Researching and countering misinformation in the Global South

S Badrinathan, S Chauchard - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Scholarly literature on misinformation has insufficiently captured the experience of the
majority of the world's population: those in the Global South. Findings from this literature are …

Mobile phone use is associated with higher smallholder agricultural productivity in Tanzania, East Africa

A Quandt, JD Salerno, JC Neff, TD Baird, JE Herrick… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Mobile phone use is increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa, spurring a growing focus on mobile
phones as tools to increase agricultural yields and incomes on smallholder farms. However …

[HTML][HTML] Gendered access to productive resources–evidence from small holder farmers in Awutu Senya West District of Ghana

DA Ankrah, CY Freeman, A Afful - Scientific African, 2020 - Elsevier
Differential access to productive agricultural resources stifles agricultural growth,
nevertheless, this persists in developing countries. This study uses the feminist political …

Socio-techno-economic assessment to design an appropriate renewable energy system for remote agricultural communities in developing countries

AH Pandyaswargo, AD Wibowo, H Onoda - Sustainable Production and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Access to clean energy for communities living in remote areas where grid extension is
considered unfeasible can be provided by off-grid electrification systems using renewable …

Information and communication technologies and agricultural production: new evidence from Africa

RU Onyeneke, DA Ankrah, R Atta-Ankomah… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
While information and communication technologies (ICT) have proven to be useful in
boosting agricultural production and productivity, regardless of the geographical location …

Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the economic situation and food security of rural households in India

V Suresh, R Fishman, JS von Lieres… - Journal of Agribusiness …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of the study is to understand what impact the first COVID-19 lockdown
in 2020 had on the income and food security of rural households in India and whether it …

Impact of mobile phone usage on empowerment of rural women entrepreneurs: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

MS Rahman, ME Haque, MSI Afrad, SS Hasan… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Mobile phones have emerged as the predominant technology in developing countries,
especially within agricultural enterprises. This research investigates the influence of mobile …

Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China

H Zheng, Y Zhou, DB Rahut - Review of Development …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Empowering women is an important goal of the United Nations' Sustainable Development
Goals, and studies have proposed various strategies to achieve this goal. However, few …

A vital technology: Review of the literature on mobile phone use among pastoralists

MC Parlasca - Journal of International Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile phones fit well into the lives of pastoralists in low‐income countries. The technology
is firmly integrated into most pastoralist communities, affecting and transforming several core …

New pathways for women's empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania

TD Baird, E Woodhouse, JT McCabe, P Barnes… - Journal of Rural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the extensive scholarship on women's empowerment and gender equality in the
Global South, few studies have examined how changing livelihoods create new challenges …