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1. 2020 global CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) census report

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Research summary
Publication Date:: 2020-12
Published:: International: Autogrow Systems Limited and Agritecture LLC
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12004
Notes:: Online in issue of The Packer. 27 pages., This is the second Census to be conducted and ran from July 8 to September 4, 2020. It was promoted through Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, industry partners and various online media and industry channels. The 371 respondents were from 58 countries with the largest percentage from the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Respondents were growers and small to large businesses. Twenty percent founded their business in 2020.

2. A Massey-Harris Tractor For Your Farm

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Catalog
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: The Massey-Harris Company
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 1-31; Folder: MS.12.02 Document Number: D02624
Notes:: 47p, John Harvey Collection

3. A day in rural Australia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dennis, Mark (author) and Ingles, Lyn (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: n.d.
Published:: Australia: Rural Press Limited, North Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06387
Notes:: The pictorial world of rural Australia. "This book is about the sights of rural Australia: it presents a chronicle of what goes on from the start to end of a typical day beyond the boundaries of the cities where most Australians now live."

4. Assessment of fish farming practices, development and constraints among fish farmers in Ibi local government area, Taraba State, Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ogunremi, J. B. (author), Igbani, F. (author), Onimisi, M. M. (author), and Shetur, C. Y. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-04-30
Published:: Nigeria: Agricultural Society of Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12761
Journal Title:: Nigerian Agricultural Journal
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 53, N.1
Notes:: 7 pages, This study was carried out to determine the fish farming practices, development and constraints among fish farmers in Ibi Local Government Area (LGA), Taraba State, Nigeria. A sampling frame was drawn from the list of 740 fish farmers registered with the Department of Fisheries and Forestry, Ibi LGA, Taraba State. A multistage stratified design was used for selecting the respondents for the study. The first stage involved stratification of the Local Government into Districts (Sarkin Kudu, Dampar and Ibi). The second stage was selection based on the prevalence of fish farmers in the districts. The third stage involved random selection of 90, 69 and 63 (30%) fish farmers from each district to obtain a sample size of 222 respondents. Data from the study were collected through structured questionnaire and scheduled interview administered to the respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency distribution and percentages) and inferential (non parametric test at coefficient of 0.116 and p-value of < 0.05) statistics. Results show that concrete tanks were mostly used by fish farmers (35.0%) and sourced fingerlings for stocking through personal hatchery (34.9%), practiced poly culture (58.90%) and monoculture techniques (56.50%). The culture system was predominantly intensive (90.0%), Clarias spp were cultured (68.9%) and fed on imported floating feed (72.0%). The major constraints to fish production are inadequate infrastructure, high cost of inputs, poor quality of fish seed and poor extension services on fish farming. The study recommends that the Government should grant import duty waiver on fish farming inputs and monitor the implementation so that the policy can benefit intending and existing fish farmers. Efforts should be intensified on different areas of fish farming development.

5. Booker's boondoggle

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Henderson, Greg (author)
Format:: Opinion
Publication Date:: 2021-08
Published:: USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13141
Notes:: 1 page

6. Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Behrendt, Gerlinde (author), Peter, Sarah (author), Sterly, Simone (author), and Häring, Anna Maria (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-03-22
Published:: USA: Springer Nature
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12629
Journal Title:: Agriculture and Human Values
Journal Title Details:: V. 39
Notes:: 13 pages, An increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the German organic agri-food sector involves citizens through different community financing models. While such models provide alternative funding sources as well as marketing opportunities to SMEs, they allow private investors to combine their financial and ethical concerns by directly supporting the development of a more sustainable food system. Due to the low level of financial intermediation, community financing is characterized by close relations between investors and investees. Against this background, we apply the proximity concept from economic geography to explore spatial and relational aspects of community financing in the German organic agri-food sector. Based on a qualitative multiple case study approach, we find that the relevance of proximity is twofold. While different forms of proximity between SMEs and their potential investors are key success factors, proximity is also considered as one desired outcome of community financing. Furthermore, our results reveal that the extent to which SMEs rely on particular proximity dimensions distinguishes two different approaches to community financing.

7. Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health and behaviour

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cooke, Andrew (author), Mullan, Siobhan (author), Morten, Charlie (author), Hockenhull, Joanna (author), Le-Grice, Phil (author), Le Cocq, Kate (author), Lee, Michael R. F. (author), Cardenas, Laura M. (author), and Rivero, M. Jordana (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-06-29
Published:: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12951
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Science
Journal Title Details:: V.161, Iss.3
Notes:: 14 pages, Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of an animal’s life and the interactions between animals. Consequently, welfare must be measured across a variety of factors that consider aspects such as health, behaviour and mental state. Decisions regarding housing and grazing are central to farm management. In this study, two beef cattle systems and their herds were compared from weaning to slaughter across numerous indicators. One herd (‘HH’) were continuously housed, the other (‘HG’) were housed only during winter. Inspections of animals were conducted to assess body condition, cleanliness, diarrhoea, hairlessness, nasal discharge and ocular discharge. Hair and nasal mucus samples were taken for quantification of cortisol and serotonin. Qualitative behaviour assessments (QBA) were also conducted and performance monitored. Physical health indicators were similar between herds with the exception of nasal discharge which was more prevalent in HH (P < 0.001). During winter, QBA yielded differences between herds over PC1 (arousal) (P = 0.032), but not PC2 (mood) (P = 0.139). Through summer, there was a strong difference across both PC1 (P < 0.001) and PC2 (P = 0.002), with HG exhibiting more positive behaviour. A difference was found in hair cortisol levels, with the greatest concentrations observed in HG (P = 0.011), however such a pattern was not seen for nasal mucus cortisol or for serotonin. Overall, providing summer grazing (HG) appeared to afford welfare benefits to the cattle as shown with more positive QBA assessments, but also slightly better health indicators, notwithstanding the higher levels of cortisol in that group.

8. Content analysis of the agricultural news published in four Panamanian newspapers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gomez, Blanca Edith (author)
Format:: study summary
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: Panama
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09889
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, University of Wisconsin, 1 page.

9. Downstate Farmer

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Newspaper
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Linda and Roger Peach
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-M; Folder: V1.12.D.100 Document Number: D02516
Journal Title Details:: 1
Notes:: 12p, Volume One Number One Collection; John Harvey Collection

10. Drovers' past and future

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Henderson, Greg (author)
Format:: Magazine article
Publication Date:: 2021-10
Published:: USA: Drovers CattleNetwork
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13103
Journal Title:: Drovers
Notes:: 1 page

11. Emeritus member loves tractors

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nash, Erin (author)
Format:: Blog
Publication Date:: 2021-08-08
Published:: USA: National Association for Farm Broadcasters, Platte City, Missouri
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13026
Notes:: 2 pages

12. Evaluating determinants of climate-change perception among farming communities in district Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Raza, Muhammad Afnan (author) and Ullah, Sana (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-08-30
Published:: Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12856
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 60, N.3
Notes:: 10 pages, This research endeavor, conducted in year 2019-20, explores farmers’ perception regarding climate change and the impacts of socioeconomic indicators affecting these perceptions in district Mardan, KP-Pakistan. For this purpose, total of 140 sampled respondents, seventy from each village were selected for primary data collection. Ordered probit model was used to quantify the determinants of climate change perception. Demographic characteristics revealed that average age of the respondents was 44.42 years, with average schooling, household size, farming experience and farm size of 7.73 years, about 9.96 members, 27.90 years and 3.1 acres, respectively. The study findings indicated that age, education, household size, farming experience, total income and nature of land significantly (p < 0.05) affect farmers’ perception of climate change specifying that younger farmers perceive climate change impacts more as compared to older farmers, while experienced were more likely to perceive than inexperienced. Educated farmers perceived changes in climate more than less educated or uneducated. Small holders perceived more than big landlords, rain-fed farm holders perceived more than irrigated farm holders, high income farmers perceived more than low income farmers, owners perceived more than owner-cum tenants and tenants and small families perceived more than big families. The study recommended climate change awareness programs through government and nongovernment organizations, i.e. education programs, farmer field schools (FFS), agricultural extension agencies to bridge the farmer- research gap, government role in realistic land reforms, establishment of farm services centers (FSCs), climate information centers and diversify farm income opportunities.

13. Factors affecting farmers' crop diversity decisions: an integrated approach

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Francis, Charles A. (author), Lynne, Gary D. (author), Cutforth, Laurence B. (author), Mortensen, David A. (author), and Eskridge, Kent M. (author)
Format:: Journal / Abstract
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18700
Journal Title:: American Journal of Alternative Agriculture
Notes:: Journal paper no. 12951 of the Univ. of Nebraska, Agricultural Research Division, Although greater diversity in the agricultural landscape is an important goal, the decisions of individual farmers determine the diversity of crops used in each farming system. Cutforth et al developed and tested an integrated socioeconomic model of farmers' decisions on crop rotations as an indicator of overall crop diversity.

