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1. An interview with Kerry J. Byrnes - agriculture development officer, USAID

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05922
Notes:: Online from "The greatest international development job handbook ever." 11 pages.

2. History of Wallaces Farmer

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Murphy, Donald R. (author)
Format:: Unpublished report
Publication Date:: n.d.
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06395
Notes:: Wallaces Farmer/Penton contribution to ACDC, November 2015., Typed manuscript. 16 chapters., Former editor and research director of Wallaces Farmer tracks the history of Wallaces Farmer, beginning with the first ancestor periodical started in 1853. Features editors, periodicals and topics addressed in coverage into 1918.

3. Project communication support checklist for Armenia Micro Enterprise Development Initiative (MEDI)

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Woods, John L. (author)
Format:: PowerPoint
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: Armenia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 195 Document Number: D07928
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection., Ring binder contains presentation visuals for a proposal and a progress report from Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D.C., for a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Pages not numbered.

4. Orientation briefing for Training and Communication Support

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Teaching material
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: oversized box 2 Document Number: D08011
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection In two folders, Overhead visuals for a presentation about making rural development projects more effective. Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 21 overheads.

5. The strategic communication toolkit

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Chemonics International, Inc. (author)
Format:: Presentation
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International: Chemonics Knowledge Management Program, Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08012
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, Overhead visuals describing StratComm resources of Chemonics International, Inc., for development assistance projects. 15 overhead visuals.

6. Technology transfer system

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Presentation
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08054
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, Presentation visuals involving views, problems, and sample elements of agricultural technology systems. Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 13 pages.

7. Training analysis checklist (consulting aid)

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Check sheet
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08071
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, 001-1022. Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 15 pages.

8. Village health worker's guide

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Guide
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: Bhutan
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08074
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, Health School, Thimphu, Bhutan. 66 pages of line sketches of health situations and treatment measures.

9. Training vs. human resources development

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Presentation
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08089
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, Outline of responsibilities. Source not identified. 9 pages.

10. Categories of subsystems for rural development projects

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Chart
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08091
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, Fourteen charts produced by Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.

11. Photos, displays, tables - Development Training and Communication Planning (DTCP)

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Photos
Publication Date:: No date
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08098
Notes:: John L. Woods Collection, File containing assorted photographs of training activities and presentation settings from Development Training and Communication planning (DTCP,UNDP Asia and Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.

12. Winrock #8

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
Format:: File
Publication Date:: unknown
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes8 Document Number: D09069
Notes:: Includes Documents C12667 "Setting minds in motion in the developing world" and C12668 "Training for agricultural research in Pakistan". In 4 folders in the box., Francis C. Byrnes Collection

13. Other consulting #9

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
Format:: File
Publication Date:: unknown
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes8 Document Number: D09070
Notes:: Includes Document C12670 "Is there a communication media bias in development programs?". In three folders in the box., Francis C. Byrnes Collection

14. CIAT #6

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
Format:: File
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: United States
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes9 Document Number: D09073
Notes:: Includes Document C12653 "Readings in development communication." In four folders in the box., Francis C. Byrnes Collection

15. Where there's a will....better health's on the way!

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
Format:: Paper
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes9; Folder: OSU files Document Number: D09128
Notes:: Francis C. Byrnes Collection, OSU files, Ohio State University. 12 pages.

18. Community development: organizational and inter-organizational dimensions

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Benson, J. K. (author) and Hobbs, Daryl (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09722
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Agricultural Exper. Station, University of Missouri. 2 pages.

