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2. A case for a paradigm shift and a new theory in development communication scholarship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mwangi, Samuel Chege (author / University of South Carolina Columbia)
- Format:
- Research paper
- Publication Date:
- 2002-08-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: C16146
- Notes:
- 5 p., Paper submitted to the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for the annual convention in Florida, August 7-10, 2002
3. A farm journalist tells farmers what they'd rather not hear about climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Charles, Dan (author) and National Public Radio (NPR)
- Format:
- Online Article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-06-02
- Published:
- United States: NPR: The Salt.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10947
- Notes:
- 5 pages, online article
4. A war on agriculture?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author / Drovers Cattlenetwork)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11773
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Journal Title Details:
- : 4
- Notes:
- Via online from publisher., Editor addresses a state governor's agenda at the expense of the beef industry, illustrating a continuing "struggle with the divide between urban and rural communities."
5. Agricultural extension in South-Eastern Europe: Issues of transition and sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Daku, Lefter (author), Norton, George W. (author), Taylor, Daniel B. (author), Petrela, Eivis Qenani (author), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University California Polytechnic State University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-07-30
- Published:
- United States: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10967
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- (11:1-4) : 49-61
- Notes:
- 12 pages, via online journal, Following the economic reforms in the early 90's, most of the south-eastern European countries (SEE) made efforts to establish agricultural extension services. However, a number of factors including tight governmental budgets, lack of experience, and the existence of vested interests have constrained the development of extension services. This paper examines the rationale for public funding of extension programs and evaluates the incentive structure for private and public provision of agricultural extension service in the SEE countries. It suggests a medium and long-term approach with a primary focus on institutional design. Two groups of factors that affect the private sector supply of extension are analyzed: (i) demand and supply-side factors that affect the profitability of the service and (ii) factors arising from the public-good nature of extension output, externalities, and moral hazards that affect the appropriation of returns of the service. The main conclusion is that the SEE countries should try to achieve a public-private extension balance by following a gradual approach toward privatization of the agricultural extension service. However, the paper advocates a continued important role for the public sector to correct for potential undesirable effects of private advisory services.
6. An analytic approach to support urban agriculture policies development: case study of Barcelona
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zanasi, Cesare (author) and Di Fiore, Gianluca (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10932
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food System Dynamics
- Notes:
- Conference paper, International European Forum, Innsbruck, Austria, February 5-9, 2018. Pages 271-283 in proceedings published in this journal., The increasing impact due to urban population’s food supply causes a series of negative externalities related to food production, transformation and transportation. FAO and other institutions are trying to integrate traditional models of food supply with alternative ones like Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA). Defining the drivers that motivate the participation in different types of UPA could be useful to plan more participated and effective UPA development policies. Barcelona (Spain) hosts a number of cases representing different declinations that UPA can assume. This work aims at describing the differences in terms of motivations to enter the various typologies of Urban Agriculture (UA) in Barcelona. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews to 4 groups of users representing 3 of the most widespread models of UA initiatives in Barcelona (Allotment Gardens, Community Gardens, Pla Buits.) The results showed that participation in UA is mainly motivated by relational aspects and knowledge exchange and differences exist among the various UA models. Political reasons are mostly influencing the Community Gardeners while Pla Buits users’ mains motivations are related to socialising and Allotment gardeners are mainly motivated by environmental aspects. Differences in the participants’ demographic characteristics also emerged. Better targeted public policies contents and communication strategies for UPA development can thus be derived by the results obtained; to this end, recommendations have been provided. Further research should broaden the range of case studies and the sample size, in order to provide a more effective and comprehensive tool for tailoring UPA developing strategies to different contexts.
7. Are agriculture and nutrition policies and practice coherent? Stakeholder evidence from Afghanistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Poole, Nigel (author), Echavez, Chona (author), and Rowland, Dominic (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Published:
- Springer Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10241
- Journal Title:
- Food Security
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(6) : 1577–1601
- Notes:
- Online ISSN: 1876-4525 Print ISSN: 1876-4517, Via online journal., Despite recent improvements in the national average, stunting levels in Afghanistan exceed 70% in some Provinces. Agriculture serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of the population and has the potential to be a strong driver of a reduction in under-nutrition. This article reports research conducted through interviews with stakeholders in agriculture and nutrition in the capital, Kabul, and four provinces of Afghanistan, to gain a better understanding of the institutional and political factors surrounding policy making and the nutrition-sensitivity of agriculture. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 46 stakeholders from central government and four provinces, including staff from international organizations, NGOs and universities. We found evidence of interdisciplinary communication at the central level and within Provinces, but little evidence of vertical coordination in policy formulation and implementation between the centre and Provinces. Policy formulation and decision making were largely sectoral, top-down, and poorly contextualised. The weaknesses identified in policy formulation, focus, knowledge management, and human and financial resources inhibit the orientation of national agricultural development strategies towards nutrition-sensitivity. Integrating agriculture and nutrition policies requires explicit leadership from the centre. However, effectiveness of a food-based approach to reducing nutrition insecurity will depend on decentralising policy ownership to the regions and provinces through stronger subnational governance. Security and humanitarian considerations point to the need to manage and integrate in a deliberate way the acute humanitarian care and long-term development needs, of which malnutrition is just one element.
8. Attributions of responsibility for obesity: narrative communication reduces reactive counterarguing among liberals
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Niederdeppe, Jeff (author), Shapiro, Michael A. (author), and Porticella, Norman (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36435
- Journal Title:
- Human Communication Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(3) : 295-323
9. Australian approaches for managing "country" using indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ens, Emilia J. (author), Finlayson, Colin (author), Preuss, Karissa (author), Jackson, Sue (author), and Holcombe, Sarah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11761
- Journal Title:
- Ecological Management and Restoration
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(1) : 100-107
- Notes:
- Abstract obtained via online. 2 pages., Synthesizes lessons learned and challenges encountered when applying indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge and methods in natural and cultural resource management (NCRM) in northern and central Australia. Authors identify four key themes for consideration in collaborative cross-cultural NCRM.
10. Biotechnology and the political ecology of information in India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stone, G.D. (author)
- Format:
- Book review
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22114
- Journal Title:
- Human Organization
- Journal Title Details:
- 63(2) : 127-140