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2. Appraisal methods to evaluate farmer field schools
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jiggins, Janice (author) and Mancini, Francesca (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36046
- Notes:
- Pages 73-84 in Nina Lilja, John Dixon and Deborah Eade (eds.), Participatory research and gender analysis. Routledge, London, England. 208 pages.
3. Community-based extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miano, David Mwangi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-12
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Brussels, Belgium
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00200
- Journal Title:
- Spore
- Journal Title Details:
- 156
- Notes:
- Via website. 2 pages.
4. Developing innovative extension systems within a rapidly changing global economy during the 21st Century
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Swanson, Burton E. (author) and Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2011-06
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00318
- Notes:
- PowerPoint presentation at U.S. Agency for International Development agriculture core course, Washington, D.C. 20 pages.
5. Is Agricultural Extension Helping the Poor? Evidence from Rural Mozambique
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cunguara, Benedito (author) and Moder, Karl (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-05-11
- Published:
- International: Oxford Academic
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12490
- Journal Title:
- Journal of African Economies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 20 (4)
- Notes:
- 35 pages, Mozambique remains predominantly poor. The official statistics show that poverty incidence barely changed from 54% in 2002–03 to 55% in 2008–09, which stands way above the government's target of 45% by the year 2009. This places the country off-target to cut hunger and poverty by half by 2015, despite an annual economic growth of about 7% in the period 1994–2010. In rural areas, poverty levels have slightly increased, due to the underperformance of the agricultural sector. Extension services can have a significant impact on poverty reduction through stimulating growth in agricultural productivity. Based on a nationally representative household survey from Mozambique, this paper uses three econometric models, namely an OLS regression, the doubly robust estimator and matching and regression to estimate the economic impact of receipt of extension. The results suggest that the receipt of extension increases farm incomes by 12%. However, rather than crafting resource-poor technologies, extension services tend to target wealthier households who are relatively more likely to adopt the existing technologies. This might increase income inequality. The impact of extension, and therefore its contribution to poverty reduction, can be enhanced through several mechanisms (e.g., programme design and the number of staff).
6. Participatory research and gender analysis: new approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lilja, Nina (author), Dixon, John (author), and Eade, Deborah (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- International: Routledge, London, England.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36044
- Notes:
- 208 pages.
7. Roles and changes within the pluralistic Extension systems in different regions and countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Swanson, Burton E. (author) and Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2011-03-29
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00319
- Notes:
- Paper presented at "New perspectives on rural extension," U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2011. 21 pages.
8. Rural Farmers' Problems Accessing Agricultural Information: A Case Study of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Obidike, Nnenna (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-11-01
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12353
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 660
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Rural farmers account for the greater part of the population of any developing country such as Nigeria. Governments of developing countries have a major responsibility of ensuring that there is adequate rural development in their various communities and local governments which would lead to effective and efficient agricultural systems that will not only supply food and animal protein but also foster the utilization of natural resources in a sustainable manner (CGIAR, 1995). When the rural farmers lack access to knowledge and information that would help them achieve maximum agricultural yield, they are not only grope in the dark but are driven to the urban centres in search of formal employment, as the only option for survival (Munyua, 2000). Blait (1996) pointed out that the least expensive input for improved rural agricultural development is adequate access to knowledge and information in areas of new agricultural technologies, early warning systems (drought, pests, diseases etc), improved seedlings, fertilizer, credit, market prices etc. There have been short-comings of traditional print and library based methods (Van and Fortier, 2000) of providing such agricultural information to rural farmers who are generally illiterate and relatively remote from formal sources of information (e.g. extension stations, libraries). Aina (2007) also, was of the opinion that farmers would benefit from global information, if information centres, are cited in rural areas complete with all information and communication gadgets. Rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu state are not noted to produce enough food, probably due to some constraints that lead to lack of access to timely and up-to-date information which would have enabled them to achieve optimal yield from their farmlands. Such information is highly desired by these farmers and can only be made available to them via extension workers, community libraries, state and local government agricultural agencies (ADP, ENADEP etc), e-mail or the World Wide Web (WWW) in a telecentre (Telecommons Development Group, 2000). In this modern day of information technology, telecentres provide the rural farmers with prompt and reliable information about what is happening in areas of improved seedlings, better methods of cultivation and fertilizer application, pest and weed control/eradication, new advances in livestock production and disease control etc. Where rural farmers are not faced with constraints in accessing agricultural information, traditional media such as rural radio, has been used in delivering agricultural messages to rural farmers (Munyua, 2000). Other ways of delivering these messages or information to the rural farmers include print, video, television, films, slides, pictures, drama, dance, folklore, group discussions, meetings, exhibitions and demonstrations (Munyua, 2000). The lack of access to basic agricultural knowledge and information by rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State which may be as a result of certain constraints has made these farmers to stick to their old traditional methods of farming system and animal husbandry practice, hence resulting in poor crop and livestock productivity. Information and knowledge are very vital in agricultural development of any community and where they are poorly disseminated as a result of certain constraints, the community’s agricultural development becomes highly impeded. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the constraints of the rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State in accessing agricultural information.
9. The new digital (s)tage: barriers to the adoption and adaptation of new technologies to deliver extension programming and how to address them
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Seger, Jamie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36662
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(1) : 1FEA1
- Notes:
- Via online issue. 5 pages.
10. Threats and challenges to sustainable agriculture and rural development in Egypt: implications for agricultural extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Baig, M.B. (author), Shalaby, M.Y. (author), Al-Zahrani, K.H. (author), Straquandine, G.S. (author), and Aldosari, F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Egypt
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00294
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(3) : 581-588
- Notes:
- Via Directory of Open Access Journals