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2. Agricultural research for resource-poor farmers Part I: Transfer-of-technology and farming systems research
- 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
- Notes:
- 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.
3. Barriers to adoption of on-farm computers in England
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gibbon, J. (author) and Warren, M.F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26869
- Journal Title:
- Farm Management
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 8, Issue 1
- Notes:
- Published in 1992.
4. Barriers to change: farmers' willingness to adopt sustainable manure management practices
- 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.
5. Barriers to research participation identified by rural people
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Morgan, L.L. (author), Fahs, P.S. (author), and Klseh, J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-11
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23846
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 407-414
6. Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- 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 & 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.
11. Facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural area
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jarvandi, Soghra (author), Johnson, Kristen (author), and Franck, Karen (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-16
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12614
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 60 Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 7 pgs, Farmers’ markets may improve access to healthful foods in rural areas. Our objective was to identify facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural county. We collected data via surveys, focus group sessions, and key informant interviews. Study participants identified the two existing farmers’ markets as community assets. Barriers to use farmers’ markets included inconvenient market hours, not accepting nutrition assistance program benefits, limited transportation, and limited variety. Interventions to improve food access should include ways to meet the needs of specific populations such as low-income residents and residents living in outlying areas without farmers’ markets.
12. Five things you need to know about the blockchain timeline
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Blog
- Publication Date:
- 2021-09-07
- Published:
- USA: C.O.nxt
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13156
- Notes:
- 3 pages
13. Good agriculture practices for safe food and sustainable agriculture in Nepal: a review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kharel, Menila (author), Dahal, Bed Mani (author), and Raut, Nani (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-18
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12806
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Food safety is a growing concern worldwide but is especially prevalent in Nepal. Agriculture is the country's critical economic sector, and its sustainability is challenged due to the increasing use of agrochemicals. As a result, low Soil Organic Matter (SOM), reduced crop productivity, increased food safety hazards, and negative impacts on human health and the environment are reported in the agriculture sector in Nepal. In 2018, the concept of Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) was introduced in Nepal to address the issues of food safety, trade, and sustainability. As GAP is relatively new to Nepal, it is still broad and ambiguous, which makes its use and implementation difficult. For this purpose, we conducted a literature review on available global evidence to present the benefits of GAP and to identify the critical barriers to the adoption of GA. The review shows GAP's potential to increase crop yield by up to 36%, reduce agrochemicals use by 31%, increase SOM from a mean of 3.32%–3.77%, and increase farmers' income by more than 100%. However, the review has also identified barriers to wider adoption of GAP, broadly categorized into production, extension, regulation and standards, and markets and finance. The valuable outcome of this review is that it proposes five key pathways: (i) Technical capacity building, (ii) Awareness creation, (iii) Soil fertility management strategies, (iv) Extension programs, and (v) Market development for institutionalizing GAP in Nepal, based on the learning from global evidence. This review could be useful for policymakers and the government of Nepal to develop detailed implementation guidelines for GAP, including appropriate policies as well as short, medium, and long-term plans and programs for institutionalizing GAP in Nepal.
14. ICT adoption - from Bonn to Debrecen: a summary of the EFITA questionnaires
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schiefer, Gerhard W. (author), Rosskopf, Karin (author), Gelb, Ehud (author), Parker, Caroline (author), and Wagner, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2005-07-18
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23525
- Notes:
- In the e-book, E.Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICT in Agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 8 pages.
15. Identifying Barriers to Forage Innovation: Native Grasses and Producer Knowledge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Keyser, Patrick (author), Schexnayder, Susan (author), Willcox, Adam (author), Bates, Gary (author), Boyer, Christopher N. (author), and Center for Native Grasslands Management Human Dimensions Research Lab University of Tennessee
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-12
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11232
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(6)
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal, Adoption of native warm-season grasses (NWSGs) in the tall fescue belt is limited despite studies documenting the potential contribution of these forages to profitable beef production. On the basis of two surveys conducted in Tennessee, a survey of beef producers and a survey of agricultural professionals, we evaluated perceptions of NWSG forages and how those perceptions could influence their adoption. Although agricultural professionals were more familiar with NWSGs than producers, both populations had limited knowledge regarding these forages, indicating that additional Extension education is needed. Our results provide useful guidance for developing NWSG forage educational programs for producers and agricultural professionals.
