Using ICT for fish marketing: the EFMIS model in Kenya
Richard Abila | William Ojwang | Andrew Othina | Carolyne Lwenya | Robert Oketch | Raphael Okeyo
Small-scale fisheries in developing countries often perform sub-optimally owing to lack of vital market information, leading to inefficiencies, inequity, and post-harvest losses. The mobile phone, which is the fastest growing communications media in Africa, may be most suited for addressing market information gaps. The Enhanced Fish Market Information Service (EFMIS), an ICT pilot project based on mobile phones, has been implemented in Kenya's Lake Victoria fisheries for 3 years. The objective of the project is to enhance fish trade and incomes for the fisher community through improved access to market information. Through the system, data from fish landing sites and inland urban markets is continuously relayed to a central database where it is appropriately packaged into a format that users can access in real time by sending a query through mobile phone SMS. The system is automated and responds within 10 seconds. Market information is also disseminated through monthly electronic bulletins. The EFMIS model offers the potential to be adapted for application in other small-scale fisheries, drawing lessons learnt from this pilot.Abila, R.O. (2007) ‘Assessment of fisheries product values along Kenya's export marketing chain’, FAO Fisheries Technical Report No. 819, FIIU/R819, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations <http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2008/XF/XF0801.xml;XF2007432735≯. http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2008/XF/XF0801.xml;XF2007432735
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Pehu, E., Belden, C., Majumdar, S. and Jantunen, T. (2011) ‘Increasing crop, livestock and fishery productivity through ICT’, ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks and Institutions [online], Washington, DC: World Bank <www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module5.pdf≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module5.pdf
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Rudgard, S., Ballantyne, P., Castello, R.D., Edge, P., Hani, M., Maru, A., Morras, E.B., Nichterlein, K., Porcari, E., Treinen, S., Balaji, V. and Balasubramanian, K. (2011) ‘ICTs as enablers of agricultural innovation systems’, ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks and Institutions [online], Washington, DC: World Bank <www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module6.pdf≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module6.pdf
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Abila, R.O. and Werimo, K. (2010) ‘Assessing impacts of ice intervention on fish landing beaches of Suba District, Kenya’, report submitted to Africa Now, Kisumu: Africa Now/EU.
Donovan, K. (2011) ‘Anytime, anywhere: mobile devices and services and their impact on agriculture and rural development’, ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks and Institutions [online], Washington, DC: World Bank <www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module3.pdf≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module3.pdf
FAO (2007) ‘Information and communication technologies benefit fishing communities’, New Directions in Fisheries 7, Rome: FAO <ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/FAO/009/a0991e/a0991e00.pdf≯. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/FAO/009/a0991e/a0991e00.pdf
FAO (2013) ‘Market Reports’, [online] FAO Globefish <www.globefish.org/homepage.html≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.globefish.org/homepage.html
Grahame, D. and Jayaraman, N. (2011) ‘Strengthening agricultural marketing with ICT’, ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks and Institutions [online], Washington, DC: World Bank <www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module9.pdf≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module9.pdf
Harrod, J. and Jamsen, P. (2011) ‘Farmer organizations work better with ICT’, ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks and Institutions [online], Washington, DC: World Bank <www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module8.pdf≯. www.ictinagriculture.org/sites/ictinagriculture.org/files/final_Module8.pdf
Kambewa, E., van Tilburg, A. and Abila, R.O. (2007) ‘The plight of small-scale primary producers in international Nile perch marketing channels’, in R. Ruben, M. van Boekel, A. Van Tilburg and J. Trienekens (eds), Tropical Food Chains: Governance Regimes for Quality Management, Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Kantiza, A. (2012) ‘The evaluation of mobile phone application upon the smallholder farmer's productivity in East Africa’ [online], e-agriculture <www.e-agriculture.org/blog/evaluation-mobile-phone-application-upon-smallholder-farmers-productivity-east-africa≯ [accessed 15 May 2013]. www.e-agriculture.org/blog/evaluation-mobile-phone-application-upon-smallholder-farmers-productivity-east-africa
Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) (2008) ‘Fisheries management plan for Lake Victoria 2009-2014’ [online], Jinja, Uganda: Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization <www.lvfo.org/index.php/documents/lvfo-documents≯. www.lvfo.org/index.php/documents/lvfo-documents
LVBC (2007) Regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of the Lake Victoria Basin, Kisumu: Lake Victoria Basin Commission of the East African Community http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/2405/reports/regional-transboundary-diagnostic-analysis-of-the-lake-victoria-basin http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/2405/reports/regional-transboundary-diagnostic-analysis-of-the-lake-victoria-basin
LVFO (2012) Report of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Frame Survey 2012, Jinja, Uganda: Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization <www.lvfo.org/index.php/documents/lvfo-documents≯. www.lvfo.org/index.php/documents/lvfo-documents
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