Connecting the unconnected? Social ties and ICT adoption among smallholder farmers in developing countries
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.123985
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- Kleemann, Linda & Semrau, Finn Ole, 2025. "Connecting the unconnected? Social ties and ICT adoption among smallholder farmers in developing countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 213(C).
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- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
- Q19 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2025-06-16 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2025-06-16 (Development)
- NEP-ICT-2025-06-16 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-SOC-2025-06-16 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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