Mobile Phones and Farmers' Marketing Decisions in Ethiopia

World Development

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 296-307

  Tadesse, Getaw ^a   Bahiigwa, Godfrey ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Agricultural marketing; Ethiopia; Information searching; Mobile phones; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; SMALLHOLDER;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84920949907     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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