16. Information and communication technology (ICT) adoption in horticulture: a comparison to the EFITA baseline
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lebowitz, Abraham (author), Gelb, Ehud (author), and Taragola, Nicole (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2005-07-18
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23524
- Notes:
- In the e-book, E.Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICT in Agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 9 pages.
17. Is ICT adoption for agriculture still an important issue?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gelb, E. (author) and Parker, C. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2005-07-18
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23517
- Notes:
- In the e-book, E.Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICT in Agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 8 pages.
18. National voter poll: evaluating online grocery shopping habits
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02
- Published:
- USA: International Food Information Council Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09673
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
19. On climate, "looking at the structural barriers to progress is important:" CounterSpin interview with Zoe Carpenter on GOP's Oregon power grab
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jackson, Janine (author) and Carpenter, Zoe (author / The Nation)
- Format:
- Interview
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07-19
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: D11275
- Notes:
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), online via website. Episode of a CounterSpin radio interview. 8 pages., Issues in media coverage of politics, finance, and structural barriers in climate change legislation in Oregon, USA.
20. Overcoming impediments to communication for rural development in the Third World
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Awa, Njoku (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- International: Clearinghouse on Development Communication, Arlington, Virginia.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16513
- Journal Title:
- Development Communication Report
- Journal Title Details:
- 62(3) : 5
- Notes:
- Summary of an address at the International Conference on Agricultural Communication and Rural Development, Ilorin, Nigeria, June 21-24, 1988.
21. Reaching rural communities: increasing access to disability research information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (author)
- Format:
- Newsletter article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23443
- Journal Title:
- The Research Exchange Newsletter
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(2)
- Notes:
- Studies of the demography of disability in rural America show that non-metropolitan areas have the highest percentage of people with disabilities, including people with severe disabilities. What are the barriers to dissemination of information to rural people with disabilities? This brief article outlines several barriers, including rural isolation, which can create communication barriers when the sources of information are people perceived as "outsiders."
22. Research: rural climate change opinions are more complicated than you might think
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Melotte, Sarah (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-25
- Published:
- United States: The Daily Yonder
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12615
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Online Article
- Notes:
- 6 pgs, A study showed that Indiana’s rural populations skepticism of climate change is complex. Some of it can be associated with a sense of being ignored and blamed for climate change woes.
23. Strategies for building communication and participation: experiences from the Lower Mississippi Delta states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mwachofi, Ari (author / University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff)
- Format:
- Newsletter article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- USA: National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23442
- Journal Title:
- The Research Exchange Newsletter
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(2)
- Notes:
- 5 p., Ari Mwachofi, Ph.D., principal investigator of the research project titled "Developing a Rehabilitation Service Delivery Model for Minority Farmers With Disabilities," describes how personal contact, developing trust with farmers, and collaborating with community leaders enhances his study. The project's purpose is to build an effective model of service delivery to minority farmers who have traditionally been underserved. The study involves farmers from the Lower Mississippi Delta states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
24. Understanding precision agriculture adoption through two decades of the Croplife Purdue Survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Erickson, Bruce (author) and Lowenberg-DeBoer, James (author)
- Format:
- Survey report
- Publication Date:
- 2018-07-19
- Published:
- USA: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10589
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Via online - Power Point presentation. Summarizes retail dealers' adoption of precision technologies in agriculture, 1997-2017., The CropLife/Purdue University precision dealer survey is the longest-running continuous survey of precision farming adoption. The 2017 survey is the 18th, conducted every year from 1997 to 2009, and then every other year following. Major sections of the survey include precision technologies used by the retailers within their business/on their equipment, the adoption rates of precision products and services offered by retailers to customers, the dealer’s estimation of the acres in their area where farmers are using precision practices, and questions about profitability, technology investment, and constraints to adoption. The 2017 survey shows substantial increases in the adoption of practices that provide data for understanding and managing inter- and intra-field variability. Grid/zone soil sampling, which was being offered by 35 to 57% of dealers in a period stretching from 1999 to 2013, increased to 67% in 2015 and to 78% offering in 2017. Soil EC mapping increased from 19% in 2015 to 31% in 2017, and dealers offering UAV services from 19% to 30%. At the same time variable rate technology (VRT) seeding prescriptions, VRT lime application, and VRT fertilizer application services are up, yet VRT pesticide offerings are down. Seventy eight percent of dealers are using autoguidance for their custom application and 73% are using sprayer section controllers.