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42. Rural information needs as seen by : Paul Weaver
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weaver, Paul (author / Member, Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, Harrisburg, PA)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07767
- Journal Title:
- Rural Libraries
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (2) : 45-47
- Notes:
- Evans; NAL Quick Bibliography Series QB 92-18
43. Rural tourism to promote territories along the ancient roads of communication: Case study of the rediscovery of the St. Francis's Ways between Florence and La Verna
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bambi, Gianluca (author), Iacobelli, Simona (author), Rossi, Giuseppe (author), Pellegrini, Paolo (author), and Barberi, Matteo (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11335
- Journal Title:
- Sciendo
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(3) : 462-474
- Notes:
- Via online., "This research project aimed at identifying a new network of routes and historical itineraries for the development and promotion of rural tourism in the Tuscany Region, by promoting forms of sustainable mobility in rural areas, particularly marginal ones." Examples: shrines, churches, abbeys, hermitages and sacred places.
44. Securing the future of US agriculture: the case for investing in new entry sustainable farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlisle, Liza; (author), de Wit, Maywa Montenegro (author), DeLonge, Marcia S. (author), Calo, Adam (author), Getz, Christy (author), Ory, Joanna (author), Munden-Dixon, Katherine (author), Galt, Ryan (author), Melone, Brett (author), Knox, Reggie (author), Iles, Alastaire (author), and Press, Daniel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: University of California Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12775
- Journal Title:
- Elementa
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 7, I. 1
- Notes:
- Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in the United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health crisis, and a rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural workforce: both because the current farm population is aging, and because sustainable agriculture is knowledge-intensive work that substitutes experiential knowledge of farm ecosystems for harmful industrial inputs. Given its social value, sustainable agriculture ought to be a welcoming profession. But at present, US agriculture is decidedly unwelcoming for nearly all who work in it – and it puts new entry and sustainable farmers at a distinct disadvantage. In this paper, we first examine why it is so hard to enter and succeed in sustainable farming. We find that new entrants struggle to gain critical access, assets, and assistance, encountering substantial barriers that stand between them and the land, capital, markets, equipment, water, labor, and training and technical assistance they need to succeed. Secondly, we review promising policy and civil society interventions targeted at addressing these barriers, nearly all of which have already been piloted at the local and state levels or through modest public funding. These interventions are most effective, we find, when they are linked up through robustly governed networks to provide “wraparound” coverage for new entry sustainable farmers. Such networks can help patch together complementary sources of support (e.g. federal, state, local, NGO, cooperative) and synergistically address multiple barriers at once. Finally, we propose additional interventions that are more aspirational today, but that could offer important pathways to support new sustainable farmers in the longer term.
45. Serving under-serviced areas in South Africa: The potential for Wi-Fi community network deployment and the role of regulation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Morris, C. (author) and Van Gorp, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27178
- Journal Title:
- Info
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 65-78
- Notes:
- Published in 2008.
46. Soy dairy performance metrics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Krause, Julia (author), Cornelius M. (author), Goldsmith, P. (author), and Mzungu, M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-01
- Published:
- Kenya: Africa Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12993
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V.21, N.10
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Soybean (Glycine max (L. Merr.) has been a crop of interest to address both poverty and malnutrition in the developing world because of its high levels of both protein and oil, and its adaptability to grow in tropical environments. Development practitioners and policymakers have long sought value added opportunities for local crops to move communities out of poverty by introducing processing or manufacturing technologies. Soy dairy production technologies sit within this development conceptual model. To the researchers’ knowledge, no research to date measures soy dairy performance, though donors and NGOs have launched hundreds of enterprises over the last 18 years. The lack of firm-level data on operations limits the ability of donors and practitioners to fund and site sustainable dairy businesses. Therefore, the research team developed and implemented a recordkeeping system and training program first, as a 14-month beta test with a network of five dairies in Ghana and Mozambique in 2016-2017. Learning from the initial research then supported a formal research rollout over 18 months with a network of six different dairies in Malawi and key collaboration from USAID’s Agricultural Diversification activity. None of the beta or rollout dairies kept records prior to the intervention. The formal rollout resulted in a unique primary dataset to address the soy dairy performance knowledge gap. The results of analysis show that the dairies, on average, achieve positive operating margins of 61%, yet cannot cover the fixed costs associated with depreciation, amortization of equipment and infrastructure, working capital, marketing and promotion, and regulatory compliance. The enterprises in our sample operate only at 9% of capacity, which limits their ability to cover the normal fixed costs associated with the business. The challenge is not the technology itself, as when operated, it produces a high-quality dairy product. The challenges involve a business that requires too much capital for normal operations relative to a nascent and small addressable market.
47. Stakeholder involvement in agri-environmental policy making - Learning from a local- and state-level approach in Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Prager, Katrin (author) and Freese, Jan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29002
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 90 (2009) 1154-1167
48. Stakeholders’ views on sustaining honey bee health and beekeeping: the roles of ecological and social system drivers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fedoriak, Mariia (author), Kulmanov, Oleksandr (author), Zhuk, Alina (author), Shkrobanets, Oleksandr (author), Tymchuk, Kateryna (author), Moskalyk, Galyna (author), Olendr, Tetiana (author), Yamelynets, Taras (author), and Angelstam, Per (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12236
- Journal Title:
- Landscape Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 36 Issue 3
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Context: Honey bees provide multiple ecosystem services. Comparisons of coupled social-ecological systems (SES) can improve the understanding of the factors affecting honey bees and beekeeping. Objectives: Stressing the need for SES analyses, we explore beekeepers' perceived factors affecting bees and beekeeping, test the hypothesis that honey bee colony losses are associated to agricultural land use intensity, and discuss the role of beekeeping for rural development. Methods: We used as a case study the steep gradient in SES in Ukraine's Chernivtsi region with three strata: (i) traditional villages, (ii) intermediate and (iii) intensive agriculture. In each stratum, we analysed the social system using five open-ended focus groups. Regarding the ecological system, we analysed data about winter loss rate of honey bee colonies, number of colonies per beekeeper, the average amount of supplemental feeding, and proportion of beekeepers treating against Varroa mite. Results: Thirty-three themes were extracted, of which 73% concerned the social system at multiple levels of governance. The number of themes increased from the traditional stratum with higher winter colony losses to the intensive agriculture stratum with lower losses. This does not support the hypothesis that the intensive agriculture per se affect honey bees negatively. Conclusions: Social system factors dominate over ecological factors, and interact across scales. This requires systems analyses of honey bees and beekeeping. We see beekeeping as a social innovation enhancing stakeholders' navigation in social systems, thus supporting rural development in countries in transition like Ukraine.
49. Staying put but going far: Empowering online rural communities in Malaysia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lai, W.K. (author), Elamvazuthi, C. (author), and Aziz, N.A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Springer-Verlag Berlin
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27182
- Journal Title:
- Human Society and the Internet, Proceedings
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 2105, pp. 203-219
- Notes:
- Published in 2001.
50. Strategies for scaling out impacts from agricultural systems change: the case of forages and livestock production in Laos
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Millar, Joanne (author) and Connell, John (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28914
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- DOI 10.1007/s10460-009-9194-9