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2. Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers' perspectives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kristjanson, P (author), Place, F (author), Franzel, F (author), Thornton, P.K. (author), and International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya International Centre for Research on Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-02-23
- Published:
- Kenya: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10958
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 72(1) : 73-92
- Notes:
- 20 pages, via online journal, In this paper we provide evidence to show that farmers' perspectives on poverty processes and outcomes are critical in the early stages of evaluating impact of agricultural research on poverty. We summarize lessons learned from farmer impact assessment workshops held in five African locations, covering three agro-ecological zones and five different agroforestry and livestock technologies arising from collaborative national–international agricultural research. Poverty alleviation is a process that needs to be understood before impact can be measured. Workshops such as those we describe can help researchers to identify farmers' different ways of managing and using a technology and likely effects, unanticipated impacts, major impacts to pursue in more quantitative studies, the primary links between agricultural technology and poverty, and key conditioning factors affecting adoption and impact that can be used to stratify samples in more formal analyses. Farmer workshops inform other qualitative and quantitative impact assessment methods. We discuss the linkage of farmer-derived information with GIS-based approaches that allow more complete specification of recommendation domains and broader-scale measurement of impact.
3. Avera announces hotline for farmers in crisis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Radke, Amanda (author) and Agweek
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-27
- Published:
- United States: Agweek and Forum Communications Company
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11280
- Notes:
- 3 pages., via website
4. Beyond Participation – Building Farmer Confidence: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ward, Andrew (author), Minja, Eliaineny (author), Blackie, Malcolm (author), Edward-Jones, Gareth (author), and NR International University of Bangor
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12-01
- Published:
- United Kingdom: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10966
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(4) : 259-266
- Notes:
- 7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
5. Farm exit intention and wellbeing: A study of Australian farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Peel, Dominic (author), Berry, Helen L. (author), Schirmer, Jacki (author), and University of Canberra, Australia
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10
- Published:
- Australia: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10964
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(2016) : 41-51
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal, As the agricultural industries of developed countries undergo an extended period of change, increasing numbers of farmers are leaving farming. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between intention to exit farming and farmer wellbeing, drawing on and adapting the conservation of resources theory of stress. In a quantitative analysis of 674 Australian farmers, we show that the more likely a farmer is to leave farming, the poorer their wellbeing; but this is moderated by smaller farm size, greater profitability, earning a larger proportion of income off-farm and older age, all of which attenuate the relationship between exit intention and poorer wellbeing. We conclude that it is important for policy-makers to consider the wellbeing of farmers when designing strategies to assist exiting farmers, as poor wellbeing at exit may reduce capacity to adapt successfully to life after farming.
6. Farmers launch podcast to give insight into agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davies, Isabel (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-05-13
- Published:
- United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27694
- Journal Title:
- Farmer's Weekly
7. Living on the dragon's back: agriculture, environment and rural identity in deep rural Montana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Redlin, Meredith M. (author)
- Format:
- Ph.D. Dissertation Abstract
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 118 Document Number: C13290
- Notes:
- 1 p., University of Kentucky, Lexington
8. Masculinity(s), the agrarian frontier myth, and cooperative ways of organizing: contraditions and tensions in the experience and enactment of democracy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Harter, Lynn M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21084
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communication Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(2) : 89-118
- Notes:
- This study explores how members of the Nebraska Cooperative Council and its constituent producer-owned cooperatives understand and enact democratic ideologies, drawing particular attention to how emergent contraditions and tensions are experienced and managed.
9. Multi-actor co-design of extension interventions: paradoxes arising in three cases in the Republic of Ireland
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Macken-Walsh, Áine (author) and Rural Economy and Development Programme, Republic of Ireland
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04-15
- Published:
- Ireland: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10983
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(3) : 245-265
- Notes:
- 20 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This paper demystifies the processes, methodologies and outputs of three co-design projects, identifying how and to what extent are aims and principles of the multi-actor approach realised and upheld in the field. Implications from the cases for participatory principles are discussed. Design/Methodology/approach: A detailed ethnographic account is presented of three multi-actor co-design cases, supporting diverse readers’ interpretations and learnings. Findings: Three paradoxes were identifiable from the multi-actor processes: (1) outputs can be orphaned when they lack strong identifiers and affiliations with discrete professional communities outside of the co-design team; (2) combining diverse knowledges co-design can generate outputs that are new and strange (rather than familiar and acceptable) to end-users; (3) for Responsible Research and Innovation, co-creating interventions that are challenging (rather than popular) to society may be required. Practical implications: Awareness of dynamics and paradoxes arising in the implementation of multi-actor co-design supports enhanced facilitation of processes and impacts of outcomes. Together, the paradoxes highlight the critical importance of communications and engagement initiatives across diverse communities in the aftermath of co-design efforts. Theoretical implications: Although co-design processes are case-dependent, reflexive accounts of how they play out contribute to the body of knowledge of how co-design may be better understood. The cases in this paper identify paradoxes with implications for principles and theory of multi-actor co-design. Originality/Value: This paper presents a detailed account of three unique co-design processes. Practical and theoretical implications of the cases are identified.
10. Networked learning for agricultural extension: a framework for analysis and two cases
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bennett, M. John (author) and Starasts, Anna (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-24
- Published:
- Australia: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10131
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(7) : 399-414
- Notes:
- 17 pages., Via online journal., Purpose: This paper presents economic and pedagogical motivations for adopting information and communications technology (ICT)-mediated learning networks in agricultural education and extension. It proposes a framework for networked learning in agricultural extension and contributes a theoretical and case-based rationale for adopting the networked learning paradigm. Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights the economic and pedagogical need for adopting a networked learning approach. Two examples are described to instantiate the language for learning networks: a small community of farmers in India and large Twitter community of Australian farmers. Findings: This paper reviews evidence that successful networked learning interventions are already occurring within agricultural extension. It provides a framework for describing these interventions and for helping future designers of learning networks in agricultural extension. Practical implication: Facilitation of learning networks can serve to achieve efficient agricultural extension that connects farmers across distances for constructivist learning. To realize these benefits, designers of learning networks need to consider set design, social design and epistemic design. Theoretical implication: This paper contributes a theoretical framework for designing, implementing and analysing learning networks in agriculture. It does this by integrating existing ideas from networked learning and applying them to the agricultural context through examples. Originality/value: This paper contributes an understanding of the value of networked learning for extension in terms of economic and pedagogical benefits. It provides a language for talking about learning networks that is useful for future researchers and for practitioners.