Why Don't Farmers Use Cell Phones to Access Market Prices? Technology Affordances and Barriers to Market Information Services Adoption in Rural Kenya

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  2016

• Venue

  Information Technology for Development

• Publication date

  2016-04-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business, Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1080/02681102.2015.1048184
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