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12. Good agriculture practices for safe food and sustainable agriculture in Nepal: a review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kharel, Menila (author), Dahal, Bed Mani (author), and Raut, Nani (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-18
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12806
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Food safety is a growing concern worldwide but is especially prevalent in Nepal. Agriculture is the country's critical economic sector, and its sustainability is challenged due to the increasing use of agrochemicals. As a result, low Soil Organic Matter (SOM), reduced crop productivity, increased food safety hazards, and negative impacts on human health and the environment are reported in the agriculture sector in Nepal. In 2018, the concept of Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) was introduced in Nepal to address the issues of food safety, trade, and sustainability. As GAP is relatively new to Nepal, it is still broad and ambiguous, which makes its use and implementation difficult. For this purpose, we conducted a literature review on available global evidence to present the benefits of GAP and to identify the critical barriers to the adoption of GA. The review shows GAP's potential to increase crop yield by up to 36%, reduce agrochemicals use by 31%, increase SOM from a mean of 3.32%–3.77%, and increase farmers' income by more than 100%. However, the review has also identified barriers to wider adoption of GAP, broadly categorized into production, extension, regulation and standards, and markets and finance. The valuable outcome of this review is that it proposes five key pathways: (i) Technical capacity building, (ii) Awareness creation, (iii) Soil fertility management strategies, (iv) Extension programs, and (v) Market development for institutionalizing GAP in Nepal, based on the learning from global evidence. This review could be useful for policymakers and the government of Nepal to develop detailed implementation guidelines for GAP, including appropriate policies as well as short, medium, and long-term plans and programs for institutionalizing GAP in Nepal.
13. Green Thumb: extension's videotext
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clearfield, Frank (author / University of Kentucky Lexington) and Warner, Paul D. (author / University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1982-11
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21050
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 : 21-26
14. How to talk to producers online
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Steever, Sara (author / Paulsen Marketing)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30175
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(4) : 64
15. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Spielman, David J. (author), Lecoutere, Els (author), Makhija, V.K. (author), and Van Campenhout, Bjorn (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-02
- Published:
- United States: Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12536
- Journal Title:
- Annual Review of Resource Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 13
- Notes:
- 27 pages, With new possibilities offered by information and communications technology (ICT), an abundance of products, services, and projects has emerged with the promise of revitalizing agricultural extension in developing countries. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that not all ICT-enabled extension approaches are equally effective in improving adoption, productivity, income, or welfare outcomes. In this review, we explore various conceptual and methodological threads in the literature on ICT-enabled extension in developing countries. We examine the role of multiple impact pathways, highlighting how ICTs influence behaviors and preferences,gender and intrahousehold dynamics, spillovers, and public worker incentives. We also explore the opportunities presented by ICT-enabled extension for increasing the methodological rigor with which extension outcomes are identified. These conceptual and methodological insights—coupled with empirical evidence from prior studies—offer direction for several lines of policy-relevant research on ICT-enabled extension.
16. Largest communications agencies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30171
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(4) : 42-44, 46-50
- Notes:
- Annual listing of the largest marketing communications firms whose clients sell products and services within the agricultural industry and/or the rural lifestyle consumer market.
17. Property, access, exclusion: Agribusiness venture agreements in the Philippines
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rosete, Alfredo R.M. (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-21
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11879
- Journal Title:
- Journal of rural studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 79
- Notes:
- 9 pages, via online journal, Economists have touted partnerships between smallholders and agribusiness firms that cultivate high-valued export crops as a means of raising smallholder incomes and achieving rural development. However, some case studies show that such partnerships can deny smallholders the ability to benefit from their lands. This essay examines how this dynamic occurs by comparing the experiences of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the Davao Region of the Philippines. The paper finds that contracts which deny ARBs the benefit of their holdings are those that deprive them of key abilities such as determining who can use land and withdraw it from a partnership. Such contracts arise when ARB groups lack attributes that enhance their capacity for collective action, information gathering, and legal advocacy.
18. Proud to have mastered Web 2.0
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009-06
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Brussels, Belgium
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D00856
- Journal Title:
- Spore
- Journal Title Details:
- 141
- Notes:
- Via online. 1 page.
19. Scientific citizens, smartphones and social media – reshaping the socio-spatial networks of participation: Insects, soil and food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reed, Matt (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03
- Published:
- United States: Sciendo
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12232
- Journal Title:
- MORAVIAN GEOGRAPHICAL REPORTS
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 28 Issue 1
- Notes:
- 8 pages, The conjunction of citizen science and social media through the mediation of the smartphone is investigated in this Scientific Communication, following on from the last issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports (2019, Vol. 27, No. 4). Through a reconsideration of three previously published articles, in part written by the author, this paper reflects on these topics with regard to farmer innovation, local food networks and citizen-informed ecology. Each of these papers has used Twitter to gather data about practices of innovation and observation that have revealed new insights about innovation networks amongst farmers, urban-rural connections and insect behaviours. The reflections reported here are embedded in a discussion of the rise of the term 'Citizen Science'. Recent experiences in areas as diverse as fisheries management and combating Ebola, have informed societal needs for greater engagement in finding inclusive, comprehensive solutions to urgent socio-ecological problems. This paper suggests a compositional approach to studies using citizen scientists and their data as a new avenue of practice and investigation.
20. Seafood industry fights public perception
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Robbins, Liz (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30196
- Journal Title:
- New York Times
- Notes:
- Via online. 3 pages., Industry addresses threats presented by the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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