Sengupta, Ami (author), Long, Esther (author), Singhal, Arvind (author), Shefner-Rogers, Corrine L. (author), and Communication for Social Change Consortium, South Orange, New Jersey, and London, England.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D00848
El Bilali, Hamid (author), Allahyari, Mohammad Sadegh (author), and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
Islamic Azad University, Iran
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy
China Agricultural University
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
China: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11217
9 pages, via online journal, Food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes necessary to move towards sustainable food systems. Digitization is one of the most important ongoing transformation processes in global agriculture and food chains. The review paper explores the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transition towards sustainability along the food chain (production, processing, distribution, consumption). A particular attention is devoted to precision agriculture as a food production model that integrates many ICTs. ICTs can contribute to agro-food sustainability transition by increasing resource productivity, reducing inefficiencies, decreasing management costs, and improving food chain coordination. The paper also explores some drawbacks of ICTs as well as the factors limiting their uptake in agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05765
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2 pages., New release describes a collaborative agreement between Farm Press and Farms.com to introduce digital offerings of used farm equipment to dealers in the Farm Press sales territories of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Northern British Columbia. 2 page.
Repository of digital facsimiles of farm newspapers published in the U.S., mainly within the Midwest Repository located online at http://www.library.illinois.edu/dnc/fff/
9 pages., In order to facilitate the adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for accessing agricultural information by smallholders, it is critical to understand their perspectives on the use of ICT. However, few empirical studies have considered how smallholders utilise ICT in Central Vietnam. This research investigates the Central Vietnamese smallholders’ views on the extent of use of ICT for accessing agricultural information. A sample size of 250 smallholders was randomly selected from a total of 687 smallholders in Trieu Phong district, Central Vietnam. A two-section questionnaire was used to gather data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The smallholders used mobile phones, TV and radio networks/broadcasts as the common ICT tools, and these were also effective ICT tools for accessing agricultural information. Lack of knowledge and skills for using applications on mobile phones were the main challenge to the smallholders’ use of ICT. A statistically significant relationship, existing between the extent of mobile phone use and the smallholders’ age (χ = 10.04, p = 0.040), gender (χ = 5.99, p = 0.014) and the type of households (χ = 6.84, p = 0.033), was found. Similarly, there was a statistically significant relationship existing between the extent of radio network/broadcast use and the smallholders’ age (χ = 9.58, p = 0.048) and gender (χ = 4.83, p = 0.028).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09911
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Presentation at the Association of Communication Excellence (ACE) conference during the Agricultural Media Summit, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 4-8, 2018. 21 pages. PowerPoint
