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2. Academic encounters in the realm of Spartan educators: George Harold Axinn
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Biography
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07895
- Notes:
- In the e-book: Kerry J. Byrnes, Giants in their realms: close encounters of the celebrity kind. Posted on the website of Okemos High School Alumni, Okemos, Michigan. 8 pages.
3. Contextual realities and poverty traps: why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chaudhary, A. (author), Timsina, P. (author), Karki, E. (author), Sharma, A. (author), Suri, B. (author), Sharma , R. (author), and Brown, B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-20
- Published:
- England: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12837
- Journal Title:
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 10pgs, Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them.
4. There is no music in agricultural extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bhasin, Kamla (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01122
- Journal Title:
- Ceres
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(5) : 39-42
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching
5. Women and the media in South Asia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weerackody, Sharma S. (author), Panday, N.R. (author), Al-mujalud, S. (author), and Musa, A.B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05882
- Journal Title:
- Media Asia
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(4) : 218-227, 235
- Notes:
- Challenges facing opportunities in journalism and communications careers for rural and urban women in five nations of South Asia.
6. Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alvi, Muzna (author), Barooah, Prapti (author), Gupta, Shweta (author), and Saini, Smriti (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-01
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12415
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 188
- Notes:
- 8 pages, gender, women, extension systems, acces, cell phones, farmers, Nepal (Southern Asia), India (Southern Asia), COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices.