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2. Determinants of rice farmers' utilization of agricultural information in centralThailand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aonngernthayakorn, Kijsart (author) and Pongquan, Soparth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Thailand
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08723
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Information
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1) : 25-43
3. Practical agricultural communication: Incorporating scientific and indigenous knowledge for climate mitigation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sereenonchai, Sukanya (author) and Arunrat, Noppol (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03-26
- Published:
- Thailand: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10255
- Journal Title:
- Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural communication to mitigate climate change enables information dissemination of both scientific knowledge (SCK) and indigenous knowledge (IDK) for practical farming. This research analyzed knowledge utilization and conducted community-based participatory communication to propose a practical agricultural communication framework for climate mitigation. Based on a qualitative method of data collection in Phichit province, the key findings showed that SCK and IDK can be mutually utilized to enhance the good relationship among the people and for the people with nature. The participatory communication processes consisted of planning, interventions, and monitoring and empowerment. The successful farmers employing the farming practices of not burning rice straw, rice straw composting, and alternative wetting and drying technique were the main senders. The messages were related to their farming practices focusing on a practical and understandable message and graphic explanations. Vinyl was selected as a communication material for signage in the most noticeable areas in their communities. This research highlights that participatory communication with group dynamics and communication promotion mechanisms at both local and national levels should be enhanced.
4. Seeds for the people: a mobilisation for seed self-reliance in Thailand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pongluelert, Aubrey (author)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11
- Published:
- A growing culture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12733
- Notes:
- 10 pages, A story about a new seed-saving network that’s emerging in Thailand.
5. The Thai-Cambodian conflict and environmental cooperation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Waisová, Šárka (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08904
- Notes:
- Pages 139-158 in Waisová, Šárka, Environmental cooperation as a tool for conflict transformation and resolution. United Kingdom: Lexington Books, London. 196 pages.
6. 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.
7. The impact of stakeholders' roles within the livestock industry on their attitudes to livestock welfare in southeast and east Asia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sinclair, Michelle (author), Zito, Sarah (author), and Phillips, Clive J. C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-25
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08055
- Journal Title:
- Animals
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(2)
- Notes:
- 12 pages.
8. What to do with the farmland? Coping with ageing in rural Thailand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Januswan, Para (author) and Zander, Kerstin K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11985
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 80
- Notes:
- 10 Pages, As Thai farmers get older they need to plan what to do with their farm business and land given younger people tend to out-migrate to urban areas and shift their interests away from farming. Such demographic trends may reduce agricultural productivity and increase food insecurity, both among farmers and in the region. Using data collected through interviews with 368 farmers in the Prachin Buri province of Thailand, this research aims to examine how ageing is affecting farm activities of older farmers (60 years and older) and how they are adapting. We found that, while a small percentage of older farmers intended to continue farming without making any changes over the next five years (~9%), most were concerned about their health and farm work capacity, and were looking to leave farming and implement strategies to reduce both work intensity and time. Most farmers intended to stop farming and transfer farmland to their children (~40%), or continue farming while making some changes (~30%), such as employing additional workers or switching to less labour intense crops. Some intended to stop farming altogether and dispose of farmland outside their family (~21%; e.g. leasing out or selling or returning farmland to owner if leased). As expected, the chosen strategy depended on personal (old-age income security and gender) and farm characteristics (e.g. successor, farm activities, and subsidy). Having a dedicated successor had a substantial impact on transferring land to the children, reflecting the importance of commitment for farming by the next generation, which will be challenging. A pension higher than the widely available old-age allowance could support farmers in maintaining a better living standard after retiring. However, only a fraction of farmers currently had access to a pension. Both short- and long-term policies are, therefore, needed to support elderly farmers, improve their living standards after retirement, and attract young people back to farming.