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2. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wójcik, Marcin (author), Jeziorska-Biel, Pamela (author), and Czapiewski, Konrad (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-09
- Published:
- Poland: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10245
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 67: 130-141
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Via online journal., This article is concerned with the shaping of agricultural knowledge among farmers, in the context of the rapid changes Polish agriculture has been subject to since the time of the country's EU accession. The theoretical underpinnings of this work have been described in terms of the significant notional categories, i.e. knowledge, knowledge-cultures and sources of knowledge. The research made use of the joint interviews method. Interviews were run with representatives of different generations in 10 farming families in central Poland. The main research objective was to determine sources of farming knowledge among farmers. The use of joint interviews allowed for the identification of sources of knowledge of different kinds. These reflect a division into farmers' closer and more distant surroundings, i.e. to the family and neighbours on the one hand, and to institutions and media on the other. Knowledge acquisition among farmers is in fact found to be a complex process, reflecting socialisation in a multi-generation environment of family and neighbours, on the one hand, and the impact of the institutional and legal system, on the other. In a general sense, this corresponds to the well-known division of sources of knowledge into the tacit and the explicit, with the acquisition of tacit (i.e. informal) knowledge not meeting with any more major obstacles thanks to proximity in a sense that may be cultural (i.e. the agriculture itself), family-related (and in fact multi-generation) and spatial (physical proximity in a given locality). Microsocial conditioning thus plays a major role in the shaping of this source of knowledge. However, the most important factor distinguishing contemporary cultures as regards knowledge on farming is the capacity to adapt to conditions set by the institutions supporting the latter's development. Formal knowledge flowing into farming families from their institutional surroundings requires growing adaptability and preparation if a succession of innovations are to be taken on board. The multi-source nature of knowledge and the achievement of some kind of balance in this respect actually poses a major challenge for the future functioning of family farms as cultural microsystems.
3. Do New Communication Technologies Maintain or Erode Cultural Identity?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thiessen, Victor (author) and Looker, Dianne E. (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27475
- Notes:
- Presented at the International Sociological Association Conference in Durban, South Africa in 2006.
4. Prophets, profits, prove it: social forestry under pressure
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- van Noordwijk, Meine (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11699
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 394-397
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Author suggests that"social forestry seeks to manage forests through local communities for their own plus national benefits, but is still falls short of the targets set. Reconciling local concerns for livelihood opportunities with the need for accountability requires intermediaries who successfully negotiate in the bureaucratic jungle of forestry as an institution."
5. Reflections on rural areas development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donohue, George A. (author / University of Minnesota) and University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05657
- Notes:
- P. Tichenor. 9 p.
6. The Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Isham, Jonathan (author) and Centre for the Study of African Economics, University of Oxford
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28221
- Notes:
- Posted online at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2000-OiA/pdfpapers/isham.PDF, Presented at "Opportunities in Africa: micro-evidence on firms and households," a conference at the University of Oxford from April 9-10, 2000.
7. Unsettled belonging in complex geopolitics: refugees, NGOs, and rural communities in northern Colorado
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hausermann, Heidi (author), Lundy, Morgan (author), Mitchell, Jill (author), Ipsen, Annabel (author), Zorn, Quentin (author), Vasquez-Romero, Karen (author), and Lynch, Riley DeMorrow (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-28
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13174
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- V.13, N.3
- Notes:
- 18 pages