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2. A measure of fairness: an investigative framework to explore perceptions of fairness and justice in a real-life social conflict
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gross, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D11570
- Journal Title:
- Human Ecology Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(2) : 130-140
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Online via journal by open access., Outlined a transdisciplinary research approach to issues of justice and equity in a real-life social conflict concerning the allocation of water for irrigation farming.
3. A multidisciplinary approach to facilitate change in farmers' psychological coping strategies when dealing with adversities: a case study in Southwest Iran
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zamani, G.H. (author), Gorgievski-Duijvesteijn, Marjan (author), Yazdanpanah, Masoud (author), Forouzani, Maasoomeh (author), and Zarafshani, Kiumars (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2005-05-25
- Published:
- Iran
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24574
- Journal Title Details:
- 21
- Notes:
- James J. Connors of The Ohio State University edited the proceedings., 10 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
4. A perplexing process: Understanding how agricultural producers process best management practice information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- King, Audrey E.H. (author), Baker, Lauri M. (author), and Oklahoma State University Kansas State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10164
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(3)
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal article, Best management practices (BMPs) are suggested practices that help agricultural producers optimize production while reducing pollution, soil erosion, and other environmental impacts. Many audiences, including scientists and policy makers, have expressed disappointment at the current level of BMP use. Elaboration likelihood model (ELM) is used to understand how people process messages. ELM states that people can process messages either centrally or peripherally. This study sought to understand how producers processed information related to BMP adoption in grazing systems. Researchers conducted qualitative, in-depth interviews with 42 beef-cattle producers in Kansas and Oklahoma. It was found producers process information both centrally and peripherally, more specifically through past experiences and visual observations. This study suggests that when promoting BMPs, communicators should use visual cues to help producers process information. More importantly communicators should utilize strategies that encourage producers to reflect on past experiences to promote central processing.
5. Agricultural and institutional development in the Sahelian countries of West Africa: a real challenge in technical co-operation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ames, Glen C.W. (author) and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979-07
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07787
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (3): 199-210
6. Agricultural trade publications and the 2012 Midwestern U.S. drought: A missed opportunity for climate risk communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Church, Sarah P. (author), Haigh, Tonya (author), Widhalm, Melissa (author), Garcia de Jalon, Silvestre (author), Babin, Nicholas (author), Carlton, J. Stuart (author), Dunn, Michael (author), Fagan, Katie (author), Knutson, Cody L. (author), and Prokopy, Linda S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier Science BV
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10262
- Journal Title:
- Climate Risk Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 45-60
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Via online journal., The Midwestern United States experienced a devastating drought in 2012, leading to reduced corn and soybean yields and increased instances of pests and disease. Climate change induced weather variability and extremes are expected to increase in the future, and have and will continue to impact the agricultural sector. This study investigated how agricultural trade publications portrayed the 2012 U.S. Midwestern drought, whether climate change was associated with drought, and whether these publications laid out transformative adaptation measures farmers could undertake in order to increase their adaptive capacity for future climate uncertainty. We performed a content analysis of 1000 media reports between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2014, sampled from ten agricultural trade publications. The results lead us to suggest that trade publications’ 2012 U.S. Midwestern drought discussion lacked information that would allow farmers and agricultural advisors to assess climate change risk and subsequent potential adaptive management strategies. Agricultural risk from climate change is very real, and farmers will need to adapt. The agricultural trade publications studied missed an opportunity to convey risk from climate change and the transformative adaptation practices necessary for a sustainable and resilient agricultural system.
7. 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.
8. Consumer perceptions of landscape plant production water sources and uses in the landscape during perceived and real drought
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Knuth, Melinda (author), Behe, Bridget K. (author), Hall, Charles R. (author), Huddleston, Patricia (author), Fernandez, R. (author), and Texas A&M University Michigan State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02
- Published:
- United States: American Society for Horticultural Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10339
- Journal Title:
- HortTechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(1) : 85-93
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., Water is becoming scarcer as world population increases and will be allocated among competing uses. Some of that water will go toward sustaining human life, but some will be needed to install and support landscape plants. Thus, future water resource availability may literally change the American landscape. Recent research suggests that consumers’ attitudes and behavior toward potable water supplies have changed in other countries because of greater social awareness and increasingly widespread exposure to drought conditions. We conducted an online survey of 1543 U.S. consumers to assess their perceptions about landscape plants, the water source used to produce them, and plant water needs to become established in the landscape. Using two separate conjoint designs, we assessed their perceptions of both herbaceous and woody perennials. Consumers placed greater relative importance on water source in production over water use in the landscape for both herbaceous and woody perennials included in this study. They preferred (had a higher utility score for) fresh water over recycled water and least preferred a blend of fresh with recycled water for perennials and recycled water used for woody perennial production. In addition, the group that did not perceive a drought but experienced one placed a higher value (higher utility score) on nursery plants grown with fresh water compared with those which were actually not in drought and did not perceive one. Educational and promotional efforts may improve the perception of recycled water to increase the utility of that resource. Promoting the benefits of low water use plants in the landscape may also facilitate plant sales in times of adequate and low water periods.
