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2. A passion for video: 25 stories about making, translating, sharing and using videos on farmer innovation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bentley, Jeffery (author), Boa, Eric (author), and Salm, Mundie (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08500
- Notes:
- ACDC holds citation information, introduction, contents page and the first three stories., Features workshop organized by Access Agriculture, Nairobi. 56 pages.
3. Adoption Determinants of Agricultural Extension Communication Channels in Emergency and Non-emergency Situations in Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bawa, Kambersua (author), Abukari, Abdul-Basit Tampuli (author), Awuni, Joseph Agebase (author), and Yildiz, Fatih (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-21
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12426
- Journal Title:
- Cogent Food & Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 7 Issue 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages., The determinants of agricultural extension communication channel usage depend on several factors but have not been explored in the context of emergency (Fall Armyworm outbreak) and non-emergency situations. A multistage purposive sampling technique was used to select 318 farmers, focusing on the districts and the communities with the highest reported cases of fall armyworm infestation. Descriptive statistics and a multivariate probit analysis were used in the analysis of the data. The results showed an increase in the intensity of channels’ usage in the emergency situation. It was also found that fertilizer and improved seeds were the most common extension need. Channels are found to be more complementary in the emergency case. In both situations, some factors explaining the choices of these channels varied, while others agreed. The study recommends multiple channels are made available and that time-consuming channels irrespective of their effectiveness should be avoided by extensionists in emergency situations.
4. Adoption and intensity of use of mobile money among smallholder farmers in rural Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kofi Asravor, Richard (author), Boakye, Afia Nyarko (author), and Essuman, John (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-21
- Published:
- International: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12310
- Journal Title:
- Information Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Online First
- Notes:
- 10 pages., he impact of mobile money services in sub-Saharan Africa have been largely recognised. However, empirical studies are principally lacking on the factors influencing the decision to own a mobile phone (first hurdle), register with mobile money (second hurdle) and the intensity of use of mobile money services (third hurdle). This study examined the determinants of the mobile phone ownership, drivers of registration (participation) of mobile money services, and the intensity of use of mobile money services in rural Ghana by employing the triple hurdle approach. The first and second hurdle were analysed using the logit model while quasi-poisson regression was used to analyse the third hurdle. The analysis from the cross-sectional data showed that the decision to own a mobile phone was driven by household size, marital status, the farm size, access to electricity, income status and the type of occupation engaged, whereas the decision to register with mobile money was influenced by the age, educational status, marital status, household size, farm size and the type of occupation engaged in by the household head. The intensity of usage of mobile money services was influenced by the age of the household head, higher educational level, marital status of the household head, household and farm size as well as the distance of the household heads from the mobile money agent which directly influences the intensity of use of mobile money services by household heads. The study recommends that strategies that promote access to electricity and occupation in the formal sector or both farming and trading in the rural communities should be promoted. Furthermore, policy attention should focus on location, farmers and farm characteristics.
5. African theatre in development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Banham, Martin (author), Gibbs, James (author), and Osofisan, Femi (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- International: Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08689
- Notes:
- 182 pages.
6. An exploratory study of the impact of the rural Ugandan village library and other factors on the academic achievement of secondary school students
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dent, Valeda Frances (author)
- Format:
- Dissertation abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Uganda
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09923
- Notes:
- Proquest LLC. PhD dissertation, Long Island University, New York. 210 pages.
7. An overview of agricultural extension in Ghana and Burkina Faso and implications for sustainable agriculture in West Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Santuah, Niagia (author), Abazaami, Joseph (author), Kaunza-nu-dem Millar, Katharine (author), and Amikuzuno, Joseph (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-31
- Published:
- Nigeria: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12740
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14, N.3
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Agricultural extension is the medium through which external agricultural technologies have been transferred to and transplanted in Africa to improve agricultural performance. Over a period of close to a century, different agricultural extension models have been proposed but their structure and content has virtually been the same: top-down, linear, non-participatory transfer of technology with no feedback loops for reverse diffusion. This presumably explains the poor performance of Africa’s agriculture and the scale of food security challenges facing the continent. In this review paper, we trace the history of agricultural extension and examine various agricultural extension delivery models to identify their major strengths and weaknesses, using Ghana and Burkina Faso as case studies. We then review the most recent literature in the field about the philosophy, scope, content, delivery, and outcomes of agricultural extension. The conclusion that agricultural extension has consistently remained out of sync with the needs and aspirations of stallholder farmers was reached. Smallholder farmers are now calling for new agricultural extension delivery models that are truly farmer-led, indigenous knowledge-based, context-specific, culturally-relevant and environmentally-sustainable to guarantee efficient farming systems into the future.