19. Planning guide for communicating conflict about agriculture and the environment

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Guide
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09848
Notes:: 2 pages

20. Rural public libraries in America: continuing and impending challenges

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Real, B. (author) and Rose, R.N. (author)
Format:: Journal / Abstract
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09932
Journal Title:: Advances in Librarianship
Journal Title Details:: 43 : 37-59

21. A survey of communication media preferred by smallholder farmers in theGweru District of Zimbabwe

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Moyo, Rachel (author), Salawu, Abiodun (author), and Department of Communication, North West University, Private Bag X2046, Mafikeng, 2735, South Africa
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-02
Published:: South Africa: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10129
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 66 : 112-118
Notes:: 7 pages., Via online journal., This study is a quantitative survey of communication media preferred by smallholder farmers resettled under the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe. Data were gathered using a questionnaire and simple random sampling. Communication is integral to agricultural development, particularly so in the context of the FTLRP characterized by a dearth of information, education and training, ensued by the discriminatory command agriculture (Murisa and Chikweche, 2015). Farmers' preferences of communicationmedia in receiving agricultural innovations should be prioritised to improve agricultural communication andsubsequently, productivity, which is dire in Zimbabwe in the light of the continuing food insecurity. Thefindingsindicated that farmers prefer media that are stimulating and engaging such as television and demonstrations;convenient such as mobile phones and detailed such as books probably because the majority of them do not have training in agriculture. Demographic variables of age-group and education were found to be associated with communication preferences of some media. The study has implications for agricultural communication media policy. Beyond prioritization of farmers’preferences, a model of a multi-media approach to agricultural communication has been developed, that could widen communication reach if implemented.

22. Build a people-oriented urbanization: China’s new-type urbanization dream and Anhui model

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mingxing Chen (author), Yinghua Gong (author), Dadao Lu (author), and Chao Ye (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-01-01
Published:: USA: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10149
Journal Title:: Land Use Policy
Journal Title Details:: 80:1-9
Notes:: 9 pages., via online journal, Since 2014, the Chinese government has initiated new-type urbanization under the guidance of ‘the National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)’, which embarks on a significant transformation of the model of urbanization in post-reform China. To understand the origin and outputs of this policy, this article demonstrates the context of China’s new-type urbanization. The paper proposes a conceptual framework of new-type urbanization, which mainly includes four aspects: humanism, people-oriented urbanization; inclusivism, benefits sharing for urban and rural; sustainability, development without sacrifice of resources and environment; and harmonism, coordination. This is followed by an examination of the case of Anhui province, as a pilot province of China’s new-type urbanization. Anhui has performed a lot of related work to promote citizenization of peasant workers and has made great progress on the reform of the household registration system. The study found that despite a special emphasis on people-oriented urbanization, the pressures and costs of citizenization of peasant workers are growing fast, accompanied by rising housing prices in cities. This insight suggests there are benefits and costs of promoting China’s new-type urbanization. Despite the advantages of institutional innovation, the unexpected side effects such as rapid rising housing prices actually undermine the success of plan implementation.

23. On the acceptance of animal production in rural communities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Stefan Mann (author) and Hans Kogl (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: USA: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10182
Journal Title:: Land Use Policy
Journal Title Details:: 20(3): 243-252
Notes:: 10 pages., Via online journal., In 18 East German municipalities, nine of them with a planned pig production site and the other nine with an existing pig production site, a survey was carried out on the factors influencing the acceptance of pig production. The influencing factors examined were the personal attitude on particular aspects of pig production, socio-demographic characteristics, the personal involvement in local decision-making, the size of livestock and the production technology. As a result, existing production sites are perceived more positively than planned sites, without any influence of size and production technology. The difference may be explained by the fact that planned sites are evaluated in respect to economic arguments as jobs and income (market goods), while existing sites are rather evaluated in respect to environmental factors (public goods). For new investments the results lead to the recommendation to emphasize its economic aspects, to integrate the investor socially in the rural community and to apply technology that prevents pollution for the neighborhood. More importantly, the results show the shortcomings of a “top down” approach and the indispensability of endogenous resources in regional development.

