How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

Coggins, Sam; McCampbell, Mariëtte; Sharma, Akriti; Sharma, Rama; Haefele, Stephan M.; Karki, Emma; Hetherington, Jack; Smith, J. Beverley; Brown, Barbara J.

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100577

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“…A digital extension tool assessment framework was developed drawing on Coggins et al (2022). Coggins et al (2022) identified major constraints to use a digital extension tool in the global south and they divided constraints into three categories: 1) access to digital information; 2) the technical contents of the tool: and 3) behavioral change. We followed these categories with specific considerations to gender-and age-based constraints in this assessment framework (Table 1).…”

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“…ICT has a great potential to fill the gap in access to information and training for those who have been marginalized in traditional extension services with collective learning systems. However, digital technologies for agriculture are not necessarily designed for low income, less educated and/or women farmers in terms of the cost, ease of use, information contents and proposed solutions (Coggins et al, 2022;Krell et al, 2021). In Vietnam, men farmers are more likely to benefit from mobile phone information for their agricultural production and marketing compared to women farmers, although women are more or less equally involved in both agricultural production and marketing (Hoang & Drysdale, 2021).…”

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Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

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Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

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“…A digital extension tool assessment framework was developed drawing on Coggins et al (2022), who identified major constraints to using digital extension tools in the global south. They divided the constraints into three categories: 1) access to digital information; 2) the technical content of the tool; and 3) behavioral change.…”

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Introducing an agricultural app to vegetable farmers: A pilot study in Lam Dong, Vietnam

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“…While ICTs have great potential, there are still challenges to overcome, especially in reaching remote areas, women, and less educated farmers. The high cost of internet and mobile phones, besides limited digital literacy, are also major constraints (Coggins et al, 2022). Therefore, social innovations are required to facilitate equitable access to digital extension.…”

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Sustainable management of transboundary pests requires holistic and inclusive solutions

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Globalization and changing climates are aggravating the occurrence and impacts of transboundary pests, and driving the emergence of new threats. Most of the low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are not fully prepared in terms of surveillance, diagnostics, and deployment of plant health solutions due to several factors: adequate investment is lacking; knowledge is inadequate; and connections from the local to global, and global to local are insufficient. Effectively countering the current and emerging threats to plant health requires a holistic approach that includes: 1) globally coordinated diagnostic and surveillance systems; 2) epidemiological modelling, risk assessment, forecasting and preparedness for proactive management and containment; and 3) implementation of context-sensitive, eco-friendly, gender-responsive and socially inclusive integrated disease and pest management approaches to reduce the impacts of devastating transboundary pests and diseases. Despite several success stories where major pests and diseases have been brought to control through integrated approaches, further multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary efforts are necessary. Plant health management requires stronger interface between the biophysical and social sciences, and empowerment of local communities. These reflections derive from the proceedings of a webinar on “Transboundary Disease and Pest Management,” organized by CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) on March 3, 2021, in recognition of the United Nations designated International Year of Plant Health.

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How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

Cited by 28 publications

References 48 publications

Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

Introducing an agricultural app to vegetable farmers: A pilot study in Lam Dong, Vietnam

Sustainable management of transboundary pests requires holistic and inclusive solutions

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