Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12334
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 315-325 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
This study explores how members of the Nebraska Cooperative Council and its constituent producer-owned cooperatives understand and enact democratic ideologies, drawing particular attention to how emergent contraditions and tensions are experienced and managed.
15 pages, Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by involving them in the production of high-quality durum wheat and linking them to the pasta industry via farmers’ cooperatives. Using primary data collected in 2014 and retrospective information, this paper investigates the AVCPO’s effects on the quantity of cereal production, the share of cereals that have been sold through cooperatives, food security, and education. In order to account for potential violations of the exclusion restriction assumption, an instrumental variable approach is applied, together with three additional estimation strategies.
The results suggest that the project has had a large and positive effect on gross and net values of cereal production per hectare, as well as on the share of production sold to pasta makers through cooperatives. These benefits accrue equally to land-rich and land-poor farmers. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the AVCPO has improved educational outcomes and reduced food insecurity, without affecting crop rotation practices. Overall, our findings point to the effectiveness of the project. Before replicating or scaling up this intervention, however, it is necessary to understand how to better involve poorer farmers and which adjustments are needed if the areas selected have a lower potential than Bale Zone.
Houston, Brant (author), Bruzzese, Len (author), and Weinberg, Steve (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA: Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, Massachusetts
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18380
Notes:
Fourth Edition. Copyrighted by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. 589 pages., Includes resources for investigating various topics, including some that involve food, agriculture and natural resources.
Hunter, Guy (author), Jiggins, Janice (author), and Overseas Development Institute, London, UK; Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05324
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 449-468, This is an abridged version of one of three papers appearing in the recent AAU/ODI publication : Stimulating Local Development. It is concerned with the various kinds and methods of farmer grouping and with criteria by which a choice between different kinds of groups for different purposes and in different circumstances should be made. "Groups" includes very small informal groups running up to large major cooperatives and also includes elected committees (e.g., village development committees, Panchayats at the levels of village Block and district). (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23371
Notes:
3 pages., "Sustainable agriculture is not just about sustaining agriculture, it is about sustaining people through agriculture. It is about stopping the exploitation and extraction of industrialization and finding self-renewing, regenerative systems that will sustain the land, sustain rural people, and sustain all people, of all times." Describes a farmer to consumer cooperative, Grow Alabama.
Inayatullah, Sohail (author) and Leggett, Susan (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
International: Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16756
Notes:
200 pages., Authors explore the possibilities of transforming communication from technology to a human act of sharing meaning. "They generally argue that to create sustainable futures, new ways must be found to make communication inclusive, participatory, and mindful of future generations."
Izumi, K. (author / Department of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori-Shi, Tottori-ken, Japan) and Department of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori-Shi, Tottori-ken, Japan
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 66 Document Number: C02564
Jackson, Janine (author) and Bell, Beverly (author)
Format:
Interview
Publication Date:
2015-10-22
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08693
Notes:
Transcript posted on the website of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), New York City, New York. Interview of Beverly Bell, coordinator of Other Worlds, a "women-led and movement-building collaborative." 6 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16752
Notes:
Chapter 11 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Jhabvala, Renana (author) and Bhowmik, Sharit (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00561
Notes:
Pages 105-125 in Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala (eds.) Speaking out: women's economic empowerment in South Asia. Intermediate Technology Publications, London, UK. On behalf of Aga Khan Foundation Canada and United Nations Development Fund for Women. 238 pages.
