Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
18 pages, Based on panel data from the Rural Fixed Point Survey of the Ministry of
Agriculture over the period 2004-2016 and supplementary survey data on information
and communications technology (ICT) applications in the countryside, this paper employs
the difference in differences (DID) method to analyze the effects of ICT applications on
rural households’ agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) with mobile phone signal,
internet and 3G mobile network connections as indicators, and decomposes and evaluates
the constituent factors. Our findings reveal a positive effect of ICTs on rural households’
TFP, which primarily stemmed from rising agricultural technical efficiency. However, ICTs
exerted no significant effect on agricultural technical progress during this paper’s data
period due to limited rural human capital. These findings are consistent with robustness test
results based on counterfactual and matching methods.
UI Library subscription., Update on progress and activities of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Foundation, including student internships and scholarships, as well as fund-raising efforts.
Tourte, Don (author / Agri Media Committee of Connectiv), Hagins, Scarlett (author / Livestock Publications Council), and Wilson, Mike (author / American Agricultural Editors' Association)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2017-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09031
