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2. Cooperatives, grassroots development and social change: experiences from rural Latin America
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vasquez-Leon, Marcela (author), Burke, Brian J. (author), and Finan, Timothy J. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International: University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08678
- Notes:
- 250 pages.
3. Information and communication technology (ICT) in agriculture: a report to the G20 agricultural deputies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10296
- Notes:
- 57 pages., Report from FAO, Via website., This report responds to the request by the G20 Agricultural Ministers to FAO, IFPRI and OECD in June 2016 to build on their preliminary assessment of existing ICT applications and platforms and make specific proposals for consideration and action by G20 Agriculture Deputies ahead of the next G20 Agricultural Ministers meeting on the best possible mechanism to improve agricultural ICT exchange and cooperation. The report is organized as follows: (i) The section Summary, Evaluation and Recommendations is targeted to policy makers and draws from the detailed review undertaken in Sections 1 to 4 of the report. It provides a succinct but comprehensive account of ICTs in agriculture, including evaluating their impact. It identifies gaps, and puts forward a number of recommendations for the G20 in line with the G20 comparative advantage for collective action. Policies and measures to promote ICTs are crucial for the G20 economies and for agriculture in particular. G20 Ministers of Agriculture can take action to integrate ICTs in agricultural policies and initiatives. The report makes a number of recommendations for concrete actions in the area of ICTs that promote sustainable food systems and contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.(ii) Sections 1 to 4 contain a detailed, albeit not exhaustive review of ICTs in agriculture. There is plethora of ICT applications on agriculture, ranging from using radio to satellite remote sensing, and in Section 2 every effort has been made to provide a comprehensive picture through the discussion of selected applications. Section 3 reviews the platforms and initiatives that promote the use of ICTs, and Section 4 examines governance issues specifically related to principles, rights and privacy. A number of Annexes provide more detail to the reader on a number of areas related to governance.
4. Media involvement in promoting private sector-led agricultural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ayimbire, Angela (author / Ghana News Agency)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10-14
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10400
- Notes:
- Via online.
5. Media, private sector, and agrifood nexus in Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Proposal
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-15
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10399
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Via online. Statement endorsed by media participants at the Media Round Table Dialogue on Agriculture Investment in Ghana, September 13, 2017, in Accra, Ghana., Offering three recommendations to the government of Ghana, government agencies, civil society, development partners and donors for supporting a proactive media network.
6. Open data benefits for agriculture and nutrition
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramos, Isaura Lopes (author) and Addison, Chris (author)
- Format:
- journal articles
- Publication Date:
- 2017-02
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08297
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 84
- Notes:
- 24 pages
7. The impact of education on agricultural productivity: evidence from East Asian economies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Luh, Yir-Hueih (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10919
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(4) : 11-24
- Notes:
- This study presents an efficient version of test for the hypothesis that education plays a key role in influencing agricultural productivity based on a switching regression model. In the present setting, farmers’ ability to deal with disequilibria is allowed to change with education, which thereby provides a concrete evidence of the effect of education on selected East Asian production agriculture. The results suggest that there exists a threshold for education to be influential to agricultural productivity change when the selected East-Asian economies are categoried by their degree of economic development. Moreover, for the group of economies where education constitutes a major determinant of productivity growth in both the technological progression and/or stagnation/recession regimes, the effect of education is found to vary from economy to economy and from regime to regime. Generally speaking, however, those East-Asian economies tend to reach their turning point in short time despite of the mentioned differences. This result therefore leads to important policy implications concerning giving an impetus to human capital investment in the agriculture sector.