Maize Productivity and Household Welfare Impacts of Mobile Money Usage in Tanzania

Kilombele, Happiness; Feleke, Shiferaw; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Cole, Steven M.; Sekabira, Haruna; Manyong, Víctor M.

doi:10.3390/ijfs11010027

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“…Studies (Kumar et al, 2022;He et al, 2021;Ireri et al, 2021;Victor et al, 2021;Munyua, 2021) have shown that culture can either support or hinder mobile phone usage awareness and differs across societies in different countries. In Tanzania, studies (Iddi et al, 2023;Kilombele et al, 2023;Kinyashi et al, 2022;Magesa and Mkasanga, 2021;Benard et al, 2020) have mainly focused on accessing business information, farmers' welfare, perceived usefulness and challenges. However, few studies (Summers et al, 2020 andMtega andNgoepe, 2019) on culture and mobile phone revealed that husbands decided on mobile phone ownership and use for married women.…”

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Factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness for accessing agricultural marketing information by grape smallholder farmers in Dodoma, Tanzania

Nyagango,

Sife,

Kazungu

2023

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Purpose There is a contradictive debate on factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness among scholars. This study aims to examine factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness for accessing agricultural marketing information. Design/methodology/approach A descriptive cross-sectional research design was used with 400 smallholder grape farmers. The use of structured questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informant interviews helped to collect primary data. Data analysis was subjected to descriptive, ordinal logistic regression and thematic approaches. Findings This study found that farmers were mostly aware of voice calls helping to access buyers and price information. Education, age and sex were the critical factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness among grape smallholder farmers. Originality/value This study contributes to scientific knowledge by providing an understanding of the perceived factors on mobile phone usage awareness within the grape subsector to inform policymakers.

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Factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness for accessing agricultural marketing information by grape smallholder farmers in Dodoma, Tanzania

Nyagango,

Sife,

Kazungu

2023

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Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies among maize farmers in Ghana: using digital advisory services

Asante,

Ma,

Prah

et al. 2024

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Although policy and advisory communities have promoted the use of digital advisory services (DAS) to stimulate technology adoption among smallholder farmers, little is known about whether DAS use encourages farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies. This study addresses the gap by estimating data collected from 3197 maize-producing households in rural Ghana and considering three CSA technologies: row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds. A recursive bivariate probit model is utilized to mitigate selection bias issues. The results show that DAS use significantly increases the probabilities of adopting row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds by 12.4%, 4.2%, and 4.6%, respectively. Maize farmers’ decisions to use DAS are influenced by their age, gender, education, family size, asset value, distance to farm, perceived incidence of pest and disease, perceived drought stress, and membership in farmer-based organizations (FBO). Furthermore, the disaggregated analysis reveals that DAS use has a larger impact on the row planting adoption of female farmers than males.

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Mobile money, medical cost anxiety and welfare of individuals within the reproductive age in Malaysia

Osabohien,

Jaaffar,

Akpa

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This study examines the association between mobile money, medical cost anxiety, and the welfare of households in Malaysia. The study made use of the data sourced from the Global financial survey conducted by the World Bank. The study applied the logit model and test of mean difference, probit and instrumental variable regressions to check for robustness. Findings show that mobile money has a positive and significant impact on the welfare of households in Malaysia. Mobile money enables households to access financial services easily and conveniently, which in turn leads to better financial management and increased household welfare. The study also finds that medical cost anxiety hurts household welfare. Households that are more anxious about medical costs tend to experience lower levels of welfare. The results of this study have significant implications for policymakers and financial service providers in Malaysia. To improve the welfare of households, policymakers should promote mobile money use and encourage financial inclusion. Financial service providers should also develop products and services tailored to the needs of households, especially those that are more vulnerable to medical cost anxiety. Additionally, policymakers should consider implementing policies that address rising healthcare costs and alleviate medical cost anxiety among households in Malaysia.

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Maize Productivity and Household Welfare Impacts of Mobile Money Usage in Tanzania

Cited by 7 publications

References 59 publications

Factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness for accessing agricultural marketing information by grape smallholder farmers in Dodoma, Tanzania

Factors influencing mobile phone usage awareness for accessing agricultural marketing information by grape smallholder farmers in Dodoma, Tanzania

Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies among maize farmers in Ghana: using digital advisory services

Mobile money, medical cost anxiety and welfare of individuals within the reproductive age in Malaysia

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