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2. Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1993
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09933
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Prepared for the NCR-90 meeting. Purdue University, Oct. 27-29, 1993. 13 pages.
3. Development of mobile phone based agro-advisory system through ICT mediated extension approach in North-eastern himalayan region of India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lahiri, Biswajit (author), Borah, Swapnali (author), Marak, Natasha (author), and Anurag, Thiruchirapalli Sudarshan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-22
- Published:
- International: Applied and Natural Science Foundation
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12418
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied and Natural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 9 (3)
- Notes:
- India (Southern, Asia), agricultural, information, cell phones, extension systems, advisory services, technology, To achieve gainful development in agriculture to ensure food security in the north-eastern Himalayan region of India, an initiative was taken to develop mobile phone based agro-advisory system with the objective to empower the farmers by providing right information at right time through Information and Communication Technol- ogy mediated extension approach. 2000 farmers and farm women were selected as beneficiaries through snowball sampling method based on certain criteria. The major features of the system to deliver the farm advices (Pull Based) and information services (Push Based) through toll free Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), Smart Phone Application, Mobile phone and Web based agriculture advisory system. It was found that on an average almost 200 advisories were provided every month, which even shoot up to almost 300 calls per month in the peak Kharif seasons as bulk of the advisories were provided during the months of May to November as most number of calls from the farmers came during the period. Majority of the advisories were provided on fishery management practices (17.32%), source of seed (9.95%), livestock management (9.18%), disease and pest management of crops (8.75%), training information (9.35%), rural development schemes (7.76%) etc. Moreover, the inclusion of need based train- ing component and convergence with different extension functionaries helped to develop an ICT based Stakeholder Interface (Experts-Line Departments-Agripreneurs-Farmers) in the field of agriculture in the region. This alternate extension system also helped to develop better rapport with the farmers and can be replicated in other hilly region of the world.
4. Information sources of agricultural extension specialists in Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mundy, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09934
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, From Document D09933, "Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1993". Pages 1-2.
5. Iowa farmers' use of mass media and interpersonal sources to obtain agricultural information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McNeil-Sanders, Cassandra (author)
- Format:
- Summary
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09809
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Iowa State University. 3 pages.
6. Rethinking technological change in smallholder agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Glover, Dominic (author), Sumberg, James (author), Ton, Giel (author), Andersson, Jens (author), and Badstue, Lone (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-22
- Published:
- International: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12493
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 48, Issue 3
- Notes:
- The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to inform decision-making about new investments in development-oriented agricultural research. However, adoption simplifies and mischaracterises what happens during processes of technological change. In all but the very simplest cases, it is likely to be inadequate to capture the complex reconfiguration of social and technical components of a technological practice or system. We review the insights of a large and expanding literature, from various disciplines, which has deepened understanding of technological change as an intricate and complex sociotechnical reconfiguration, situated in time and space. We explain the problems arising from the inappropriate use of adoption as a framing concept and propose an alternative conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating technological change. The new approach breaks down technology change programmes into four aspects: propositions, encounters, dispositions and responses. We begin to sketch out how this new framework could be operationalised.