14. Farm and Shop Ideas from Farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Booklet
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Farm Journal, Incorporated
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 1-31; Folder: MS.12.20 Document Number: D02637
Notes:: 16p, John Harvey Collection

15. Farm size shapes friend choice amongst rice producers in China: Some evidence for the theory of network ecology

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Simpson, Cohen R. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-05
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12269
Journal Title:: Social Networks
Journal Title Details:: v. 61
Notes:: 21 pages, Multiple dynamics jointly determine who we befriend, however, researchers have failed to systematically assess which processes matter most under different circumstances. Here I draw on observations around how the demands of paddy rice cultivation shape social interaction to demonstrate that the relative importance of reciprocity, transitivity and generalised exchange to who rice producers choose as friends varies with the amount of agricultural land under their control. In doing so, I use unique data on farm size and friendship amongst 4713 rice-growing smallholders in 162 rural villages in Jiangxi, China along with a new technique for measuring the relative importance of effects in Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models. In line with the micro-level component of the recently advanced “theory of network ecology”, results suggest that features of an individual’s proximal environment can powerfully moderate the relative expression of network-formation mechanisms such that for some individuals, a dynamic may be expected to hold substantial sway over the process of choosing social contacts and, for others, no sway at all.

16. Farmers’ perceptions regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern Pakistan

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Aldosari, Fahad (author), Al Shunaifi, Mohamed Saleh (author), Ullah, Muhammad Amjad (author), Muddassir, Muhammad (author), and Noor, Mehmood Ali (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-04
Published:: Saudi Arabia: Science Direct
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10318
Journal Title:: Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
Journal Title Details:: 18(2) : 211-217
Notes:: 7 pages., Via online journal., Like many developing countries, agriculture is seen as the vehicle for development also in Pakistan. Our study was aimed to identify the perceptions of farmer community towards the electronic media and relationship between different demographic characteristics of respondents with the use of electronic communication of TV and radio, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province of Pakistan. Random sampling technique was used for selecting 183 respondents. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square. Results revealed that maximum respondents were agreed that mobile and internet can be a useful source of agricultural information and only 1.6 and 5.5% of the respondents were strongly disagreed about information means, respectively. A maximum number of the respondents were undecided about “agricultural helpline can be a useful source of agricultural information”, only 14.2% of the respondents were strongly agreed with this statement. A highly significant relationship was found between age of respondents and application of information received through radio and TV. On the other side, education of the respondents had a highly significant relationship with the application of information received through radio only. Farming experience of the respondents had no significant relationship with the application of information received through TV and radio. Results suggested that extension personnel should motivate and educate the farming community about the use of electronic media (TV, radio, helpline, internet, mobile) for advanced information about agriculture production techniques.

17. Farming by Committee: How We Organize Our Agroforestry Co-op

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Brownlow, Benjamin (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-06-26
Published:: USA: modern farmer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12923

18. Farming for today and tomorrow

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Karst, Tom (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-12-29
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11998
Journal Title:: Packer
Notes:: Online via subscription. 2 pages., Introduction to the Farm Journal Foundation's America's Conservation Ag Movement, "a diverse conservation - and sustainability-focused public-private partnership."

19. Finding the right channel: an analysis of communication channel preferences amongst potential extension clientele

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Carroll, Ashley A. (author), Lamm, Kevan W. (author), and Borron, Abigail (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022
Published:: USA: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12607
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education
Journal Title Details:: V. 63, N.2
Notes:: 19pgs, New communication methods and technology continue to emerge and evolve – as do societal trends – making it paramount that Extension professionals stay abreast with the preferred communication channels of potential clientele. By being aware of clients’ preferred communication channels, Extension professionals can increase the number of participants who benefit from their work while also improving the quality of the message being delivered. The present study examined the preferred communication channels of potential Extension clientele specifically when gathering information regarding their community. Specifically, a non-probability opt-in sampling procedure was employed whereby respondent (N = 3,347) communication channel preferences were analyzed from an audience segmentation and uses and gratifications perspective. Overall, the results indicated the most effective channels through which to reach potential Extension clientele under 50 years of age is through the internet and social media, while word of mouth and newspaper are preferred channels for those 50 and over. However, the results of the study indicate there are a variety of potential communication channels with varying degrees of preference among different audiences. Using study results as a starting point to inform communication channel strategy may help to Extension professionals ensure the correct message is provided to the correct audience via the correct channel.

20. Framing of sustainable agricultural practices by the farming press and its effect on adoption

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Rust, Niki A. (author), Jarvis, Rebecca M. (author), Reed, Mark S. (author), and Cooper, Julia (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2021-02-21
Published:: United States: Springer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12622
Journal Title:: Agriculture and Human Values
Journal Title Details:: V. 38
Notes:: 14pgs, There is growing political pressure for farmers to use more sustainable agricultural practices to protect people and the planet. The farming press could encourage farmers to adopt sustainable practices through its ability to manipulate discourse and spread awareness by changing the salience of issues or framing topics in specific ways. We sought to understand how the UK farming press framed sustainable agricultural practices and how the salience of these practices changed over time. We combined a media content analysis of the farming press alongside 60 qualitative interviews with farmers and agricultural advisors to understand whether the farming press influenced farmers to try more sustainable practices. Salience of sustainable agricultural practices grew between 2009 and 2020. Many of the practices studied were framed by the press around economic and agronomic aspects, and farmer respondents said the most common reasons for trying sustainable agricultural practices were for economic and agronomic reasons. The farming press tended to use more positive rather than negative tones when covering sustainable agricultural practices. Respondents used the farming press as a source of information, though many did not fully trust these outlets as they believed the farming press were mouthpieces for agribusinesses. Whilst a minority of farmers stated they were motivated to try a new sustainable agricultural practice after learning about it in the farming press, this was rare. Instead, the farming press was used by respondents to raise their awareness about wider agricultural topics. We reflect on the role and power given to agribusinesses by the farming press and what this means for agricultural sustainability.

