Social innovations triggered by videos: Evidence from Mali
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report
Description:
Since 2012, hundreds of organisations across West Africa have shown a series of ten videos on Fighting striga and improving soil fertility to farmer groups and rural communities. This paper asks if a village would change its social structure just because they watched these videos? Field research in Mali revealed that t he answer is yes, sometimes, especially if they watched the videos in groups and saw other farmers in the videos doing group activities.
Publication year:
2014
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