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32. Root retires
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nash, Erin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11290
- Journal Title:
- Airing on the Side of Agriculture
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Posted online February 12, 2020., Describes career and retirement plans of Ken Root, veteran agricultural broadcaster and former executive director of NAFB.
33. Scheduling for rural and urban listeners in bilingual Radio Zimbabwe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mano, Winston (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Intellect Ltd
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29201
- Journal Title:
- The Radio Journal - International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 93-106, 2005
34. Study shows consistent listenership
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11030
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(7) : 24
- Notes:
- Summarizes findings of a 2019 survey among U.S. farmers regarding their daily information sources for farming, agricultural news, weather and markets. "Even as new information sources appear and some farmers partake in them, traditional farm-news sources like radio continue to show broad-based strength."
35. The effectiveness of audio media in enhancing farmers' knowledge: the case of smallholder banana farmers in western Uganda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kaahwa, Mark (author), Zhu, Chang (author), Muhumuza, Moses (author), Mutyebere, Rodgers (author), and Karemera, Charles (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Uganda
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11374
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science and IT
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(2) : 68-90
- Notes:
- 23 pages., Authors used a baseline survey, an intervention, and an end line survey to assess farmers' knowledge of farming practices, knowledge level, and relationship between information source and knowledge gain. Interventions were provided by radio broadcasts and audio CDs. Findings suggested that '...audio media remains a vital source of information for resource-poor farmers and can greatly enhance their agricultural knowledge when audio media is used as an intervention."
36. The future of farm broadcasting
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Root, Ken (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10383
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(3) : 58
- Notes:
- In a special section: "Salute to NAFB: 75th anniversary!"
37. Uncertain time challenges farm broadcasters
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wick, Don (author / Red River Farm Network, Grand Forks, North Dakota)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D11637
- Journal Title:
- Airing on the Side of Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- May
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Online from publisher., Describes how he and his associates are adjusting their farm reporting activities during restrictions and impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
38. Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thinda, K.T. (author), Ogundeji, A.A. (author), Belle, J.A. (author), and Ojo, T.O. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11872
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 99
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Climatic change has a negative impact on people’s livelihoods, agriculture, freshwater supply and other natural resources that are important for human survival. Therefore, understanding how rural smallholder farmers perceive climate change, climate variability, and factors that influence their choices would facilitate a better understanding of how these farmers adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. A Zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa. Different socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, and experience in crop farming, institutional factors like access to extension services, and access to climate change information significantly influenced the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa. Concerning intensity of adoption, age, educational level, farming experience, on-farm training, off-farm income, access to information through ICT and locational variables are the significant determinants of intensity of adaptation strategies. Thus, education attainment, non-farm employment, farming experience are significant incentives to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity through the adoption of many adaptation approaches. This study therefore concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers, particularly during the off-cropping season. The income from non-farm employment can be plough-back into farm operations such as the adoption of soil and water conservation, use of improved planting varieties, insurance, among others to mitigate climate variability and subsequently increase productivity. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting education, providing on-farm demonstration trainings, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Thus, the government, stakeholders, and donor agencies must provide capacity-building innovations around the agricultural extension system and education on climate change using information and communication technologies.
39. Utilisation of mobile phones in accessing agricultural information by smallholder farmers in Dzindi Irrigation Scheme in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Holmner, Marlene (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Published:
- International: African Journals Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12100
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 29 No. 1
- Notes:
- 21 pgs., CTs (Communications technologies) have revolutionized agricultural information services at every level in the agricultural sector, thus impacting rural development and catalysing poverty alleviation strategies. This has largely been the case with small-scale farmers in rural areas in developing countries where mobile technologies have penetrated more than most other ICT tools. However, in some of the farming environments, mobile phone use is largely driven by agricultural extension workers. This paper seeks to examine the way mobile phones are used for information access in situations where agricultural extension workers are a critical intermediary in the agricultural information services. Interviews were conducted with 10 randomly selected farmers who were part of the Dzindi irrigation scheme. The findings were that from the variety of information available to the farmers the most important source was the extension officer. The extension officer and the radio were indicated to be the most reliable independent sources of information. The other sources, such as the radio, family members, and friends, suppliers of chemicals, books and magazines, were only considered reliable if the information could be verified or vouched for by the extension officer. Increasing the information handling skills of extension officers, training of farmers to use smart features of their phones and promoting the usual face-to-face communication use of conventional methods, which is what usually gives rise to the mediation of mobile phones, were recommended.
40. Warming the Arctic air: Cultural politics and Alaska native radio
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Daley, P. (author) and James, B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: European Inst. Communication Culture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27161
- Journal Title:
- Javnost - The Public
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 49-60
- Notes:
- Published in 1998.