About the RUFORUM 2010 Biennal Conference
"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholders in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme of Information Systems
Information dissemination pathway preferences and needs of commercial urban farmers in Kampala, Uganda
Abstract:
The study mapped and characterized the spatial location of
households that practice urban agriculture, assessed and
documented the information needs of farmers, developed Geospatial
database for the households identified, documented the
effective and preferred information dissemination channels that
are used to enhance the productivity of farmers and identified
and documented the information sources that urban farmers
consider useful for making production and marketing decisions.
Preliminary findings show that social economic characteristic
of farmers highly influence the type and frequency of using a
given information dissemination pathway and that the type of
agriculture practiced influences the preference of a given
pathway. Inter personal pathway types are deemed to be more
effective than printed and broadcast kinds. Cooperative
extension services, marketing specialist and radio, are generally
taken to be more useful for making marketing and production
decision than both electronic and printed media.
L’étude a cartographié et caractérisé la localisation spatiale
des ménages qui pratiquent l’agriculture urbaine ; elle a évalué
et documenté les besoins en information des agriculteurs, a
développé la base de données géo-spatiales pour les ménages
identifiés, a documenté des voies efficaces et privilégiées de la
diffusion d’informations qui sont utilisés pour améliorer la
productivité des agriculteurs et a identifié et documenté les
sources d’information que les agriculteurs urbains estiment utiles
pour prendre des décisions de production et de
commercialisation. Les résultats préliminaires montrent que les
caractéristiques socio-économiques des agriculteurs influent
fortement sur le type et la fréquence d’utilisation d’une voie de
diffusion d’information donnée et que le type d’agriculture
pratiquée influe sur la préférence d’une voie donnée. Les types des voies interpersonnelles sont réputés d’être plus efficaces
que les voies utilisant les imprimés et celles de diffusion. Les
services de vulgarisation coopérative, le spécialiste en marketing
et la radio sont généralement considérés plus utiles pour la prise
de décision de production et de marketing que les médias
électroniques et les imprimés.
Language:
English
Date of publication:
2010
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Region Focus:
East Africa
Collection:
RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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Extent:
1749-1755
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