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    1. Are farmers empowered? The role of empowerment in farmer decision making about weed and invertebrate management

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Major, Jason (author), Grant, Will (author), and Stocklmayer, Sue (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    Australia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D11649
    Journal Title:
    Rural Extension and Information Systems Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    14(1) : 1-10
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    10 pages., Researchers investigated empowerment in the context of two strategies, Integrated Weed Management and Integrated Pest Management. Findings suggested: "With the rise of chemical resistance, the agricultural industry has placed considerable emphasis on the need to accelerate and achieve farmer adoption if IWM and IPM, but our evidence suggests that greater emphasis should be given to understanding the socio-cultural factors that affect farmer decision making. Farmer empowerment emerged as a core concept from the data."

    2. Assessing willingness to pay for information delivery among rural women in Ghana

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    Ghana
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07584
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
    Journal Title Details:
    2 (4): 70-76

    3. Communication in agricultural extension services toward farmer empowerment

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Faqih, A. (author) and Aisyah, S. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    IOP Publishing Ltd
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11145
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series
    Journal Title Details:
    1360(1)
    Notes:
    6 pages., via online journal., This research was conducted to find out the influence of agents on the results of empowerment of farmers, the effect of recipients on the results of the farmer empowerment, the effect of agricultural extension on the results of the farmer empowerment, and the influence of agents, recipients, and agricultural extension on the results of farmer empowerment. This research was carried out in May to July 2017. Quantitative descriptive method was applied by using primary and secondary data. Primary data obtained from interviews with 24 respondents who applied integrated crop management technology (PTT) on paddy fields. Technique of interview was guided with questionnaires while secondary data was taken from some literature work and relevant agencies. The results showed that: there is positive and significant influence between the agents and farmer empowerment, there is positive and significant influence between the recipients on the farmer empowerment, there is positive and significant influence between agricultural extension on the results of the farmer empowerment, and there is positive and significant influence between the agents, recipients, and agricultural extension on the results of farmer empowerment.