Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17083
Notes:
Pages 226-237 in Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages.
Perkins, Dwight (author), Yusuf, Shahid (author), and Perkins: Harvard Institute for International Development; Yusuf: The World Bank
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02832
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Contains Table of Contents, Preface and Introduction only, Baltimore, MD : published for the World Bank by the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. 235 p.
Yongling, Zhong (author), Riggs, Michael (author), Heller, Nathaniel (author), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26294
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8 pages., Case study of a government-supported information service center, called "Service Station," that provides (and gathers) information from farmers at county, township and village levels. Uses electronic and other channels.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25896
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Report of a session, "Biasing scientific information," at the 5th World Congress of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, on April 16-20, 2007. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02310
Notes:
Pages 312-326 in Norman Long, Ye Jingzhong and Wang Yihuan (eds.), Rural transformations and development - China in context. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Glos UK. 395 pages.
Gong, Huaping (author), Yan, Sufen (author), and IEEE, New York City, New York.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-12-22
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36590
Notes:
Pages 794-798 of proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology Applications, Shanghai, China, December 21-22, 2008.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Reports the impact of internet communications in revealing a problem of infant milk being tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical illegally added.
Lee, Francis L.F. (author), Lee, Chin-chuan (author), Li, Nina (author), and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36239
Notes:
Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Pages 36-37 in Book of Abstracts: Journalism Research and Education Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Chiao, Chien (author) and Wei, Michael T.K. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
Papua New Guinea
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19713
Notes:
Pages 81-93 in Georgette Wang and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Continuity and change in communication systems: an Asian perspective. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, New Jersey USA. 274 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29781
Notes:
Pages 73-81 in Ian Scoones and John Thompson (eds.), Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development. Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, U.K. 357 pages.
Rogers, E.M. (author / Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University) and Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01075
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, In: Impact of technology on U.S. cropland and rangeland productivity. Volume II - Background papers; Part F. Washington, D.C. : Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, 1982. 21 p. (Background Paper No. 27).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36562
Notes:
Prepared for the 6th annual Global Mobility Roundtable, Center for Telecom Management, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, June 1-2, 2007. 22 pages.
26 pages, Agricultural productive services are an important means to achieve effective allocation of regional resources and play an important role in ensuring food security and improving farmers’ welfare. However, the development process of agricultural productive services still faces problems such as large differences in service levels in different segments and low participation rates in the full service. In order to investigate the influential paths of the low participation rate of farmers in the full-service process, this study takes maize farmers in northeast China as the research object. Based on 937 survey data from six cities in three northeastern provinces, we used the Item Response Theory (IRT) model to measure farmers’ information acquisition ability and constructed the Heckman two-stage model and the IV-Heckman model to analyze the logical framework of “information acquisition ability—farmers’ choice of productive agricultural services”. The main findings are as follows: firstly, the more channels there are, the stronger the farmers’ channel internalities; the higher the degree of channel differentiation, the stronger the farmers’ channel internalities. Second, after addressing the sample selection bias and endogeneity, there is a small rise in the facilitation effect of information acquisition ability on farmers’ productive agricultural service behavior. Third, this facilitation effect is achieved through farmers’ perceived usefulness of productive agricultural services, and the mediating effect of perceived ease of use is not significant. Therefore, fostering farmers’ self-perceptions and optimizing information delivery strategies are effective ways to promote farmers’ choice of agricultural productive services and to facilitate the modernization of Chinese agriculture. In general, this study helps to reveal the theoretical mechanism of farmers’ information asymmetry, and provides empirical evidence for how to promote the development of agricultural productive services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12326
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 70-77 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
11 pages, via online journal, Land fragmentation is an interesting physical character in some developing countries, especially China. This study aims to discover the direct and mediated effects of land fragmentation on collective action in China based on an empirical test and the social-ecological system framework. We introduce three innovations to the literature on collective action in the commons. First, we focus on the mechanism of land fragmentation on collective action in the commons, which has been largely ignored in the literature. Second, building on the social-ecological system framework, we use structural equation modeling, which is robust to endogeneity and latent variable problems. Third, we use original survey data from 3895 households and 284 villages from 17 provinces/regions in China, a critical case because China has some of the most fragmented farmland use in the world. We find that land fragmentation has a direct negative effect on irrigation collective action. And besides the direct negative effect, there are four indirect factors: dependency on farming, irrigation rule-making, economic pressure and land circulation. Of these, the first three have a negative effect, and the last one, a positive effect. Our findings add to the theoretical literature on collective action in the commons and suggest new policy handles for more efficient land and labor markets in China.
16 pages, Background
Residue-based biogas is considered as a renewable energy that should be used to improve energy security and household livelihoods in rural areas. Observational learning and word-of-mouth learning are critical in the dissemination of knowledge about agricultural technologies. Yet, scholars have little understanding of the impacts of these learning methods on farmers’ use of residue-based biogas. Using survey data from rural areas of Hubei China, this study estimates the impacts of observational learning and word-of-mouth learning from different subjects (i.e., relatives, neighbors, cadres, cooperative members, and technical instructors) on the use of residue-based biogas by farmers. Additionally, the moderating role of interpersonal trust in these relationships is explored.
Results
Results from logistic regression models show that observational learning from technical instructors significantly increases farmers’ use of biogas. Furthermore, interpersonal trust significantly and positively influences the impact of observational learning on farmers’ decisions to use biogas. Similarly, interpersonal trust significantly and positively moderates the influence of positive word-of-mouth learning on farmers’ decision to use biogas. In contrast, a negative moderating role exists in the relationship between negative word-of-mouth learning and farmers’ decision to use biogas. These impacts are further affirmed by robustness checks.
Conclusions
The results presented here show that enhancing farmers’ interpersonal trust promotes the use of residue-based biogas by farmers. One important implication is that the government might promote the use of residue-based biogas by organizing technology demonstration activities, providing communication platforms, and enhancing mutual trust between farmers and relevant groups.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: B01484
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, see also ID B01478, In mass communication and the development of nations (ppVI-1-VI-24). East Lansing Michigan: International Communication Institute, Michigan State University
Hu, Xinli (author), Ma, Lianjie (author), and IEEE, New York City, New York.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-06-13
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36592
Notes:
Pages 396-399 in proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Engineering, Chengdu, China, June 12-13, 2010.
