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2. Development communication for agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Samanta, R.K. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- International: B.R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17294
- Notes:
- 299 pages
3. 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.
4. Farmers' choice: evaluating an approach to agricultural technology adoption in Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lilleor, Helene Bie (author) and Lund-Sorensen, Ulrik (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Tanzania: Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, UK.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07179
- Notes:
- 154 pages.
5. Increased interaction with farmers as the key to improving third world extension : a proposal based on a field study in Northern Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agunga, Robert (author / Ohio State University)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1991-03-28
- Published:
- Ghana: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C19952
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, from "Proceedings seventh annual meeting of the assocation for international agricultural and extension education"Riverfront Holiday Inn, St. Louis, Missouri, March 28-30, 1991
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The barriers of the Indonesian extension workers to disseminate agricultural information to farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Margono, Tri (author) and Sugimoto, Shigeo (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Indonesia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37374
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(2) : 98-105
9. The end of the beginning and the beginning of the end: the decline of public agricultural extension in Ontario
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Milburn, Le-Anne S. (author), Mulley, Susan J. (author), and Kline, Carol (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-12
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35989
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(6) : 6FEA7
- Notes:
- Via online. 11 pages.