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2. Adapting extension approaches to cultural environments in South East Asia: experiences from Laos and Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Millar, Joanne (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- International: Australasian Farm Business Management Network.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C30021
- Journal Title:
- Extension Farming Systems Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1) : 143-148
3. Conditions and land use decisions in the La Amistad biosphere reserve buffer zone in Costa Rica and Panama : implications for extension nad training services for buffer zone farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Duffy, Sheila Bliss (author / Texas A & M University)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1999-03-23
- Published:
- Costa Rica: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20989
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 8 pages, Session J, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
4. Direct and interactional effects of three extension organizations on crop production and farmers' education in northern Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kiariro, Nzinnyangwa Ezekieli (author) and Department of Agricultural Extension<br>University of the West Indies, St. Augustine<br>Trinidad, West Indies
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 1981
- Published:
- Tanzania
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20366
- Notes:
- Burtson Swanson Collection, 174 pages
5. Effective leadership
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Umberger, H. (author) and Umberger, M.H. (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1951
- Published:
- USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08918
- Notes:
- Pages 15-16 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - January to June 1951, Extension Service Circular 474, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1951. Summary of findings from a study, Agricultural Extension, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 1951. 39 pages.
6. Exploring the role of agricultural extension in promoting biodiversity conservation in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abdu-Raheem, Kamal Adekunle (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10465
- Journal Title:
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(9): 1015-1032
- Notes:
- 19 pages., ISSN: 2168-3565 (Print) 2168-3573 (Online), Via online journal, Biodiversity conservation outside designated protected areas remains challenging in South Africa, where 80% of the biodiversity resources occur on private and communal lands. This applies to the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, which is the focus of this study. Landholders logically choose agricultural production ahead of conservation, which they often perform using non-ecological methods. Extension is well positioned to promote ecological agriculture, but its current contribution is unknown. This study examined the role of extension in ecological agriculture in KZN by investigating extension’s promotion of ecological agriculture among smallholder farmers and the factors impacting their employment of ecologically compatible practices. Data was collected through semistructured interviews with 44 respondents, comprising 5 provincial biodiversity conservation practitioners, 1 national biodiversity conservation manager, and 1 national and 4 provincial agricultural extension managers, selected by purposive sampling; as well as 25 extension officers and 8 farmers, selected by convenience sampling. The study found that extension mainly engages in technology transfer and distribution of production inputs, which poses challenges to biodiversity conservation. Extension shows little concern for biodiversity, and effectively promotes its degradation. Four sets of factors impacting extension’s capacity to promote ecological agriculture emerged: household/community-level, governmental, extension management, and ecological factors. Key among these were inadequate involvement of youth and men in agriculture; inadequate household production resources; poor collaboration and coordination between extension and biodiversity conservation institutions; top-down extension intervention; poor extension management and delivery capacities; and irregular and inadequate rainfall, as well as droughts and flooding. The study concluded that there is a need for a clearly articulated extension and biodiversity conservation policy supporting appropriate linkages and better coordination and integration of services among extension and biodiversity agencies within the National and Provincial Departments of Agriculture and with farmers; more effective agricultural education in schools; strengthening extension support systems; and creating conducive atmospheres for effective extension.
7. Farmers’ perceptions regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aldosari, Fahad (author), Al Shunaifi, Mohamed Saleh (author), Ullah, Muhammad Amjad (author), Muddassir, Muhammad (author), and Noor, Mehmood Ali (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Published:
- Saudi Arabia: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10318
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 211-217
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Like many developing countries, agriculture is seen as the vehicle for development also in Pakistan. Our study was aimed to identify the perceptions of farmer community towards the electronic media and relationship between different demographic characteristics of respondents with the use of electronic communication of TV and radio, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province of Pakistan. Random sampling technique was used for selecting 183 respondents. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square. Results revealed that maximum respondents were agreed that mobile and internet can be a useful source of agricultural information and only 1.6 and 5.5% of the respondents were strongly disagreed about information means, respectively. A maximum number of the respondents were undecided about “agricultural helpline can be a useful source of agricultural information”, only 14.2% of the respondents were strongly agreed with this statement. A highly significant relationship was found between age of respondents and application of information received through radio and TV. On the other side, education of the respondents had a highly significant relationship with the application of information received through radio only. Farming experience of the respondents had no significant relationship with the application of information received through TV and radio. Results suggested that extension personnel should motivate and educate the farming community about the use of electronic media (TV, radio, helpline, internet, mobile) for advanced information about agriculture production techniques.
8. Innovation intermediation in a digital age: comparing public and private new-ICT platforms for agricultural extension in Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Munthali, Nyamwaya (author), Leeuwis, Cees (author), Van Paassen, Annemarie (author), Lie, Rico (author), Asare, Richard (author), Van Lammeren, Ron (author), and Schut, Marc (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10421
- Journal Title:
- NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- (86-87) : 64-76
- Notes:
- 13 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural extension in sub-Saharan Africa has often been criticised for its focus on linear knowledge transfer, and limited attention to systemic approaches to service delivery. Currently, the region is experiencing a new-ICT revolution and there are high expectations of new-ICTs to enhance interaction and information exchange in extension service delivery. Using an innovation systems perspective, we distinguish the roles demand-articulation, matching demand and supply, and innovation process management for innovation-intermediaries. The study explores literature on how new-ICT may support these roles, with specific interest in the possibilities of environmental monitoring and new forms of organisation enabled by enhanced connectivity. In order to contribute to the understanding of this area, the paper reports on a comparative study of two new-ICT platforms embedded in Ghanaian public and private extension organisations respectively. We assess the roles that these platforms (aim to) support, and document achievements and constraints based on interviews with extension staff and farmers. The findings indicate that while both platforms aim to support innovation-intermediation roles the focus areas and level of detail differ due to diverging organisational rationales to service delivery. In addition, we see that new-ICTs' potential to support innovation-intermediation roles is far from realised. This is not due to (new) ICTs lacking the capacity to link people in new ways and make information accessible, but due to the wider social, organisational and institutional factors that define the realisation of their potential. Therefore, more conventional modes of interaction around production advice and also credit provision continue to be dominant and better adapted to the situation. However, beyond the two platforms that were developed specifically by and for the extension organisations, there were indications that more informal and self-organised new-ICT initiatives can transform and enhance interaction patterns in innovations systems to achieve collective goals through standard virtual platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
9. Institutional aspects of environmental research and extension in Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mung'ala, Patrick (author) and Arum, Gilbert (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- Kenya: Agricultural Administration (Research and Extension) Network, Agricultural Administration Unit, Overseas Development Institute
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20604
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 30 pages, Network Paper 22, ISSN 0951-1873
10. JVSAP extension agent training (Jordan Valley Agricultural Services Project)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1986
- Published:
- Jordan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09980
- Notes:
- From Agricultural Communications Program files, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Report of a 10-day workshop for JVASP extension agents - conducted by a team of extension communicators and educators from Washington State University, University of Illinois, and the University of Jordan. Purpose: help Jordan extension agents strengthen their competencies to work with farmers in the knowledge transfer process.
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