Increasing engagement in price crowdsourcing initiatives: Using nudges in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: African agriculture is yet to reach its full food production potential. One way of addressing this is a better distribution of market signals to farmers and other market participants, which can help them make better-informed decisions, leading to increased income and capacity for investment. Hence, increasing the availability of market information in Africa is a priority and alternative data sources, and new Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer huge potential to complement classic official statistics. This has given rise to a number of ICTs and citizen science projects to monitor data in real time, of which food price crowdsourcing in Africa is one. However, one of the main challenges faced by crowdsourcing initiatives is to ensure that individuals feed useful information in

SUBMITTER: Solano-Hermosilla G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8886569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature