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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
    Notes:
    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. Can women's self‐help groups improve access to information, decision‐making, and agricultural practices? The Indian case

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Raghunathan, Kalyani (author), Kannan, Samyuktha (author), and Quisumbing, Agnes R. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-08
    Published:
    Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10822
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Economics
    Notes:
    14 pages., via online journal,, Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers’ access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural extension workers and the relevance of extension advice is poor. We investigate whether a women's self‐help group (SHG) platform could be an effective way of improving access to information, women's empowerment in agriculture, agricultural practices, and production diversity. We use cross‐sectional data on close to 1,000 women from five states in India and employ nearest‐neighbor matching models to match SHG and non‐SHG women along a range of observed characteristics. We find that participation in an SHG increases women's access to information and their participation in some agricultural decisions, but has limited impact on agricultural practices or outcomes, possibly due to financial constraints, social norms, and women's domestic responsibilities. SHGs need to go beyond provision of information to changing the dynamics around women's participation in agriculture to effectively translate knowledge into practice.

    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.

    4. Seven Leadership 101 lessons that take discipline

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Deering, Julie (author / President, AAEA)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-07-11
    Published:
    USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network, LaGrange, GA.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11037
    Journal Title:
    AAEA ByLine
    Notes:
    Online from publisher. 2 pages., "...seven palpable principles that guide me" during six years as a member of the AAEA Board of Directors.