 New York University’s Center for Technology and Economic Development program is partnering with OpenMarkets on a study of 1,200 farmers in Volta region of Ghana to measure impact of using mobile-based SMS price alerts. This program will last 3 years (into 2014), while NYU specifically measures impact on farm-gate prices and livelihoods (household assets and children in school), farmer marketing behavior (search behavior, bargaining power and market contracts) as well as the trust of other market players, especially traders. |
 The International Food and Policy Research Institute is partnering with OpenMarkets to study 1,000 households in Northern Ghana for impacts on livelihoods when using mobile market information services. The mobile services will be offered in tiered packages - one package being just price information over SMS, and the other price information plus use of a call-in helpline. IFPRI is interested in seeing how these two market information ‘packages’ change how farmers and traders work. |
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