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    1. Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Rice Farmers: A Case Study at Cengkong Village, Karawang Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Amran, Gianni (author) and Rachman, Yenni Budi (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-01-01
    Published:
    United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12359
    Journal Title:
    Library Philosophy and Practice
    Journal Title Details:
    Winter 2020
    Notes:
    15 pages., This study discusses about information needs and information-seeking behavior of farmers in Cengkong Village, Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. The purposes of this study are to identify information needs and information-seeking behavior of farmers in Cengkong Village. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The results show that the farmers in Cengkong Village able to identify and to express their information needs regarding to their activity. There are two kind of information needs: agricultural and non agricultural information needs. The result also shows that there are four type of information-seeking behaviors of farmers, including passive attention, passive search, active search, and ongoing search.

    2. Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in indonesian farm households

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chrisendo, Daniel (author), Krishnab, Vijesh V. (author), Siregarc, Hermanto (author), and Qaima, Matin (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-07-10
    Published:
    Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12521
    Journal Title:
    Forest Policy and Economics
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 118
    Notes:
    11pgs, Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional crops – such as rubber and rice – and forest land. While environmental effects of the oil palm boom were analyzed in many studies, much less is known about social effects. Here, we analyze how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farmers is associated with nutrition through changing income and gender roles. The analysis uses panel data collected in Jambi Province, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia's recent oil palm boom. Regression models show that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with nutrition and dietary quality. These associations are related to income gains that improve smallholders' access to nutritious foods from the market. Oil palm requires less labor than traditional crops, so a switch to oil palm could potentially free family labor for off-farm economic activities. We find that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with off-farm employment of male but not female household members, which may be related to unequal opportunities and social norms. Independent of oil palm cultivation, female off-farm employment is positively associated with nutrition, even after controlling for household income.