TY  - JA
AU  - Mangole,C.D.
AU  - Mulungu,K.H.
AU  - Christian Kamala Kaghoma
AU  - Kassie,M.
TI  - The direct and indirect effects of mobile phone ownership on maize yields in Tanzania
SN  - 1074-0708
PY  - 2025///
CY  - United States of America
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Farmers
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Maize
KW  - Yields
KW  - Mobile phones
KW  - Digital agriculture
KW  - Smallholders
KW  - United Republic of Tanzania
N1  - Peer review; Open Access
N2  - The study uses the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture to evaluate mobile phone ownership’s direct and indirect effect on yields in Tanzania. The results indicate that transitioning from not owning to owning a mobile phone improves maize yields by about 16%. Mobile phones indirectly affect maize yield by facilitating farmers’ access to extension services – regardless of the type of provider – but only account for about 2% of the total effects. Considering both direct and indirect effects, this study suggests that extension services partially moderate this causal relationship. Further, the impact of mobile phones is stronger among male-headed farm households
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/36123
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2025.10010
T2  - Agricultural Economics
ER  -