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    21. Keeping top-of-mind: the impact of audio phone reminders on Kenya farmers' knowledge and uptake of drought tolerant (DT) maize

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    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.

    22. Managing drought risk in a changing climate: The role of national drought policy

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    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:
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    24. Scarce water in site: a content analysis of news coverage of The Sites Reservoir Project

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    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.

    26. Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil: Incentives, Information, and Drought Policy

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    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

    27. The best reporting on California's drought

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    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.

    28. The effects of tactical message inserts on risk communication with fish farmers in Northern Thailand

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    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.

    31. Water wars: a "critical listening in" to rural radio discourse on a river system in trouble

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    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.

    32. fighting the chinch bug on Illinois farms

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    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.