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Ms. Ezinne Emeana
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Published: 08 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The provision of information through mobile phone-enabled agricultural information services (m-Agri services) has the potential to revolutionise agriculture and significantly improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Africa. Globally, the benefits of m-Agri services include facilitating farmers’ access to financial services and sourcing agricultural information about input use, practices, and market prices. There are very few published literature sources that focus on the potential benefits of m-Agri services in Africa and none of which explore their sustainability. This study, therefore, explores the evolution, provision, and sustainability of these m-Agri services in Africa. An overview of the current landscape of m-Agri services in Africa is provided and this illustrates how varied these services are in design, content, and quality. Key findings from the exploratory literature review reveal that services are highly likely to fail to achieve their intended purpose or be abandoned when implementers ignore the literacy, skills, culture, and demands of the target users. This study recommends that, to enhance the sustainability of m-Agri services, the implementers need to design the services with the users involved, carefully analyse, and understand the target environment, and design for scale and a long-term purpose. While privacy and security of users need to be ensured, the reuse or improvement of existing initiatives should be explored, and projects need to be data-driven and maintained as open source. Thus, the study concludes that policymakers can support the long-term benefit of m-Agri services by ensuring favourable policies for both users and implementers.

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Ezinne M. Emeana; Liz Trenchard; Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz. The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability. Sustainability 2020, 12, 485 .

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Ezinne M. Emeana, Liz Trenchard, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz. The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):485.

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Ezinne M. Emeana; Liz Trenchard; Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz. 2020. "The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 485.

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Published: 20 June 2018 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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Agroecological farming approaches sustain food production with zero or reduced dependence on agro-chemicals. This study investigated the impact of the public agricultural extension activities in enhancing the transition to agroecological approaches, in particular organic farming, in south-eastern Nigeria. Data were collected from 30 farmers and 20 extension personnel using in-depth interviews. The respondents were selected using a purposeful random sampling technique. The results show that extension and advisory activities are influenced by current agricultural policy. Extension personnel currently focus almost exclusively on intensive agricultural practices because of the agricultural transformation agenda which surprisingly ignores the principles of organic farming. Factors such as policy, social, environmental, research, and extension management were observed to impede organic farming transition. It is concluded that there is need for a clearly enunciated organic agriculture policy that supports farmers, organic agricultural research, and information dissemination. A participatory approach in policy formulation and information dissemination that incorporates farmers’ traditional knowledge with capacity to strengthen the agricultural information dissemination structure is recommended to improve agroecological transition.

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Ezinne Merianchris Emeana; Liz Trenchard; Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz; Siraj Shaikh. Evaluating the role of public agricultural extension and advisory services in promoting agro-ecology transition in Southeast Nigeria. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2018, 43, 123 -144.

AMA Style

Ezinne Merianchris Emeana, Liz Trenchard, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Siraj Shaikh. Evaluating the role of public agricultural extension and advisory services in promoting agro-ecology transition in Southeast Nigeria. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2018; 43 (2):123-144.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ezinne Merianchris Emeana; Liz Trenchard; Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz; Siraj Shaikh. 2018. "Evaluating the role of public agricultural extension and advisory services in promoting agro-ecology transition in Southeast Nigeria." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 43, no. 2: 123-144.