Phones has led to a surge of mobile tools that allow users to access health, education and finance services. In agriculture, these tools can be used to obtain price data, weather reports and technical advice. While there is widespread consensus about the opportunities for economic growth and social empowerment that mobile tools offer users, one area has received limited attention so far: the potential to use mobile tools for research and for project monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Published in Rural 21 by Thomas Daum, PARI researcher at the University of Hohenheim.