Calling for better crops: an exploration of social upgrading through two mobile phone-based agriculture extension projects in Uganda

In recent years, mobile phones have become increasingly enmeshed in the daily routines of communities across the globe. This exponential swell of mobile teledensity in developing nations, especially in rural areas, gives evidence to mobile phones as being a contributing factor towards social and economic changes in local livelihoods driven by agriculture. In this study, any economic upgrading is organised under the concept of overall social upgrading. This dissertation investigates such evidence by exploring the social effects from the use of mobile phones through two agricultural extension projects in Uganda.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Social Development

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Piontak, Rachel

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Maree, Johann

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11967

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11967