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2. Adoption of improved chickpea varieties : KRIBHCO experience in tribal region of Gujarat, India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shiyani, R. L. (author), Joshi, P. K. (author), Asokan, M. (author), and Bantilan, M. C. S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-05
- Published:
- India: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18709
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 (1) 33-39
- Notes:
- Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), The study aims to track adoption of improved chickpea varieties, and assess their on-farm benefits in some remote and backward tribal villages in Gujarat, India, where few newly developed varieties were introduced by a non-government organization. It also determines key factors which were influencing their adoption. The study found that adoption of improved chickpea varieties was gradually increasing by replacing a prominent local variety. Duration of crop maturity, farm size, yield risk, and farmers' experience of growing chickpea crop were significantly influencing their adoption. The on-farm benefits as a result of improved varieties were realized in terms of increased yield levels, higher income and labor productivity, more marketable surplus, price premium and stabilized yields in fluctuating weather. Breeding short duration varieties with stable yield levels under varying weather, and organizing seed multiplication and dissemination in regions, where moisture stress is a problem during maturity of chickpea, are the major suggestions.
3. Adoption of new technologies in Ethiopian agriculture : the case of Tegulet-Bulga district, Shoa Province
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Coffin, H. Garth (author), Gunjal, Kissan (author), Kebede, Yohannes (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990-04
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07290
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 (1) : 27-43
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
4. Advertising and food, drink and tobacco consumption in the United Kingdom: a dynamic demand system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Duffy, Martyn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-11
- Published:
- UK: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18712
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 (1) 51-70
- Notes:
- Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), This paper tests for the influence of advertising on the inter-product distribution of consumer demand for non-durable goods and services in the UK, 1963–1996. The long-run demand for seven categories of non-durable products is modelled through an advertising-augmented version of the almost ideal demand system (AIDS), which is incorporated into an error-correction model to allow for short-run dynamic adjustments to long-run equilibrium positions. Model estimates confirm that the restrictions of price homogeneity and symmetry appear to be consistent with the data, yield measures of the various types of demand elasticity that are in general plausible, confirm the strong influence of prices on the allocation of consumer expenditure, but find little evidence to support the hypothesis that advertising has the power to effect marked changes in the inter-product pattern of consumer demand in the UK.
5. Advertising, concentration and profitability in Greek food manufacturing industries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vlachvei, A. (author) and Oustapassidis, K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1998-03
- Published:
- Greece
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16663
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 191-198
6. 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.
7. Agriculture–nutrition linkages in farmers’ communication networks
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jäckering, Lisa (author), Gödecke, Theda (author), Wollni, Meike (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07-10
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D10997
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 50 : 657-672
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Wiley Online Library, 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 nutritionsensitive 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.
8. An econometric choice for extension-teaching methods: the Ilorin and Oyo North Agricultural Development Projects' experience
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Umeh, J. Chinedu (author / Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, Ilorin Kwara State, Nigeria.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990-12
- Published:
- Netherlands: Amsterdam : Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06780
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 (3/4) : 229-238
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92018417, The appropriate combination of extension-teaching methods for rapid farm-technology diffusion and sustained productivity growth in the World-Bank-Assisted Agricultural Development Project in rural Nigeria is examined. The multiple extension-teaching methods in the Ilorin and Oyo North Projects have led to self-defeating and counterproductive results. Using principal-components analysis, the ten extension-teaching methods (variables) are transformed into a linear equation by allocating relative weights to each variable. These weights (coefficients of the equation), which are reasonably unique to each variable, measure the relative importance of the variables and therefore facilitate their ranking in each of the project districts. The usefulness of the principal component model in the World-bank-assisted Agricultural Development Projects in particular, and the rural Nigerian agricultural industry in general, are briefly discussed. (original)
9. An evaluation of extension services in Sweden
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nordin, Martin (author) and Höjgård, Sören (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10-11
- Published:
- Sweden: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08321
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 48 (1): 51-60
10. 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.
