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42. Ted Spiegel rice photos
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Spiegel, Ted (author)
- Format:
- Film
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 200 Document Number: D09827
- Notes:
- No date. Has been digitized and added to University Library Medusa Repository - Collection Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Multimedia Collection, Repository ACES (Funk) Library
43. The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Liu, Yanyan (author), Barrett, Christopher B. (author), Pham, Trinh (author), and Violette, William (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-01
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11867
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 94
- Notes:
- 14 pages, via online journal, We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to 2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to the structural transformation of rural Vietnam, especially within the agricultural sector. Our study adds to the emerging literature on structural transformation in low-income countries using micro-level data and helps to answer several policy-related questions. We find limited employment creation potential of agriculture, especially for youth. Rural-urban real wage convergence has gone hand-in-hand with increased diversification of the rural economy into the non-farm sector nationwide and rapid advances in educational attainment in all sectors’ and regions’ workforce. Minimum wage laws seem to have played no significant role in increasing agricultural wages. This enhanced integration also manifests in steady attenuation of the longstanding inverse farm size-yield relationship. Farming has remained securely household-based and the family farmland distribution has remained largely unchanged. Small farm sizes have not obstructed mechanization nor the uptake of labor-saving pesticides, consistent with factor substitution induced by rising real wage rates. As rural households rely more heavily on the labor market, human capital accumulation (rather than land endowments) have become the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.
44. UK Consumers’ Preferences for Ethical Attributes of Floating Rice: Implications for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture in Vietnam
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hong Tu, Vo (author), Kopp, Steven (author), Thuy Trang, Nguyen (author), Kontoleon, Andreas (author), and Yabe, Mitsuyasu (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-27
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12510
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 (15)
- Notes:
- 27 pages, Vietnam plays an important role in bearing global food security. However, Vietnamese rice farmers face several challenges, including pressures to develop sustainable livelihoods while reducing the environmental impacts of their production activities. Various Vietnamese agricultural restructuring policies were promulgated to promote the adoption of environmentally friendly practices to generate high value added for rice farmers, but the farmers are reluctant to adopt them because of perceived lack of demand. Decreasing consumption of rice in Asia and increasing demands in Europe shaped Vietnamese rice exporting policies. New trade agreements, such as the UK–Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, offer new target markets for Vietnamese rice farmers. This research provides empirical evidence related to the preferences of UK consumers for ethical attributes for floating rice imported from Vietnam. Floating rice represents a traditional method of rice cultivation that relies on the natural flooding cycle. Its cultivation uses very few agrochemical inputs and provides several other environmental, economic, and social benefits. In an online survey, the study used a choice experiment that asked 306 UK consumers to report their preferences for one kilo of floating rice with three non-market attributes: reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, allocation of profits to the farmers, and restitution of biodiversity. Overall, study participants favored the attributes of floating rice, but reported utility for only the “fair trade” attribute and for a marginal willingness to pay premiums for profit allocations to farmers. Consumers did not find value in either CO2 emission reduction or biodiversity improvement. Results from the study provide recommendations to develop agricultural programs, distribution strategies, and informational methods to encourage floating rice consumption in the UK.
45. Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptations to precipitation and temperature variability: evidence from northern Iran
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Allahyari, Mohammad Sadegh (author), Ghavami, Sahereh (author), Masuleh, Zahra Daghighi (author), Michailidis, Anastoasios (author), and Nastis, Stefanos A. (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12-03
- Published:
- Iran
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08762
- Journal Title:
- Climate
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(4), 58
- Notes:
- 16 pages.
46. Who cares what parents think or do? observational learning and experience-based learning through communication in rice farmers’ willingness to adopt sustainable agricultural technologies in hubei province, china
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zeng, Yangmei (author), Zhang, Junbiao (author), He, Ke (author), and Cheng, Linlin (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Germany: Springer-Verlag
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205; Folder: +ACDC ACES Document Number: D12735
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Sustainable agricultural technologies are of great significance in fully utilizing agricultural resources and promoting agricultural production. However, the adoption rates of these technologies are often characterized as low in rural areas in China. To figure out the potential salient determinants of rice farmers’ willingness to adopt sustainable agricultural technologies, this paper, by employing the multivariate probit model and ordered probit model, particularly and firstly explores the roles of observational learning and experience-based learning through communication from parents within the household on rice farmers’ willingness to adopt these technologies. Results show that there are strong complementarities and substitutabilities between sustainable agricultural technologies that rice farmers are willing to adopt, and that observational learning and experience-based learning through communication within the household do have pronounced effects on rice farmers’ willingness to adopt some sustainable agricultural technologies and on their intensive use intentions. Therefore, while formulating policies to improve the adoption rates and adoption intensity of these technologies, relevant government agencies should take the complementarities and substitutabilities between sustainable agricultural technologies as well as observational learning and experience-based learning through communication from parents into consideration.
47. Working toward sustainable agricultural intensification in the Red River Delta of Vietnam
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Morton, Lois Wright (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-05
- Published:
- USA: Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11864
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 75
- Notes:
- 8 pages, via online journal, Dense networks of rivers, canals, ditches, dikes, sluice gates, and compartmented fields have enabled the farms of the Red River Delta to produce 18% of Vietnam's rice (Oryza sativa) crop (figure 1), 26% of the country's vegetable crops, and 20% of capture and farmed aquaculture (Redfern et al. 2012). Agriculture in this fertile delta was transformed in the 11th and 13th century AD by large-scale hydraulic projects to protect the delta from flooding and saltwater intrusion, and provide field drainage during the wet season and crop irrigation in the dry season (Tinh 1999). The 20th century brought advancements in agricultural science globally—new crops and livestock genetics, inorganic fertilizers, mechanization, and pesticides that could double and triple food production per unit of land. It was the diesel pump combined with post-Vietnam War agricultural collectivization from 1975 to 1988 that brought the Green Revolution to the Red River Delta.