21. Guidelines in Planning Grain Conditioning and Storage Systems

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Booklet
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Behlen Manufacturing Company
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 1-31; Folder: MS.12.25 Document Number: D02642
Notes:: 23p, John Harvey Collection

22. Hierarchy of controls: keeping toothpaste in the tube!

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2021-03
Published:: USA: Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12183
Notes:: Online from UMASH. 2 pages., Through use of an inverted pyramid, this article introduce a tool that emphasizes the value of preventing farm injuries and saving lives. Five sections of the pyramid range in effectiveness from "Elimination" (most effective) to "Personal Protective Equipment" (least effective).

23. How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Unay‑Gailhard, İlkay (author) and Brennen, Mark A. (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2022-08-01
Published:: USA: Springer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12601
Journal Title:: Agriculture and Human Values
Notes:: 18pgs, Can the power of digital communications create opportunities for overcoming generational renewal problems on farms? This interdisciplinary review explores the reported impacts of digital communication on career initiation into farming from a global perspective via the lens of career theories. Seventy-three papers were synthesized into two domains: (1) the impact of digital communication interactions on farming career initiation, and (2) the dynamics of digital communication initiatives that create opportunities to inspire youth into farming. The finding shows that the mainstream literature primarily aims to support the continuity of farming careers but pay little attention to the potential of digital communication to attract youth into farming. This review argues that career communications for farming receives insufficient attention, and could be better integrated into agricultural communications strategies by using the potential of digital communications. Study concludes that while economic and geographic factors, as well as societal and cultural norms, lead to negative perceptions on farming careers, there are three pathways that may contribute to breaking down these negative perceptions. Firstly, taking the changing nature of career motivations, such as the trend towards sustainable farming linked to self-fulfillment, among today’s youth into consideration is essential. Secondly, highlighting technological advances in digital agriculture practices, like geographical flexibility or innovation capacity of farming, for example, is important to increase awareness about new opportunities in the profession. Lastly, communication campaigns with targeted groups (e.g., young females) play a role to change the negative perceptions of the rural way of life and the farming profession.

24. Impacts of urbanisation on farming communities of cagayan de oro city and pathways to sustain local food production

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Factura,Horacio (author), Cimene, Francis Thaise A. (author), Nacaya, Ian Mark Q (author), and Otterpohl, Ralf (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-11-24
Published:: Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12687
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 60 N. 1
Notes:: 5 pages, The main objective of this study was to find out how small farmers were affected by urbanization. The study was conducted during 2020 in 2 barangays (districts ). Cagayan de Ore (CDO) City specifically canitoan and pagatpat, Philippines. There were 12 and 11 farmers in Canitoan and Pagatpat, respectively who participated the focus group discussion (FGD). Majority of them was considered as small farmers due to the size of their farm which was less than 1 hectare. Around 70 hectares of agricultural land in Canitoan were transformed into a private housing subdivision. Qualitative approach was employed using FGD and farmers were organized and interviewed as a group. Data revealed that agricultural lands had been converted into residential or commercial purposes. CDO agriculture area was decreased from 91.5 to 81.89%. Urbanization affected the farmer in term of displacement, income source, decrease economic status and negative motivation for agriculture. In conclusion, urbanization in CDO which brought progressive economic development had negatively affected the lives of some small farmers. We suggested proper policies to find alternatives for the farmers so that they could continue to produce food in the surroundings of the city and thus made city and rural areas more resilient in food supplies and also water regeneration.

25. John Deere General Purpose Tractors

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Catalog
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: John Deere
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 1-31; Folder: MS.12.23 Document Number: D02640
Notes:: 39p, John Harvey Collection

26. Land o'lakes truterra creating specialized agronomy network to provide technical expertise to ag retailer

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Truterra News Release (author)
Format:: News article
Publication Date:: 2022-04-29
Published:: agrimarketing
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12897
Notes:: 1 page

27. Lansing Automatic Cut-Off Engine

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Advertisement
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Farm & Power Equipment Magazine
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: HS; Folder: HS.12.17 Document Number: D02561
Notes:: Single leaf, three small advertisements, John Harvey Collection

28. Media looks at agriculture

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Report
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: B01546
Notes:: #13., Harold Swanson Collection, Newark, DE: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Delaware, [19- ]. 7 p.

