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    1. 2016 media kit

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Publication
    Publication Date:
    2016
    Published:
    USA: Meredith Agrimedia, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06566
    Notes:
    31 pages., Describes media platforms and information services provided by Meredith Agrimedia.

    2. Agricultural extension: criteria to determine its visibility and accountability in resource poor communities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hlatshwayo, P. P. K. (author) and Worth, S.H. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-08-08
    Published:
    South Africa: African Journals Online
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12673
    Journal Title:
    South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 47, N. 2
    Notes:
    8 pages, Agricultural extension can be defined as the entire set of organisations that support and facilitate people engaged in agricultural production to solve problems and to obtain information, skills and technologies to improve their livelihoods and well-being. Extension officials should ensure that farmers are engaged and capacitated so that they can make production decisions that are not in conflict with nature, yet such decisions ensure that their well-being is improved. With 75% of the world’s poor living in rural areas, the topic of improved agriculture through agricultural extension is viewed as central to poverty reduction. There have been questions posed by stakeholders (communities, policy-makers and politicians) about the non-visibility and accountability of agricultural extension in the communities that it is supposed to help. There are however a number of factors (perceived or real) that make agricultural extension less or not visible nor accountable. Therefore, this paper investigates and proposes a theoretical framework or model to ensure that agricultural extension is visible and accountable to all stakeholders. This will in turn ensure that there are noticeable increases or improvement of the lives of the resource poor farmers and communities.

    3. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wójcik, Marcin (author), Jeziorska-Biel, Pamela (author), and Czapiewski, Konrad (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-03-09
    Published:
    Poland: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10245
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    67: 130-141
    Notes:
    12 pages., Via online journal., This article is concerned with the shaping of agricultural knowledge among farmers, in the context of the rapid changes Polish agriculture has been subject to since the time of the country's EU accession. The theoretical underpinnings of this work have been described in terms of the significant notional categories, i.e. knowledge, knowledge-cultures and sources of knowledge. The research made use of the joint interviews method. Interviews were run with representatives of different generations in 10 farming families in central Poland. The main research objective was to determine sources of farming knowledge among farmers. The use of joint interviews allowed for the identification of sources of knowledge of different kinds. These reflect a division into farmers' closer and more distant surroundings, i.e. to the family and neighbours on the one hand, and to institutions and media on the other. Knowledge acquisition among farmers is in fact found to be a complex process, reflecting socialisation in a multi-generation environment of family and neighbours, on the one hand, and the impact of the institutional and legal system, on the other. In a general sense, this corresponds to the well-known division of sources of knowledge into the tacit and the explicit, with the acquisition of tacit (i.e. informal) knowledge not meeting with any more major obstacles thanks to proximity in a sense that may be cultural (i.e. the agriculture itself), family-related (and in fact multi-generation) and spatial (physical proximity in a given locality). Microsocial conditioning thus plays a major role in the shaping of this source of knowledge. However, the most important factor distinguishing contemporary cultures as regards knowledge on farming is the capacity to adapt to conditions set by the institutions supporting the latter's development. Formal knowledge flowing into farming families from their institutional surroundings requires growing adaptability and preparation if a succession of innovations are to be taken on board. The multi-source nature of knowledge and the achievement of some kind of balance in this respect actually poses a major challenge for the future functioning of family farms as cultural microsystems.

    8. Facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural area

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jarvandi, Soghra (author), Johnson, Kristen (author), and Franck, Karen (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2022-06-16
    Published:
    United States: Clemson University Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12614
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 60 Iss. 2
    Notes:
    7 pgs, Farmers’ markets may improve access to healthful foods in rural areas. Our objective was to identify facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural county. We collected data via surveys, focus group sessions, and key informant interviews. Study participants identified the two existing farmers’ markets as community assets. Barriers to use farmers’ markets included inconvenient market hours, not accepting nutrition assistance program benefits, limited transportation, and limited variety. Interventions to improve food access should include ways to meet the needs of specific populations such as low-income residents and residents living in outlying areas without farmers’ markets.

    9. Friendships sustain volunteer newspaper for 21 years

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smethers, J. Steven (author), Bressers, Bonnie (author), and Mwangi, Sam C. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09684
    Journal Title:
    Newspaper Research Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    38(3) : 379-391
    Notes:
    Case report of the Prairie Dog Press, durable volunteer-based community newspaper in Almena, Kansas.

    10. How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Unay‑Gailhard, İlkay (author) and Brennen, Mark A. (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2022-08-01
    Published:
    USA: Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12601
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Notes:
    18pgs, Can the power of digital communications create opportunities for overcoming generational renewal problems on farms? This interdisciplinary review explores the reported impacts of digital communication on career initiation into farming from a global perspective via the lens of career theories. Seventy-three papers were synthesized into two domains: (1) the impact of digital communication interactions on farming career initiation, and (2) the dynamics of digital communication initiatives that create opportunities to inspire youth into farming. The finding shows that the mainstream literature primarily aims to support the continuity of farming careers but pay little attention to the potential of digital communication to attract youth into farming. This review argues that career communications for farming receives insufficient attention, and could be better integrated into agricultural communications strategies by using the potential of digital communications. Study concludes that while economic and geographic factors, as well as societal and cultural norms, lead to negative perceptions on farming careers, there are three pathways that may contribute to breaking down these negative perceptions. Firstly, taking the changing nature of career motivations, such as the trend towards sustainable farming linked to self-fulfillment, among today’s youth into consideration is essential. Secondly, highlighting technological advances in digital agriculture practices, like geographical flexibility or innovation capacity of farming, for example, is important to increase awareness about new opportunities in the profession. Lastly, communication campaigns with targeted groups (e.g., young females) play a role to change the negative perceptions of the rural way of life and the farming profession.