Jenny C. Aker|Christopher Ksoll
Can mobile phones improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Niger
Tufts University|Center for Global Development|University of Ottawa|University of Oxford
widespread growth mobile phone coverage worldwide offered new potential increasing rural households access information public private transfers yet despite proliferation mobile phonebased interventions agricultural sector mixed evidence impact report results randomized evaluation niger rural households increased access information technology capacity use find households treated villages planted diverse basket crops particularly marginal cash crops grown women increase likelihood selling crops farmgate price received suggesting market failures need addressed improve farmers welfare