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    2. Bridging the gap

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jones, Karen (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-09
    Published:
    USA: Cooperative Communicators Association, Bellafonte, Pennsylvania.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09942
    Journal Title:
    Communique
    Notes:
    2 pages.

    4. Comparison of extension personnel and supervisor perceptions of communications activities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bowman, Brittany (author), Settle, Quisto (author), North, Elizabeth Gregory (author), Lewis, Kerri Collins (author), and Oklahoma State University Mississippi State University
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    United States: New Prairie Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10159
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Applied Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    102(4)
    Notes:
    18 pages, via online journal, Extension is often called the “best-kept secret” having low awareness with the public but high satisfaction with clientele. Extension services nationwide have faced budget cuts, creating a need for the organization to re-evaluate its activities, including how it communicates with its stakeholders. While Extension personnel are the ones who will do most of the communicating, their supervisors impact the personnel’s actions, which means it is important to assess both groups. A survey was conducted with Extension personnel and their supervisors in Mississippi assessing engagement in communications activities and perceptions of those activities, as well as personnel’s preference of professional development activities. Personnel reported higher use, comfort, and importance of more traditional (e.g. making a speech) and written activities (e.g. writing a promotional handout) than media-relations activities (e.g. being interviewed for TV), social media-related activities (e.g. managing a Twitter account), and visual communication activities (e.g. graphic design). Supervisors perceived individual communications activities as less important overall than personnel did, and although supervisor and communication scores for use and comfort/capability were similar for most communication activities, there were noticeable exceptions. Additionally, personnel preferred professional development activities that were hands-on or showing the activities first-hand (e.g. demonstrations and field days). Future research should be expanded to other states, conducted in a case study format to study specific relationships, and involve qualitative components. Extension should ensure clear supervisor-communication dialogue on prioritizing communication activities, provide training on communication activities with low use and comfort, and utilize early innovators who are comfortable using newer communication activities.

    6. Illinois Country Living celebrates 75 years

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal
    Publication Date:
    2018-05
    Published:
    USA: Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives, Springfield, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09314
    Journal Title:
    Illinois Country Living
    Journal Title Details:
    76(1)
    Notes:
    Special Issue Collection - Illinois Country Living 75th Anniversary

    7. Illinois Country Living celebrates 75 years

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-05
    Published:
    USA: Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives, Springfield, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09315
    Journal Title:
    Illinois Country Living
    Journal Title Details:
    76(1) : 14-17
    Notes:
    Special Issue Collection - Illinois Country Living 75th Anniversary See this article in Document Number D09314., Cover pages and brief stories describe the history of Illinois Country Living magazine from 1943 to date.

    8. Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: Assessing the effects on production and wellbeing

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hermann, Raoul (author), Ciani, Federico (author), Burchi, Franchesco (author), and Biggeri, Mario (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-08-01
    Published:
    International: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12457
    Journal Title:
    Food Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 79
    Notes:
    15 pages, Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by involving them in the production of high-quality durum wheat and linking them to the pasta industry via farmers’ cooperatives. Using primary data collected in 2014 and retrospective information, this paper investigates the AVCPO’s effects on the quantity of cereal production, the share of cereals that have been sold through cooperatives, food security, and education. In order to account for potential violations of the exclusion restriction assumption, an instrumental variable approach is applied, together with three additional estimation strategies. The results suggest that the project has had a large and positive effect on gross and net values of cereal production per hectare, as well as on the share of production sold to pasta makers through cooperatives. These benefits accrue equally to land-rich and land-poor farmers. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the AVCPO has improved educational outcomes and reduced food insecurity, without affecting crop rotation practices. Overall, our findings point to the effectiveness of the project. Before replicating or scaling up this intervention, however, it is necessary to understand how to better involve poorer farmers and which adjustments are needed if the areas selected have a lower potential than Bale Zone.