8. Assessing rural women food producers capacity to adopt modern ICTs - a case study of the Mfantsiman District of Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sampong, D.D. (author), Egyir, I.S. (author), and Yaw, Osei-Asare (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10923
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the African Association of Agricultural Economists second international conference, Accra, Guana, August 20-22, 2007. 4 pages., The traditional way of information dissemination has been through people; the modern way is through the electronic media – improved information and communication technologies (ICTs). For effectiveness, modern ICTs should help women to improve on their income generating capacity. Issues of level of resource capacity of women, information needed, and current sources of such information become important. This study sought to investigate the issues above with respect to rural women food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in the data analysis of 91 randomly selected respondents. The results of the study showed that: In general, the women food producers were aged, subsistence food crop farmers. They depended on the natural rainfall cycle and had inadequate funds, so they use traditional inputs for production and sell surpluses in the community. The most important agricultural information needed was on inputs, specifically, low cost in-kind or cash credit. Currently, the major information sources are relatives and other farmers in the locality, agricultural extension agents, the radio and television. This suggests that the women food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for information dissemination. Yet, the regression results show that the few (6) mobile phone users have a higher income generating capacity. In order to improve on capacity to use modern ICTs for increased access to other resources, women farmers’ should organize themselves into formidable groups so local institutions can assist easily.
9. Assessing willingness to pay for information delivery among rural women in Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07584
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 (4): 70-76
10. Between science and local knowledge: improving thecommunication of climate change to rural agriculturistsin the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anaafo, David (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D12099
- Journal Title:
- Local Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- VOL. 24, NO. 3, 201–215
- Notes:
- 14 pgs., There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that global climate is changing with associated devastating, yet differential impacts on different world regions. This, therefore, calls for efforts to improve our understanding of the phenomenon as a way of enhancing mitigation and adaptation measures.Although a lot has been done in this respect, the present study examines the extent to which misnomers associated with the calendar months and local climate events can be employed to convey the phenomenon of climate change to rural agriculturists in the Bolgatanga municipality. The study establishes that the names of the calendar months, which serve asgoalposts for local agricultural practices no longer portray their true meaning due to climate change. The study, therefore, recommends the use of nuanced ways of communicating climate change to local agriculturists,using scientific research, lived experiences as well as socially and culturally embedded tools such as misnomers associated with local climate events.
11. Communication and development: the impact of the Sasakawa Global 2000 Agricultural Project in the southern and central zones of Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Antwi, Ransford Kwame (author)
- Format:
- Dissertation abstract
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06746
- Notes:
- Online via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Publication No. AAT 9626631. Source: DAI-A 57/04, p. 1369, October 1996. 2 pages.
12. Communications needs of developing countries as they see them
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, H. Calvert (author / Inter-American Popular Information Program, American International Association), Vieira, Phil (author / Farm broadcaster, West Indies), Appiah, Ofosu (author / Radio Ghana), and Jain, G.P. (author / Sevagram, Delhi, India)
- Format:
- Panel report
- Publication Date:
- 1967-06
- Published:
- International: First International Congress of Farm Writers.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: D10794
- Notes:
- Item located in Document 10786. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 78-86 in J.S. Cram (ed.), Proceedings of the first International Congress of Farm Writers at Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada, June 18-21, 1967. 112 pages.
13. Connect4Change (C4C) 2011-2015 Final Report
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2015-12
- Published:
- The Netherlands: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10122
- Notes:
- 124 pages., Via website., This is the final report for the IICD-led Connect4Change programme implemented during 2011-215 in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Peru, Uganda, and Zambia. The Connect4Change programme was implemented by an alliance of Dutch development organisations, incl. IICD, Edukans, Cordaid, ICCO, Akvo and TTC Mobile.
14. Consumer preference and willingness to pay for fish farmed in treated wastewater in Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gebrezgabher, Solomie A. (author), Amewu, Sena (author), and Amoah, Philip (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06277
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the 2015 AAEA and WAEA joint meeting, San Francisco, California, July 26-28, 2015.
