Digitalization for transformative urbanization, climate change adaptation, and sustainable farming in Africa: trend, opportunities, and challenges

Balogun, Abdul‐Lateef; Adebisi, Naheem; Abubakar, Ismaila Rimi; Dano, Umar Lawal; Tella, Abdulwaheed

doi:10.1080/1943815x.2022.2033791

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“…These variables can reduce vulnerability to climate change within African economies through good governance and land management; or through the transfer of knowledge and technologies in mechanisms for reducing climate vulnerability in Africa (Balogun et al, 2020; Mitchell et al, 2015). Indeed, digitalization offers opportunities to facilitate sustainable adaptation planning in existing and future urban centers (Balogun et al, 2022). The work of Leal Filho et al (2022) shows that digitalization through digital technologies and artificial intelligence increases adaptation to climate change by building and proposing innovative solutions in the response to climate change.…”

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“…The underlying finding is justified by the fact that by inducing an adoption and development of digitalization, sustainable urbanization will promote resilience to the adverse effects of climate change through this digitalization via artificial intelligence that is tailored to anticipate and cope effectively with the harms of climate change (Argyroudis et al, 2022). It can also reduce vulnerability to climate change by promoting sustainable agriculture by increasing large‐scale farming and agricultural productivity through technology transfer in Africa (Balogun et al, 2022). It is further understood in the wake of the demands of the challenge of financing sustainable urban development in Africa, which requires good governance to respond to the fractured fiscal authority, fragmented infrastructure networks, and hybrid service delivery models that characterize African cities (Cirolia, 2020).…”

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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Yeyouomo,

Asongu

2023

Sustainable Development

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This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample of 52 African countries from 1996 to 2019. We use the two‐stage system generalized method of moments (GMM) empirical strategy and mediation analysis to assess direct and indirect impacts, respectively. The results of the direct analysis reveal that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and institutional quality. The results also highlight that considering the direct effect of sustainable urbanization alone underestimates the impact of reducing vulnerability to climate change. The results are robust to an alternative indicator of vulnerability to climate and other estimation techniques. These results have important policy implications and provide evidence for the improvement of sustainable urbanization in terms of access to basic services or reduction of vulnerability to climate change.

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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Yeyouomo,

Asongu

2023

Sustainable Development

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“…From the macro perspective, most scholars believe that digitalization can effectively curb agricultural carbon emissions and promote low-carbon agricultural production (Kamilaris et al, 2017;Zhu and Li, 2021). Balogun et al (2022) examined the implementation of digitalization in African urban farming by assessing various case studies. They found that introducing digitalization to agriculture can reduce carbon emissions while supporting food availability for the growing number of urban residents.…”

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Digitalization, resource misallocation and low-carbon agricultural production: evidence from China

Wang

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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With the rapid development of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, China’s agricultural production is entering a new era characterized by digitalization. Based on provincial panel data of China from 2013 to 2020, this paper adopts the system GMM and mediating effects model to systematically examine the impact of digitalization on low-carbon agricultural production from the perspective of resource misallocation. The results indicate that digitalization can significantly curb agricultural carbon emissions and thus promote low-carbon agricultural production, and this finding still holds after the robustness test. The heterogeneity analysis indicates that the inhibiting effect of digitalization on agricultural carbon emissions is most pronounced in the eastern region relative to the central and western regions (the regression coefficients are −0.400 and −0.126 respectively). Further mechanism analysis suggests that digitalization can reduce agricultural carbon emissions by correcting the widespread capital and labor misallocation in agricultural factor markets. The findings of this study provide significant policy implications for low-carbon agricultural production in China.

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“…Furthermore, to determine respondents' level of use of ICTs, respondents were asked to tick yes (1) or no (0) against each of the ICTs listed and identified by them as to whether they use them or not in obtaining agricultural information. Then each of the respondents' scores was added up and grouped as non-user (0), low user (1-4), moderate user (5)(6)(7)(8), and high user (9)(10)(11)(12).…”

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“…The use of ICTs in agriculture offers a great opportunity to close the information gap between rural women and youth, who handle most of the state's agricultural activities but still use face-toface communication, which has become less effective due to technological advancement. ICTs use in agriculture can transform Nigerian agriculture and bring it into compliance with international best practices [8]. Although there have been government efforts to promote the use of ICTs to facilitate timely dissemination of agricultural information, such as the Growth Enhancement E-wallet System, where farmers received agricultural information on inputs, soft loans, improved seed varieties, and fertilizers and were educated on improved farming practices that would increase their yield through their registered mobile phones.…”

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Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies among Rural Women and Youth in Agriculture in Abia State, Nigeria

Jennifer,

Achonam

2023

AJAEES

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The study assessed the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among rural women and youth in agriculture in Abia State, Nigeria. Data were collected using a structured interview schedule by the researcher and other research assistants. Percentage, standard deviation, mean scores, pie-chart, factor analysis, and regression were used for data analysis and result presentation. Using the multistage sampling procedure, a sample size of one hundred and twenty respondents was purposefully selected. The study's findings showed that GSM, radio, and television were the main ICTs that women and youth in the state used to obtain agricultural information from extension and relevant stakeholders. The regression analysis revealed a positive relationship between the number of times extension agents visited and their level of ICT use in agriculture. Findings indicated that a greater percentage (40%) of respondents were high users of ICTs in agriculture. Respondents cited low literacy, a lack of extension conviction, and training as major constraints to their use of ICTs. The implication is that policymakers and relevant stakeholders in agriculture should prioritize the development of training programs and interventions that improve the technology literacy and human capacity building of rural women and youth in the state through the use of existing agricultural extension programs on the effective use of ICTs in obtaining agricultural information for increased productivity, income, standard of living, and agricultural development in the state.

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Digitalization for transformative urbanization, climate change adaptation, and sustainable farming in Africa: trend, opportunities, and challenges

Cited by 43 publications

References 75 publications

Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Digitalization, resource misallocation and low-carbon agricultural production: evidence from China

Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies among Rural Women and Youth in Agriculture in Abia State, Nigeria

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