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2. 27 Liberian journalists train to focus on agricultural reporting
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-16
- Published:
- Liberia: Liberia Agricultural Journalist Network (LAJN)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13138
- Notes:
- 4 pages
3. Agricultural information sources, channels and strategies for sharing agricultural research findings among farmers in Iringa district in Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malekani, Andrew (author) and Mubofu, Christian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-24
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12363
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Spring 2020
- Notes:
- 15 pages., The aim of this research was to investigate the agricultural information sources and strategies for disseminating agricultural research findings to farmers in Iringa District, Tanzania. A total of 90 farmers were interviewed by using a self-administered questionnaire. The statistical Package for Service Solutions (SPSS) software and Spreadsheet were used as instruments to analyse the findings. Results of this study indicate that radios, church leaders, village leaders and seminars are the main channels of information used by extension officers to disseminate agricultural information to farmers. With regard to strategies the study revealed that, the use of religious leaders and government officials; use of primary school teachers and pupils; non-political interference; repackaging and packaging of technical information reports; deployment of extension officers in rural areas; use of community-based organisations and the establishment of agricultural information boards were the main effective strategies for disseminating agricultural research information to farmers. It is therefore, concluded that radio, church leaders, seminars, Newspapers, brochures and fliers should be intensively used to disseminate agricultural information among farmers so as to raise productivity in their farms. The study suggest that, there is a need to use other disseminators such as influential people, religious leaders, political leaders, primary school teachers and pupils to disseminate such information in addition to repackaging of agricultural research findings to tailor it to the farmers’ needs.
4. Biotechnology companies face new foe: the internet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lambrecht, Bill (author)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 1999-09-19
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 110 Document Number: C10463
- Notes:
- Posted on Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada., St. Louis Post - Dispatch
5. Can community-based organisations deliver adequate agricultural information to farmers? Evidence from rural resources centers in Cameroon
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kenfack Essougong, Urcil Papito (author), Fongang Fouepe, Guillaume Hensel (author), and Degrande, Ann (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-30
- Published:
- USA: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10229
- Journal Title:
- Information Development
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Via online journal., Rural Resources Centers (RRCs) managed by community-based organisations, where farmers come together for training and demonstration, have been an innovative extension approach in Cameroon since 2006. This paper describes information flow in RRCs and farmers’ assessment of RRCs as information sources. All the RRCs in Cameroon were studied and 29 group interviews, involving 118 producers and 7 individual interviews with RRC managers, were performed. RRCs share information with several stakeholders including farmers, research institutions, and educational and religious institutions; and interpersonal channels are commonly used. Farmers and agricultural extension workers are the most important sources of information for RRCs. Farmers rank RRCs as their second best sources of information after fellow farmers. On average, each year, RRCs organise at least 40 training sessions for about 1777 participants. The themes are mainly agroforestry (29%), marketing (20%), group dynamics (20%) and post-harvest techniques (11%). The issue of funding the activities of the RRCs needs to be addressed, they need to be better structured, and their human resources increased and strengthened.
6. Engaging hard-to-reach audiences through internal interdisciplinary and external diverse collaborations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garrett, Erin M. (author) and Belle, Ashley J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-16
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12603
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 60, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 8pgs, Through a combination of internal and external collaborations, consumer-based energy education designed for hard-to-reach audiences was successfully delivered statewide by an interdisciplinary Extension team. Program participants representing rural residents, senior citizens, and low-income audiences demonstrated improvements in knowledge and increased intention to change their home electricity usage behaviors. This outreach work can serve as a model for other Extension services to combine interdisciplinary teams with community partnerships to reach underserved audiences statewide.
7. Factors influencing the information needs and information access channels of farmers: an empirical study in Guangdong, China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Yongshan Chen (author) and Yonghe Lu (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-08
- Published:
- China: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10228
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Information Science
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Via online journal., Information plays an important role in meeting the quantitative and qualitative goals of agriculture in the 21st century. As an emerging economy in a developing continent, China has already made many interventions to use information technology to support agricultural development. However, information service in some rural areas is still severely limited. The overall impact of the changing information environment on the farmers’ information needs and access channels has not been fully studied. Thus, this study systematically investigates the characteristics of the information needs and channels of farmers in Guangdong, China. We have collected 4006 questionnaire samples and used correlation analysis to explore the relationships between farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. The results indicate that individual characteristic factors, social factors and family factors have different degrees of influence on farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. These findings can provide a reference for information construction in the rural areas of Guangdong Province and thus promote its economic development. This study can also provide useful insights for policymakers and researchers from other developing countries to formulate implementation plans to promote agricultural development.
8. Female social networks and farmer training: can randomized information exchange improve outcomes?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vasilaky, Kathryn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-02
- Published:
- England: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12242
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 95 Issue 2
- Notes:
- 9 pages, The article investigates whether the social network based program (SNP) in villages can encourage learning and adoption of a relatively new cash crop, cotton, to female heads of households. It explains how social network based training program had more significant effects on yields for the poorest performing farmers than the standard training program, and proves that SNP can increase productivity up to 50 percent for farmers producing at the average yield of production.
9. How sources of agriculture information shape the adoption of reduced tillage practices?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bavorova, Miroslava (author), Unay-Gailhard, Ilkay (author), Ponkina, Elena (author), and Pilarova, Tereza (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D11894
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 79
- Notes:
- 14 Pages, Science Direct, Public and private agricultural information sources are fundamental components that could overcome the barriers to adopting sustainable reduced tillage practices. This study aims to identify the information sources frequently used by farmers and their role in changing from conventional intensive tillage to reduced tillage practices. The study is focused on the Altai Krai region in southwestern Siberia, which faces severe soil degradation problems, pointing to an urgent need for sustainable reduced tillage practices in the area. It relied upon both quantitative and qualitative data that included a quantitative survey with 110 farm managers and qualitative, in-depth interviews with five farm managers. Descriptive statistics were used to explore farm characteristics and farmers’ actual usage of information sources. A logit model was used to estimate the role of agricultural information sources in the adoption of reduced tillage practices. Results show that the participation frequency of farm managers in trainings and workshops influences the adoption of sustainable reduced tillage practices in a statistically significant and positive way. However, the estimation results give that the frequency of expert consultations (from both private and public sources) does not influence the probability of adopting sustainable reduced tillage practices. This may be explained by the fact that farm managers received limited information about sustainable reduced tillage practices from these sources.
10. Increasing public understanding of transgenic crops through the World Wide Web
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrne, Patrick F. (author), Namuth, Deana M. (author), Harrington, Judy (author), Ward, Sarah M. (author), Lee, Donald J. (author), and Hain, Patricia (author)
- Format:
- Abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28288
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(3) : 293-304