Gender and mobile phone for social change: case of young women (15-34 years) in the distribution of food products from village to city

The empirical gap that necessitates the research question is that, in spite of the fact that well over 90% of rural communities in Ivory Coast is sufficiently covered by the Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM), majority of rural women farmers are not making use of the facility in the process of food production, transportation and distribution in the country. This study aims to diagnose the impact of the use of GSM in the balance of information between producers of food made by women in the west-central Côte d'Ivoire (area of high agricultural production) and the urban cities surrounding, in view of the distribution and improving rural women life-being. The results of the research are about the perception of mobile phone, the level of mobile phone used by women in commercial works, the contribution of mobile phones in improving their revenues and the distribution of food between the city and countryside in Ivory Coast is diagnosed.