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Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Pan, Yao; Smith (author), Smith, Stephen C. (author), and Sulaiman, Munshi (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2018-04-23
Published:
United States: Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12395
Journal Title:
American Jounal of Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:
Online
Notes:
21 pages, We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers used better basic cultivation methods, achieved improved food security. Given minimal changes in adoption of relatively expensive inputs, we attribute these gains to improved cultivation methods that require low upfront monetary investment. Farmers also modified their shock-coping methods. These results highlight the role of information and training in boosting agricultural productivity among poor farmers and, indirectly, improving food security.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Reid, Debra A. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2017
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08802
Notes:
Pages 29-40 in Debra A. Reid, Interpreting agriculture at museums and historic sites. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 265 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Impey, Lousie (author)
Format:
Periodical
Publication Date:
2014-02-08
Published:
England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07538
Journal Title:
Crops
Notes:
pgs 24-27
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Mihaiu, Romolica (author), Mihaiu, Marian (author), and Mihaiu, Liora Mihaela (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Romania: Risoprint Publishing House
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07539
Journal Title:
Managerial Challenges of the Contemporary Society
Journal Title Details:
1: 112-114
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Survey report result
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09737
Notes:
NCR-90 Collection, 5 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Alavion, Seyed J. (author) and Allahyari, Mohammad S. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Iran
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07541
Journal Title:
Agricultural Management
Journal Title Details:
14 (2): 123-132
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Pouratashi, Mahtab (author) and Rezvanfar, Ahmad (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010-01
Published:
USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07543
Journal Title:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal Title Details:
61 (1): 81-87
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Shortall, O.K. (author), Raman, Sujatha (author), and Millar, Kate (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2015-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07545
Journal Title:
Energy Policy
Journal Title Details:
86: 360-368
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Morrison, James B. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1985-10-22
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09739
Notes:
NCR-90 Collection, Purdue University, 2 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Ahteensuu, Marko (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012-06
Published:
USA: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07546
Journal Title:
Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics
Journal Title Details:
25 (3): 295-313