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The Impact of ICT on Vegetable Farmers in Honduras

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  • Pineda Burgos, Allan Edgardo
  • Agüero Rodríguez, Marco Antonio
  • Espinoza, Sandra Karina

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Honduran farmers are at a disadvantage when dealing with intermediaries because they lack timely information about market prices. This paper first analyzes which information and communications technology (ICT) would be most suitable for sending price information to producers scattered throughout the country at a reasonable cost and in a sustainable way. Negotiations by two groups of farmers were compared: one to which market prices were not sent (control) and one to which prices were sent (treatment). A simple uninterrupted time series research design was used, followed by linear regression analysis and univariant analyses to determine the cases in which the treatment had an impact on farmers' negotiations. Findings are reported, as well as recommendations and lessons learned.

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  • Pineda Burgos, Allan Edgardo & Agüero Rodríguez, Marco Antonio & Espinoza, Sandra Karina, 2011. "The Impact of ICT on Vegetable Farmers in Honduras," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3072, Inter-American Development Bank.
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    1. World Bank, 2009. "2009 Information and Communications for Development : Extending Reach and Increasing Impact," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2636.
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    Keywords

    IDB-WP-243; agricultural research; ICT; Information and communications technology; Cell phones; SMS; Communication for development; Honduras; Central America;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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