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Monitoring with social media: Experiences from “integrating” WhatsApp in the M E system under sweet potato value chain

Dealing with multiple stakeholders in agriculture–nutrition projects often makes communication and the collection of quality, reliable, and low-cost data complex and challenging. Communication bureaucracies among stakeholders often lead to delay, distortion, or loss of information along the communic...

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Published in:Open agriculture 2020-08, Vol.5 (1), p.395-403
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