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    2. A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Coteur, Ine (author), Marchand, Fleur (author), Debruyne, Lies (author), Dalemans, Floris (author), and Lauwers, Ludwig (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016-09
    Published:
    Belgium: Elsevier B.V., Box 882 New York NY 10159 United States
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08210
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
    Journal Title Details:
    60: 16-23

    3. Farmer knowledge and perception of production constraints in Northwest Cambodia

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Montgomery, Stephanie C. (author), Martin, Robert J. (author), Guppy, Chris (author), Wright, Graeme C. (author), Tighe, Matthew K. (author), and Agronomy and Soil Science, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017-11
    Published:
    Australia: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10937
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    56(2017) : 12-21
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    9 pages, via online journal, Upland farming in Northwest Cambodia has developed rapidly over the last 20 years, with limitations to the plough based system now apparent, including soil degradation and reductions in yield and profitability. A survey was conducted in order to prioritise the main constraints to production, to aid in future research planning, and to identify potential beneficial modifications to the current system. Three hundred and ninety one farmers were interviewed regarding their current farming system constraints, knowledge of conservation agriculture and their future plans in the Districts of Samlout in Battambang Province and Sala Krau in Pailin Province. Perceived major problems in the farming system were extreme climate events such as droughts and heavy rain, declining crop yields, and cash flow shortages, particularly in the pre-monsoon period. This is a plough based farming system, yet 66% of farmers had heard of conservation agriculture, and 59% wanted to learn more about conservation agriculture practices. Two thirds of farmers were interested in how to grow crops in the post-monsoon dry season on residual soil moisture. The survey highlighted opportunities for farmer education and adoption of farming system modifications to improve productivity and sustainability of the farming system in Northwest Cambodia, and assist with climate change adaptation.

    4. Farmer participatory research: Why extension workers should understand and facilitate farmers’ role transitions

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hauser, Michael (author), Lindtner, Mara (author), Prehsler, Sarah (author), Probst, Lorenz (author), and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016-07-30
    Published:
    Austria: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10962
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    47(2016) : 52-61
    Notes:
    9 pages, via online journal, Farmers who engage in farmer participatory research (FPR) change their established social roles in households and communities. As such, comprehension of farmers’ role transitions is important to understand the extrinsic and intrinsic factors impeding or supporting the uptake and use of FPR by farmers. The existing FPR literature, however, does not address such role transitions. In this study, we analyzed farmers’ experiences with FPR and underlying role transitions in a commercial organic agriculture project in western Uganda. We drew on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews, group discussions, and observations involving farmers and extension workers. Our results suggest extrinsic and intrinsic factors affect farmers’ self-conception, influencing their willingness to participate in FPR. The level of alignment between the self-conception and the anticipated role determines farmers’ decision regarding participation in FPR and affects their response pattern. Farmers’ response pattern and individual set of inhibitors and facilitators lead to the experience of role insufficiency or role mastery, which is crucial for farmers’ continuation or termination of on-farm experiments. Understanding and facilitating role transitions is, therefore, essential for sustaining on-farm experiments, which complements current technical FPR training.

    6. Integrated Pest Management and Protection Practices by Limited Resource Farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Tackie, Nii O. (author), Jackai, Louis E.N. (author), Ankumah, Ramble (author), Dingha, Beatrice N. (author), Salifu, Abdul-Wahab (author), and Ojumu, Oluwagbemiga (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2009-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29214
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 47, No. 1

    7. Multi-Dimensional Motivations and Experiences of Small-Scale Farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Iles, Keri (author), Ma, Zhao (author), and Nixon, Rebecca (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-09-19
    Published:
    United States: Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12512
    Journal Title:
    Society & Natural Resources
    Journal Title Details:
    34 (3)
    Notes:
    Preconceived notions exist about small-scale farmers in the U.S. Beyond research on new and beginning farmers, few empirical studies have learned directly from small-scale farmers in the U.S. about their perspectives and experiences. By analyzing semi-structured interviews of small-scale farmers in Indiana, this study develops an in-depth understanding of the multi-dimensional motivations and experiences of small-scale farmers and the interconnected, multi-scalar challenges they face. The lack of social infrastructure to support small-scale farmers becomes paramount as they contend with dilemmas of engaging in pluriactivity, securing reliable labor, and navigating relationship building with consumers and peers for both short-term profits and long-term social capital. This study contributes to understanding how small-scale farmers’ motivations, experiences, challenges, and strategies interact to shape their relationship to the land, their farming enterprise, and their perception of and position in the larger agro-ecological-social-economic system, and highlights the need to improve social infrastructure to support small-scale farmers.

    8. The role of self-control, hope and information in technology adoption by smallholder farmers – A moderation model

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bukchin, Shira (author), Kerret, Dorit (author), and Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-01-18
    Published:
    Israel: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11219
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    73(2020) : 1-9
    Notes:
    9 pages, via online journal, The overall willingness of smallholder farmers to adopt new green technologies remains low, in spite of the great progress made in understanding the factors that affect their decision. The present study introduces an interdisciplinary approach combining positive psychology and sustainable development studies to show that two personal resources – self-control (a learned repertoire of goal-directed skills that enable people to act upon their aims) and cognitive goal-oriented hope (the ability to follow different routes to pursue one's goal), prompt the adoption of technologies by smallholder farmers. Both personal resources facilitate achieving future goals and changing existing circumstances. A theoretical moderation model on the adoption of agricultural technologies aimed to protect soil degradation in Nepal is proposed and empirically tested. Data were collected from 268 households in the Jhapa district by a face-to-face questionnaire. A multiple regression analysis tested and confirmed the hypothesized moderation model. Following the discovery of a significant interaction, the nature of the interaction was farther explored by calculating simple slopes. Analysis results show a significant positive connection between self-control (p-value = 0.002), hope (p-value = 0.005), information (p-value &lt; 0.001), and technology adoption. Self-control was also found to have a significant moderating effect in enhancing a positive association between receiving information and technology adoption (p-value = 0.017). In addition to its theoretical innovation and empirical contribution, the importance of this study lies in its practical implications, given that policy, education, and communication may influence hope and self-control levels.