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2. Assessing the effectiveness of Nigerian agricultural promotion policy thrusts in achieving a sustainable food system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ike, Chinweoke Uzoamaka (author), Tranter, Richard (author), and Gadanakis, Yiorgos (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03-29
- Published:
- UK: Agricultural Economics Society, The
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13166
- Notes:
- 14 pages, To diversify the Nigerian economy and reduce dependency on food import, the Agricultural promotion policy (APP) was developed and implemented in 2016. This policy aims to move Nigerian agriculture to a commercial sector to ensure the creation of sustainable jobs and wealth. However, little is known about the effects of the policy on biodiversity, dietary diversity, and employment and income of the small-scale farmers who form the greater proportion of the food producers. The study aims to assess the effectiveness of APP in achieving social justice particularly for small-scale farmers, environmental sustainability and economic viability through sustainable agriculture. To assess the effectiveness of APP, focus groups discussions were held in six local governments in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria. APP food security thrusts of strategic national food reserve, proper use of agrochemicals and tractors, focus on forest food harvest and government support for large scale and specialised farms are very effective for securing food price stability. Moreover, food crop fortification is very effective in providing income support for households as it is the focus on forest food harvest, and access to credit and labour subsidies for small farmers. Encouraging organic farming is very effective in securing access to and availability of diversity of food, biodiversity and employment. Food diversity, soil fertility, biodiversity and employment also benefited from the provision of credit and labour subsidies. The outcome of this discussion is important for shaping the Nigerian food system. Though the APP thrusts are geared towards achieving sustainable development, Nigerian policy authorities should focus more on encouraging organic farming, credit and labour subsidies for the smallholder farmers, creating balance diet awareness, and forest preservation and food harvest to achieve food security, environmental sustainability and employment.
3. Government media campaign for agriculture perfection in Punjab, Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shabir,Ghulam (author), Iqbal, Ashraf (author), Riaz, Saqib (author), Safdar, Ghulam (author), and Javed, Muhammad Naeem (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-12
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12689
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, N. 1
- Notes:
- 6 pages, Pakistan is an agricultural country and has 80% percent contribution in export earnings and 50% labour forces engagement. The aim of this study was to know about government media campaigns for awareness and information in the agricultural development. The study was conducted at Department of Mass Communication Govt. College University, Faisalabad, during 2019. Data was gathered from government agriculture department website from June 2017 to June 2019 to know about the governmental contribution in agricultural development through media campaigns and nature of these campaigns to aware and educate the farmers. The study found that the mode of government media campaigns was related to transmit message to farmers about warning and preventive (20-26%), inofmraiton and awareness (38-54%), visit and meeting (6-10%), subsidies and credit assistant (6-16%) and policies and new technology (6-8%). The study also revealed that government had specially focused on new technology for better results to aware and educate the farmers to improve their cultivation. But it is also revealed that there is more space to improve the cultivation style and government should play a greater role in the development of agriculture sector.
4. Nollywood’s coverage and framing of agriculture in the transformation agenda period (2013–2014) in Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Badiru, Idris Olabode (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: D10805
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3): 277-290
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., The study analyzed 108 films released during the transformation agenda period. The proportion, frequency, centrality and framing of agricultural content in the movies were reviewed. Data obtained were described using frequency counts and percentages. One out of three movies screened had agricultural content, which was either one or two scenes in the movie (80.0%). Such content was mostly peripheral (89.0%) to the themes of the films and negatively framed (60.0%). Potentials of the industry for agricultural purposes were poorly utilized by government. Government should partner with Nollywood to portray agriculture in a positive light for improved citizens’ attitude toward agriculture.
5. Possible roles of a farmer's organizations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- van den Ban, Ann W. (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20569
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 11 pages
6. Seeing green: lifecycles of an arctic agricultural frontier
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Price, Mindy Jewell (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-07-14
- Published:
- USA: Wiley Periodicals LLC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12929
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 0, N.0
- Notes:
- 31 pages, Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state-driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.
7. The formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters: a case from China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zeng, Yiwu (author), Hongdong, Guo (author), Yao, Yanfei (author), and Huang, Lu (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10821
- Journal Title:
- Growth and Change
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., Agricultural e‐commerce clusters are new phenomena that have emerged in rural China. In examining the case of Shuyang County in Jiangsu Province, this paper puts forward an integrated model revealing the formation mechanism of agricultural e‐commerce clusters. The paper shows that the formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters involves four processes of technology introduction, technology diffusion, quality crisis, and industrial agglomeration based on elements such as industry bases, e‐commerce platforms, network facilities, logistics services, entrepreneurial talent, local government, and market demand. Rural social networks and imitation behaviors promote technology diffusion by reducing the cost of technology introduction, and industrial agglomeration is found in the economies showing a deepening of labor divisions and geographic agglomeration. Throughout the formation process, a quality crisis may occur due to a race to the bottom and the opportunistic behaviors of local farmers. This work suggests that regional e‐commerce development is a systematic project. Governments of developing countries should not only realize the positive impacts of e‐commerce for the development of the agricultural industry but also recognize the premise and logic of how e‐commerce can play a prominent role.
8. The scope for NGO-Government interaction in agricultural technology development : an international overview
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bebbington, Anthony (author), Farrington, John (author), and Overseas Development Institute Regent's College
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19518
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection
9. The state of the USDA: a quiet dismantling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lilliston, Ben (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-04
- Published:
- USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10568
- Notes:
- via website, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., 4 pages.