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Enhancing Women Participation in Virtual Marketing in Nigeria: Evidence from “KasuwaGo” Mobile App ICT Support Services Agent Programme in Legume marketing

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We developed “KasuwaGo” mobile app to remove barriers to market participation in West Africa agri-food value chains. Women's adoption and usage of the app remains low in Nigeria. To deepen usage, we introduced a youth-led market-based agent structure to provide ICT support services in transaction creation and trade facilitation for eighty women managed in eight groups in key markets. About 72.5% of the group members gave no consideration to gender in their choice of agent, as they were more concerned with agent's availability and accessibility. Female-managed groups consummated 18% more transactions than male-managed groups (p<0.05) indicating some level of same-gender affinity on engagements beyond transaction initiation. Although potential trade location counts for group members was higher by 6±1 over a 4-week cycle compared to non-group members, the interaction response time to potential trade partners was lower for non-group members app users who were smart phone owners (p<0.05). We found no significant difference in distance of markets participated in by group and non-group members who were “KasuwaGo” app-users on own-smart-phones. Averagely, women traders were willing-to-pay additional NGN110.13 as monthly subscription for app usage. Our findings suggest that providing marketing ICT support is beneficial to mainstreaming women into priority nodes on food value chains.

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  • Toyin B, Ajibade, 2024. "Enhancing Women Participation in Virtual Marketing in Nigeria: Evidence from “KasuwaGo” Mobile App ICT Support Services Agent Programme in Legume marketing," IAAE 2024 Conference, August 2-7, 2024, New Delhi, India 344400, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cfcp15:344400
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344400
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