9. Crop choice, drought and gender: new insights from smallholders’ response to weather shocks in rural uganda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agamile, Peter (author), Dimova, Ralitza (author), and Golan, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12351
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, No. 3
- Notes:
- 28 pages, We analyse gender differences in the response of smallholder farmers to droughts, taking the duration and severity of the even t into account. Using a novel weather shock measure that combines spatial rainfall data with detailed cropping calendars, survey data from Uganda and standard econometric techniques, we find that adverse weather events provide an opportunity for women to enter the commercial crop market by allocating land from subsistence to income generating crops. This counterintuitive pattern is, in part, explained by the greater propensity of men to allocate time to non-agricultural activities in the event of weather shocks.
10. Cultivate California educates residents about farms' need for water
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karst, Tom (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-11
- Published:
- USA: The Packer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13111
- Notes:
- 3 pages
11. Disruption denied
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08
- Published:
- Drovers
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13372
- Notes:
- 1 page
12. Does the farmer field schools program improve farmers' behavior to adopt the drought-tolerant rice varieties in Pangasinan, the Philippines?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cho, Sunmee (author) and Kim, Taeyoon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11672
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 (Special Issue) : 71-99
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Article is a revision of material presented at the annual conference (2017) of the Korea Association of SouthEast Asian Studies., Results show that participants of the farmer field schools (FFS) program were more likely to adopt the drought-tolerant rice varieties by 9.9% compared to the non-participants. "It also demonstrates that the FFS with the Local Farmer Technician system is effective in improving farmers' adoption of the newly introduced varieties in the survey area.
13. Farm households’ risk perception, attitude and adaptation strategies in dealing with climate change: Promise and perils from rural Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Khan, Imran (author), Lei, Hongdou (author), Shah, Irshad Ali (author), Ali, Imad (author), Khan, Inayat (author), Muhammad, Ihsan (author), Huo, Xuexi (author), and Javed, Tehseen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11093
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 91
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Pakistan is highly vulnerable to extreme climatic events, such as floods and droughts. This study determines the farmers’ risk perception, risk attitude, adaptation measures and various aspects of vulnerability to climate change (e.g. floods, droughts, heavy rainfalls, pests and disease) at farm level in rural Pakistan. The risk perception and attitude of farm households are crucial factors that influence farm productivity, investment and management decisions at this level. A well-designed questionnaire was used to interview 720 farm households from six districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A binary logit model was used to determine the main factors that affect the choice of adaptation strategies of the farm household. The findings revealed that crop diversification, changing crop varieties, altering the crop calendar, varying the fertilizer used, mulching and farm insurance were the main adaptation strategies followed by farm households. The results of the binary logit model revealed that age, education, farm size, household size, credit accessibility, annual income and the perception on the increase in temperature and decrease in rainfall had significant influence on the selection of the adaption strategies. The findings of this study can provide guidance, policy recommendations and reference for future researchers.
14. Farmers waiting out the drought tune into twitter
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-08-24
- Published:
- USA: NPR
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10853
- Notes:
- 3 pages., Via website, The Salt., The information farmers are getting from Twitter can help them decide how and when to market their grain.
15. High Country News: the radioactive waste next door
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hanscom, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11
- Published:
- USA: High Country News
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13024
- Journal Title Details:
- V.53, N.11
- Notes:
- 50 pages
16. High level meeting on national drought policy: Summary and major outcomes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sivakumar, Mannava V.K. (author), Stefanski, Robert (author), Bazza, Mohamed (author), Zelaya, Sergio (author), Wilhite, Donald (author), and Magalhaes, Antonio Rocha (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07952
- Journal Title:
- Weather and Climate Extremes
- Journal Title Details:
- 3: 126-132
- Notes:
- full text
17. How to talk with ranchers about drought and climate resilience: lessons from knowledge exchange workshops in montana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lassa, Mitch J. (author), Wilmer, Hailey (author), Boone, Madison (author), Brown, Zach (author), Derner, Justin D. (author), Peck, Dannele E. (author), Thissen, Carmen (author), and Marlow, Clayton (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12286
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 58, Num. 5
- Notes:
- 15 pages, This article offers the Extension community a pathway to drought resilience and climate-related conversations through knowledge exchange workshops. In 2017, a "flash drought" affected eastern Montana, and ranchers in the region faced numerous challenges. Moreover, drought-favorable climate conditions are predicted to increase for the region. We held five workshops to facilitate an exchange of adaptive drought management strategies, focusing on key themes for drought resilience: (a) drought planning and adaptive management, (b) use of local knowledge networks, (c) flexible stocking and grazing, and (d) adaptation to shifting baselines. Extension can use this approach to foster multidirectional knowledge sharing to strengthen ranching resilience to drought conditions.