11. Concept and implementation of an integrated decision support system (IDSS) for capital-intensive farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wagner, P. (author) and Kuhlmann, F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16715
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : 287-310
12. Consumer preferences for organic production methods and origin promotions on ornamental plants: evidence from eye-tracking experiments
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rihn, Alicia (author), Khachatryan, Hayk (author), Campbell, Benjamin (author), Hall, Charles (author), and Behe, Bridget (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08-18
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08316
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 47 (6): 599-608
13. Consumer willingness to pay for genetically modified food in Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- De Groote, Hugo (author) and Kimenju, Simon Chege (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26848
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp. 35-46
14. Consumption effects of genetic modification: what is consumers are right?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fulton, Murray (author) and Giannakas, Konstantions (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-08
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18710
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 (2) 33-39
- Notes:
- Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), This paper develops a model of differentiated consumers to examine the consumption effects of genetic modification (GM) under alternative labelling regimes and segregation enforcement scenarios. Analytical results show that if consumers perceive GM products as being different than their traditional counterparts, GM affects consumer welfare and, thus, consumption decisions. When the existence of market imperfections in one or more stages of the supply chain prevents the transmission of cost savings associated with the new technology to consumers, GM results in welfare losses for consumers. The analysis shows that the relative welfare ranking of the `no labelling' and `mandatory labelling' regimes depends on: (i) the level of consumer aversion to GM products; (ii) the size of marketing and segregation costs under mandatory labelling; (iii) the share of the GM product in total production; and (iv) the extent to which GM products are incorrectly labelled as non-GM products.
15. Consumption risk, farm characteristics, and soil conservation adoption among low-income farmers in the Philippines
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shively, G.E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1997-12
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16660
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 : 165-177
16. Consumption risk, farm characteristics, and soil conservation adoption among low-income farmers in the Philippines
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shively, G.E. (author / Purdue University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C08973
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(2-3) : 165-177
17. Dial 'A' for agriculture: A review of information and communication technologies for agricultural extension in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aker, Jenny C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-11
- Published:
- USA: International Association of Agricultural Economists
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07558
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 (6): 631-647
18. Dial “A” for agriculture: a review of information and communication technologies for agricultural extension in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aker, Jenny C. (author) and Economics Department and Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-03-21
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10993
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 631-647
- Notes:
- 17 pages., Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricultural technologies, such as fertilizers, seeds, and cropping techniques. Public sector programs have attempted to overcome information-related barriers to technological adoption by providing agricultural extension services. While such programs have been widely criticized for their limited scale, sustainability, and impact, the rapid spread of mobile phone coverage in developing countries provides a unique opportunity to facilitate technological adoption via information and communication technology (ICT)-based extension programs. This article outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in developing countries. It then reviews existing programs using ICT for agriculture, categorized by the mechanism (voice, text, internet, and mobile money transfers) and the type of services provided. Finally, we identify potential constraints to such programs in terms of design and implementation, and conclude with some recommendations for implementing field-based research on the impact of these programs on farmers’ knowledge, technological adoption, and welfare.
19. Differentiating the consumer benefits from labeling of GM food products
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Scatasta, Sara (author), Wesseler, Justus (author), and Hobbs, Jill (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-09
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26855
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 37, Issue 2-3, pp. 237-242
20. Environmental and economic consequences of technology adoption: IPM in viticulture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fernandez-Cornejo, J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1998-03
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10086
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 145-155
- Notes:
- The potential uses of on-farm computers in management and the problems in these uses are analyzed. The analysis is based on a study of present uses of on-farm computers in Sweden. The results are compared with experiences from other countries. On-farm computer owners use almost the same management methods as before the computer investment. The main difference is that they used to hire service organizations to do some of the management tasks and now they are doing it by themselves with the aid of the computer. Thus, the on-farm computer owners have to have the same knowledge level as the service agents and advisers. The use of on-farm computers has so far affected the processing and storage of data for farm management purposes. A potential next step is communication of data from external computer systems at suppliers, customers, advisers and other farmers as well as automated data capture within the farm. One hindrance for this development is the lack of standardization of data and concept definitions. If this potential was realized the marginal costs of data and information would decrease. It would be profitable to use more information in the farm management, i.e. to develop the farm management functions. When farmers develop their management methods they will need still more knowledge. Service agents and advisers would have to change from doing management tasks for farmers to teaching farmers how to do these tasks and supporting farmers in the interpretation and analysis of information.
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