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2. Market institutions: enhancing the value of rural-urban links
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chowdhury, Shyamal (author), Negassa, Asfaw (author), and Torero, Maximo (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2005-10
- Published:
- International: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10927
- Notes:
- Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 195 and Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Discussion Paper 89. 44 pages., This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context. Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on rural market development or on urban market development without considering the interdependencies and synergies between the two. However, more than ever before, emerging local and global patterns such as the modern food value-chain led by supermarkets and food processors, rapid urbanization, changes in dietary composition, and enhanced information and communication technologies point to the need to pay close attention to the role of markets both in linking rural areas with intermediate cities and market towns and promotion of economic development and poverty reduction. This paper begins with a presentation of a conceptual framework of market integration and then identifies five major factors that increase the transfer costs that subsequently hinder market integration between rural and urban areas: information asymmetry, transaction costs, transport and communication costs, policy induced barriers, and social and noneconomic factors. Five specific cases in five developing countries are examined in this study to demonstrate the primary sources of transfer costs and the aspects of market institutions that are important to market integration and promotion of rural-urban linkages. While emerging institutions such as modern intermediaries linked to supermarkets and food processors can reduce information asymmetries between rural producers and urban consumers, existing institutions such as producers’ cooperatives can pool the risks, increase the bargaining power of small producers, reduce enforcement costs, and thereby reduce transaction costs. In addition, new types of partnerships between businesses and NGOs, and between public and private sectors, can improve infrastructure provision which, in turn, can reduce transport and communication costs. To the contrary, the presence of inappropriate policies or noneconomic factors such as those that involve social exclusion take on a negative role in linking urban and rural markets.
3. Summary of undergraduate program of agricultural communications at Gadjah Mada University
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Harsoyo (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11165
- Notes:
- AGCM 300, Special Problems in Agricultural Communications. Course project as part of the author's Master of Extension Education Program, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Part 2, June 12, 1990. 12 pages., Author focused on development and formation of the agricultural communications program at Gadjah Mada University through collaborative efforts of faculty members at GMU and the University of Illinois. Included the process and philosophy of formation of the program, beginning in 1981. Described development of courses and enrollment to 1990, including current challenges of qualified faculty development and lack of funding and equipment.
4. Undergraduate program of agricultural communications at Gadjah Mada University: some possibilities for improvement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Harsoyo (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11162
- Notes:
- AGCM 300, Special Problems in Agricultural Communications. Course project as part of the author's Master of Extension Education Program, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Part 2, September 11, 1990. 14 pages., Based on prior analyses in his series of AGCM 300 course projects, author focused on priority challenges and four potential strategies for increasing enrollment in the agricultural communications program at Gadjah Mada University and clarifying the role of agricultural communications in relation to extension education and general journalism/communications.
5. Young farmers and digitalization: from price taker to price maker
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Prayoga, Kadhung (author), Subejo (author), and Raya, Alia Bihrajihant (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- Indonesia: KnE Publishing, Dubai
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10876
- Journal Title:
- KnE Social Sciences and Humanities
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(20): 181-188
- Notes:
- An accompanying paper of the same title represents an earlier version of the journal article, including the Figure 1 and Reference list not included in the html version of the journal article., Via online., Information technology has developed rapidly, particularly in the area of social media. Almost all groups in society now use social media in their day to day activities, and one group that has been greatly impacted is young farmers. Before this era, farmers had difficulty accessing information. This study aims to find out what benefits are obtained and obstacles encountered by the use of social media in farming activities by the young farmers. This paper is descriptive explorative by using a qualitative approach. The data collection technique itself uses in-depth interviews, observations, literature studies, and documentation. The research location was in Bulukerto Village, Bumiaji Sub-District, Batu City which was carried out from November to December, 2017. The informants were chosen because they already used new media to support their farming activities. The result is the use of social media in the agricultural sector is widely used by young farmers in order to increase revenue and to seek information. Even so, there are still a number of problems faced by young farmers when utilizing social media, namely those interested in buying and selling online for agricultural products are not as high as other products and about the trust. The advice that can be given is farmers must post photos of products on Instagram with good pictures and caption. They also can tag others to reshare and spread the product information.