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2. A semiotic analysis of a Texas Cooperative Extension marketing packet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rutherford, Tracy (author) and Edgar, Leslie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00322
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 96(1) : 15-28
3. Committing to place: museum outreach as NRM extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vanclay, Frank (author), Lane, Ruth (author), Lucas, Damian (author), Wills, Jo (author), Coates, Ian (author), and Henry, Sophie (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2006-03-06
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24273
- Notes:
- 9 p. Paper presented at the Australasia Pacific Extension Network in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, March 6-8, 2006
4. Creating inclusive extension programs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McKee, Katherine E. (author) and Bruce, Jacklyn A. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12
- Published:
- Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11148
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(6)
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Article # 6COM1, via online journal., To develop more inclusive programs, Extension professionals should attend to self-awareness, communication, and program structure. We suggest engaging in reflection and examining word choices and program decisions to make programs more welcoming to all members of the communities we serve. Extension professionals should incorporate these practices in their work to meet the needs of increasingly diverse communities.
5. Evaluation of illustration-based educational materials in El Salvador, Central America
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Place, Nick T. (author), Cornejo, Camilo (author), and Haman, Dorota Z. (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2005-05-25
- Published:
- El Salvador
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24335
- Journal Title Details:
- 21
- Notes:
- James J. Connors of The Ohio State University edited the proceedings., 12 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
6. To diversify or not to diversify, that is the question. Pursuing agricultural development for smallholder farmers in marginal areas of Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bellon, Mauricio R. (author), Kotu, Bekele Hundie (author), Azzarri, Carlo (author), and Caracciolo, Francesco (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09-18
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11076
- Journal Title:
- World Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 125
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online resource., Many smallholder farmers in developing countries grow multiple crop species on their farms, maintaining de facto crop diversity. Rarely do agricultural development strategies consider this crop diversity as an entry point for fostering agricultural innovation. This paper presents a case study, from an agricultural research-for-development project in northern Ghana, which examines the relationship between crop diversity and self-consumption of food crops, and cash income from crops sold by smallholder farmers in the target areas. By testing the presence and direction of these relationships, it is possible to assess whether smallholder farmers may benefit more from a diversification or a specialization agricultural development strategy for improving their livelihoods. Based on a household survey of 637 randomly selected households, we calculated crop diversity as well as its contribution to self-consumption (measured as imputed monetary value) and to cash income for each household. With these data we estimated a system of three simultaneous equations. Results show that households maintained high levels of crop diversity: up to eight crops grown, with an-average of 3.2 per household, and with less than 5% having a null or very low level of crop diversity. The value of crop species used for self-consumption was on average 55% higher than that of crop sales. Regression results show that crop diversity is positively associated with self-consumption of food crops, and cash income from crops sold. This finding suggests that increasing crop diversity opens market opportunities for households, while still contributing to self-consumption. Given these findings, crop diversification seems to be more beneficial to these farmers than specialization. For these diversified farmers, or others in similar contexts, interventions that assess and build on their de facto crop diversity are probably more likely to be successful.