24. Development communication

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Online document
Publication Date:: 2019-01
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10199
Notes:: ACDC houses page 1 of the 74-page posting. The full posting was retrieved from: revolvy.com/page/developmentcommunication, Definition posted in Wikipedia

25. Factors influencing the information needs and information access channels of farmers: an empirical study in Guangdong, China

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Yongshan Chen (author) and Yonghe Lu (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-01-08
Published:: China: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10228
Journal Title:: Journal of Information Science
Notes:: 20 pages., Via online journal., Information plays an important role in meeting the quantitative and qualitative goals of agriculture in the 21st century. As an emerging economy in a developing continent, China has already made many interventions to use information technology to support agricultural development. However, information service in some rural areas is still severely limited. The overall impact of the changing information environment on the farmers’ information needs and access channels has not been fully studied. Thus, this study systematically investigates the characteristics of the information needs and channels of farmers in Guangdong, China. We have collected 4006 questionnaire samples and used correlation analysis to explore the relationships between farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. The results indicate that individual characteristic factors, social factors and family factors have different degrees of influence on farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. These findings can provide a reference for information construction in the rural areas of Guangdong Province and thus promote its economic development. This study can also provide useful insights for policymakers and researchers from other developing countries to formulate implementation plans to promote agricultural development.

26. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wójcik, Marcin (author), Jeziorska-Biel, Pamela (author), and Czapiewski, Konrad (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-03-09
Published:: Poland: Science Direct
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10245
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 67: 130-141
Notes:: 12 pages., Via online journal., This article is concerned with the shaping of agricultural knowledge among farmers, in the context of the rapid changes Polish agriculture has been subject to since the time of the country's EU accession. The theoretical underpinnings of this work have been described in terms of the significant notional categories, i.e. knowledge, knowledge-cultures and sources of knowledge. The research made use of the joint interviews method. Interviews were run with representatives of different generations in 10 farming families in central Poland. The main research objective was to determine sources of farming knowledge among farmers. The use of joint interviews allowed for the identification of sources of knowledge of different kinds. These reflect a division into farmers' closer and more distant surroundings, i.e. to the family and neighbours on the one hand, and to institutions and media on the other. Knowledge acquisition among farmers is in fact found to be a complex process, reflecting socialisation in a multi-generation environment of family and neighbours, on the one hand, and the impact of the institutional and legal system, on the other. In a general sense, this corresponds to the well-known division of sources of knowledge into the tacit and the explicit, with the acquisition of tacit (i.e. informal) knowledge not meeting with any more major obstacles thanks to proximity in a sense that may be cultural (i.e. the agriculture itself), family-related (and in fact multi-generation) and spatial (physical proximity in a given locality). Microsocial conditioning thus plays a major role in the shaping of this source of knowledge. However, the most important factor distinguishing contemporary cultures as regards knowledge on farming is the capacity to adapt to conditions set by the institutions supporting the latter's development. Formal knowledge flowing into farming families from their institutional surroundings requires growing adaptability and preparation if a succession of innovations are to be taken on board. The multi-source nature of knowledge and the achievement of some kind of balance in this respect actually poses a major challenge for the future functioning of family farms as cultural microsystems.

27. Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Rotz, Sarah (author), Gravely, Evan (author), Mosby, Ian (author), Duncan, Emily (author), Finnis, Elizabeth (author), Horgan, Mervyn (author), LeBlanc, Joseph (author), Martin, Ralph (author), Tait Neufeld, Hannah (author), Nixon, Andrew (author), Pant, Laxmi (author), Shalla, Vivian (author), and Fraser, Evan (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2019-02-13
Published:: Canada: Science Direct
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10251
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Notes:: 11 pages., Via online article, A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature and field data to outline some key trends being observed at the nexus of agricultural production, technology, and labour in North America, with a particular focus on the Canadian context. Using the data, we highlight three key tensions observed: rising land costs and automation; the development of a high-skill/low-skilled bifurcated labour market; and issues around the control of digital data. With these tensions in mind, we use a social justice lens to consider the potential implications of digital agricultural technologies for farm labour and rural communities, which directs our attention to racial exploitation in agricultural labour specifically. In exploring these tensions, we argue that policy and research must further examine how to shift the trajectory of digitalization in ways that support food production as well as marginalized agricultural labourers, while pointing to key areas for future research—which is lacking to date. We emphasize that the current enthusiasm for digital agriculture should not blind us to the specific ways that new technologies intensify exploitation and deepen both labour and spatial marginalization.

