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    2. Agricultural research for resource-poor farmers Part I: Transfer-of-technology and farming systems research

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chambers, Robert (author), Jiggins, Janice (author), and University of Sussex
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    1987-01-07
    Published:
    United Kingdom: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10965
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Administration and Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    27(1987) : 35-52
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    17 pages, via online journal, The greatest challenge now facing agricultural science is not how to increase production overall but how to enable resource-poor farmers to produce more. The transfer-of-technology (TOT) model of agricultural research is part of the normal professionalism of agricultural scientists. In this model, scientists largely determine research priorities, develop technologies in controlled conditions, and then hand them over to agricultural extension to transfer to farmers. Although strong structures and incentives sustain this normal professionalism, many now recognise the challenge of its bad fit with the needs and conditions of hundreds of millions of resource-poor farm (RPF) families. In response to this problem, the TOT model has been adapted and extended through multi-disciplinary farming systems research (FSR) and on-farm trials. These responses retain power in the hands of scientists. Information is obtained from farmers and processed and analysed in order to identify what might be good for them. A missing element is methods to encourage and enable resource-poor farmers themselves to meet and work out what they need and want.

    4. Barriers to change: farmers' willingness to adopt sustainable manure management practices

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Battel, Robert D. (author) and Krueger, David E. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2001-10-10
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23184
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    43(4)
    Notes:
    Posted at: http://www.joe.org/2005august/a7.shtml, Electronic journal.

    6. Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Carmenta, Rachel (author), Coomes, David A. (author), DeClerck, Fabrice A.J. (author), Hart, Abigail K. (author), Harvey, Celia A. (author), Milder, Jeff (author), Reed, James (author), Vira, Bhaskar (author), and Estrada-Carmona, Natalia (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: D11357
    Journal Title:
    One Earth
    Journal Title Details:
    2 : 174-187
    Notes:
    Online via open access., Researchers gathered survey data on 104 integrated landscape initiatives (ILIs) within Latin America and the Caribbean jurisdictions of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Findings suggested four distinct strategies existed, two of which were only weakly integrated and another two of which were more ambitiously attempting integration, engaging more sectors and scales of governance, and targeting the structural barriers to sustainability.

    7. Climate change and farmer’s perception for the sustainability of farming in khyber pakhtunkhwa-pakistan

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Israr, Muhammad (author), Faraz, Muhammad (author), and Jay-Russell, Michelle T. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-05-31
    Published:
    International: Science and Education Publishing
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12459
    Journal Title:
    American Journal of Rural Development
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 8, No. 1
    Notes:
    9pgs, This research was conducted in Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the aims to study the knowledge of farmers and to evaluate the perceptions of the farmers about Climate Change (CC). To accomplish these objectives primary data was collected from 98 randomly selected farmers by structure questionnaire through face to face interview method and was analysed by using descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that majority (93%) of farmers were aware of CC phenomena and perceived changes in temperature (89%) and precipitation (86%) during the last decade. Crop diversification, soil and water management practices and application of necessary farm inputs were the farmer’s preferred adaptive strategies to CC. Barriers to adaptive strategies were the ineffective government support, lack of capital, information and extension services, traditional beliefs and high cost of farm inputs. The study concludes that climate is changing and the farmers are practicing different adaptive strategies to overcome this problem, but still there is a space for more scientifically verified strategies which can boost the farmer’s productivity and increased the overall wellbeing for the future sustainability of farming.

    8. Community-based grazing marketing: barriers and benefits related to the adoption of best management practices in grazing systems

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    King, Audrey E.H. (author), Baker, Lauri M. (author), and Tomlinson, Peter J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Published:
    USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE)
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08657
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Applied Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    101(1) : 44-55

    9. Corteva releases study on women in agriculture: key findings

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2018-10-15
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10013
    Notes:
    Research summary from Corteva Agriscience retrieved online via Agri Marketing Weekly. 2 pages., Results of a survey among 4,160 respondents from 17 countries.

    10. Exploring barriers to the adoption of internet of things-based precision agriculture practices

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hundal, Gaganpreet Singh (author), Laux, Chad Matthew (author), Buckmaster, Dennis (author), Sutton, Mathias J (author), and Langemeier, Michael (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-01-09
    Published:
    Switzerland: MDPI
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12835
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agriculture
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 13, Iss. 1
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    16 pages, The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen &amp; phosphorus), farm machinery fuel costs and decreasing labor productivity leading to non-optimized usage of farm inputs. Literature describes how sustainable practices such as profitability (return on investments), operational cost reduction, hazardous waste reduction, delivery performance and overall productivity might be adopted in the context of precision agriculture technologies (variable rate irrigation, variable rate fertilization, cloud-based analytics, and telematics for farm machinery navigation). The literature review describes low adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based precision agriculture technologies, such as variable rate fertilizer (39%), variable rate pesticide (8%), variable rate irrigation (4%), cloud-based data analytics (21%) and telematics (10%) amongst Midwestern row crop producers. Barriers to the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture technologies cited in the literature include cost effectiveness, power requirements, wireless communication range, data latency, data scalability, data storage, data processing and data interoperability. Therefore, this study focused on exploring and understanding decision-making variables related to barriers through three focus group interview sessions conducted with eighteen (n = 18) subject matter experts (SME) in IoT- based precision agriculture practices. Dependency relationships described between cost, data latency, data scalability, power consumption, communication range, type of wireless communication and precision agriculture application is one of the main findings. The results might inform precision agriculture practitioners, producers and other stakeholders about variables related to technical and operational barriers for the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture practices.