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2. Farmers and climate change: a cross-national comparison of beliefs and risk perceptions in high-income countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Prokopy, Linda S. (author), Arbuckle, J.G. (author), Barnes, Andrew P. (author), Haden, V. R. (author), Hogan, Anthony (author), Niles, Meredith T. (author), and Tyndall, John (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10507
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 56:492–504
- Notes:
- 13 pages., via online journal., Climate change has serious implications for the agricultural industry—both in terms of the need to adapt to a changing climate and to modify practices to mitigate for the impacts of climate change. In high-income countries where farming tends to be very intensive and large scale, it is important to understand farmers’ beliefs and concerns about climate change in order to develop appropriate policies and communication strategies. Looking across six study sites—Scotland, Midwestern United States, California, Australia, and two locations in New Zealand—this paper finds that over half of farmers in each location believe that climate change is occurring. However, there is a wide range of beliefs regarding the anthropogenic nature of climate change; only in Australia do a majority of farmers believe that climate change is anthropogenic. In all locations, a majority of farmers believe that climate change is not a threat to local agriculture. The different policy contexts and existing impacts from climate change are discussed as possible reasons for the variation in beliefs. This study compared varying surveys from the different locations and concludes that survey research on farmers and climate change in diverse locations should strive to include common questions to facilitate comparisons.
3. ICT platform for climate change adaption in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Singh, Dineshkumar (author), Piplani, Divya (author), Nar, Siddhesh (author), Karthik, Srinivasan (author), Sharma, Rahul (author), and Tiwari, Aditya (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01-06
- Published:
- IEEE
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10972
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4799-8439-8, 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Climate change is now more visible in the form of frequent changes in the weather patterns leading to severe drought or floods. It endangers the food security, especially shrinking of cultivable land and increasing population. Agricultural Research Institutes are working on new cropping patterns, new heat and flood tolerant varieties and cultivation practices. However in the absence of sound knowledge extension system the results of such massive and costly research do not reach its end users, in this case farmers, on time. This research paper talks about the, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) pilot conducted to develop strategies to enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in vulnerable regions in India. As part of this research, extensive field demonstrations and data analysis were done to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a crucial role in establishing a two way connect between the Research Lab and the end users of research. While Agricultural research can focus on identification of current and future risks to livelihoods due to climatic variability and development or identification of regional climate specific crop varieties and crop practices, the IT and ICT can work jointly to use the outcome of such research to spread awareness and promote the use of such varieties and practices in adaptation by farmers and other stakeholders through an ICT platform.
4. Learning from India's "smart" farming villages
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Palmer, Lisa (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-11-21
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07918
- Notes:
- Online from Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Washington,D.C. 4 pages.
5. U.S. bread basket shifts thanks to climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Heikkinen, Niina (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-12-23
- Published:
- United States: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10672
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via Scientific American website., Farming across the Midwest will be challenged by a shifting climate and may struggle to keep up crop production.
6. Understanding farmer perspectives on climate change adaptation and mitigation: the roles of trust in sources of climate information, climate change beliefs and perceived risk
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arbuckle, J. Gordon, Jr. (author), Morton, Lois Wright (author), and Hobbs, Jon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05784
- Journal Title:
- Environment and Behavior
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(2) : 205-234
7. Using a team survey to improve team communication for enhanced delivery of agro-climate decision support tools
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Prokopy, Linda S. (author), Hart, Chad E. (author), Massey, Raymond (author), Widhalm, Melissa (author), Klink, Jenna (author), Andresen, Jeffery (author), Angel, James (author), Blewett, Thomas (author), Doering, Otto C. (author), Elmore, Roger (author), Gramig, Benjamin M. (author), Guinan, Patrick (author), Hall, Beth L. (author), Jain, Atul (author), Knutson, Cody L. (author), Lemos, Maria Carmen (author), Morton, Lois Wright (author), Niyogi, Dev (author), Power, Rebecca (author), Shulski, Martha D. (author), Song, Carol X. (author), Takle, Eugene S. (author), and Todey, Dennis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-09
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07789
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 138: 31-37