28. ‘Communication sovereignty’ as resistance: strategies adopted by women farmers amid the agrarian crisis in India

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-02-04
Published:: India: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10354
Journal Title:: Journal of Applied Communication Research
Journal Title Details:: 47(1) : 24-46
Notes:: 23 pages., Via online journal., This study draws on a culturally centered collaboration with a community of dalit women farmers in South India who were organized in a cooperative in their collective resistance against the corporatization of agriculture. Situated in the backdrop of the epidemic of farmer suicides in the region, this manuscript examines how those at the margins of global neoliberal transformations symbolically and materially make sense of and resist these transformations. The voices of the women farmers disrupt the underlying neoliberal assumptions that undergird the importation of cash crop agriculture into a subsistence and community-centered farming culture. They depict the ways in which Western cash crop agriculture disrupts community, food security, local health care systems, and the unique gender relations. Moreover, the communication advocacy work carried out by the women seeks to transform agricultural policy through material interventions as alternative practices of agriculture that challenge the hegemony of cash-based individualized agriculture.

29. Assessing intercultural communication: testing technology tools for information sharing in multinational research teams

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ward, Wesley S. (author) and Given, Lisa M. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10363
Journal Title:: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Journal Title Details:: 70 : 338-350
Notes:: 13 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural research in developing countries often involves collaboration between dispersed multicultural teams of scientists from developed and developing countries. The teams use information and computing technologies (ICTs) to communicate between team members, who originate from different cultures using different languages. This paper investigates the usability and utility of a range of ICTs used for communication between team members from different cultures. The research used an intercultural heuristic evaluation tool, or I‐CHET, to evaluate nine ICTs used by Australian and Lao scientists for team communication. The evaluation showed that asynchronous ICTs (e.g., e‐mail) were preferred by non‐native English speakers, while synchronous media (e.g., audio conferencing, instant messaging, Skype) presented considerable problems between team members from different cultures. Most ICTs evaluated in the study demonstrated little consideration for non‐native English speakers and for inexperienced ICTs users. However, all evaluated ICTs demonstrated the ability to transmit information and encourage communication between information users in scientific collaborations. The I‐CHET assessment tool highlights the ongoing need for a “toolbox” of communication ICTs for research collaborations that can be adapted to suit the cultural and professional needs of multinational teams, worldwide.

30. Assessing the social media use and needs of small rural retailers: implications for extension program support

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Son, Jihyeong (author), Niehm, Linda S. (author), Russell, Daniel W. (author), and Lee, Juyoung (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-04
Published:: USA: Extension Journal, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10424
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: 57(2)
Notes:: 7 pages., Article # 2RIB2, Via online journal., To assess small rural retailers' use of social media and the role of social media in their business sustainability, we conducted focus group interviews with small business owners/managers from rural communities in a midwestern state. Participants revealed strong interest in social media, especially for use in sales and marketing. However, their engagement in social media was limited due to lack of knowledge and resources (i.e., time, human resources, financial resources, effectiveness measurement) related to developing and updating content. On the basis of these findings, we examine implications for Extension professionals and outreach educators regarding social media needs and programming for small rural businesses.

31. The reluctant regulator: the rural utilities service and American broadband policy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ali, Christopher (author) and Duemmel, Mark (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-05
Published:: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10500
Journal Title:: Telecommunications Policy
Journal Title Details:: 43(4): 380-392
Notes:: 13 pages., via online journal., Drawing on the increasing body of literature on policy stakeholders and the ever-growing acknowledgement that communication policy is crafted by more than just parliamentarians and formal communication regulators this paper examines the role that another set of regulators plays in communication policy: agriculture regulators. Based on a study of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS), this paper explores alternative agents of communication policy. More specifically, through document analysis we examine the way in which the Rural Utilities Service has shaped rural broadband policy in the United States over the last three decades. The implications for this research are wide, as it brings another policy actor into the policy making melee, and pushes communication policy scholars to consider the role that non-traditional communication regulators play in the communication policy making process.

