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2. Agricultural policies and strategies in Ethiopia: a review on transformation towards an improved agricultural extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Degefu, Sura (author) and Beri, Gemechu (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2024-10-11
- Published:
- Kuwait: Kuwait Scholars Publisher
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13305
- Journal Title:
- Middle East Research Journal of Agriculture and Food Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(5):186-192
- Notes:
- 7 pages, In Ethiopia, economic development policy has historically been dominated by subsistence agriculture, leading to unrealized agricultural potential characterized by low productivity and a focus on subsistence farming practices. This would necessitate giving agricultural policies top priority and launching an improved initiative to speed up the transition from traditional farming. To this end, this review was to summarize the strengths and drawbacks of Ethiopia's agricultural policies and strategies, as well as make recommendations for improved interventions and the potential for scaling them up. This may be very helpful in directing policymakers to introduce the valuable interventions and handle related issues. Since 1991, the government of Ethiopia has implemented various agricultural policies in order to boost agricultural productivity and production, which in turn reduces poverty and food insecurity. However, the results have been found to be unsatisfactory. This is mainly due to the poor performance of the agricultural extension system in terms of its coverage and quality of implementation. Thus, the review argues, addressing such challenges and commercializing the sector could lead Ethiopia to further exploit its agricultural potential. In this regard, the recently implemented cluster farming is the right way to overcome these problems and support subsistence farming by increasing smallholder farmers bargaining power, increasing the faster diffusion of research recommendations and extension packages, knowledge transfer, and market linkage. Therefore, the review recommends that policymakers and development organizations should consider cluster farming as a main farming strategy to increase smallholder farmer’s productivity and support initiatives to attain the intended goals.
3. 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.
4. Consumer perceptions of poultry production: a focus on Arkansas
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Estes, Stuart (author), Edgar, Leslie D. (author), and Johnson, Donald M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13286
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 99(4) : Article 4
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Poultry production holds an important place in Arkansas economically and as a food source. The viability of poultry production ultimately hinges on consumer demand and the perceptions that drive their purchases. With this in mind, this study surveyed consumers to assess their perceptions of poultry production in Arkansas. The instrument used to survey consumers was created by the researcher and an expert committee at the University of Arkansas. Consumers were surveyed through direct communication at grocery stores in Northwest Arkansas. Data gathered from the study were analyzed using descriptive and correlational statistics. Consumers were uncertain as to whether or not conventionally produced poultry possessed unsafe levels of antibiotics and hormones (M = 3.68, SD = 1.45). Consumers also thought the majority of poultry farms in Arkansas were factory farms (M = 4.15, SD = 1.37). Consumers perceived organic poultry as a more healthy food than conventionally produced poultry (M = 4.47, SD = 1.39). Based on these results, specific recommendations were made to maintain the viability of poultry production in Arkansas. Marketing and communication efforts should be tailored to improve consumer understanding of antibiotic and hormone use in poultry production and the healthiness of conventionally produced poultry. Messaging and marketing should depict the reality of conventional poultry production, and agricultural communicators should work to improve logic and reason for combating campaigns that misinform the public about agriculture. This research also highlights the need for further research to better understand the ways consumers develop perceptions of poultry production.
5. 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
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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