The use of mobile phones by Kenyan export-orientated small-scale farmers: insights from fruit and vegetable farming in the Mt. Kenya region
The use of mobile phones by Kenyan export-orientated small-scale farmers: insights from fruit and vegetable farming in the Mt. Kenya region
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肯尼亚出口导向型小农使用手机的情况：来自肯尼亚山地区水果和蔬菜种植的见解
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2014
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T. Lakes
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Peter Dannenberg;T. Lakes
近年来，移动的电话已成为肯尼亚商业和社会的共同特征，并越来越多地用于农业。面向出口的小农户也是如此。本文的目的是研究移动的电话使用的肯尼亚出口导向型小规模的新鲜水果和蔬菜农民（ffv）的作用。我们专注于山区的农民。肯尼亚地区使用问卷调查和专家访谈的数据。我们确定了四种不同类型的交换，其中移动的电话是由这些农民使用：1。交易，2.信息，3.复杂的知识和4.组织和网络。我们的研究结果表明，使用移动的手机可以提高农民的支付，生产，营销和知识转移的可能性，他们的竞争力和融入国际价值链。然而，到目前为止，这些优势大多限于简单的通信和支付;尚未广泛采用新的应用程序（移动的支付除外）。
In recent years, mobile phones have become a common feature in business and society in Kenya and are increasingly used in farming. This is also the case for export-orientated small-scale farmers. The aim of this paper is to study the role of mobile phone use by Kenyan export-orientated small-scale fresh fruit and vegetable famers (ffv). We focus on farmers in the Mt. Kenya region using data from questionnaires and expert interviews. We identify four different types of exchange for which mobile phones are used by these farmers: 1. transactions, 2. information, 3. complex knowledge and 4. organization and networking. Our results suggest that the use of mobile phones can improve the farmers’ possibilities for payment, production, marketing, and knowledge transfer, and their competitiveness and integration in international value chains. However, so far the advantages are mostly limited to simple communication and payment; the broad introduction of new applications (with the exception of mobile payment) has not yet taken place.