32. The new rural reconstruction movement: a Chinese degrowth style

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Alcock, Rowan (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: China
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10538
Journal Title:: Ecological Economics
Journal Title Details:: 161 : 261-269
Notes:: Case study examines abolishment of economic growth as a dimension of sustainable development.

33. The state of the USDA: a quiet dismantling

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lilliston, Ben (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2019-02-04
Published:: USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10568
Notes:: via website, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., 4 pages.

34. Identifying gender-responsive approaches in rural advisory services that contribute to the institutionalisation of gender in Pakistan

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lamontagne-Godwin, J. (author), Cardey, S. (author), Williams, F. E. (author), Dorward, P. T. (author), Aslam, N. (author), and Almas, M. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-04
Published:: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10639
Journal Title:: The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 25(3): 267-288
Notes:: 23 pages., via online journal., Unequal reach and access to information is an issue that affects women involved in agricultural activities around the world. Recent initiatives to address gender unequal access to agricultural information have been clumsy, overlooking participatory approaches that focus on transformative change. This study uses Pakistani rural advisory services to compare farmers' and extension workers’ perceptions of access to agricultural information, to identify culturally acceptable gender-responsive schemes.

35. Effect of intensive agriculture-nutrition education and extension program adoption and diffusion of biofortified crops

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Okello, Julius J. (author), Kwikiriza, Norman (author), Muoki, Penina (author), Wambaya, Jacob (author), and Heck, Simon (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: D10806
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
Journal Title Details:: 20(3):254-276
Notes:: 24 pages., via online journal., Biofortification of staple crops to combat micronutrient deficiencies is gaining global recognition. Projects promoting biofortified food crops use intensive agriculture-nutrition education and extension activities to increase adoption of such crops. This study examines the effect of such programs on the adoption and diffusion of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). It finds that intensive agriculture-nutrition education and extension programs adopted by some of the biofortification projects increases the adoption and diffusion of OFSP. Specifically, participation in mother-to-mother nutrition support clubs and nutrition-focused health talks affect its adoption and diffusion, but with varying degrees of importance. The paper discusses the implications of these findings.

36. The formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters: a case from China

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Zeng, Yiwu (author), Hongdong, Guo (author), Yao, Yanfei (author), and Huang, Lu (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-08
Published:: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10821
Journal Title:: Growth and Change
Notes:: 19 pages., via online journal., Agricultural e‐commerce clusters are new phenomena that have emerged in rural China. In examining the case of Shuyang County in Jiangsu Province, this paper puts forward an integrated model revealing the formation mechanism of agricultural e‐commerce clusters. The paper shows that the formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters involves four processes of technology introduction, technology diffusion, quality crisis, and industrial agglomeration based on elements such as industry bases, e‐commerce platforms, network facilities, logistics services, entrepreneurial talent, local government, and market demand. Rural social networks and imitation behaviors promote technology diffusion by reducing the cost of technology introduction, and industrial agglomeration is found in the economies showing a deepening of labor divisions and geographic agglomeration. Throughout the formation process, a quality crisis may occur due to a race to the bottom and the opportunistic behaviors of local farmers. This work suggests that regional e‐commerce development is a systematic project. Governments of developing countries should not only realize the positive impacts of e‐commerce for the development of the agricultural industry but also recognize the premise and logic of how e‐commerce can play a prominent role.

