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2. Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together (and then let them snoop on each other)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Frost, Natasha (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-25
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10032
- Journal Title:
- Atlas Obscura
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Author examines how two inventions of the 1870s (barbed wire and the telephone) changed the lonely lives of frontier Americans.
3. Determinants of farmers' intention to adopt water saving measures: evidence from Italy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pino, Giovanni (author), Toma, Pierluigi (author), Rizzo, Cristian (author), Miglietta, Pier Paolo (author), Peluso, Alessandro M. (author), and Guido, Gianluigi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-08
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07841
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(1) : 77
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
4. Farmers' participation in extension programs and techonology adoption in rural Nepal: a logistic regression analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Suvedia, Murari (author), Ghimire, Raju (author), Kaplowitz, Michael (author), and Michigan State University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-14
- Published:
- United States: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10980
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(4) : 351-371
- Notes:
- 20 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This paper examines the factors affecting farmers’ participation in extension programs and adoption of improved seed varieties in the hills of rural Nepal. Methodology/approach: Cross-sectional farm-level data were collected during July and August 2014. A sample of 198 farm households was selected for interviewing by using a multistage, random sampling technique. We employed a logistic regression model, frequency counts, and percentages to analyze the data. Findings: Adoption decisions were mainly affected by extension-related variables – training, membership in a farmers’ group, and off-farm employment. Extension participation was found to be influenced by socioeconomic variables – age, education, household size, and distance to the extension office. Our findings reveal that distance to the extension office and off-farm employment limited participation in extension activities and adoption, respectively, and education, household size, and group membership stimulated participation in extension programs. Practical implications: Recognition of the determinants of farmers’ participation in extension services and innovation adoption ensures that targeted extension approaches are used to address these factors in various stages of planning, delivering, and evaluating extension programs. Theoretical implications: Innovation adoption follows a systematic decision-making process. Although personal characteristics are important, widespread use of new technology requires a conducive social and institutional context. Because contexts vary by country or region, extension services providers should create institutions favorable for innovation adoption within a social system. Originality/value: This research is original and highly valuable to identify the factors associated with extension participation and innovation adoption in the rural hilly region of Nepal. This also provides a new direction to operationalize farmer-oriented policies of agricultural extension and so can be helpful for agricultural policy-makers in devising programs of extension services.
5. New urban-rural relationships and the emerging of places for joint consumption and innovation of food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Milone, Pierluigi (author), Ventura, Flaminia (author), and Swagemakers, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08822
- Notes:
- Pages 683-703 in Rob Roggema (ed.), Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume two: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pages 601-1274.
6. Promoting precision agricultural innovation in a risk averse marketplace
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jefferies, Danny (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-24
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08648
- Journal Title:
- Precision Agriculture
- Notes:
- 2 pages.
7. The Farm and Rural Ag Network launched
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08171
- Notes:
- Online via Agri Marketing Weekly. 1 page,, Introducing a new podcast network.
8. Using educational theory and research to refine agricultural extension: affordances and barriers for farmers’ learning and practice change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sewell, A.M. (author), Hartnett, M.K. (author), Gray, D.I. (author), Blair, H.T. (author), Kemp, P.D. (author), Kenyon, P.R. (author), Morris, S.T. (author), Wood, B.A. (author), and Massey University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-24
- Published:
- New Zealand: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10968
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(4) : 313-333
- Notes:
- 20 pages, via online journal, Purpose: To examine the factors that support and hinder farmers’ learning and to investigate the impact of an innovative learning program on farmers’ practice change. Design/methodology/approach: Individual interviews and focus group discussions were held with 24 farmers over 20 months. Observations were made of these farmers as they participated with eight agricultural and social scientists in a range of innovative experiences to learn about chicory and plantain establishment and management. These learning experiences were designed around evidence-informed educational pedagogies. Data sets were analyzed using NVivo to determine common themes of affordances and barriers to learning and actual practice changes. Findings: The affordances for learning and practice change include belonging to a learning community, enhancing self-efficacy, engaging with scientists, seeing relative advantage, reinforcing and validating learning, supporting system’s integration and developing an identity as learners. Barriers to learning and practice change include issues of: trialability, complexity, compatibility and risk. Practical implications: The importance of basing new models of extension around evidence-informed pedagogies known through educational research to promote learning and practice change. Theoretical implications: Sociocultural theory and self-efficacy theories of learning are critical to the success of effective agricultural extension programs. Originality: To date, little empirical research about the affordances and barriers for pastoral farmers’ learning has been based on contemporary educational research.
9. Using radio and interactive ICTs to improve food security among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Heather E. Hudson (author), Mark Leclair (author), Bernard Pelletier (author), and Recent publications: (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-08
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D10116
- Journal Title:
- Telecommunications Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(7/8) : 670-684
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal, Radio is the most widely used medium for disseminating information to rural audiences across Africa. Even in very poor communities, radio penetration is vast; it is estimated there are over 800 million radios in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) for development. Next, the paper presents the ICT-enhanced participatory radio campaign approach and ICT innovations introduced by Farm Radio International, a Canadian nongovernmental organization. The paper analyzes two participatory radio campaigns that use both listening groups and ICTs to engage African farmers. Research on these radio campaigns in six African countries is reported to examine how the participatory approach impacted listenership, knowledge and initial adoption of agricultural techniques and practices presented in the radio campaigns. The authors conclude that the findings of research on these projects could be highly relevant for increasing awareness and adoption of agricultural practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also appear promising for other development sectors and for other developing regions
10. Why U.S. farmers should get out - now
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arnot, Charlie (author / Center for Food Integrity)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-20
- Published:
- USA: The Huffington Post
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08278
- Notes:
- 2 pages