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12. Financial resources and decisions to avoid information about environmental perils
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Losee, Joy E. (author), Sheppard, James A. (author), and Webster, Gregory D. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D11516
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Journal Title Details:
- 50 : 174-188
- Notes:
- 24 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, Three experiments examined how available resources and the resource burden of responding to an environmental peril affect the perceived burden of taking action, and how perceiving burden, in turn, affects avoidance of information about the threat. Findings demonstrated that facing a high mitigation burden (e.g., costs of hurricane damage recovery and home air quality systems) and lack of resources can lead to remaining uninformed. Findings also identified a potential pathway for intervention.
13. How people share information about food: insights from Tweets regarding two Italian regions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Platania, Marco (author) and Spadoni, Roberta (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11108
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(2) : 149-165
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Describes the type of information regarding food shared on Twitter and what kind of network is established between Twitter users in those cases when the #food in question is associated to a geographical area. Findings highlighted differences between the two networks surveyed, both with regard to the actors involved and to the way in which they share information on Twitter.
14. INFORMATION NEEDS AND SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF FARMERS IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kaske, Deribe (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-23
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12361
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Fall 2020
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Information is an important factor in agricultural development. The study investigated farmers’ agricultural information needs and seeking behavior in the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional research design was employed and the study population included all household heads of the eight sampled villages in four administrative zones. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to obtain a sample of 320 farmers. Quantitative data were collected and research adopted descriptive statistics. The results revealed information on crop production technologies; information about diseases, pests and weather forecasts, and market information were identified as the top three most important types of agricultural information. Similarly, crop production technologies; animal husbandry technologies, and information about agricultural inputs were the information farmers seek frequently. Farmers use development agents as the first source of agricultural information. All of the respondents communicate with development agents face-to-face.
15. Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Agricultural Community of Attabira area of Bargarh District, Odisha: A Survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Panda, Abinash (author), Rani Dash, Lipsa (author), and Panda, Debasmita (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12355
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Notes:
- 27 pages., The study on the information-seeking behavior of the agricultural community was undertaken in the attabira area of bargarh district of Odisha with objectives to study the different areas in which they require information frequently and determine the sources through which they rely on. It was found that most of the people are dependent upon agriculture in the attabira area. They started working at the age of 18. Most of the farmers (85.6%) of farmers opted for pooja seeds for cultivation. The study shows 7.36% of the respondents are facing difficulties in irrigation facilities. About 78.9% of the people are talking about MSP (Minimum support price). About 7.3% of farmers gathered information from social media, TV, Call centers, etc. It is observed that the highest numbers of people are talking from a nationalized bank. The farmers were getting information from various sources like TV media, print media, etc. The library plays a crucial role in the dissemination of knowledge. The farmer knowledge center was established where they could get their query solved. The knowledge centers need to provide the right information at the right time in a personal way. The result reveals that a large number of people of the attabira district are influenced by socio-economic variables.
16. Information Needs and Use of Information Sources by the Farmers: A Survey of Kurukshetra District, Haryana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Singh, Joginder (author) and Kumar, Rajiv (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12197
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10 Issue 4
- Notes:
- 7 pages., The study highlighted the information needs and information sources used by the farmers of Kurukshetra district. Data were elicited through the questionnaire. All the farmers needed information on availability and use of pesticides, fertilizers for the crop, disease, pest, weed control, knowing and selling market prices of crops followed by government schemes/policies (98.1%), variety and new cropping system, availability of seeds (96.2%), Agricultural loan (73.1%), weather/weather forecast (73.1%), etc. The majority of the respondents (59.6%) were using newspapers in which Dainik Bhaskar (46.2%) was the first choice of farmers and (30.8%) banners and wall paintings were also assisted. Mobile phones (69.2%) and Television (67.3%) were major electronic sources among them. All the respondents were using these sources to increase agricultural production, availability and know the current market prices. While (90.4%) were using proper use of fertilizers/medicines/pesticides and curing diseases followed by (82.7%) know about new agricultural technology, weather (76.9%). Insufficient information literacy, information communication technology (ICT) skills (87.7%), and inadequate training opportunities (61.5%) were the main constraints faced by farmers. Satisfaction was high in electronic sources (53.8%) than print information (23.1%) sources for their agricultural information among the farmers of Kurukshetra.
17. Information needs and barriers of rural smallholder farmers in developing countries: A case study of rural smallholder farmers in Malawi
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Phiri, Austine (author), Chipeta, George T. (author), and Chawinga, Winner D. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11003
- Journal Title:
- Information Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(3): 421–434
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., The purpose of the study was to investigate the information needs and barriers of rural smallholder farmers in Mzimba North in Malawi. A mixed methods approach was adopted for the study and the Wilson’s Model of Information Behaviour (1996) guided the study. A questionnaire and focus group discussion guide were used to collect data from 202 rural smallholder farmers. The study found that the major information need of rural smallholder farmers was crop husbandry as revealed by the majority of rural smallholder farmers 149 (77.6). The study found that majority of rural smallholder farmers 180 (94.8%) were aware of information sources. The study also found that the predominant information sources consulted by rural smallholder farmers were personal experiences as indicated by the majority of rural smallholder farmers 185 (96%). The major challenge faced by rural smallholder farmers was lack of mobility as revealed by the majority of rural smallholder farmers 147 (76.6). The study recommends that the Department of Agriculture Extension Services (DAES) should empower the social structures such as families in rural settings with agricultural information.
18. Information needs and information-seeking behavior in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dutta, Renee (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29001
- Journal Title:
- The International Information and Library Review
- Journal Title Details:
- (2009) 41, 44-51
19. KrishiPustak: a social networking system for low-literate farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ferreira, Pedro (author), Gupta, Nakull (author), O'Neill, Jacki (author), and Cutrell, Edward (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2015-03
- Published:
- ACM New York, NY, USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10907
- Notes:
- 12 pages., CSCW '15 Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, via online database, ACM Digital Library., With the wide penetration of mobile internet, social networking (SN) systems are becoming increasingly popular in the developing world. However, most SN sites are text heavy, and are therefore unusable by low-literate populations. Here we ask what would an SN application for low-literate users look like and how would it be used? We designed and deployed KrishiPustak, an audio-visual SN mobile application for low-literate farming populations in rural India. Over a four month deployment, 306 farmers registered through the phones of eight agricultural mediators making 514 posts and 180 replies. We conducted interviews with farmers and mediators and analyzed the content to understand system usage and to drive iterative design. The context of mediated use and agricultural framing had a powerful impact on system understanding (what it was for) and usage. Overall, KrishiPustak was useful and usable, but none-the-less we identify a number of design recommendations for similar SN systems.
20. Survey shows what farmers want from their lenders
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02-26
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09337
- Notes:
- Farm Progress news item online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page.
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