37. Can women's self‐help groups improve access to information, decision‐making, and agricultural practices? The Indian case

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Raghunathan, Kalyani (author), Kannan, Samyuktha (author), and Quisumbing, Agnes R. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-08
Published:: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10822
Journal Title:: Agricultural Economics
Notes:: 14 pages., via online journal,, Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers’ access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural extension workers and the relevance of extension advice is poor. We investigate whether a women's self‐help group (SHG) platform could be an effective way of improving access to information, women's empowerment in agriculture, agricultural practices, and production diversity. We use cross‐sectional data on close to 1,000 women from five states in India and employ nearest‐neighbor matching models to match SHG and non‐SHG women along a range of observed characteristics. We find that participation in an SHG increases women's access to information and their participation in some agricultural decisions, but has limited impact on agricultural practices or outcomes, possibly due to financial constraints, social norms, and women's domestic responsibilities. SHGs need to go beyond provision of information to changing the dynamics around women's participation in agriculture to effectively translate knowledge into practice.

38. Agriculture–nutrition linkages in farmers’ communication networks

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Jäckering, Lisa (author), Gödecke, Theda (author), and Wollni, Meike (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-08
Published:: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10824
Journal Title:: Agricultural Economics
Notes:: 16 pages., via online journal., To date, little is known about how information flows within farmer groups and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural and nutrition information networks within farmer groups. Dyadic regressions are used to analyze the factors influencing link formation for the exchange of agricultural and nutrition information. In addition, we apply fixed‐effects models to identify the characteristics of central persons driving information exchange in the two networks, as well as potentially isolated persons, who are excluded from information networks within their farmer groups. Our results show that nutrition information is exchanged within farmer groups, although to a limited extent, and mostly flows through the existing agricultural information links. Thus, diffusing nutrition information through agricultural extension systems may be a viable approach. Our findings further suggest that group leaders and persons living in central locations are important drivers in the diffusion of information in both networks and may thus serve as suitable entry points for nutrition‐sensitive extension programs. However, we also identify important heterogeneities in network characteristics. In particular, nutrition information is less often exchanged between men and women, and some group members are completely isolated from nutrition information exchange within their farmer groups. We derive recommendations on taking these differences in network structure and characteristics into account when designing nutrition‐sensitive extension programs.

39. Construction and validation of a psychometric scale to assess extension agents’ beliefs about extension and innovation

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Landini, Fernando (author), Beramendi, Maite (author), and University of La Cuenca del Plata Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-07-24
Published:: Argentina: Taylor and Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 101 Document Number: D10880
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 25(5) : 318-399
Notes:: 18 pages, online journal article, Purpose This article aims at designing and validating a psychometric scale to assess extensionists’ and advisors’ beliefs about extension and innovation. Design/Methodology/approach The scale was developed by drawing upon results from a previous empirical research as well as insights from a literature review on extension and innovation approaches. The theoretical framework used to write the items was validated by 12 international experts from 11 countries. 608 Argentine extension workers completed the questionnaire. Replies were analysed using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Findings The scale has a good fit and satisfactory level of internal consistency. Five factors were identified: Dialogue and horizontal coordination; Transfer of technology; Blame on farmers; Participatory, farmer-led extension; and Self-critical attitude. Practical implications The scale has multiple and different uses, including research, theory development, institutional practice, diagnosis, and teaching. Theoretical implications Results show that a horizontal, facilitative extension approach shares a common epistemology, as well as underlying values and assumptions, with territorial development and with an innovation systems perspective, and that both contrast with a traditional transfer of technology approach. Nonetheless, practitioners would not tend to see these two contrasting perspectives as contradictory but as complementary. Originality/Value The scale is the first validated psychometric instrument, based on an ample theoretical framework, that allows for a quantitative assessment of beliefs about extension and innovation.

40. Plight of New York dairy farmers detailed in articles that won awards in National Newspaper Association contests

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Reader, Bill (author / Ohio University)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2019-06-21
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10892
Notes:: Online from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky, Rural Blog. 3 pages., Describes the editorial approach of two award-winning local newspapers in focusing on the human toll of changing market forces in the dairy industry.

