Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12370
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Chapter 29 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Case studies to accompany Getting Agriculture Moving. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 1967. 302 p.
Schneider, Ivo Alberto (author / Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: C12494
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection; See B03082, Pages 88-97 in Robert H. Crawford and William B. Ward (eds.), Communication strategies for rural development. Proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT international symposium, Cali, Colombia, March 17-22, 1974. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 278 p.
Examines adaptation as a dynamic diffusion of innovations process in which adopters change innovations according to their individual needs. Adaptation may be explained by three factors: (a) the differing interpretation of innovation components by individual adopters, (b) an individual's level of adopter innovativeness or readiness to accept change and [c] the generative learning process whereby an individual relates new information prior knowledge and experience. Adaptation may occur unconsciously at the beginning of the diffusion process. Those who study the adaptation process should begin at the initial awareness state when potential adopters are forming their opinions and ideas about an innovation. Author uses an example involving a group of Kalahari bushmen first considering a sample of soft drink that they are told can quench thirst.
Babu, V.K. (author), Singh, Y.P. (author), and Department of Agriculture Extension, R.B.S. College, Bichpuri, Agra; Department of Agriculture Extension, R.B.S. College, Bichpuri, Agra
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
unknown
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05520
Madalia, V.K. (author), Patel, Y.A.S. (author), and Department of Rural Studies, South Gujarat University, Surat, India; Department of Rural Studies, South Gujarat University, Surat, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1975-08-16
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05050
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07896
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. 13 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07899
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. 11 pages.
Ryan, Bryce (author), Gross, Neal (author), and Department of Sociology, University of Ceylon; Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1950
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 38 Document Number: B04267
Notes:
Includes Table of Contents and Summary. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Ames, IA : Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts, Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 1950. 663-678 p. (Research Bulletin 372)
Mohanto, G.C. (author), Satapathy, C. (author), and Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India; Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1975-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05044
Rogers, Everett M. (author) and Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: C15643
Notes:
11 p., Paper prepared for the Food and Renewable Resources Program, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1980
9 pages, In agricultural research for development adoption of new technology tends to be cast in categories: adoption, partial adoption, dis-adoption or non-adoption. While these may serve for pragmatic classification and measures for project success or impact they fail to properly acknowledge the ongoing and independent efforts of farmers (and others) in experimentation and integration of knowledge across a range of sources. This paper explores responses to practices for cattle management introduced during a research project, at project close, and five years after the project has finished. We consider the perceptions and application of new knowledge by farmers, extension staff, and policy makers. By taking a longer-term view, we demonstrate how farming households adapt and integrate knowledge from different sources into their daily practice, influenced by local institutions and changing cultural expectations, as well as external researchers. We also consider the influence of changing government priorities and incentives in steering farm-management decisions. Results suggest that a focus on measures to build capacity and empower farmers with information to adapt and respond to change, regardless of project activities, is a much more important goal and indicator of impact than measuring adoption.
Hodgon, Linwood L. (author) and Singh, Harpal (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1970
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D04646
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents and Highlights of the Report only, James F. Evans Collection; Cited Reference, Hyderabad, India: National Institute of Community Development
Feder, Gershon (author), Just, Richard E. (author), and Zilberman, David (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00566
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1982. 65 p. (World Bank Staff Working papers No. 542), Reviews various studies which have provided a description of and possible explanation to patterns of innovation adoption in the agricultural sector. Covers both empirical and theoretical studies. Highlights the diversity in observed patterns among various farmers' classes as well as difference in results from different studies in different socio-economic environments, and reviews the attempts to rationalize such findings. Special attention is given to the methodologies which are commonly used in studies of innovation adoption and suggestions for improvements of such work through the use of appropriate econometric methods are provided.
Lionberger, Herbert F. (author / Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri) and Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1960
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 38 Document Number: B04276
Notes:
Includes Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction. Abstract available in Main Stacks 630.73 Un364r, Ames, IA : The Iowa State University Press, 1960. 164 p.
Joshi, Pushkar Lal (author / Division of Economics and Extension, I.C.A.R., Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India) and Division of Economics and Extension, I.C.A.R., Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1977-08
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B05005
Chattopadhyay, S. N. (author), Pareek, Udai (author), and Small Industry Extension Training Institute, Hyderabad, India; Small Industry Extension Training Institute, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05108
Scherer, Clifford W. (author), Yarbrough, J. Paul. (author), and Scherer: Associate Professor, Iowa State University; Yarbrough: Professor, Cornell University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 58 Document Number: C01595
Notes:
AgComm Teaching; See C01581 for original, In: The application of computer technology to communication processes : Proceedings of an NCR-90 Research Conference; 1984 April 15-17; Marriott Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 15-17, 1984. Fargo, ND : North Dakota State University, 1984. p. 171-181
Sethu, Rao, M.S. (author / University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Agricultural Extension, Bangalore) and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Agricultural Extension, Bangalore
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00665
Konig, Bettina (author), Kuntosch, Anett (author), Bokelmann, Wolfgang (author), Doernberg, Alexandra (author), Schwerdtner, Wim (author), Busse, Maria (author), Siebert, Rosemarie (author), Koschatzky, Knut (author), and Stahlbecker, Thomas (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-09
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01144
Notes:
Paper presented at the 131st EAAE Seminar, "Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012. 17 pages.
