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2. Agricultural reality stars
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nierenberg, Danielle (author), Small, Sarah (author), and Reed, Maia (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-08-12
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02879
- Notes:
- FoodTank.com. 4 pages.
3. Analysis of communication and dissemination channels influencing the adoption of integrated soul fertility management in Western Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Adolwa, Ivan S. (author), Okoth, Peter F. (author), Mulwa, Richard M. (author), Esilaba, Anthony O. (author), Mairura, Franklin S. (author), and Nambiro, Elizabeth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05669
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1) : 71-86
4. Can Mobile Phones build social trust? Insights from rural Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parlasca, Martin C. (author), Hermann, Daniel (author), and Mußhoff, Oliver (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-01
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11862
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 79
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Generalized trust, which refers to trust towards people that are not well known (Yamagishi and Yamagishi, 1994; Stolle, 2002; Uslaner, 2002; Freitag and Traunmüller, 2009), is needed for many situations of economic interaction such as daily market activities. Considering that trust acts as a lubricant for social interaction, a lack of generalized trust can severely restrict a persons reach of efficient economic exchange. Increases of generalized trust within a society thus have the potential to create large efficiency gains (Fafchamps and Minten, 2002; Fafchamps, 2006). Given the importance of trust for social interaction and various welfare dimensions, a growing body of economic, sociological, and psychological research has been devoted to examining the circumstances under which trust can thrive. A reoccurring notion in all three disciplines is that communication represents a key factor in the formation of trust (Lewicki et al., 2006; Glanville and Paxton, 2007). Ostrom et al. (1992), for example, find that communication and sanctioning in a common pool resource experiment lead to substantially more efficient outcomes. In a laboratory setting, personal communication has shown to enhance trust (Buchan et al., 2006), and is even more powerful in creating mutually benefitting exchanges than the possibility to engage in non-binding contracts (Ben-Ner and Putterman, 2009). In this paper, we analyze whether mobile phones which constitute a fundamental component of modern information and communications technologies (ICT) can help build social trust among pastoral communities in Northern Kenya.1 In most African countries, trust levels are remarkably low; out of all regions in the world, people living in sub-Sahara Africa exhibit the lowest levels of generalized trust (Mattes and Moreno, 2018). In the study region of Northern Kenya, it is particularly relevant to increase trust for several reasons. First, the relatively weak legal system jeopardizes contract enforcement, which means that any economic interaction requires substantial amounts of trust between the contract partners. This has caused a strong reliance on trust-based relationships in Northern Kenyas livestock sector (Mahmoud, 2008; Pavanello, 2010; Roba et al., 2018). Furthermore, low trust levels between ethnic tribes have also reinforced longstanding intertribal conflicts in the region, and impede solutions to share resources peacefully and effectively (Schilling et al., 2012). Lastly, the low population density and long physical distances between settlements in the region make communication over long distances difficult and therefore induce high monitoring costs. Potential benefits of enhancing trust are therefore particularly high in the context of Northern Kenya. To compensate for physical remoteness, rural communities have a high need for digital connectivity but have oftentimes suffered from poor connection and inclusion in existing networks in the past (Salemink et al., 2017). Over the last decade, however, mobile phones have become available to most pastoralists in Northern Kenya (Butt, 2015; Asaka and Smucker, 2016; Parlasca et al., 2020). A large and growing body of research has pointed out that mobile phones can help increase several paramount welfare dimensions of rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa, such as income and income equality, financial development, gender equality, or institutional quality (Aker and Mbiti, 2010; Asongu, 2015; Asongu and Nwachukwu, 2016; Rotondi et al., 2020). However, the research on the implications of mobile phones on social capital formation is much less extensive. To the best of our knowledge, the potential of mobile phones to affect trust is so far solely based on qualitative or anecdotal evidence (Molony, 2006, 2009; Overå, 2006) and lacks quantitative assessments. This paper aims to close this gap. In this study, we elicit trust levels with an incentivized experiment, namely the canonical trust game by Berg et al. (1995). Experimental sessions were conducted from July 2018 to August 2018 in 17 different villages in Turkana County, Northern Kenya, and included a total of 402 respondents. We differentiate with regard to the object of trust by measuring trust towards fellow villagers, trust towards people from a neighboring village, and trust towards city dwellers from the county capital. Past research in rural sub-Saharan Africa indicates that smallholder farmers exhibit less trust towards people from different villages (Etang, 2010; Etang et al., 2011) or people from the next larger city (Parlasca et al., 2019). The differentiation of the object of trust therefore allows investigating heterogeneous effects of mobile phone use on trust depending on the physical distance between trustor and trustee. This research adds add to the existing literature in several ways: to the extent of our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the direct link between mobile phone use and trust using quantitative household data from a low-income country. Thus far, no study has analyzed the role of geographical distance in the relationship between mobile phone use and trust. Lastly, this analysis contributes to the extremely sparse literature on trust in the context of pastoralist communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the study is organized as follows. Section 2 lays out the conceptual framework that guides the analysis. The data are explained in section 3 and the empirical framework is presented in section 4. The results are discussed section 5, followed by concluding remarks in section 6.
5. Developing world media "lacks critical analysis of GM"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ngandwe, Talent (author)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2005-05-25
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22269
- Notes:
- Science and Development Network. 2 pages., Summarizes results of a survey of media coverage relating to genetically modified crops in five developing countries. Reports that "news stories often lack critical analysis of the issues at stake, and rarely represent the views of farmers."
6. Evaluation of information and communication technology utilization by small holder banana farmers in Gatanga District, Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mwombe, Simon O.L. (author), Mugivane, Fred I. (author), Adolwa, Ivan S. (author), and Nderitu, John H. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05677
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(2) : 247-261
7. Food security -- brief history to an initiative to provide sustainable radio programming and production in Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Campbell, David (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2001-02-19
- Published:
- International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Rome, Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 126 Document Number: C18552
- Notes:
- 5 pages; February 19-22, 2001 Rome, Italy sponsored by FAO
8. ICTs as appropriate technologies for African development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davis, Kristin (author), Ochieng, Cosmos (author), and International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36929
- Notes:
- Pages 42-54 in First Annual IFC/FT Essay Competition., Bronze Award winner in this essay competition sponsored by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group and the Financial Times. Authors argue that the predominant economic model in many African countries is inappropriate. They propose efforts to create an "appropriate African economy, based on the dynamic needs, conditions and capabilities of the majority of the African population."
9. Impact of dissemination pathways on the probability and intensity of "push-pull" technology uptake in western Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chianu, J. (author), Murage, A.W. (author), Amudavi, D. (author), Obare, G. (author), and Khan, Z. (author)
- Format:
- Abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09-14
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30716
- Notes:
- Paper presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
10. Information and communication technologies for direct poverty alleviation: costs and benefits
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kenny, Charles (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02581
- Journal Title:
- Development Policy Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(2): 141-157