Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1177/09730052231225560
F. S. K. Panda, S. R. Das, T. M. K. Das, F. S. P. Dash
The Virtual Tutorial Project (VTP) is an e-learning portal, under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan. Its purpose is to create an online tutorial using a digital platform based on a syllabus and problem-solving content for undergraduate students in bilingual mode (Odia and English). VTP facilitates the availability of digital content to underprivileged rural students, thereby bridging the digital divide amongst Odisha students across disciplines and universities. In this article, the SERVQUAL model along with Feedback Analysis and Google Analytics is used for the participation of the users of the VTP e-learning platform and to evaluate the users’ satisfaction with the quality of service provided by the platform. That will help in providing suggestions on improvements for better service quality. The user suggested improvements in the quality of the services to enhance user satisfaction with the digital content of the e-learning portal.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1177/09730052231223822
F. Fahmi, Martha Jesica S. Mendrofa
This article examines the extent to which digitalisation transforms rural livelihood in the context of the Global South. We conducted a case study in two villages in Indonesia that represent different digital technologies and rural economies. We found that digitalisation, to a certain degree, encourages changes in rural livelihoods, as it provides opportunities for rural residents to improve their capabilities. However, digital technology is rather used predominantly for social purposes and has thus not yet triggered a major structural transformation in the rural areas. Nevertheless, the more complex nature of digital technology adopted by the community tends to trigger more significant changes in rural livelihoods. It is thus to be expected that with more intensive future use and complex types of digital technologies, digitalisation will significantly influence rural transformation in the Global South.
{"title":"Digitalisation and Rural Livelihood Transformation: Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"F. Fahmi, Martha Jesica S. Mendrofa","doi":"10.1177/09730052231223822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09730052231223822","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the extent to which digitalisation transforms rural livelihood in the context of the Global South. We conducted a case study in two villages in Indonesia that represent different digital technologies and rural economies. We found that digitalisation, to a certain degree, encourages changes in rural livelihoods, as it provides opportunities for rural residents to improve their capabilities. However, digital technology is rather used predominantly for social purposes and has thus not yet triggered a major structural transformation in the rural areas. Nevertheless, the more complex nature of digital technology adopted by the community tends to trigger more significant changes in rural livelihoods. It is thus to be expected that with more intensive future use and complex types of digital technologies, digitalisation will significantly influence rural transformation in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":39177,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Rural Management","volume":"66 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139855612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231224575
Deepa Gupta, Prafulla Kumar Nath
This article investigates why only some cooperatives succeed. World Cooperative Monitor 2021 reveals that Europe and USA have maximum high-performing cooperatives (based on turnover), while the representation of developing countries in the list of the world’s top cooperatives is meagre. According to the data source of Cooperative Monitor, out of the top 300 coops worldwide, Europe has 159, the USA has 95, the Asia-Pacific region has only 46, and Africa has none. Therefore, this study becomes very pertinent in understanding the performance differences of cooperatives in the Global South vis-à-vis Global North. This study tries to identify the factors that determine the performance of cooperatives operating in both regions. By using Cooperative Monitor’s (2021) data set, the article tries to link the performance of cooperatives with the macro conditions. The democratic condition of a country (macro-level) may influence the performance of institutions at the meso-level (cooperatives). We found that cooperatives in the Global North in countries with higher democratic values have performed better than the cooperatives in the Global South. The study finds that the performance of cooperatives is positively related to democratic values. However, no significant relationship is found between social inclusiveness and the performance of cooperatives.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231221332
María José Araya, Javiera Araya-Moreno, Yacouba M. Coulibaly, T. B. Savadogo
Adopting the perspective of practitioners, we analyse the case of farm ponds for supplemental irrigation built in Burkina Faso and Mali. We reflect on the ways in which climate technologies can contribute to smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change, showing that in the different processes involved in the design and implementation of farm ponds as climate technologies, the distinction between infrastructure, equipment and machinery, on the one hand, and people, societies and communities, on the other, concealed the complexity of agricultural, agro-ecological and development practices. This ultimately hindered the potentially positive impacts of the technology and confirmed what the literature has already shown: that climate technologies should be approached as solutions that, regardless of their use of a particular piece of infrastructure or equipment, are always ‘socio-technical’.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231221332
María José Araya, Javiera Araya-Moreno, Yacouba M. Coulibaly, T. B. Savadogo
Adopting the perspective of practitioners, we analyse the case of farm ponds for supplemental irrigation built in Burkina Faso and Mali. We reflect on the ways in which climate technologies can contribute to smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change, showing that in the different processes involved in the design and implementation of farm ponds as climate technologies, the distinction between infrastructure, equipment and machinery, on the one hand, and people, societies and communities, on the other, concealed the complexity of agricultural, agro-ecological and development practices. This ultimately hindered the potentially positive impacts of the technology and confirmed what the literature has already shown: that climate technologies should be approached as solutions that, regardless of their use of a particular piece of infrastructure or equipment, are always ‘socio-technical’.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231224575