INTERPAKS, Reviews how the agricultural extension agent has dealt with the process of technology transfer and the categories of farmers affected by the diffusion process. Discusses CIMMYT's model of grouping rural populations into homogenous target categories to develop appropriate technologies and the influence it has had on the process of technology development. Points out that strategies intended to assist small farmers depend as much on the creation of appropriate opportunities as on the creation of appropriate technologies.
Page 84 in Extension Circular 532, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1959, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Citation of a revised edition involving 135 titles supplementing those in "How farm people accept new ideas," North Central Regional Publication No. 1. 2nd edition. Iowa State College, Ames. 1959. 12 pages.
Bohlen, J.M. (author), Coleman, A.L. (author), Dimit, R.M. (author), Lionberger, H. F. (author), and Wilkening, E.A. (author)
Format:
Bibliography
Publication Date:
1956
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05213
Notes:
AGRICOLA CAT 92263967; Bibliographical supplement to "How farm people accept new ideas." Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Ames, Iowa : Agricultural Experiment Station, Iowa State College, 1956. 8 p. (North central regional publication ; no. 1, Sup.; Iowa State College special report no. 15, sup.), References to 87 studies related to the process by which new practices diffuse.
INTERPAKS; see also C07214, Aims to show that it can be of great advantage to the design of a rural development project if the cognitive strategies which lie behind farmers' decisions to adopt new technology are understood. This is done by using a case study of an agronomic recommendation of the Plan Puebla in Mexico which did not diffuse. Of the 1973-4 recommendations, the one to increase the number and change the timing of fertilizer applications was the non-adopted recommendation. The theory of choice used in this study assumes that people choosing between two alternatives do not make complex calculation of the overall worth or utility of each alternative. Instead people tend to use procedures which simplify their decision making calculations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07214
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: D. Brokensha, D.M. Warren, and O. Werner (eds.). Indigenous knowledge systems and development. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980. p. 9-28
Dasgupta, Satadal (author / Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta, India) and Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1965-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05031
Evans, cited reference, Sources of information vary with the farmers' socioeconomic status and type of practice for which information is sought. When the farmers are divided into three groups-innovators, early adopters, and late adopters-according to immediacy of response to an innovation-the innovators are found to utilize institutionalized sources, while late adopters rely more upon noninstitutionalized sources. The position of early adopters is intermediate. This relationship was tested by interviewing 246 farm families of Baraset region in West Bengal, India about their sources of information for nine improved agricultural practices. (original)
Fliegel, Frederick C. (author), Kivlin, Joseph E. (author), Roy, Prodipto (author), Sen, Lalit K. (author), and Michigan State University; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India; Michigan State University; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1968
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: B03076
Notes:
Mason E. Miller Collection, Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Community Development, 1968. 56 p. (Research Report 15, Project on the Diffusion of Innovations in Rural Societies)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10093
Notes:
Pages 81-83 in Workshop on communications linkages between national programs and international agricultural organizations, Cali, Colombia, April 14-18, 1986., This presentation abstract is maintained in ACDC storage within Document No. D09983, Abstract of a conference presentation from the files of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Chamala, Shankariah (author), Crouch, Bruce R. (author), and Agricultural Extension Unit, Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Agricultural Extension Unit, Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: C03184
Notes:
In: Crouch, Bruce R., and Chamala, Shankariah, eds' Extension education and rural development. Volume 2 : experience in strategies for planned change. New York : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1981. p. 267-275
Lovejoy, Stephen B. (author), Parent, F. Dale (author), and Parent: Department of Sociology, Southeastern Louisiana University; Lovejoy: Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: C02313
Padel, Susanne (author) and Lampkin, Nicolas H. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12019
Notes:
Pages 295-313 in Lampkin, N.H. and S. Padel, The economics of organic farming: an international perspective. CAB International, Oxon, UK. 1994. 468 pp.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: B00547
Notes:
See also B00288, a report of the thesis. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Thesis, master of science in agricultural journalism, Agricultural Journalism Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 103 p., Analysis of an unsuccessful commodity promotion campaign.
Njoku, Jude E. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
Nigeria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06439
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Morrilton, AR : Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1990. 17 p. (African Rural Social Science Series, Research Report Number 10)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05241
Notes:
INTERPAKS, University Park, PA: Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Pennsylvania State University, January 1962. (Bulletin 691). 18 p., Presents the results of a study of the extent to which the rate of adoption of new managerial and technological practices is related to their cost, complexity, and other attributes. Adoption rates for 43 farm practices were determined from the adoption histories of 229 commercial dairy farmers. Relationships between attribute ratings established during the study and known rates of adoption were determined. Farm practices which rated low in complexity and high in compatibility and saving of time were adopted more rapidly than others. Those rated high in mechanical attraction and saving of physical discomfort also tended to be adopted rapidly but the correlations were not statistically significant. The data show that high initial cost, high continuing costs, and a slow rate of cost recovery are not necessarily deterrents to rapid adoption. The other attributes, association with dairying and divisibility for trial, were not associated with rate of adoption.