18. Information systems in a changing climate: Early warnings and drought risk management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pulwarty, Roger S. (author) and Sivakumar, Mannava V.K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07943
- Journal Title:
- Weather and Climate Extremes
- Journal Title Details:
- 3: 14-21
- Notes:
- full text
19. It is always dry here: examining perceptions about drought and climate change in the southern high plains
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Colston, Nicole M. (author), Vadjunec, Jacqueline M. (author), and Fagin, Todd (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10676
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Notes:
- 18 pages., via online journal., Drought is defined, experienced, and communicated about in multiple ways. This case study examines individual definitions of drought (timing, impacts, and severity) and attitudes about climate change. Household surveys (n = 120) were conducted in Cimarron County, Oklahoma and Union County, New Mexico using a stratified random sampling method to select farmers, ranchers, and town residents. Information about drought is primarily communicated between neighbors, friends, and family, as well as media and local governing agencies. Residents perceive the recent drought to be the worst drought on record, regardless of previous drought experiences. Residents reported widespread drought-related impacts on agriculture, environment, and society. Most residents see drought as cyclical and driven by natural causes, rather than human causes. We recommend adaptive drought communication engage more fully with identity, place, and history. Climate information should be presented in a relevant manner to diverse agricultural stakeholders with differing attitudes about climate change, management, and climate information.
20. Keeping top-of-mind: the impact of audio phone reminders on Kenya farmers' knowledge and uptake of drought tolerant (DT) maize
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cai, Tian (author), Steinfield, Charles (author), and Olsen, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2017-07-30
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09234
- Notes:
- Research paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 31 pages.
21. Managing drought risk in a changing climate: The role of national drought policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilhite, Donald A. (author), Sivakumar, Mannava V.K. (author), and Pulwarty, Roger (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07950
- Journal Title:
- Weather and Climate Extremes
- Journal Title Details:
- 3: 4-13
- Notes:
- full text
22. Nineteenth-century goldfish lore
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gaffney, Wilbur (author)
- Format:
- Poem
- Publication Date:
- 1926-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07475
- Journal Title:
- American Speech
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (10): 530
23. Scarce water in site: a content analysis of news coverage of The Sites Reservoir Project
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lawson, Cara (author), Austin-Castillo, Richard (author), and Chase, Lauren (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13285
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 107(2) : Article 4
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Plagued by recent and historic drought, the need for water storage and management solutions in California is apparent. As a potential solution, the Sites Reservoir project offers an opportunity to a state eager to conserve and better manage water. The Sites Reservoir project involves complexities from a variety of standpoints and stakeholder perspectives. This study investigated the frames and sources used by The Sacramento Bee to communicate about the Sites Reservoir project over a 10-year period. The most frequently used frames throughout the dataset were “policy and government” and “water conscious,” and the sources most frequently utilized for information about the project in the articles were elected officials, government agency representatives, and nonprofit representatives. The findings suggest water management is linked with political activities and supports the assertion that the media tend to focus on the role of policy and political opinion in water management issues. At the same time, the findings suggest the need for water solutions is evident, given the prominence of the “water conscious” frame. Future studies should evaluate frames over time, and investigate the potential nuance between frames used to communicate about water management in different areas of the United States facing water management issues.
24. Seeds of controversy: although efficacy debates continue, rainmakers fly on
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dick, Jeff (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- Nov/Dec 2001
- Published:
- USA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13392
- Journal Title:
- Weatherwise
- Journal Title Details:
- 54(6) : 30–37
- Notes:
- 8 pages
25. Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil: Incentives, Information, and Drought Policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fisher, Bill (author), Ha, Arthur (author), Harris, Jane (author), Stoneham, Gary (author), Strappazzon, Loris (author), and University of Melbourne
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-06
- Published:
- Australia: Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26157
- Journal Title:
- The Austrialian Economic Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 40(2):129-48
26. The best reporting on California's drought
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kelloway, Claire (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11199
- Notes:
- Online from ProPublica website. 4 pages., "ProPublica has rounded up some of the best reporting on California's severe drought, from fallowed farms to 'zombie' water projects" Article features nine examples.