15. Determinants of farmers' climate risk perceptions in agriculture - a rural Ghana perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ndamani, Francis (author) and Watanabe, Tsunemi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-13
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08773
- Journal Title:
- Water
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3)
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
16. Disparities in cellphone ownership pose challenges in Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rheault, Magali (author) and McCarthy, Justin (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-17
- Published:
- USA: Gallup, Inc., Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D07403
- Notes:
- Via website. 8 pages.
17. Do agricultural extension services promote adoption of soil and water conservation practices? evidence from northern Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Danso-Abbeam, Gideon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-06
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12801
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Agricultural environment in many developing economies has become increasingly unpredictable in recent decades as a result of climate change, increasing the risk of crop failure. Access to meaningful information is required to mitigate the negative effects of the changing environment. This study examined the impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices using data obtained from farming households in Northern Ghana. A multivariate probit model was used to assess the simultaneous or/and substitution adoption of SWC practices, while endogenous switching probit (ESP) was used to estimate the impact of extension services on adoption of SWC practices to account for observed and unobserved heterogeneities. The results showed that most of the SWC practices were adopted jointly, and factors such as non-farm economic activites and farm size influence the adoption of SWC practices. Moreover, farmers who accessed agricultural extension services had a higher probability of adopting most of the SWC practices (crop rotation, contour ploughing and manure application), and those who did not benefit from extension services would have had an equally higher likelihood of adopting the SWC practices had they accessed the services. The findings of the study imply that enhancing agricultural extension services will reduce adoption gaps in SWC practices, and consequently reduce farmers’ exposure to climate-related agricultural production risks. With growing information and communication technologies, pluralistic extension service delivery that mixes governmental and private-sector-led approaches to extension operations to foster demand-driven extension delivery services are highly recommended.
18. E-agriculture and rural development: a global innovations and future prospects
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Maumbe, Blessing M. (author) and Patrikakis, Charalampos Z. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- USA: Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08110
- Notes:
- National Agricultural Library, 286 pages
19. Edu-Communication Strategies of Cashew Production in a Rural Ghanaian Community
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anyarayor, B.K (author), Amadu, M.F. (author), and Alhassan, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-03
- Published:
- Ghana: Extension Education Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12337
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 32 No. 3
- Notes:
- 10 pages., This study examined the edu-communication strategies that agriculture extension service agencies use in the dissemination and promotion of innovation adoption among cashew farmers in the Kpandai district agricultural zones in Northern Ghana. A total of 140 cashew farmers were sampled using simple random sampling technique. Three District Agricultural Officers (DAO) and twenty-one satellite Agriculture Extension Officers (AEO) were also drawn into the sample. The results of the study show that, face to face interaction, field demonstration, entertainment- education through community radio broadcasting and Farmer Group Discussions (FGDs) were extensively and efficiently used by the AEOs to promote adoption of improved production technologies among cashew farmers. The study discovered that EduCom strategies contribute to higher rates of adoption and partly accounts for increased cashew yields in the study area. The indigenisation of agriculture extension services approaches using local language in the design and dissemination of adoption process is, highly recommended as a core tenet of technology dissemination if higher adoption rates are expected.
20. Effects of information on smallholder irrigation farmers’ willingness to pay for groundwater protection
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alhassan, Mustapha (author), Gustafson, Christopher R. (author), and Schoengold, Karina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-14
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12445
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 13 pages, In Ghana, groundwater, accessed through wells and boreholes, is generally unregulated and may be contaminated with pollutants including excess nitrates from agricultural chemical fertilizers. Yet, studies estimating how clean groundwater is valued are not available in Ghana. In addition, some research suggests that the pre-experiment information provided to survey respondents affects their valuation of an identical outcome. This paper estimates smallholder farmers’ preferences for groundwater protection using pre-experiment information focused on one of two outcomes: environment or health. The double-bounded contingent valuation (DBCV) approach is used to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) to protect groundwater quality. The estimation accounts for shift and anchoring effects, which are common issues with the DBCV method. The mean WTP from the health (environmental) information subsample is about US$19 (US$17) per acre, and the values are significantly different between the information conditions. The findings shed light on the importance of using precise information in eliciting WTP in a developing country setting.
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