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2. Agriculture–nutrition linkages in farmers’ communication networks
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jäckering, Lisa (author), Gödecke, Theda (author), and Wollni, Meike (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10824
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., To date, little is known about how information flows within farmer groups and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural and nutrition information networks within farmer groups. Dyadic regressions are used to analyze the factors influencing link formation for the exchange of agricultural and nutrition information. In addition, we apply fixed‐effects models to identify the characteristics of central persons driving information exchange in the two networks, as well as potentially isolated persons, who are excluded from information networks within their farmer groups. Our results show that nutrition information is exchanged within farmer groups, although to a limited extent, and mostly flows through the existing agricultural information links. Thus, diffusing nutrition information through agricultural extension systems may be a viable approach. Our findings further suggest that group leaders and persons living in central locations are important drivers in the diffusion of information in both networks and may thus serve as suitable entry points for nutrition‐sensitive extension programs. However, we also identify important heterogeneities in network characteristics. In particular, nutrition information is less often exchanged between men and women, and some group members are completely isolated from nutrition information exchange within their farmer groups. We derive recommendations on taking these differences in network structure and characteristics into account when designing nutrition‐sensitive extension programs.
3. Determinants of the use of information: an empirical study of German pig farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arens, Ludwig (author), Plumeyer, Cord-Herwig (author), and Theuvsen, Ludwig (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D00982
- Journal Title:
- International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(1) : 51-72
4. ICTs and small holder farming [opinion]
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Achora, Janet (author)
- Format:
- Opinion
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09
- Published:
- USA: IEEE - Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07567
- Journal Title:
- IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
- Journal Title Details:
- 35 (3) 21-22
5. Information flow: a study of dairy husbandry technology in East Azerbaijan-Iran
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mandape, M.K. (author) and Rezvanfar, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14244
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Communication Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1-2) : 100-113
- Notes:
- Formerly "Interaction," journal of the National Council of Development Communication, India.
6. Mapping information flows
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lawrence, Anna (author)
- Format:
- Newsletter article
- Publication Date:
- 1997-04
- Published:
- Netherlands: Centre for Research and Information on Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture, The Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: C18584
- Journal Title:
- LEISA
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(1): 22-23
- Notes:
- Looking Through RAAKS windows: Forging Partnerships; ISSN 0920-8771
7. Networking for low-external-input and sustainable agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alders, Carine (author), Haverkort, Bertus (author), and van Veldhuizen, Laurens (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17244
- Notes:
- Pages 3-23 in Carine Alders, Bertus Haverkort and Laurens van Veldhuizen (eds.), Linking with farmers: networking for low-external-input and sustainable agriculture. Intermediate Technology Publications, London, UK. 298 pages.
8. The formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters: a case from China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zeng, Yiwu (author), Hongdong, Guo (author), Yao, Yanfei (author), and Huang, Lu (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10821
- Journal Title:
- Growth and Change
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., Agricultural e‐commerce clusters are new phenomena that have emerged in rural China. In examining the case of Shuyang County in Jiangsu Province, this paper puts forward an integrated model revealing the formation mechanism of agricultural e‐commerce clusters. The paper shows that the formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters involves four processes of technology introduction, technology diffusion, quality crisis, and industrial agglomeration based on elements such as industry bases, e‐commerce platforms, network facilities, logistics services, entrepreneurial talent, local government, and market demand. Rural social networks and imitation behaviors promote technology diffusion by reducing the cost of technology introduction, and industrial agglomeration is found in the economies showing a deepening of labor divisions and geographic agglomeration. Throughout the formation process, a quality crisis may occur due to a race to the bottom and the opportunistic behaviors of local farmers. This work suggests that regional e‐commerce development is a systematic project. Governments of developing countries should not only realize the positive impacts of e‐commerce for the development of the agricultural industry but also recognize the premise and logic of how e‐commerce can play a prominent role.