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| Sousa, Fernando; Nicolay, Gian; Home, Robert. |
| • Mobile-phone videos could be accessed by people with limited or no contact with information sources, such as younger women, and video based information was found to be understandable for illiterate farmers. • The use of video on mobile phones is a novel approach to farmer-to-farmer exchange and has great potential for enhancing dissemination programs or specific research and development projects to enable more resilient, inclusive and democratic agricultural information systems. • Of the farmers who had watched one of the videos (N = 148), 60.1 % had adopted at least one of the videos’ innovations. • Farmers who received the videos on their mobile phones shared them via Bluetooth with an average of 6 other farmers, quickly expanding their outreach. |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Education; Extension and communication Africa. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/34862/1/Poster_Syprobio_Sousa_2018.pdf |
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| Sousa, Fernando; Nicolay, Gian L.; Spurk, Christoph; Adamtey, Noah; Fliessbach, Andreas. |
| Soil fertility is at stake at a global scale, putting pressure on food security, poverty alleviation and environmental protection, under scenarios of climate change that in most cases aggravate the threat. In sub-Saharan Africa, a combination of depleted soils and population growth adds particular pressure to smallholder farmers and society. Their capacity to innovate in a social, economic, political and cultural context is seen as decisive to reverse the trend of declining soil fertility. However, many technologies with a potential to protect, maintain and build up soil fertility are hardly used by small-scale farmers, triggering the urgent question on their reasoning not to do so. Exploring and understanding the constraints and complexity of the social... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Soil Education; Extension and communication Knowledge management. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/34444/1/Conference%20paper%20-%20SHE_Final.pdf |
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| Sousa, Fernando; Gian, Nicolay; Home, Robert. |
| Mobile phones are widespread in the rural areas of Mali and Burkina Faso, but their potential as a tool for knowledge transfer by extension services in the region remains largely unexplored. The aim of this contribution is to evaluate the potential of video on mobile phones as a tool for farmer-to-farmer exchange and agricultural extension in Western Africa's rural reality. This aim was addressed by interviewing 460 farmers in Mali and Burkina Faso. Third generation (3G) mobile phones with video and Bluetooth technology were found to be widespread in the study area. Furthermore, videos on 3G phones were found to have a high frequency of contact and a high information utility. The participating farmers reported that 3G phones are readily accessible:... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems Education; Extension and communication Africa. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32666/1/sousa-etal-216-IJEDICT-vol12-issue3-p19-36.pdf |
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| Sousa, Fernando; Nicolay, Gian; Home, Robert. |
| A challenge for researchers and other developers of new technologies in agriculture is to find ways of communicating their results and recommendations. This challenge is particularly acute in regions in which farmers have limited access to education and where illiteracy is widespread, such as in the rural areas of Mali. One approach that shows potential, yet remains largely unused by extension services, is the dissemination of educational videos on mobile phones with video and Bluetooth technology (3G mobile phones). It has been shown that the conditions are suitable for this approach to be used in Mali, with 3G mobile phones widely available in the region but there is little empirical evidence of its acceptance and potential impact. This article aims to... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Education; Extension and communication. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/36360/1/Sousa-etal-2019-IntJSusDevlopResearch-Vol5-Issue1-p1-8.pdf |
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