Using ICT to Integrate Smallholder Farmers into Agricultural Value Chain: The Case of DrumNet Project in Kenya

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Author(s): Julius Juma Okello (University of Nairobi, Kenya), Edith Ofwona-Adera (IDRC, Kenya), Oliver L.E. Mbatia (University of Nairobi, Kenya)and Ruth M. Okello (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 15
Source title: Technology, Sustainability, and Rural Development in Africa
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Blessing Maumbe (Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe)and Julius J. Okello (University of Nairobi, Kenya)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3607-1.ch004

Keywords: Environment & Agriculture / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Sustainable Development

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This article examines an ICT-based intervention (known as the DrumNet project) that has succeeded in integrating smallholder-resource and poor farmers into a higher value agricultural chain. The article assesses the design of the project, and how it resolves the smallholder farmers’ idiosyncratic market failures and examines member-farmers’ marketing margins. The article finds that the design of the DrumNet project resolves smallholder farmers’ credit, insurance and information market failures and enables them to overcome organizational failure. The article concludes that successful ICT-based interventions for integrating farmers into higher value agricultural value chains require an integrated approach to tackling smallholder farmers’ constraints. The findings have implications for the design of future ICT-based interventions in agriculture.

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