@article{Okello:195738,
      recid = {195738},
      author = {Okello, Julius J. and Kirui, Oliver K. and Gitonga,  Zachary M. and Njiraini, Georgina W. and Nzuma, Jonathan  M.},
      title = {Determinants of Awareness and Use ICT-based Market  Information Services in Developing-Country Agriculture: The  Case of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya},
      journal = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture},
      address = {2014-08},
      number = {892-2016-65235},
      series = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 53 (2014)},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Access by smallholder farmers to markets has traditionally  been constrained by lack of
market information. Yet  progress in smallholder agriculture is inconceivable  without
greater market participation. The desire to  strengthen farmer access to market has thus
resulted in the  emergence of many agricultural projects that use  Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) in  developing countries over the last decade.
These  technologies focus on providing market information services  (MIS) to farmers.
This study uses regression techniques and  data collected from 379 smallholder farmers
in Kenya to  examine the conditioners of awareness and use of ICT-based  MIS. The
study finds that transaction costs, the  characteristics of the area in which ICT-based
projects are  implemented and farmer endowments with human and financial  capital
play an important role in smallholder farmers’  awareness, use and/or extent of use of
ICT-based MIS  projects. It concludes that awareness and the use of  ICT-based MIS is
driven by farmer, farm and  location-specific characteristics as well as various  capital
endowment factors. The study discusses the  implications of these findings for policy
and practice.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/195738},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.195738},
}