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Fertilizer by Phone: Esoko Enhances African Farmers' Livelihoods through Innovations in Data Access (Innovations Case Narrative: Esoko)

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  • Mark Davies

    (Mark Davies is a technology entrepreneur who founded Metrobeat/CitySearch in New York, First Tuesday in London, and both BusyInternet, a technology incubator, and Esoko in Accra, Ghana.)

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  • Mark Davies, 2012. "Fertilizer by Phone: Esoko Enhances African Farmers' Livelihoods through Innovations in Data Access (Innovations Case Narrative: Esoko)," Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, MIT Press, vol. 7(4), pages 27-41, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:inntgg:v:7:y:2012:i:4:p:27-41
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    Keywords

    mobile communications; SMS; fertilizer; farming; Africa;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • N57 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Africa; Oceania
    • N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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