8 pages, Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Research identified factors farmers' negative perception on utilizing rice transplanters and combine harvesters. Findings suggested that government agricultural extension services play a significant role in lessening farmers' negative perceptions.
Online from journal by open access. 11 pages., Researchers attempted to show the effectiveness of Geomedia techniques in the Geosystems identification, evaluation, and valorization processes for the benefit of local inhabitants. The Geomedia techniques were developed with local community members in Romania, Kenya, Bolivia, India, and Indonesia. "The results demonstrate that self-sustainable Geosystems will always be capable to regulate, control and assess progress towards their dynamic equilibrium state, continuously adapting to environmental and society changes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06803
Notes:
Summary report of a symposium at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, December 8-9, 2015. 5 pages., Includes a session about using local knowledge in dealing with climate change.
This newsletter series is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois - "International" section - "OCIAC" file folder., Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., Summarizes pilot testing experiences in using new videodisc technologies for education of students at Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia. Subject matter involved chemical decision making and energy transformations. Revealed problems using computers and related information technologies due to computer operation, power services, and equipment failures.
Coggins, Sam (author), McCampbell, Mariette (author), Sharma, Akriti (author), Sharma, Rama (author), Haefele, Stephen (author), Karki, Emma (author), Hetherington, Jack (author), Smith, Jeremy (author), and Brown, Brendan (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2022-03-01
Published:
United States: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12486
10 pages, Digital extension tools (DETs) include phone calls, WhatsApp groups and specialised smartphone applications used for agricultural knowledge brokering. We researched processes through which DETs have (and have not) been used by farmers and other extension actors in low- and middle-income countries. We interviewed 40 DET developers across 21 countries and 101 DET users in Bihar, India. We found DET use is commonly constrained by fifteen pitfalls (unawareness of DET, inaccessible device, inaccessible electricity, inaccessible mobile network, insensitive to digital illiteracy, insensitive to illiteracy, unfamiliar language, slow to access, hard to interpret, unengaging, insensitive to user's knowledge, insensitive to priorities, insensitive to socio-economic constraints, irrelevant to farm, distrust). These pitfalls partially explain why women, less educated and less wealthy farmers often use DETs less, as well as why user-driven DETs (e.g. phone calls and chat apps) are often used more than externally-driven DETs (e.g. specialised smartphone apps). Our second key finding was that users often made - not just found - DETs useful for themselves and others. This suggests the word ‘appropriation’ conceptualises DET use more accurately and helpfully than the word ‘adoption’. Our final key finding was that developers and users advocated almost ubiquitously for involving desired users in DET provision. We synthesise these findings in a one-page framework to help funders and developers facilitate more useable, useful and positively impactful DETs. Overall, we conclude developers increase DET use by recognizing users as fellow developers – either through collaborative design or by designing adaptable DETs that create room for user innovation.
Budiwidjaja, Arif (author / Chief Librarian, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University) and Evans, James F. (author / Head, Teaching and Research, Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois)
Format:
Proposal
Language:
Multilingual
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
Indonesia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11166
Notes:
From the International Programs file of the Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois., This project file relates to research and planning by a joint faculty study team from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. The study team embarked on it with the belief that a literature identification project involving Indonesian agricultural communication is an integral part of any effort to establish academic programs of agricultural communication teaching and research. The file contains correspondence, an initial list of more than 200 documents identified in the GMU Library System, and a preliminary proposal.
Sarwono, Billy (author), Ali, Zarqa S. (author), and Eide, Elisabeth (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
International: Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06846
Notes:
Pages 281-295 in Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius (eds.), Media meets climate: the global challenge for journalism. Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden. 340 pages.
