recherches (ACACIA)