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Soil Economics - The "Science" in the economics

We feature a collaborative blogpost by our Research Associates,  Nikita Taniparti and Suraj Nair. The Earth is covered with soil: soil on...

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Demand and Adoption of Innovation- Mobile based services

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity" - Michael Porter Any study that evaluates a service/product innovat...

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Bridging the Last Mile : Evaluation of Mobile Phone- Based Agricultural Extension

In 2011, we launched a large-scale field experiment to evaluate a service (Avaaj Otalo, or AO) that delivers mobile-phone-based agricultura...

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Trusting Technology: Insights from the Field

Respondents using Avaaj Otalo (AO) - a mobile phone based agricultural extension service- are used to receiving weekly voice calls incorpor...

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Price Information: Leading to Roads Less taken

For many of India’s 850 million rural inhabitants, 40 per cent of whom live in poverty, delivering agricultural output in a timely manne...

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Agricultural Financing Theme Special - Feb to Mar 2013

If one were to look at the CMF Publications list, especially the factsheets , one would find a factsheet pertaining to the topic mentione...

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Newsletter Article, Issue #18: Avaaj Otalo: Evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile-based extension service

Author: Ishani Desai It is estimated that more than half of the Indian labor force is engaged in agriculture.  Given this, India’s produ...

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A Short Message from the Avaaj Otalo Project…

“Namashkar… Welcome to the Agriculture Advisory and Agriculture Information service of Awaaj Otalo. Today we will discuss….” ...

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