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2. Administrative co-ordination in African rural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Leach, James (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1982-12
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07747
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 (4): 295-302
3. Agglomeration, agriculture, and the perspective of the periphery
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gruber, Stefan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-03
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07534
- Journal Title:
- Spatial Economic Analysis
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 (1): 43-72
4. Household socio-economic factors influencing choice of agro-advisory dissemination pathways for climate change in semi-arid areas of Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Akeyo Onyango, Debrah (author), Rasugu Mogaka, Hezron (author), Njiri Ndirangu, Samuel (author), and Kwena, Kizito (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-21
- Published:
- International: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12309
- Journal Title:
- Information Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Online First
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is adversely affected by climate variability and change due to the dependence of its economies and livelihoods primarily on rain-fed agriculture. Agro-advisories boost informed decision-making as well as planning of farm activities. The purpose of this study was to characterize the pathways through which farmers receive usable location-specific agro-advisories as well as to evaluate the effect of the socio-economic environment in the access to such information. Data was collected from 400 randomly selected households in lower eastern Kenya in a cross-sectional survey. Multivariate probit regression was used to determine the factors influencing the choice of pathways used in accessing climate change adaptation information. Household socio-economic characteristics that were found to be significant in explaining access to disseminated agro-advisories include phone and radio ownership, level of education, marital status, and farm size among others. Based on these findings a conclusion is made that the socio-economic environment within which information is disseminated is vital in determining those who access information and probably act on it. Additionally, pathways found to be complementary or substitutable give information providers new insights on the channels to use in information dissemination. The study recommends that these factors be considered in efforts geared towards promoting agro-advisory preparation and dissemination to improve adaptation to climate variability and change in dryland areas.
5. Integrated agricultural development projects in Sierra Leone -- some implications for the future administration of agricultural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cusworth, John (author) and Project Planning Centre for Developing Countries, University of Bradford
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- Sierra Leone: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07778
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 18 (2): 65-79
6. Rural innovations in agricultural information service delivery in Bangladesh
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Das, Susmita (author) and Kabir, Wias (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-07
- Published:
- Bangladesh
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09182
- Journal Title:
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 24 (1) : 55-66
7. The impact of education on agricultural productivity: evidence from East Asian economies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Luh, Yir-Hueih (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10919
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(4) : 11-24
- Notes:
- This study presents an efficient version of test for the hypothesis that education plays a key role in influencing agricultural productivity based on a switching regression model. In the present setting, farmers’ ability to deal with disequilibria is allowed to change with education, which thereby provides a concrete evidence of the effect of education on selected East Asian production agriculture. The results suggest that there exists a threshold for education to be influential to agricultural productivity change when the selected East-Asian economies are categoried by their degree of economic development. Moreover, for the group of economies where education constitutes a major determinant of productivity growth in both the technological progression and/or stagnation/recession regimes, the effect of education is found to vary from economy to economy and from regime to regime. Generally speaking, however, those East-Asian economies tend to reach their turning point in short time despite of the mentioned differences. This result therefore leads to important policy implications concerning giving an impetus to human capital investment in the agriculture sector.
8. 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.