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2. Highlighting a key question for the common agricultural policy: adoption of agriculture system types
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Papadopoulos, Sotirios (author), Markopoulos, Theodoros (author), Chousou, Charoula (author), Natos, Dimitrios (author), and Mattas, Konstadinos (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12702
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.10, N.3
- Notes:
- 12 pages, One of the key questions that concerns policy makers, related to the long term planning of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is the form of agriculture that farmers intend to follow in the future. In order to highlight that question, a sample of producers from the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Greece were surveyed and analyzed in order to identify and assess the factors that influence farmers’ adoption of organic, conventional or integrated agriculture systems. The paper methodologically applies double-valued logistic regressions, one for each form of agriculture, to the selected sample. Results indicate that producers' training and high awareness of CAP policies are positively correlated with the future adoption of organic farming systems, while the adoption of integrated agriculture depends on producers’ age as well as their positive or negative opinions regarding the conventional agricultural system.
3. Information and perceptions of the acid rain issue in the Adirondacks and central Ontario
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mendez, Ana Irene (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09745
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Cornell University. 2 pages.
4. On food, farming and land management: towards a research agenda to reconnect urban and rural lives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dillon, Justin (author), Rickinson, Mark (author), Sanders, Dawn (author), and Teamey, Kelly (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08794
- Notes:
- Pages 187-203 in Dillon, Justin, Towards a convergence between science and environmental education: the selected works of Justin Dillon. United States: Routledge, New York City, New York, 2017. 361 pages.
5. Using renewable energy to meet the energy needs of smallholder farmers: are there policies to promote adoption in Ghana?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karbo, R. T. (author), Frewer, L. J. (author), Areal, F. (author), and Yu, E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-30
- Published:
- Ghana: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12764
- Journal Title:
- Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 57, N.1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Integrating renewable energy (RE) technologies into agriculture can contribute to attaining sustainable production. Farmers’ adoption of RE in agriculture can lead to substantial reductions in Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions as well as providing alternative income sources for farmers, and reliable energy supplies for farms and households. Policies can facilitate, support, or encourage farmers’ adoption of RE. However, it is not clear what policies currently exist which facilitate or promote the adoption of RE technologies in Ghanaian agriculture. This paper aims to identify policies in Ghana that can facilitate the adoption of RE in agricultural production. A policy review was conducted to identify such policies, evaluate their potential impact on RE adoption, and suggest paths to enhance RE adoption by farmers. These policies are focused on two aspects: 1) promoting solar energy and 2) the conversion of agricultural waste to energy. Noting limitations including the underdevelopment of the RE sector and the lack of a central policy to promote RE utilization in Ghanaian agriculture, the review suggests that policymakers need to fully implement provisions of the Renewable Energy Act-(832) (2011) through the application of, for example, policy levers such as subsidies, tax exemptions, financing, and training potential end-users in the agricultural community.