Radio Communications on Family Planning: Case of West Africa

Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa will accommodate more population this century by having a multitude of births across the continent. Family planning methods provide women with techniques to manage their health and wellbeing. This study investigated how radio communications in family planning changed the perception of Ghanaian, Liberian, and Senegalese mothers toward having fewer children. Univariate and multivariate linear regression results after coarsened exact matching (CEM) with selected covariates for 15- to 49-year-old mothers from demographic and health survey (DHS) data implied the effectiveness of radio communications. This effort supports the need for further research on tailored communication methods for West African mothers over time.

Evaluating Brazilian Agriculturalists’ IoT Smart Agriculture Adoption Barriers: Understanding Stakeholder Salience Prior to Launching an Innovation

“…Communication methods, strategies, and accessibility are not keeping pace with the exponential rate that new IoT smart agriculture technologies are being introduced. Improving communication rates, outlets, and accessibility is paramount to increase the rate of adoption as future multifaceted IoT smart agriculture innovations increase with advancements in technology [5,6]. If conventional communication channels do not have the capability to successfully communicate the advantageous innovation attributes to agriculturalists, then the low rate of adoption will persist.…”

“…Extra analysis into the IoT smart agriculture adoption cycle is necessary throughout Brazil and South America to assess innovation traits and personal characteristics of adopters that potentially promote adoption and diffusion. The supplementary data would expand our body of knowledge and potentially allow generalizability on a much larger scale [6].…”

“…Kilelu, van der Lee, Koge, and Klerkx [4] identified that farmers' minimal adoption of technology negatively affected the demand of Service Providers Enterprises. Knowledge and comprehension of an innovation are necessary for agriculturalists' adoption and diffusion within their respective social systems [5,6]. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide indigenous information for marginalized farmers in developing countries [6].…”

“…Knowledge and comprehension of an innovation are necessary for agriculturalists' adoption and diffusion within their respective social systems [5,6]. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide indigenous information for marginalized farmers in developing countries [6]. The findings of Zambon et al [7] revealed that, as Industry 4.0 has rapidly advanced and is approaching 5.0, Agriculture 4.0 is not as extensively adopted by stakeholders and is not widely examined by agricultural sciences scholars.…”

“…Technological and information transmission are chief barriers experienced by agriculturalists [5]. Low education levels and inadequate communications contribute to a lack of adoption of smart agriculture innovations [6]. Some authors [8,9] suggested that optimum behavior change theories exist, but a favorable singular theory to frame an innovation adoption study does not exist for agriculturalists in developing nations.…”