Xiaoming, Hao (author), Banerjee, Indrajit (author), and Jinqui, Zhao (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-12-15
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36116
Notes:
Presented to the Conference on Empowering Rural Communities through ICT Policy and Research, Chennai, India, December 15-17, 2007. 17 pages., Case study of a rural community internet access center that lacked sustainability.
Bjelland, Denise (author / Iowa State University) and Jones, B. Lynn (author / Iowa State University)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2001-04-04
Published:
China: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20915
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pages 27-34, from "Emerging trends in agricultural and extension education", AIAEE 2001, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, April 4-7, 2001, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
15 pages, This paper studies Chinese grape growers’ time discounting and its implications for the adoption of technology that can reduce the negative effects of increasing precipitation. Using primary data collected in Xinjiang Province, we undertook a contingent valuation of rain covers that protect fruit from rain and estimated a discounted utility model using these data. Using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, we find that local grape growers discount the future very heavily, with a discount rate of 0.17 per year, which is almost four times higher than the Chinese market interest rate. Farmers also tend to underestimate the benefits of adopting covers, with their purchase decisions appearing to largely depend on their past actual losses rather than future anticipated losses. These findings have broader implications for policies promoting proactive adaptation in response to likely increased rainfall in the region. Targeting farmers who give lower weight to events far off in the future and understanding that many farmers may tend only to make adoption decisions that have strong short-term benefits could improve the efficacy of climate policies that target agricultural technologies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02411
Notes:
Programme and abstracts, International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25591
Notes:
Pages 247-265 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
