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2. Agricultural information sources for farmers in Lesotho, Southern Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tenney, R.W. (author), Trail, T.F. (author), and Tenney: Cornell University, Ithaca; Trail: Cooperative Extensive, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01230
- Journal Title:
- ACE Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 68 (1) :1-8
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching
3. Attributes of small-scale sugarcane contractors that influence their service quality in KwaZulu-Natal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ortmann, G.F. (author), Nothard, B.W. (author), and Meyer, E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-09
- Published:
- South Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26833
- Journal Title:
- Agrekon
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(3) : 402-422
4. Farm magazines the top choice for South African farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-07
- Published:
- South Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28489
- Notes:
- Via IFAJ web site. 1 page., Summarizes results of graduate research by Charl van Rooyen.
5. Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thinda, K.T. (author), Ogundeji, A.A. (author), Belle, J.A. (author), and Ojo, T.O. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11872
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 99
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Climatic change has a negative impact on people’s livelihoods, agriculture, freshwater supply and other natural resources that are important for human survival. Therefore, understanding how rural smallholder farmers perceive climate change, climate variability, and factors that influence their choices would facilitate a better understanding of how these farmers adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. A Zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa. Different socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, and experience in crop farming, institutional factors like access to extension services, and access to climate change information significantly influenced the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa. Concerning intensity of adoption, age, educational level, farming experience, on-farm training, off-farm income, access to information through ICT and locational variables are the significant determinants of intensity of adaptation strategies. Thus, education attainment, non-farm employment, farming experience are significant incentives to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity through the adoption of many adaptation approaches. This study therefore concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers, particularly during the off-cropping season. The income from non-farm employment can be plough-back into farm operations such as the adoption of soil and water conservation, use of improved planting varieties, insurance, among others to mitigate climate variability and subsequently increase productivity. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting education, providing on-farm demonstration trainings, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Thus, the government, stakeholders, and donor agencies must provide capacity-building innovations around the agricultural extension system and education on climate change using information and communication technologies.