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2. Adoption as adaptation: Household decision making and changing rural livelihoods in Lombok, Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Williams, Liana J. (author), van Wensveen, Monica (author), Grunbuhel, Clemens (author), and Pupsadi, Ketut (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12575
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 89
- Notes:
- 9 pages, In agricultural research for development adoption of new technology tends to be cast in categories: adoption, partial adoption, dis-adoption or non-adoption. While these may serve for pragmatic classification and measures for project success or impact they fail to properly acknowledge the ongoing and independent efforts of farmers (and others) in experimentation and integration of knowledge across a range of sources. This paper explores responses to practices for cattle management introduced during a research project, at project close, and five years after the project has finished. We consider the perceptions and application of new knowledge by farmers, extension staff, and policy makers. By taking a longer-term view, we demonstrate how farming households adapt and integrate knowledge from different sources into their daily practice, influenced by local institutions and changing cultural expectations, as well as external researchers. We also consider the influence of changing government priorities and incentives in steering farm-management decisions. Results suggest that a focus on measures to build capacity and empower farmers with information to adapt and respond to change, regardless of project activities, is a much more important goal and indicator of impact than measuring adoption.
3. Agriculture, communities, and new social movements: east european ruralities in the process of restructuring
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gorlach, Krzysztof (author), Lostak, Michal (author), and Mooney, Patrick H. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02-01
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12238
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- v24 n2
- Notes:
- 3 pages, 11 pages, This paper examines the usefulness of the new social movements (NSMs) paradigm in the changing context of East European post-communist societies and their agricultural systems and rural communities. Starting with statements formulated in Western sociology in the context of Western democratic societies about NSMs as a protest against modernity, the paper analyses the role of such movements in the still modernizing Eastern European reality. The first part of the paper briefly examines some basic elements of the NSMs paradigm in European and American social science. The goal of this section is not only to identify the basic characteristics of NSMs, but also to identify the typical frames used by them. The second part of the paper focuses on the presence of NSMs in the communist era. Drawing on the idea of NSMs as indicators of a "post-materialist shift" as well as of "anti-establishment" and "pro-participatory democracy", the paper examines the frames of democratic opposition in Eastern Europe before 1989. The final part of the paper considers several selected examples from Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to explore the role of NSMs in the process of shaping new ruralities during the post-communist transformation.
4. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources
- 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.
5. Conflicts over farming practices in Canada: the role of interactive conflict resolution approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Owen, Lorne (author), Waldron, Mark (author), and Howard, Wayne (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-10
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23959
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 475-483
- Notes:
- Interactive conflict resolution approaches found efficient from an economic and social perspective.
6. Digital development in rural areas: potentials and pitfalls
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malecki, Edward J. (author / The Ohio State University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23448
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 19(2) : 201-214
- Notes:
- The potential for rural areas to benefit from telecommunications technology is a persistent question. This article examines data for the USA concerning the "digital divide" and access of residences and businesses, which tend to suggest that all is (or will soon be) well. The article also presents data on aspects of digital infrastructure in rural America, including points of presence and digital telephone switches, which suggest that there are major shortcomings in most rural communities. Demand aggregation is a possible solution, but more serious pitfalls are those related to shortages of human capital. These might be resolved in some rural places, where immigration and return migration bring needed cerebral inputs to rural areas. A final set of improvements concerns how businesses use the Internet and e-commerce. In the end, telecommunications is not a "quick fix" solution for rural development, and the desired improvements will be limited to a fraction of rural places.
7. Landowners' perspectives on the rural future and the role of forests across Europe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Elands, Birgit H.M. (author) and Praestholm, Soren (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27197
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 72-85
8. The petrol station and the Internet cafe: rural technospaces for youth
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Laegran, Anne Sofie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-04
- Published:
- Norway
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23956
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 157-168
- Notes:
- Describes experiences with Internet cafes for youth in two Norwegian villages. "The study challenges the common view of the Internet as symbolically attached to the urban community and a practical means to accomplish global reach."
9. Unpacking the terms of engagement with local food at the Farmers' Market: Insight from Ontario
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smithers, John (author), Joseph, Alun E. (author), and Lamarche, Jeremy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-02-08
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27193
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jrustud.2007.12.009
10. Who is the winner? Relocated rural communities and stratification in urbanizing northwestern China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Song, Jing (author), Du, Huimin (author), and Li, Si-ming (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-20
- Published:
- China: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11856
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal, Under China's “Western Development” plan, inland China has witnessed massive urban expansion and land development, but little is known about the consequent stratification among relocated communities. This study examines the urbanization process on the outskirts of the Municipality of Yinchuan in northwestern China. Previous studies have focused on how urbanization impoverished or enriched rural communities, while this study examines how relocated communities (or teams) were differentiated in their compensation and relocation outcomes, as a combined outcome of policies and resource structures. Quantitative evidence suggests that urbanization has led to both between-team and within-team variations, and qualitative analyses illustrate why even the “lucky” teams always had “unlucky” villagers in compensation outcomes. Between-team variations were often used to mobilize collective resistance to strive for better compensation, but the rise of within-team variations has undermined the grassroots alliance against “unfair” policies. Villagers were more obsessed with individual competition of property investment based on their wealth and self-financing capabilities, but they also complained about “unjust” competition, such as the appropriation of resources based on cadres' privileges and connections. Although individual competition was celebrated under the official neoliberal market-oriented narratives, the decline of collective patronage and the resentment toward cadres' rent-seeking behaviors have added to tensions within relocated communities and contributed to their fragmentation.