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2. Binding constraints in Castile-La Mancha, Spain's cereal-sheep system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Caballero, Rafael (author) and Gil, Angel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37245
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(3) : 3-27
3. Bridging behavioural factors and standard bio- economic modelling in an agent- based modelling framework
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huber, Robert (author), Xion, Hang (author), Keller, Kevin (author), and Finger, Robert (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05-17
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12349
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 29 pages, Agent-based models are important tools for simulating farmers’ behaviour in response to changing environmental, economic or institutional conditions and policies. This article introduces an agent-based modelling approach that combines behavioural factors with standard bio-economic modelling of agricultural production. More specifically, our framework integrates the cumulative prospect theory and social interactions with constrained optimisation decisions in agricultural production. We apply our modelling approach to an exemplary bio-economic model on the assessment of weed control decisions. Results show the effects of heterogeneous farm decision-making and social networks on mechanical weed control and herbicide use. This framework provides a generic and conceptually sound approach to improve the scope for representing farmers’ decision-making and allows the simulation of their decisions and recent advances in behavioural economics to be aligned with existing bio-economic models of agricultural systems.
4. Civic culture meets the digital divide: The role of community electronic networks
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Riedel, E. (author), Sullivan, J.L. (author), Bordiga, E. (author), Oxendine, A. (author), Jackson, M.S. (author), and Gangl, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Blackwell Publishers
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27183
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social Issues
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 58, Issue 1, pp. 125-141
- Notes:
- Published in the Spring 2002 issue.
5. Customer experience with farmers' markets: what hashtags can reveal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pilai, Ladislav (author), Balcarova, Tereza (author), Rojik, Stanislav (author), Ticha, Ivana (author), and Polakova, Jana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10413
- Journal Title:
- International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(6) : 754-770
- Notes:
- Social media networks are increasing in popularity and have been integrated into many aspects of daily life. Analysis of the ways in which individuals use social media is important for understanding social, cultural, and environmental issues. This study examines experiences of farmers’ market customers through their self- expression on social networks. Contributions to the Instagram social network based on the #farmersmarket hashtag were gathered on a single day, yielding 19,398 contributions created by 13,862 users. Six major linked hashtags were identified (#Organic, #Fresh, #Food, #Local, #Vegan, and #Healthy), providing key indicators of the characteristics of farmers’ markets that are valued by customers. Four customer segments were identified: Product Oriented, Emotional Oriented, Social Oriented, and Product-Social Oriented, with strong interconnections identified between these communities. The results of this study provide insights into consumer values and behaviors in the farmers’ market context and will be of practical use for future marketing and management.
6. Do rural residents really use the Internet to build social capital? An empirical investigation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stern, Michael J. (author) and Adams, Alison E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- USA: Sage Publications
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10205
- Journal Title:
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Journal Title Details:
- 53(9) : 1389-1422
- Notes:
- Via online UI subscription, Recent research suggests that Internet usage can positively influence social capital in rural communities by fostering avenues for voluntary participation and creating social networks. Most of this research has examined whether Internet use is associated with participation in local organizations and social networks but not the means by which residents use the technology to learn about local activities. To address this gap in the literature, the authors use a mixed-methods approach in an isolated rural region of the western United States to evaluate how residents use their connections to maintain local social networks and learn about local community events and organizations. The authors show that Internet usage can play an important role in building social capital in rural communities, thus extending the systemic model of rural voluntary participation and community attachment. Implications for rural community development are addressed.
7. Farm size shapes friend choice amongst rice producers in China: Some evidence for the theory of network ecology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Simpson, Cohen R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12269
- Journal Title:
- Social Networks
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 61
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Multiple dynamics jointly determine who we befriend, however, researchers have failed to systematically assess which processes matter most under different circumstances. Here I draw on observations around how the demands of paddy rice cultivation shape social interaction to demonstrate that the relative importance of reciprocity, transitivity and generalised exchange to who rice producers choose as friends varies with the amount of agricultural land under their control. In doing so, I use unique data on farm size and friendship amongst 4713 rice-growing smallholders in 162 rural villages in Jiangxi, China along with a new technique for measuring the relative importance of effects in Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models. In line with the micro-level component of the recently advanced “theory of network ecology”, results suggest that features of an individual’s proximal environment can powerfully moderate the relative expression of network-formation mechanisms such that for some individuals, a dynamic may be expected to hold substantial sway over the process of choosing social contacts and, for others, no sway at all.
8. Female social networks and farmer training: can randomized information exchange improve outcomes?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vasilaky, Kathryn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-02
- Published:
- England: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12242
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 95 Issue 2
- Notes:
- 9 pages, The article investigates whether the social network based program (SNP) in villages can encourage learning and adoption of a relatively new cash crop, cotton, to female heads of households. It explains how social network based training program had more significant effects on yields for the poorest performing farmers than the standard training program, and proves that SNP can increase productivity up to 50 percent for farmers producing at the average yield of production.
9. Growing tiny publics: small farmers' social movement strategies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Steup, Rosemary (author), Santhanam, Arvind (author), Logan, Marisa (author), Dombrowski, Lynn (author), and Makoto, Norman (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12243
- Journal Title:
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 2, Issue CSCW
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Drawing from fieldwork of 14 small food farms in the Midwest, we describe the on-the-ground, practical challenges of doing and communicating sustainability when local food production is not well-supported. We illustrate how farmers enact learned and honed tactics of sustainability at key sites such as farmers' markets and the Internet with consumers. These tactics reveal tensions with dominant discourse from government, Big Ag, and popular culture. The success of these tactics depends on farmers having fortitude--control, resilience, and the wherewithal to be exemplars of sustainability. In our discussion, we highlight how the local farmers' social movement work constitutes loosely organized small groups connecting others to an amorphous idea of a sustainable society--one that sustains an environmental, economic, local, cultural, and physical way of life. Using Fine's concept of tiny publics, we identify design opportunities for supporting this less directed kind of social movement.
10. Is agricultural biotechnology part of sustainable agriculture? Different views in Switzerland and New Zealand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aerni, Philipp (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36901
- Journal Title:
- AgBioForum
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(2) : 158-172