Deepa Gupta, Prafulla Kumar Nath
This article investigates why only some cooperatives succeed. World Cooperative Monitor 2021 reveals that Europe and USA have maximum high-performing cooperatives (based on turnover), while the representation of developing countries in the list of the world’s top cooperatives is meagre. According to the data source of Cooperative Monitor, out of the top 300 coops worldwide, Europe has 159, the USA has 95, the Asia-Pacific region has only 46, and Africa has none. Therefore, this study becomes very pertinent in understanding the performance differences of cooperatives in the Global South vis-à-vis Global North. This study tries to identify the factors that determine the performance of cooperatives operating in both regions. By using Cooperative Monitor’s (2021) data set, the article tries to link the performance of cooperatives with the macro conditions. The democratic condition of a country (macro-level) may influence the performance of institutions at the meso-level (cooperatives). We found that cooperatives in the Global North in countries with higher democratic values have performed better than the cooperatives in the Global South. The study finds that the performance of cooperatives is positively related to democratic values. However, no significant relationship is found between social inclusiveness and the performance of cooperatives.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231225586
Manuj Baruah, Paramita Saha
Improving technical efficiency is one of the most effective ways to boost output in any manufacturing process. The efficiency level of enterprises can be improved by identifying their sources of inefficiency. The present article examines the technical efficiency and tries to identify the factors causing technical inefficiency in handloom-based micro-enterprises in Assam. The article used primary data and collected from 312 micro-level handloom enterprises spread across four districts of Assam. The stochastic frontier production with an inefficiency effects model is used for the purpose of analysis. Labour, capital and material inputs are found to be significant and labour is the most effective factor for increasing of output level. The mean technical efficiency of overall enterprises is 0.67 and a wide variation in the level of technical efficiency among the sample handloom enterprises is observed. Inefficiency model shows that a high yarn capital ratio, lower product diversity, entrepreneurs with training, a higher number of employees and adoption of promotional practices tend to reduce the technical inefficiency of the handloom enterprise significantly.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09730052231225586
Manuj Baruah, Paramita Saha
Improving technical efficiency is one of the most effective ways to boost output in any manufacturing process. The efficiency level of enterprises can be improved by identifying their sources of inefficiency. The present article examines the technical efficiency and tries to identify the factors causing technical inefficiency in handloom-based micro-enterprises in Assam. The article used primary data and collected from 312 micro-level handloom enterprises spread across four districts of Assam. The stochastic frontier production with an inefficiency effects model is used for the purpose of analysis. Labour, capital and material inputs are found to be significant and labour is the most effective factor for increasing of output level. The mean technical efficiency of overall enterprises is 0.67 and a wide variation in the level of technical efficiency among the sample handloom enterprises is observed. Inefficiency model shows that a high yarn capital ratio, lower product diversity, entrepreneurs with training, a higher number of employees and adoption of promotional practices tend to reduce the technical inefficiency of the handloom enterprise significantly.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09730052231187187
F. Eshetu, J. Haji, M. Ketema, Abule Mehare
The research delt with the effect of labour out-migration on output per hectare and efficiency of wheat and teff producers in Kembata-Tembaro and Hadiya zones of Ethiopia based on primary data gathered from 415 random sample of rural households. The multinomial endogenous switching model was used as an analytical model. According to the stochastic frontier model, the mean efficiency of wheat and teff are 82.98 and 66.43 per cent, respectively. According to the econometric results, rural–urban and international migration reduces wheat productivity by 110.94 and 179.11 kg, respectively. The average treatment effect on treated (ATT) also revealed that participation in international migration reduces Teff producers’ technical efficiency by 5.51 per cent. However, teff productivity is reduced by 382.94 and 747.49 kg due to rural urban and international migration, respectively. The lost labour channel of the modern theory of migration is maintained by the result of the study. So as to minimise the negative impact of out-migration in the study area, policymakers must focus more on promoting access to credit, irrigation, land, off-farm employment and public services for rural households.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09730052231202567
Resty Naiga, Erick O. Ananga, Umar Kakumba
This article sought to analyse the gender dimensions in communally managed water schemes in rural Uganda. Taking two rural villages as empirical referents, the study used multi-methods of data collection and a gender-based analysis to interrogate the challenges to equitable access and decision-making in rural-based water schemes. The analysis reveals that, despite the existing policy and legislative regime, access to water for women is severely constrained, and their level of decision-making in communally managed water schemes is remarkably low. The article holds that women’s participation is critical for the much-needed collective action towards community-based water governance, gender equity, and empowerment. Consequently, the barriers to sustainable water access and effective women’s participation can be addressed through significant investments in systematic water institutional reforms, targeted capacity-building initiatives, and plugging existing policy monitoring and implementation gaps at all levels. There is a need to address the policy reality gap regarding ownership of productive resources for women as a key strand towards addressing the equity challenges at different levels of water governance.
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