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12. Enrolling the privatae sector in community development: magic bullet or slight of hand?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McEwan, Cheryl (author), Mawdsley, Emma (author), Banks, Glenn (author), and Scheyvens, Regina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09685
- Journal Title:
- Development and Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(1) : 28-53
- Notes:
- Case studies reveal four problems confronting corporate community development.
13. Selling together: the benefits of cooperatives to women honey producers in ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Serra, Renata (author) and Davidson, Kelly A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-19
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12370
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 22 pages, Smallholder farmers in developing countries encounter multiple barriers in access to inputs and technology, which prevent them from reaping the benefits from market participation. Women farmers face additional constraints due to gender norms that further limit their engagement in productive activities. While collective action has been shown to improve access to markets and economic outcomes for farmers overall, the evidence on the effects of cooperative membership for women smallholders remains limited. We investigate empirically the economic benefits of collective action for women farmers in the honey sector in Ethiopia. Relying on a rich data set on women honey producers, both cooperative members and non-members, we evaluate the effects of belonging to a cooperative on three outcome variables through coarsened exact matching and regression analysis. Our results indicate that cooperative membership significantly increases the market price and the production quantity and, while the average effect on the share of product marketed is statistically insignificant, significant differences emerge for women with given characteristics. These results are shown to be robust to a number of tests that address biases from selection on observables and unobservables. An analysis of the heterogeneous effects of household membership in multiple groups finds that membership of self-help groups or farmer associations amplifies the positive outcomes from belonging to a formal cooperative. Finally, qualitative findings derived from the same communities indicate self-reported improvements in agency and self-esteem among women members, thus reinforcing the importance of the quantitative findings.
14. Seven Leadership 101 lessons that take discipline
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Deering, Julie (author / President, AAEA)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07-11
- Published:
- USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network, LaGrange, GA.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11037
- Journal Title:
- AAEA ByLine
- Notes:
- Online from publisher. 2 pages., "...seven palpable principles that guide me" during six years as a member of the AAEA Board of Directors.
15. Social entrepreneurship: where the glass ceiling is already smashed
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Villa, Monique (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09-15
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08652
- Notes:
- Online via Thomson Reuters. 17 pages.
16. The change of livelihood and mindset of fish farmer empowerment in the village of Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zulkarnain (author), Lubis, Djuara P. (author), Satria, Arif (author), and Hubeis, Musa (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-12
- Published:
- Indonesia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06513
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Research in Agriculture and Food Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(8) : 20-27
17. The intersection of gender, media, and policy: a qualitative analysis on Thai newspaper coverage of women in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gilley, Morgan A. Richardson (author), Roberts, Richie (author), Blackburn, J. Joey (author), and Stair, Kristin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-04
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12944
- Journal Title:
- Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- V.30, Iss.1
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Women empowerment and gender equality have been found to be statistically significant and positive predictors of global agricultural development. Therefore, reducing gender disparities can encourage economic progress and growth in developing nations. As such, determining effective ways to stimulate social progress and women’s empowerment has emerged as a critical need. One strategy used to raise the public’s consciousness about gendered issues in Thailand has been through mass media. In response, this study aimed to (1) determine to what extent Thailand’s newspaper coverage focused on topics related to women and the agricultural industry; and (2) describe how women in agriculture have been portrayed in newspaper coverage since the introduction of Thailand 4.0’s policy in 2016. Using a qualitative content analysis of Thailand’s newspaper coverage of women in the agricultural sector, four themes emerged: (1) economic policy implications for Thailand’s agricultural system; (2) human rights; (3) women entrepreneurship and leadership; and (4) agricultural development. Therefore, this study concluded that newspaper coverage of women in agriculture was diverse and conflicting – a finding not previously reported. The findings also revealed that women in agriculture have been underrepresented in newspaper publications historically. Moving forward, we provided critical implications for how future research, theory, and practice can depict women in agriculture more positively in the newspaper media.
18. Women farmer's participation and empowerment to support family food self sufficiency
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Suraningsih, Maya Safrina (author), Hubeis, Aida Vitayala S. (author), Sadono, Dwi (author), Susanto, Djoko (author), and Saleh, Amiruddin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12-30
- Published:
- Indonesia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08775
- Journal Title:
- Mimbar
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(2) : 319-329
19. Women’s empowerment: A gender outcome of an improved agriculture health and nutrition project in zambia and malawi
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tegbaru, Amare (author), Fitzsimons, John G. (author), and Gondwe, Therese (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12345
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 13, N. 2
- Notes:
- 13 pages, HIV Aids has had a major impact on resource-limited African rural Sub-Saharan communities, especially upon women who typically experience greater gender inequity, have fewer assets and greater food insecurity and vulnerability. Coordinated interventions in crop productivity, nutrition, AIDS treatment, and livelihood security can have significant positive impacts on individuals and households; however their impact upon gender relations and social equity is unclear. Qualitative interviews and an integrative model of factors influencing women’s empowerment are used to examine this issue in four villages of the Miracle Project in Zambia and Malawi. Although some local agency and NGO programs existed in these villages prior to project inception, female respondents reported improvements in crop productivity and income, some initiation of new enterprises, improvement in ownership of assets and housing quality and access or re- access to kinship or community based mutual assistance networks from which they had been excluded. Consumption of the introduced quality protein maize and products from home processing of soyabeans were cited as improving household nutrition. Together with increased accessibility to retroviral drugs, women’s health has improved; levels of poverty and stigmatisation have reduced and allowed many to display an improved degree of empowerment.