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TY - JOUR
T1 - Using ICT to strengthen agricultural extension systems for plant health
AU - Wright, Holly Jane
AU - Ochilo, Willis
AU - Pearson, Aislinn
AU - Finegold, Cambria
AU - Oronje, Lucy
AU - Wanjohi, James
AU - Kamau, Rose
AU - Holmes, Timothy
AU - Rumsey, Abigail
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Plant pests cause crop losses of 30–40%, contributing significantly to global food insecurity. The Plantwise program works alongside national agricultural extension services, who advise smallholder farmers on plant health issues and collect data on problems they face. In a 1-year pilot, Plantwise tested the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)—tablets and short message service (SMS)—with 60 Kenyan extension workers. They were able to assist more farmers with better advice, had significantly improved access to plant health information, valued being able to ask their peers for advice, and dramatically improved the quality and speed of the data they collected.
AB - Plant pests cause crop losses of 30–40%, contributing significantly to global food insecurity. The Plantwise program works alongside national agricultural extension services, who advise smallholder farmers on plant health issues and collect data on problems they face. In a 1-year pilot, Plantwise tested the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)—tablets and short message service (SMS)—with 60 Kenyan extension workers. They were able to assist more farmers with better advice, had significantly improved access to plant health information, valued being able to ask their peers for advice, and dramatically improved the quality and speed of the data they collected.
KW - Agricultural extension
KW - plant health
KW - ICT
KW - mobile
KW - plantwise
U2 - 10.1080/10496505.2015.1120214
DO - 10.1080/10496505.2015.1120214
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 23
EP - 36
JO - Journal of Agricultural and Food Information
JF - Journal of Agricultural and Food Information
SN - 1049-6505
IS - 1
ER -