29. Meditative Joys of Virtual Farming, The

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Baron Cadloff, Emily (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2021-06-06
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12792
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 6pgs, How a fake farm in Stardew Valley taught me real life skills in 2020.

30. Nasir Yammama: A technological approach to enhancing the impact of agricultural extension

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Oluwagbemi, Inioluwa (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Nigeria: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11610
Journal Title:: Spore
Journal Title Details:: 194 : 23
Notes:: 1 page., September-November issue via online., Digitalisation is improving the agricultural extension system by providing services at the right time, and facilitating adoption of new agronomic practices, resulting in yield improvements and higher incomes for farming households.

31. 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.

32. Novel approaches and practices to sustainable agriculture

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Muhie, Seid Hussen (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-11-08
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12804
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 10
Notes:: 11 pages, The world population is increasing in a disquieting rate while the quantity of food to gratify this snowballing human population is an annoyance to agrarian scientists and policymakers around the globe. Today's population is snatching natural resources from the future which can endanger the future generation's right to have nutritious food and clean air. The causes for this challenge can be enumerated and listed out, but singled out as lack of and/or poor implementation of novel approaches and practices for sustainable agriculture. Some of the novel approaches are but not limited to climate smart agriculture (CSA), organic farming, biodynamic agriculture, sustainable intensification and regenerative agriculture; and novel practices as integrated farming system (IFS), precision agriculture, integrated nutrient management (INM) and integrated pest management (IPM). The adoption of these approaches and practices has been proven to safeguard agricultural sustainability.

33. Organic standards, farmers' perceptions, and the contested case of biodegradable plastic mulch in the United States

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dentzman, Katherine E. (author), Goldberg, Jessica R. (author), and University of Idaho Washington State University
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-11-12
Published:: United States: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11215
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 73(2020) : 203-213
Notes:: 12 pages, via online journal

34. Perspectives on farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: unknown
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: C22684
Notes:: Reference materials used in Ag. Com. 320, Rural-Urban Communication, at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Twelve articles, poems, other, 1912-1987.

35. Planning guide for communicating conflict about agriculture and the environment

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Guide
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09848
Notes:: 2 pages

36. Public outreach initiative attracts national media coverage

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Pike, Ben (author)
Format:: Research summary
Publication Date:: 2019-12
Published:: United Kingdom: International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), Ormstown, Quebec, Canada
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11116
Journal Title:: IFAJ E-News
Journal Title Details:: 4
Notes:: 2 pages., Summary of results from a survey among British citizens inviting attitudes toward food and farming. First such research effort by the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists.

37. Public ranks farming and agriculture the top industry in Gallup Poll, bottom is federal government

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Research summary
Publication Date:: 2020-09-14
Published:: USA: Gallup, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11977
Notes:: Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., "For the first time in Gallup's 20 years of tracking Americans' views of various business and industry sectors, farming and agriculturee is the clear leader."

38. Reporting on vital agricultural news in Ireland – a comparison between mainstream print media and the farming press

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cormack, Claire Mc (author) and Wims, Pádraig (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022
Published:: USA: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12623
Journal Title:: Journal of Applied Communications
Journal Title Details:: V. 106, Iss. 2
Notes:: 21 pgs, The purpose of this paper is to compare the reporting of vital agricultural news between the mainstream print media and the farming press in Ireland. To achieve this, this study examined coverage of a recent and significant agricultural news event by mainstream Irish newspapers and the Irish farming press. Taking the 2018–2019 Irish beef sector crisis as the case study for examination, researchers conducted a comparative content analysis of the most widely circulated mainstream national newspapers’ (n = 5) and farming newspapers’ (n = 2) coverage of the story over a 14-month period. We analyzed the timing, frequency, and placing of some 294 articles published to communicate issues regarding the beef crisis at three specific stages—before the national farmer protests, during the farmer protests, and after the farmer protests. We found mainstream newspapers to be significantly slower to start reporting on the Irish beef sector crisis of 2018–2019 compared to the country’s farming newspapers—although national print media coverage of the event increased as the crisis escalated. This early underreporting of the event by mainstream newspapers is compelling considering the importance of the agri-food sector, and beef farming in particular, to Ireland’s economy. Building on existing international, but very limited Irish, research on agricultural journalism, we concluded that farming newspapers are more in touch with the critical issues affecting Irish farmers while mainstream newspapers appeared slower to cover a vital agricultural issue of public importance.

39. Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030: The Second Domestication of Plants and Animals, the Disruption of the Cow, and the Collapse of Industrial Livestock Farming

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tubb, Catherine (author), Seba, Tony (author), and RethinkX
Format:: Report
Publication Date:: 2019-09
Published:: United States: RethinkX
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11288
Notes:: 76 pages., via website

40. Review of building a resilient and sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mkuna, Eliaza (author)
Format:: Book review
Publication Date:: 2022-09-01
Published:: UK: Taylor and Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12874
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural and Food Information
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 0, N.0
Notes:: 2 pages

41. Rural Press Story, The

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Rural Press Limited
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 10-67; Folder: MS.12.51 Document Number: D02591
Notes:: 43p, John Harvey Collection

42. Rural and Urban Adult Knowledge and Perceptions of Agriculture

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Birkenholz, Robert J. (author), Frick, Martin J. (author), and Machtmes, Krissna (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27826
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 44-53
Notes:: Published in 1995.

43. Social media application in agriculture extension programming for small scale rural farmers: is knowledge impeding the lack of adoption?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Moonsammy, Stephan (author) and Moonsammy, Donna Marie Renn (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-08-01
Published:: USA: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12627
Journal Title:: Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
Journal Title Details:: V. 27 Iss. 3
Notes:: 18 pages, The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge level of farmers on basic computer literacy, social media use, and to explore which social and demographic factors affected their knowledge capacity. The study had a final sample of 176 participants from the northern, southern and central regions of Trinidad and Tobago. A survey instrument comprising of 14 multiple-choice questions with one accurate response was developed to decrease bias of farmers randomly selecting the accurate response. The questions addressed knowledge on basic computer and social media literacy. Analysis was conducted using one-way ANOVA with post-hoc testing. Results indicated that there were significant differences in farmers’ performance in the knowledge test based on characteristics such as age, education, and household use of social media and the internet. Based on the findings, minimal training in computer and social media literacy did not impede the farmers’ use of the computer or social media. These discoveries highlight the potential of extension programs using the internet and social media applications to improve communication efficiency among agricultural stakeholders within farming communities.

44. Socially beneficial rationality: the value of strategic farmers, social entrepreneurs, and for-profit firms in crop planting decisions

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hu, Ming (author), Liu, Yan (author), and Wang, Wenbin (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-08
Published:: United States: Informs PubsOnline
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12265
Journal Title:: Management Science
Journal Title Details:: v. 65, iss. 8
Notes:: 19 pages, 19 pages, The price fluctuation in agricultural markets is an obstacle to poverty reduction for small-scale farmers in developing countries. We build a microfoundation to study how farmers with heterogeneous production costs, under price fluctuations, make crop-planting decisions over time to maximize their individual welfare. We consider both strategic farmers, who rationally anticipate the near-future price as a basis for making planting decisions, and naive farmers, who shortsightedly react to the most recent crop price. The latter behavior may cause recurring overproduction or underproduction, which leads to price fluctuations. We find it important to cultivate a sufficient number of strategic farmers because their self-interested behavior alone, made possible by sufficient market information, can reduce price volatility and improve total social welfare. In the absence of strategic farmers, a well-designed preseason buyout contract, offered by a social entrepreneur or a for-profit firm to a fraction of contract farmers, brings benefit to farmers as well as to the firm itself. More strikingly, the contract not only equalizes the individual welfare in the long run among farmers of the same production cost, but it also reduces individual welfare disparity over time among farmers with heterogeneous costs regardless of whether they are contract farmers or not. On the other hand, a nonsocially optimal buyout contract may reflect a social entrepreneur's over-subsidy tendency or a for-profit firm's speculative incentive to mitigate but not eliminate the market price fluctuation, both preventing farmers from achieving the most welfare.

45. Spinning yarns and tales from real country life

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06598
Notes:: Published article with no identification of periodical, author, year or citation details (other than pages 3-5).

46. Successful Farming

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: 2021-12
Published:: USA: Dotdash Meredith
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13018
Journal Title:: Successful Farming
Journal Title Details:: V.119, N.13
Notes:: 76 pages, Agriculture.com

47. Supporting advisory services for smart farming: digitalising extension

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cline, Tiane (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Ethiopia: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11609
Journal Title:: Spore
Journal Title Details:: 194 : 18-22
Notes:: 5 pages., September-November issue via online., Digitalisation is improving the agricultural extension system by providing services at the right time, and facilitating adoption of new agronomic practices, resulting in yield improvements and higher incomes for farming households.

48. Supporting farmer wellbeing: exploring a potential role for advisors

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hammersley, Conor (author), Richardson, Noel (author), Meredith, David (author), Carroll, Paula (author), and McNamara, John G. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-06-14
Published:: USA: Taylor and Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12610
Journal Title:: The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Notes:: 29pgs, Farmers experience poor health outcomes and are considered ‘hard to reach’. Agricultural advisors (‘advisors’) are uniquely positioned to support and signpost farmers on health issues. This paper explores the acceptability and terms of reference of a potential health role for advisors, and offers key recommendations for developing a bespoke farmers’ health training programme.

