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2. Development of mobile phone based agro-advisory system through ICT mediated extension approach in North-eastern himalayan region of India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lahiri, Biswajit (author), Borah, Swapnali (author), Marak, Natasha (author), and Anurag, Thiruchirapalli Sudarshan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-22
- Published:
- International: Applied and Natural Science Foundation
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12418
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied and Natural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 9 (3)
- Notes:
- India (Southern, Asia), agricultural, information, cell phones, extension systems, advisory services, technology, To achieve gainful development in agriculture to ensure food security in the north-eastern Himalayan region of India, an initiative was taken to develop mobile phone based agro-advisory system with the objective to empower the farmers by providing right information at right time through Information and Communication Technol- ogy mediated extension approach. 2000 farmers and farm women were selected as beneficiaries through snowball sampling method based on certain criteria. The major features of the system to deliver the farm advices (Pull Based) and information services (Push Based) through toll free Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), Smart Phone Application, Mobile phone and Web based agriculture advisory system. It was found that on an average almost 200 advisories were provided every month, which even shoot up to almost 300 calls per month in the peak Kharif seasons as bulk of the advisories were provided during the months of May to November as most number of calls from the farmers came during the period. Majority of the advisories were provided on fishery management practices (17.32%), source of seed (9.95%), livestock management (9.18%), disease and pest management of crops (8.75%), training information (9.35%), rural development schemes (7.76%) etc. Moreover, the inclusion of need based train- ing component and convergence with different extension functionaries helped to develop an ICT based Stakeholder Interface (Experts-Line Departments-Agripreneurs-Farmers) in the field of agriculture in the region. This alternate extension system also helped to develop better rapport with the farmers and can be replicated in other hilly region of the world.
3. Factors affecting bureaucratic information and skills of farmers; the case of Tokat province
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karakas, Gungor (author), Oruç, Esen (author), and Duran, Esra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Language:
- Turkish
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Turkey
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08772
- Journal Title:
- Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(3): 231-237
- Notes:
- Abstract in English and Turkish.
4. Leadership in Kansas agriculture: examining organization CEOs’ styles and skills
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parker, Brad A. (author), Ellis, Jason D. (author), Rogers, Duke (author), and Kansas State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- United States: Kansas State University
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10259
- Journal Title:
- Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3)
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Via online journal., This project’s primary purpose was to identify and describe the leadership styles and skills emphases of current Kansas agricultural organization chief executive officers. Twenty-three current CEOs participated and were described in terms of their leadership styles, leadership-skills emphases, and demographics. Overall, they appeared to be rather “middle of the road” on each of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire’s nine leadership scales. Leadership styles were not significantly affected by demographics, with the exception of formal leadership training affecting transactional leadership and education level, organizational category, and staff size affecting passive-avoidant leadership. Participants generally rated the 50 leadership skills as important. Leadership styles did not significantly affect the skill emphases. In evaluating CEO candidates, an agricultural organization should design its process to gauge leadership styles and skills separately because, according to this project, they do not predict each other. Once a new CEO is hired, a formal leadership-training program should emphasize the transformational style over the transactional and, more so, passive-avoidant while still maintaining an appropriate balance between transformational and transactional.
5. Social network analysis of multi-stakeholder platforms in agricultural research for development: opportunities and constraints for innovation and scaling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hermans, Franz (author), Sartas, Murat (author), van Schagen, Boudy (author), van Asten, Piet (author), and Schut, Marc (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-02-06
- Published:
- United States: Public Library of Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12250
- Journal Title:
- PLoS ONE
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 12
- Notes:
- 22 pages, Multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) are seen as a promising vehicle to achieve agricultural development impacts. By increasing collaboration, exchange of knowledge and influence mediation among farmers, researchers and other stakeholders, MSPs supposedly enhance their 'capacity to innovate' and contribute to the 'scaling of innovations'. The objective of this paper is to explore the capacity to innovate and scaling potential of three MSPs in Burundi, Rwanda and the South Kivu province located in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In order to do this, we apply Social Network Analysis and Exponential Random Graph Modelling (ERGM) to investigate the structural properties of the collaborative, knowledge exchange and influence networks of these MSPs and compared them against value propositions derived from the innovation network literature. Results demonstrate a number of mismatches between collaboration, knowledge exchange and influence networks for effective innovation and scaling processes in all three countries: NGOs and private sector are respectively over- and under-represented in the MSP networks. Linkages between local and higher levels are weak, and influential organisations (e.g., high-level government actors) are often not part of the MSP or are not actively linked to by other organisations. Organisations with a central position in the knowledge network are more sought out for collaboration. The scaling of innovations is primarily between the same type of organisations across different administrative levels, but not between different types of organisations. The results illustrate the potential of Social Network Analysis and ERGMs to identify the strengths and limitations of MSPs in terms of achieving development impacts.
6. The people buisness
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Kasey (author) and Media, Angus (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-15
- Published:
- USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network, LaGrange, GA.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09211
- Journal Title:
- AAEA ByLine
- Notes:
- 1 page.