41. The potential for developing educational farms: a SWOT analysis from a case study

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Forleo, Maria Bonaventura (author), Palmieri, Nadia (author), and University of Molise
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-07-22
Published:: Italy: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10975
Journal Title:: The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 25(5) : 431-442
Notes:: 11 pages, via online journal, Purpose: Educational farms (EFs) serve a number of social and economic functions and are part of the debate about new learning environments, multifunctional agriculture and firm diversification. Through the analysis of a case study, this paper aims to identify strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of EFs and key factors for setting a development strategy. Design/Methodology/Approach: A direct survey to EFs in Molise region (IT) was implemented during April-May 2017 and results were assessed following a SWOT approach. Findings: Strong motivation and connection with agritourism activities are strengths of EFs in the region; small size, unskilled staff, lack of structured educational pathways, and limited profitability are the main weaknesses. Farms opportunities come from a territory rich in rural landscapes, environmental resources, and typical food products, and from a growing demand for educational tourism. Obstacles are in the institutional sphere and due to the absence of regional networks. Based on SWOT findings, key factors for EFs development are discussed. Practical implications: EFs development requires innovative educational and managerial tools, a more concerted and proactive role for multiple stakeholders, and the implementation of a network approach. Study findings solicit actions from public institutions and advisory services to improve farmers’ skills. Theoretical implications: The paper contributes to the theoretical debate about the need for a multidisciplinary approach in dealing with the analysis of EFs. Originality/Value: The analysis underlines the importance of internal and external drivers in stimulating farms and institutions to support diversification strategies, rural development and transformation processes in inner areas.

42. How social media can foster social innovation in disadvantaged rural communities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Onitsuka, Kenichiro (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-05
Published:: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11040
Journal Title:: Sustainability
Journal Title Details:: 11(9)
Notes:: 24 pages., via online journal., Social innovation has received widespread attention in the rural development field, especially its contribution to future rural sustainability. Social innovation revolves around social networks. Rural areas, however, can be relatively disadvantaged by their geographical peripherality. Social media, therefore, has strong potential to foster social innovation by enabling remote communication, but in rural areas, social media use may be low because of an aging and decreasing population. This study examined community-level adoption and use of social media in rural areas in Japan, with a focus on Facebook, for the purpose of sharing community information and facilitating networking with a variety of actors to promote rural social innovation. The study involved a comprehensive search and case studies targeting 139,063 rural communities and 10,922 rural joint-communities, all of which are legally designated agricultural communities throughout Japan. The search found that disadvantaged rural communities’ adoption of Facebook was scarce, and most of the communities that had adopted Facebook did not expand their social networks. Furthermore, investigation into the communities that had adopted social networking to a larger extent revealed that external supporters or migrants had essential roles in successful networking. Based on the obtained findings, this study has provided insights for future policy design.

43. Agricultural information on air: analyzing farm radio through contemporary models of science communication. A comparison of three cases in rural Kenya

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Oswald, Fabian (author) and Kalsruhe Institute of Technology
Format:: Dissertation
Publication Date:: 2019-04-02
Published:: Germany: Kalsruhe Institute of Technology
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11122
Notes:: 196 pages., via institutional depository., Fabin's work is based on Kilimo Media’s work. He sought to investigate how information flow through agricultural radio programs in local languages is structured and whether contemporary theories of science communication are observable in the practice of farm radio through a cross-case study approach. Fabian held qualitative interviews with local actors and group discussions with farmers in Kajiado, Marsabit and Kitui counties and three radio stations Bus radio, Radio Jangwani and Syokimau FM.

44. Farmers’ assessment of the effectiveness of extension communication methods used in Ogbomoso agricultural zone of Oyo-State, Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Yekinni, Oyedeji. T. (author) and Afolabi, Christiana. O. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: African Journals Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11144
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: 23(3):126-134
Notes:: 9 pages., via online journal., This study assessed the effectiveness of extension communication methods used in disseminating information to farmers in Ogbomoso Agricultural zone of Oyo State. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents. Data were analysed using frequency, percentage, standard deviation, mean, median and mode statistics. The findings show that the extension communication methods used for farmers were farm visit (89.2%) and home visit (78.5%), contact farmers (73.3%) and method demonstration (51.7%). Contact farmers, farm visits and home visit were the most frequently used communication strategies by extension agencies while farm visit (x=1.57) was the most preferred extension method to receive information and technologies and respondents perceived the extension communication methods used to be moderately effective. The study recommends that extension officers should consider the use of communication methods preferred by the farmers to communicate information to them.

