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2. A survey on deep learning and its impact on agriculture: challenges and opportunities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Albahar, Marwan (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-23
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12827
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 22 pages, The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements in the use of deep learning (DL) in the agricultural sector. The author conducted a review of studies published between 2016 and 2022 to highlight the various applications of DL in agriculture, which include counting fruits, managing water, crop management, soil management, weed detection, seed classification, yield prediction, disease detection, and harvesting. The author found that DL’s ability to learn from large datasets has great promise for the transformation of the agriculture industry, but there are challenges, such as the difficulty of compiling datasets, the cost of computational power, and the shortage of DL experts. The author aimed to address these challenges by presenting his survey as a resource for future research and development regarding the use of DL in agriculture.
3. Contribution of small-scale farming and local food supply to sustainable production and food security in Nigeria – A review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Olugbire, Oluseyi Olutoyin (author), Sunmbo,Olorunfemi (author), and Olarewaju,Titilope Omolara (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Published:
- Poland: University of Life Sciences in Poznań
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12704
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 59, N.1
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Prior to the year 1970, agriculture was the main source of livelihood and backbone of the Nigerian economy until the discovery of oil drastically decelerated its potential to sustainably maintain food security and generate significant export earnings. Despite its sudden fall in productivity, agriculture still remains the main sector providing the highest employment (70% of the population) for the populace. To tackle these problems, many policies were formulated (from 1960 to 2015) to resuscitate the sector but to no availdue to failure in tailoring suitable policies to engage small-scale farmers and address other socio-economic problems. This paper constitutes an in-depth review of agricultural production and food security in Nigeria with relative importance attributed to local food supply and small-scale farmers. The article analyzes several documents of the Nigerian Government and international organizations, such as the Food and Agricultural Organization, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and a number of peer-reviewed journals across various disciplines to provide a balanced interdisciplinary review. The paper concludes that food insecurity is at its peak in Nigeria and urgent attention is required in the agricultural sector to compensate for the unstable food balance in the country. There is a need for the Government to take strong measures against the food deficit situation and to support the development of the primary agriculture sector. The paper proposes viable policies that could involve smallholders, aid transformation and positively restructure the agricultural sector.
4. Desert art, offline
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Paoletta, Kyle (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12163
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(3) : 44
- Notes:
- Online from publisher via subscription., Instagram-ready installations often frame the desert as austere. What are the alternative ways of looking at the land? Author invites engaging with the reality of the desert rather than the cartoon of it.
5. Frindle: A review for agricultural communications courses
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Settle, Quisto (author), Rockers, Alyssa (author), and Oklahoma State University Association for Communication Excellence
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11212
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- English
- Notes:
- 4 pages, via online journal publication
6. Magazine abstract : Farm and Ranch Living
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: B03381
- Notes:
- Harold Swanson Collection, Mimeographed, [19- ]. 4 p. Including the premier issue of the magazine.
7. Millenium development goals and combating agricultural child labour in Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ben-Chendo, G.N. (author), Lemchi, J.I. (author), Nwosu, F.O. (author), and Ehirim, N.C. (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2014-10-31
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10170
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Marketing Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(6) : 75-81
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. They are frequently employed as farm labourers, bird scarers, food crop harvesters, processors and hawkers. More than 132 million children work in agriculture. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, followed by mining and construction. Child labour is increasing in postharvest processing, transport, marketing and a range of agroindustries. Child labour is maybe one of the most striking indicators identifying vulnerable children and as such pointing to shortcomings in several of the millennium goals as poverty eradication, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. Most working children do so after a decision in their parental household. To understand the household labour supply decisions, relation to the labour market and to public interventions is critical in designing programmes in order to achieve the MDGs. The research on child labour represents in this respect a largely untapped resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of agriculture, education programmes and poverty reduction programmes. The effect of lack of education opportunities on child labour is well documented, but existence of widespread agricultural child labour also reduces the effectiveness of investment in education. It is recommended in this paper that the legislator should enact laws that will reduce agricultural child labour through redistribution of the nation’s resources, women should be integrated in the fight to combat child labour and that alternative income sources should be provided for rural families whose children are the most vulnerable.
8. Urban gardening in a changing climate: a review of effects, responses and adaptation capacities for cities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tomatis, Francisco (author), Egerer, Monika (author), Correa-Guimaraes, Adriana (author), and Navas-Gracia, Luis Manuel (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-20
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12828
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban gardens. Gardens experience threats (e.g., water scarcity) but are also responding through adaptation strategies (e.g., selecting drought-resilient plants). A synthetic overview of how urban gardens are affected by climate change and responding to climate change is unclear. Here, we systematically reviewed articles and book chapters published in the last two decades (2000–2022) to illustrate the relationship between climate change and urban gardening. From 72 documents analyzed with Nvivo Software, we found that there has been an increase in academic publications. Universities from the US (14) and Germany (9) universities are the dominant producers. Evidence shows that climate change can have negative impacts on cities, people and urban food. Suggestions on how to build the adaptation capacity of urban gardens include collecting rainwater, changing plant selection, changing planting times, applying vegetative cover on the soil and other practices. For cities, community and allotment gardens are helpful for adaptation, mitigation and resilience. This includes the capacity to regulate the microclimate, to reduce urban heat island effects and to buffer urban floods, the power to capture carbon, the ability to create social networks and other socio-environmental benefits for urban climate planning.
9. Values underlying farmers’ business development decisions: evidence from Swedish agriculture using Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miaris, Georgios (author), Löfgren, Sara (author), and Hansson, Helena (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-12
- Published:
- UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12713
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 23 pages, This study aimed to uncover the values that underlie farmers’ strategic choices for business development. In particular, we uncovered farmers’ values related to business development through farm diversification and compared these with values regarding business development through non-diversified farm activities.