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2. Analysis and prioritization the effective factors on increasing farmers resilience under climate change and drought
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Javadinejad, Safieh (author), Dara Rebwar (author), and Jafary, Forough (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-31
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12405
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 10 N. 3
- Notes:
- 17 pages, California is severely exposed to drought and damage due to the climate change and drought belt, which has a major impact on agriculture. So, after the drought crisis, there are various reactions from farmers. The extent of the damage caused by the socioeconomic, environment and the extent of the resistance of farmers to this crisis is manifested in a variety of ways. Recognizing the population’s resilience and the involved human groups is a tool for preventing a catastrophe-based increase in life-threatening areas in high-risk areas. Sometimes the inability to manage this phenomenon (especially under the climate change) leads to farmers’ desertification and agricultural land release, which itself indicates a low level of resilience and resilience to the crisis. The recent drought under the climate change condition in California and the severity of the damage sustained by farmers continue to be vulnerable. The present study seeks to prioritize and prioritize resilience of farmers to the crisis under the climate change. This study simulated drought condition with using PDSI value for current and future time period. In order to calculate PDSI values, the climatic parameters extracted from CMIP5 models and downscaled under the scenario of RCP 8.5. Also in order to understand the resilience of the agriculture activities under the climate change, this study was performed using statistical tests and data from the questionnaire completed in the statistical population of 320 farmers in the Tulare region in California. The findings of the research by t test showed that the average level of effective factors in increasing the resilience of farmers in the region is low. This is particularly significant in relation to the factors affecting government policies and support. So that only the mean of five variables is higher than the numerical desirability of the test and the other 15 variables do not have a suitable status for increasing the resilience of the farmers. Also, the results of the Vikor model showed that most of the impact on their resilience to drought and climate change was the development of agricultural insurance, the second important impact belongs to drought monitoring system, climate change and damage assessment, and variable of attention to knowledge is in third place of the important factor.
3. Differential Educational Impact of Mass Media on Selected Audiences
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Extension Research and Training, Federal Extension Service
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1960-01-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D04647
- Notes:
- In: Proceedings: Abstracts of Papers and Addresses of the 57th Annual Convention of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers; 1960 February 1-3, Birmingham, AL
4. Effects of new technology on information providers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Marks, Joseph (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09719
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Synthesis and Challenge by Mason E. Miller. Winrock International. Pages 187-188.
5. Improving agricultural productivity and markets: the role of information and communication technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McNama, Kerry (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009-04
- Published:
- USA: World Bank
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10320
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural and Rural Development Notes
- Journal Title Details:
- 47 :1-4
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Via online journal., Raising the productivity of smallholders is a necessary condition for increasing incomes and improving livelihoods among the rural poor in most developing countries. This increased productivity is essential to both household food security and to agriculture-based growth and poverty reduction in the larger economy. Smallholder productivity is limited by a variety of constraints including poor soils, unpredictable rainfall, and imperfect markets, as well as lack of access to productive resources, financial services, or infrastructure. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are also vitally important to commercial and large-scale agriculture, and to agriculture-related services and infrastructure such as weather monitoring and irrigation. This note focuses on the sometimes less-obvious importance of ICT in improving the information, communication, transaction, and networking elements of smallholder agriculture in developing countries.
6. Improving interdisciplinary collaboration in bio-economic modelling for agricultural systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kragt, M.E. (author), Pannell, D.J. (author), McVittie, A. (author), Stott, A.W. (author), Ahmadi, B. Vosough (author), and Wilson, P. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03
- Published:
- Australia: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07795
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 143: 217-224
7. Market-power problems of agricultural producers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dubov, Irving (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1962-04
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09354
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(2) : 48-53
8. Marketing coverage of the Journal of Farm Economics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arnold, Carl J. (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 1955-01
- Published:
- United States: American Marketing Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07833
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 (3): 266-267
9. Natural and rural community resources and the environment and their users: social science agricultural agenda project
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hite, James C. (author)
- Format:
- Presentation
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21150
- Notes:
- Pages 153-177 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages., Rural people, resources and communities: an assessment of the capabilities of the social sciences in agriculture.
10. Overcoming disciplinary divides in higher education: the case of agricultural economics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ng, Desmond (author) and Litzenberg, Kerry (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- palgrave macmillan LTD
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10366
- Journal Title:
- Palgrave Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 5
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Article 26, Via online journal., As global problems have become ever more complex, the production and organization of knowledge in society is increasingly based on the sharing, integration and collaboration of diverse experiences. For instance, global ‘grand challenges’, such as world hunger, poverty, climate change, and sustainability often require an interdisciplinary (ID) approach, in which integrating the insights of different disciplines provides a more comprehensive solution than can be offered by any given discipline. Universities or higher educational institutions face increasing pressures to engage in such interdisciplinary collaboration. This interdisciplinarity, however, raises particular organizational challenges to departments in higher educational institutions. In particular, while departments have been traditionally organized around a disciplinary core, interdisciplinarity has placed increasing pressures on departments, such as agricultural economics, to integrate insights from disciplines that do not advance a department’s disciplinary core. Few ID researchers have addressed the issue of how this internal conflict can be resolved in a departmental setting. Resolving this internal conflict is important to developing a greater interdisciplinarity among the disciplines of departmental units where a greater variety of disciplinary insights can be drawn upon to solve complex social problems. Here, we call for a unique organizational structure that can resolve this internal conflict. In using agricultural economics departments as a case study, we appeal to a concept of a “gatekeeper” whose role is to institute “loosely coupled” connections that can reconcile a department’s internal conflicts. This “gatekeeper” can advance the “normal science” of a department’s core and peripheral disciplines, while at the same time support a ‘common ground’ that appeals to these disciplines’ common interests. A key conclusion is that “gatekeepers” can sustain the integration of disciplinary insights necessary for the advancement of interdisciplinarity in higher educational institutions.