45. Kentucky's $1.5 billion information highway to nowhere

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Miller, Alfred (author / Louisville Courier-Journal)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11197
Notes:: Online from the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. 16 pages., Report of a troubled and costly effort to provide "high-speed internet to Kentucky''s remote corners."

46. 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.

47. Information and communication infrastructures and new business models in rural areas: the case of Molise Region in Italy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Levoli, Corrado (author), Belliggiano, Angelo (author), Marandola, Danilo (author), Milone, Pierluigi (author), and Ventura, Flaminia (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Italy
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: D11336
Journal Title:: European Countryside
Journal Title Details:: 11(4) : 475-496
Notes:: Online via https://doaj.org, Article deals with the role of information and communication technologies and the related infrastructure to induce innovations for sustainable rural development." Authors examined the role of social innovation to create a new demand for products, services, and organizational models for farm and rural enterprises.

48. Gendered constraints for adopting climate-smart agriculture amongst smallholder Ethiopian women farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tsige, Meseret (author), Synnevag, Gry (author), and Aune, Jens B. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11375
Journal Title:: Scientific African
Journal Title Details:: 7, e00250
Notes:: 12 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Findings showed that women smallholders' uptake was affected by limited access to credit, extension, restricted membership in cooperatives and water user associations, lack of access or user rights to land, skill training, information, and restricted mobility. Authors suggested that expanding off-farm diversification and rural employment opportunities through changing the land tenure system, which is currently state-owned, are essential to enhance women smallholders' access to land and other agricultural inputs.

49. Social activities, information seeking on subjects like health and education top the list of mobile activities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Silver, Laura (author) and Huang, Christine (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: International: Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: D11402
Notes:: 5 pages., Online via website., "In emerging economies, smartphone and social media users have broader social networks."

50. The digital divide: Implications for agribusiness and entrepreneurship. Lessons from Wales

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Bowen, Robert (author) and Morris, Wyn (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-12
Published:: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11591
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 72:75-84
Notes:: 10 pages., via online journal., This paper investigates the impact of broadband access on agribusiness in rural Wales and the resulting implications on entrepreneurial activity. Despite attempts by Government and telecommunications providers to develop widespread broadband coverage in Wales, concerns remain in relation to an increasing digital divide between urban and rural locations. Broadband is a key enabling technology therefore connectivity is significant, not only in communication, but also in the ability for businesses to innovate and grow. Wales is a predominantly rural country with 84% of the total land area in Wales being used for agriculture (Welsh Government, 2013). The food and farming sector represents a significant part of the Welsh economy, and is dominated by small businesses. Connectivity and increased use of technology are vital for these businesses to overcome location constraints and various industrial challenges, notably Brexit. The research uses survey data from 738 farmers and 107 food SMEs in Wales, with 19 follow-up semi-structured interviews. The survey results highlight issues of technology adoption, with 19% of farmers in the survey having no access to broadband internet, with others reporting the speed of connection being a limiting factor. The consequences of poor connectivity point to limited computer skills and low levels of soft technology adoption, a lack of engagement with social media, limited scope for innovation and restricted business growth, with 55.1% of food respondents identifying poor broadband access as a barrier to internationalisation. This has led to agrifood businesses adopting a passive approach to growth opportunities. The findings suggest that rural areas remain at a disadvantage due to poor connectivity, an issue that must be tackled by the Welsh Government to readdress the balance in the economy and limit a brain drain of skilled people moving to urban areas, often outside Wales. Support for such businesses is vital, particularly given the pressures and uncertainty in the industry, as broadband access represents an important enabler for future innovation and entrepreneurial activity

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