27. The effects of tactical message inserts on risk communication with fish farmers in Northern Thailand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lebel, Louis (author), Lebel, Phimphakan (author), Lebel, Boripat (author), Uppanunchai, Anuwat (author), and Duangsuwan, Chatta (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-06-26
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10505
- Journal Title:
- Regional Environmental Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 18: 2471–2481
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal., Fish farmers need to take into account many factors, including climate-related risks, when making decisions to invest in stocking ponds or cages in rivers. Officials, experts, and other fish farmers try to influence these decisions by communicating information about risks verbally or using text messages. Recurrent mass mortality events associated with droughts and floods suggest some communication efforts have been ineffective. Theories of risk communication make different predictions about what elements make messages influential. The purpose of this study was to improve understanding of the potential influence of inserting tactical messages into a communication text on the decision behavior of fish farmers with respect to climate-related risks. Experiments were carried out on hand-held tablets with 1050 fish farmers as subjects. Fish farmers were asked to imagine they faced a risk of drought, water shortage, flood, or increasing risks of drought in a drying climate. They were also given a plausible response measure that would require some investment, and then asked to indicate how likely they would adopt that measure. Farmers’ intentions to take risk reduction actions in long-term adaptation increased when the message they received re-affirmed that they were susceptible to the threat, an impact was likely or that the response to the risk was an effective measure. For shorter-term risk reduction measures, the effect of re-affirming response efficacy was to suppress intentions to act. This study found no evidence that appeals to fear, guilt, or anxiety emotions work; references to social norms, behavioral control, and benefit versus cost arguments also failed to increase intentions to act. The findings of this study supported some propositions of common risk communication theories but not others. The methods and findings are useful for improving the design of communications aimed at informing farmers about climate-related risks.
28. The story behind the image- 3000 days of drought
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- van der Berg, William (author)
- Format:
- Newsletter article
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Published:
- International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13389
- Journal Title Details:
- Issue 2
- Notes:
- 7 pages
29. USDA scientists testing new cloud seeding technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Griffiths, Clinton (author)
- Format:
- Online Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-08
- Published:
- AgWeb
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13394
- Notes:
- 7 pages
30. Water wars: a "critical listening in" to rural radio discourse on a river system in trouble
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mesikammen, Emma (author), Waller, Lisa (author), and Burkett, Brian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-11
- Published:
- UK: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13122
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- V.15, N.3
- Notes:
- 17 pages, For news media on the earth's driest continent, changes in the health and politics of Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling, have been a major national focus for decades. In recent times, climate crisis, drought and policy failure have combined to threaten its future, putting the issue under intense public scrutiny. This article offers a critical discourse analysis of specialist rural radio coverage of the issue in 2018–19. It identifies the discourses that the Country Hour program presents and considers the voices and viewpoints that are absent. Two critical discourse moments are analyzed: an ecological disaster in which more than one million fish died, and #watergate – a pre-election scandal over commercial water rights. We map the strategies and roles of Country Hour journalists and other social actors in legitimating the “productive use” of the river system above all else, politicizing the issue and shifting responsibility for the river's wellbeing.
31. fighting the chinch bug on Illinois farms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Flint, W.P. (author), Bigger, J.H. (author), and Dungan, George Harlan (author)
- Format:
- Circular
- Publication Date:
- 1934-04
- Published:
- USA: Univeristy of Illinios, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12707
- Notes:
- 16 pages. It can be found in IDEALS on the university library page., THE CHINCH BUG is one of the three or four most destructive crop pests known in the United States. Ever since the Illinois prairies were first cultivated, chinch bugs have been collecting a heavy g rain rent from the corn growers of the state. A loss of practically 6 1/2 million dollars to the farmers in 17 counties in southwestern Illinois is estimated to have resulted from damage done by these insects in one year when the bugs were numerous. This loss was from direct damage to corn, wheat, and oats, and did not take into account damage to other crops and secondary losses. This circular tells how to combat this pest by growing crops on which the chinch bug does not feed, by adjusting rotations, by planting varieties of corn that are relatively resistant to chinch bug damage, and by building effective barriers to prevent the bugs from invading fields of corn. By the timely use of these various methods, chinch bug damage can be largely prevented.