Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21989
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Pages 539-543 in T.K. Warley (ed.), Agricultural producers and their markets. Oxford: Blackwell. 596 pages., Identifies needs for market intelligence, in terms of national concerns. Also describes these dimensions of market intelligence: (a) short-run news--to one week; (b) fairly short-run supply data--part of the production cycle; (c) middle run data, such as estimates of intent to plant or market--4-6 months; (d) long-run forecasts, from end of production period forward 10 years; (e) government price and production policies; and (f) consumer market news. "Middle and long-run information places a heavy burden on extension or advisory services."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11767
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Section D. Proceedings of the 13th annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education, Arlington, Virginia, April 3-5, 1997.
9 pages, Despite agriculture’s great potential to Tanzania agricultural development, the sector faces diverse challenges. For example, existence of gender gaps in accessing agricultural production resources and benefits obtained from the same impede the sector’s growth. Therefore, adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) has been seen as one of the measures to address the sector limited productivity. Nonetheless, there is limited knowledge on how CA has managed to reduce gender inequalities in accessing both reproductive resources and benefits accrued from agriculture. This paper examines gender gaps in conservation agriculture programme implemented by Sustainable Agriculture in Tanzania (SAT), by specifically analyzing gender participation and relations in CA in Morogoro municipality and Morogoro district. This study adopted a mixed method approach whereby both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from four sites where SAT implements its activities. Findings show that CA has significantly reduced gander gaps in accessing production resources and services as well as raising women’s participation in decision making with regards to production and use of income obtained from sales of produce. Farmers regardless of the gender can access extension services, and credit, and are involved in various initiatives collectively. Despite the economic benefits, findings show that CA is laborious and takes much of farmers’ time, women being more affected. Therefore, it is recommended that the central and local governments and various stakeholders should promote the spread of conservation agriculture technologies since it reduces the biasness in agriculture and empowering women. Ensuring access to advanced cheap technologies to farmers. Nonetheless, there is need to ensure that female farmers are not overburdened in the process.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02441
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Page 73 - Abstract of a paper presented at the International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages.
