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2. Communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Winne, Mark (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-01
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, California: Praeger
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: D10846
- Journal Title Details:
- (4) : 48-54
- Notes:
- 8 pages., See D10845., Via UI Library Catalog., Chapter 4 of "Stand together or starve alone: unity and chaos in the U.S. food movement".
3. Managing household socio-hydrological risk in Mexico city: a game to communicate and validate computational modeling with stakeholders
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shelton, Rebecca E. (author), Baeza, Andres (author), Janssen, Marco A. (author), and Eakin, Hallie (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10628
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 227: 200-208
- Notes:
- 9 pages., via online journal., Residents of Mexico City experience major hydrological risks, including flooding events and insufficient potable water access for many households. A participatory modeling project, MEGADAPT, examines hydrological risk as co-constructed by both biophysical and social factors and aims to explore alternative scenarios of governance. Within the model, neighborhoods are represented as agents that take actions to reduce their sensitivity to exposure and risk. These risk management actions (to protect their households against flooding and scarcity) are based upon insights derived from focus group discussions within various neighborhoods. We developed a role-playing game based on the model's rules in order to validate the assumptions we made about residents' decision-making given that we had translated qualitative information from focus group sessions into a quantitative model algorithm. This enables us to qualitatively validate the perspective and experience of residents in an agent-based model mid-way through the modeling process. Within the context of described hydrological events and the causes of these events, residents took on the role of themselves in the game and were asked to make decisions about how to protect their households against scarcity and flooding. After the game, we facilitated a discussion with residents about whether or not the game was realistic and how it could be improved. The game helped to validate our assumptions, validate the model with community members, and reinforced our connection with the community. We then discuss the potential further development of the game as a learning and communication tool.
4. Participatory communication and extension for indigenous farmers: empowering local paddy rice growers in East Java
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cahyono, Edi Dwi (author) and Socio-Economic Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-05
- Published:
- Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D10995
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Online ISBN: 978-981-13-2005-7 Print ISBN: 978-981-13-2004-0, In: Dutta M., Zapata D. (eds) Communicating for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, It is understood that an effective communication approach might empower society, including the marginalized one. Nevertheless, for the sake of modernization, development agencies tend to administer a conventional top-down communication approach. This approach fails to stimulate capacities of marginal communities, causing social inequality. Therefore, this chapter demonstrates an experience of implementing an alternative approach, known as participatory communication with strong cultured-centered perspectives. A series of interactive extension or facilitation activities is described. The activities were aimed to conserve rare rice varieties and the unique farming practices in an indigenous community’s areas in the eastern region of Java Island. As a result, the farmers were more aware of the values of, and committed to conserve the endangered seed varieties and the related indigenous knowledge and practices; they were also willing to employ their indigenous institution as medium for information exchange regarding the farming system. Moreover, this project is relevant because the local public administration has been paying close attention to indigenous lifestyles for agro-eco tourism attractions recently. The project results suggest that the approach is appropriate to create social change at various levels. It is expected that our experiences will inspire readers to employ the strategic communication approach to empower marginalized communities as a way to achieve sustainable social change/development.