| dc.creator |
Kyaruzi, John |
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| dc.creator |
Yonah, Zaipuna |
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| dc.creator |
Swai, Hulda |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-21T08:30:31Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-21T08:30:31Z |
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| dc.date |
2019-11 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-25T09:21:07Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-10-25T09:21:07Z |
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| dc.identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.19101/IJACR.2019.940074 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/878 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/95444 |
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| dc.description |
This research article published by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), Volume-9 Issue-45 -2019 |
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| dc.description |
Contributions from various researchers and scholars have made major advances relevant to a wide range of mobile
applications at various scales. Although current agricultural and rural development (ARD) systems have features that are
needed for farming as a business (FAAB). It is established that all of them have limitations in realising benchmarking as
their basic principle. Common limitations across all systems, include 1) scarcity of data for modelling, evaluating, and
applying benchmarking and 2) inadequate knowledge systems that effectively communicate benchmarking results to
farmers. These two limitations are greater obstacles to developing useful mobile applications than gaps in conceptual
theory or available methods for using “Farming as a Business via Benchmarking (FAABB)”. This paper presents reviews
of the current state of mobile application development frameworks, focusing on their capabilities and limitations to
support FAABB. The paper presents a new framework to support FAABB in the Tanzanian context, which is
implemented through a FAABB cyber studio hosted at the Nelson Mandela –African Institution of Science and
Technology (NM-AIST) in Tanzania. The framework promises to address not only the knowledge codification problem,
but also the need for a cultural change among agricultural researchers to ensure that data for addressing the range of
use-cases are available for future mobile application development. The FAABB framework has been tested in the
Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and its initial results provides a useful starting point for
developing m-apps for addressing ARD challenges in developing countries. |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR) |
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| dc.subject |
Agricultural and rural development (ARD) |
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| dc.subject |
Farming-as-a-business via benchmarking (FAABB) |
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| dc.subject |
M-apps development frameworks |
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| dc.title |
Mobile application development framework to support farming as a business via benchmarking: the case of Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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