49. Sustainability shifts: three consumer trends brewing

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: News release
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: International: Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11681
Notes:: 3 pages., News release via online., News release covering a meeting panelist's remarks during a webinar about shifting sustainability priorities related to the food system.

50. Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture in women farmers' voices: culture-centering gender and development

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11906
Journal Title:: Communication Theory
Journal Title Details:: 30 : 126-148
Notes:: 23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.

51. Technology is... investing in the future

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Morgan, Tyne (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2021-10-07
Published:: USA: The Packer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13113
Notes:: 7 pages

52. The back gate: U.S. organic farming

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Henderson, Greg (author)
Format:: Infographic
Publication Date:: 2021-08
Published:: USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13144
Notes:: 1 page

53. The global forest transition as a human affair

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Garcia, Claude A. (author), Sasvilaakso, Sini (author), Verburg, Rene W. (author), Gutierrez, Victoria (author), Wilson, Sarah J. (author), Krug, Cornelia B. (author), Sassen, Marieke (author), Robinson, Brian E. (author), Moersberger, Hannah (author), Naimi, Babak (author), Rhemtulia, Jeanine M. (author), Dessard, Helene (author), Gond, Valery (author), Vermeulen, Cedric (author), Trolliet, Franck (author), Oszwald, Johan (author), Quetier, Fabien (author), Pietsch, Stephan A. (author), Bastin, Jean-Francois (author), Dray, Anne (author), Araujo, Miguel (author), Ghazoul, Jaboury (author), and Waeber, Patrick O. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11697
Journal Title:: One Earth
Journal Title Details:: 2(5) : 417-428
Notes:: 12 pages., Authors note no clear evidence that global efforts against forest loss, fragmentation,and degradation of land use are working. As key reason, they point to apparent ineffectiveness in involving all stakeholders involved. "Forest transitions are social and behavioral before they are ecological. Decision makers need to integrate better representations of people's agency in their mental models. ... Games can help decision makers in all of these tasks."

54. The impact of agricultural knowledge transfer resources on farm level profitability during the economic recession - a quantitative study

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cawley, A. (author), O'Donoghue, C. (author), Heanue, K. (author), Hilliard, R. (author), and Sheehan, M. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Ireland
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10411
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Notes:: Purpose: The impact of agricultural knowledge transfer (KT) is related to the access to and the quality of services available. Within this context, the allocation of resources in terms of KT offices and the number of advisers are important considerations for understanding KT impact. This quantitative study evaluates the impact of KT resources on farm profitability for clients in Ireland during the recessionary period 2008–2014. Design/Methodology: Teagasc, the public KT service provider in Ireland, experienced significant office closures (43%) and a reduction in advisers (38%) during the economic crisis, yet client numbers declined only slightly (4.5%). Administrative data are merged with a panel data set on farm-level performance to evaluate the impact through Random Effects estimation. Findings: The results show that clients gained a 12.3% benefit to their margin per hectare over the period. However, there was a negative effect of 0.2% for each additional client assigned to the adviser which averaged at 9.6%. Practical Implications: The quantitative findings provide a measure of impact that represents the value for money for the KT service. The key implication is that the client ratio for advisers should be considered when allocating resources and lower ratios would positively impact client margins. Theoretical Implications: This article outlines the value of quantitative studies to estimate impact in a clear translatable manner which can aid the policy discussion around resource deployment. Originality/Value: This study evaluates the impact of KT during a recessionary period when resources were constrained, and uses client ratios to examine the spatial effects.

55. The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Liu, Yanyan (author), Barrett, Christopher B. (author), Pham, Trinh (author), and Violette, William (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-07-01
Published:: USA: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11867
Journal Title:: Food Policy
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 94
Notes:: 14 pages, via online journal, We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to 2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to the structural transformation of rural Vietnam, especially within the agricultural sector. Our study adds to the emerging literature on structural transformation in low-income countries using micro-level data and helps to answer several policy-related questions. We find limited employment creation potential of agriculture, especially for youth. Rural-urban real wage convergence has gone hand-in-hand with increased diversification of the rural economy into the non-farm sector nationwide and rapid advances in educational attainment in all sectors’ and regions’ workforce. Minimum wage laws seem to have played no significant role in increasing agricultural wages. This enhanced integration also manifests in steady attenuation of the longstanding inverse farm size-yield relationship. Farming has remained securely household-based and the family farmland distribution has remained largely unchanged. Small farm sizes have not obstructed mechanization nor the uptake of labor-saving pesticides, consistent with factor substitution induced by rising real wage rates. As rural households rely more heavily on the labor market, human capital accumulation (rather than land endowments) have become the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.

