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2. Seeing green: lifecycles of an arctic agricultural frontier
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Price, Mindy Jewell (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-07-14
- Published:
- USA: Wiley Periodicals LLC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12929
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 0, N.0
- Notes:
- 31 pages, Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state-driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.
3. South African government palliative funds for agriculture amid Covid-19: challenges of implementation and suggestions for improvements
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Popoola, O. O (author) and Yusuf, S. F. G (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-09
- Published:
- South Africa: South African Society for Agricultural Extension
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12729
- Journal Title:
- South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 49, N. 3
- Notes:
- 15 pages, The novel Corona virus pandemic has been extremely overwhelming at all levels causing massive economic setbacks for many countries including South Africa. The country witnessed an unprecedented scaling-down of its national economic activities, which called for an emergency response from the government. Several Covid-19 relief schemes were instituted by the government to ensure that farms of all sizes would survive. A support fund of R1.2 billion was allocated to the agriculture and food sector through the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD). The fund was primarily meant to assist financially distressed small-scale farmers to ensure continued production and food security for the country. This study collated the conditions for financial Covid-19 stimulus support required from smallholders and analysed several factors that prevented some members of this vulnerable group from benefitting from the relief funds. These factors include complexities associated with satisfactorily categorizing smallholder producers, productivity, marketing and policy challenges, glitches in formalising smallholder producer operations, the farm-business record keeping pitfall, and the exclusion of subsistent producers. The paper suggests some possible corrective measures that could allow for more inclusive support to these categories of farmers; some of which includes a simple but robust financial traceability system for the farmers, and a need to continue to push for the completion of national registration process of smallholder producers.
4. State agriculture officials call for investment in apprenticeship programs and agricultural literacy to ensure a future agricultural workforce
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (author)
- Format:
- Press release
- Publication Date:
- 2023-09-13
- Published:
- USA: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12957
- Notes:
- 3 pages
5. Strategies for communicating animal science to policymakers in the United States
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Glenn, B.P. (author), Randel, L. (author), Zimbelman, R.G. (author), Culp, A. (author), and National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, Arlington, VA The Randel Group, Alexandria, VA Georgetown, TX
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07-16
- Published:
- USA: Glenn, Randel, Zimbelman and Culp
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08218
- Journal Title:
- Animal Frontiers
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 (3): 13-22
6. The state of the USDA: a quiet dismantling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lilliston, Ben (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-04
- Published:
- USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10568
- Notes:
- via website, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., 4 pages.