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2. Beyond perception: A pretest and posttest evaluation of a regional Internet extension inservice training
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Radhakrishna, Rama (author), Lippert, Robert M. (author), and Plank, Owen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11064
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 38 (2)
- Notes:
- 8 pages
3. Factors influencing access to integrated soil fertility management information and knowledge and its uptake among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gwandu, T. (author), Mtambanengwe, F. (author), Mapfumo, P. (author), Mashavave, T.C. (author), Chikowo, R. (author), and Nezomba, H. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Zimbabwe
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05675
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 79-93
- Notes:
- Highlights effectiveness of extension agents, learning centers and farmer-to-farmer interactions.
4. Information communication and community forestry development in Shinyanga
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Otsyina, J. A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-04
- Published:
- USA: Academy Science Publishers
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27177
- Journal Title:
- Discovery and Innovation
- Journal Title Details:
- Special issue, pp. 82-89
5. Stakeholders' mental models of soil food value chain in the Everglades
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Friedrichsen, Claire N. (author), Daroub, Samira H. (author), Monroe, Martha C. (author), Stepp, John R. (author), and Gerber, Stefan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10497
- Journal Title:
- Geoderma
- Journal Title Details:
- 343: 166-175
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via online journal., Peri-urban environments, where agriculture and urbanization interact, pose unique challenges for soil management. In Miami-Dade County, Florida USA, this interaction is especially important; a population of 2.7 million lives in an urban county with only 6% of the area zoned agriculture. Miami-Dade County is a major producer of tropical fruit and winter vegetables for the U.S., and is located within the Everglades ecosystem. Relatively little information is known about research and extension within peri-urban environments concerning soil health and management. Ethnopedological work has contributed to ethno-scientific knowledge by bridging the communication gap between scientists and locals concerning soil taxonomies, soil health, and soil fertility management. This study explores mental models of farmers and experts, examining the communication gap concerning soil health and food security. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from farmers (n = 19) and experts (n = 13). All stakeholders perceived pressures from urbanization as the main barrier to farmers' ability to continue to produce food, maintain their soil health, and contribute to national food security. The mental models of farmers reveal their ability to continue farming depends on their ability to construct and sustain a system—the soil food value chain. In this system, the farmer generates farm capital from a combination of high quality products, lower quality produce, and culls. This farm capital includes value-added products or soil amendments. However, experts did not perceive their responsibility to include maintaining a system, rather, only improving production. Experts' research and extension focused on improving product quality, increasing yield, decreasing cost of production, and minimizing the environmental impact of production. The mental models of farmers suggest research and extension related to building and maintaining the entire soil food value chain would increase the likelihood the farmers would better care for their soil and be profitable. This research contributes to the literature by recognizing the importance of examining the barriers to soil communication between stakeholders, as well as the importance to include examining soil within the larger food system.