56. The need for seed: News framing of the pandemic gardening boom

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Perks, Lisa Glebatis (author), Gatchet, Amanda Davis (author), and Gatchet, Roger Davis (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-08-26
Published:: USA: Taylor and Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12633
Journal Title:: Environmental Communication
Journal Title Details:: V.16, Iss. 4
Notes:: 14 pages, Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries around the world saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens. In this article, the authors use rhetorical framing analysis to explore how news coverage of this gardening boom presented the illusion of control framed around the themes of economics, food sovereignty, physical and mental health, and community and connection. It concludes with a discussion of how these four themes offer an overly-optimistic view of gardening that deemphasizes sustainability, focuses on processes over harvests, and ignores food chain inequities.

57. Understanding the impact of covid-19 on agriculture and food supply chains: system dynamics modeling for the resilience of smallholder farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Balkan, Büsra Atamer (author), Lindqvist, Andreas Nicolaidis (author), Odoemena, Kelechi (author), Lambd, Robert (author), Tiongco, Monique Ann (author), Gupta, Stueti (author), Peterud, Arpitha (author), and Menendez III, Hector Manuel (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-09
Published:: Germany: CENTMA Research
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12695
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 12, N. 3
Notes:: 16 pages, COVID-19 has caused severe agriculture and food supply chain disruptions, significantly affecting smallholder farmers who supply most of the world’s food, specifically their changes in vulnerability, resilience, and food loss and waste. Therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the complex causal and feedback relationships for this system by developing a dynamic hypothesis and causal loop diagrams utilizing the System Dynamics methodology. Results provide a roadmap for dialogue and a framework for case-specific model development and help to guide policy decisions for smallholder farmers’ survival during health crises.

58. Vertical coordination to smallholder small grain growers in Zimbabwe: Benefits of contract farming and policy implications

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dube-Takaza, Tryphina (author), Maumbe, Blessing M. (author), and Parwada, Cosmas (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-08
Published:: Germany: CENTMA Research
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12712
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: Vol 13, N.4
Notes:: 16 pages, Zimbabwe’s agro-ecological regions IV and V lie in low rainfall areas and food security is a perennial concern. Vertical coordination strategies and market institutions provide hope for building farmer resilience in regions affected by climate change in Zimbabwe. This study focused on four districts (Binga, Chiredzi, Hwange, Matobo) which are in regions IV and V. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 281 respondents. Probit and Multiple linear regression models were used to evaluate the determinants. Results show that contract farmers allocated more than 3 hectares to small grains agricultural enterprise. The research established that long distances to markets, access to credit, extension services and affiliation to farming groups are some critical determinants which influence market participation and yields sold.

59. Videos and podcasts for delivering agricultural extension: achieving credibility, relevance, legitimacy and accessibility

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Chivers, Charlotte-Anne (author), Bliss, Katie (author), Boon, Auvikki de (author), Lishman, Lydia (author), Schillings, Juliette (author), Smith, Rachel (author), and Rose, David Christian (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-11-07
Published:: UK: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12630
Journal Title:: The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 26 pgs, To explore the perceived credibility, relevance, legitimacy and accessibility of videos and podcasts in farm extension.

60. “We need a better system” Maryland crop growers’ perspectives on reducing food loss through donation

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ceryes, Caitlin A. (author), Heley, Kathryn (author), Edwards, Danielle M. (author), Gao-Rittenberg, Chergai (author), Seifu, Leah (author), Sohail, Saifra Khan (author), and Neff, Roni A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-06-30
Published:: USA: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12953
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Journal Title Details:: V.12, N.4
Notes:: 18 pages, The donation of unharvested or unsold crops to rescue organizations has been promoted as a strategy to improve healthy food access for food insecure households while reducing production-level food loss and waste (FLW). In this study, we aimed to assess the motivations, barriers, and facilitators for crop donation as a FLW reduction strategy among Maryland farmers. We interviewed 18 Maryland-based food producers (nine frequent crop donors and nine infrequent, by self-report) in 2016 – 2017, soliciting their perspectives on crop donation motivators, process feasibility, and interventions aimed at increasing crop donation. The interviews were thematically coded. All respondents were aware of crop donation as an option, and most expressed interest in reducing FLW by diverting crop surpluses for human consumption. While financial barriers represented one aspect influencing donation decisions, respondents also cited convenience, process knowledge, and liability as key considerations. In contrast to frequent donors, many of whom considered donation a moral imperative, some infrequent donors questioned the expectation that they would donate crops without compensation. Both frequent and infrequent donors were aware of pro-donation tax incentives, and infrequent donors reported being unlikely to use them. This research demonstrates that crop donation motivations, barriers, and facilitators can be diverse. Given the existence of crop surpluses and their potential benefits as emergency food, our results suggest that multiple interventions and policies may contribute to incentivizing and facilitating crop donation (or enabling the purchase of surplus crops) rather than one-size-fits-all approaches. Our findings also highlight a need to prioritize crop recovery methods that enhance growers’ financial stability.

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