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    3. Sustainable smart agriculture farming for cotton crop: a fuzzy logic rule based methodology

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bin, Li (author), Shahzad, Muhammad (author), Khan, Hira (author), Bashir, Muhammad Mehran (author), Ullah, Arif (author), and Siddique, Muhammad (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-09-18
    Published:
    Switzerland: MDPI
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12959
    Journal Title:
    Sustainability
    Journal Title Details:
    V.15, Iss.18
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    20 pages, Sustainable agriculture is a pivotal driver of a nation’s economic growth, especially considering the challenge of providing food for the world’s expanding population. Agriculture remains a cornerstone of many nations’ economies, so the need for intelligent, sustainable farming practices has never been greater. Agricultural industries worldwide require sophisticated systems that empower farmers to manage their crops efficiently, reduce water wastage, and optimize yield quality. Yearly, substantial crop losses occur due to unpredictable environmental changes, with improper irrigation practices being a leading cause. In this paper, we introduce an innovative irrigation time control system for smart farming. This system leverages fuzzy logic to regulate the timing of irrigation in cotton crop fields, effectively curbing water wastage while ensuring that crops receive neither too little nor too much water. Additionally, our system addresses a common agricultural challenge: whitefly infestations. Users can adjust climatic parameters, such as temperature and humidity, through our system, which minimizes both whitefly populations and water consumption. We have developed a portable measurement technology that includes air humidity sensors, temperature sensors, and rain sensors. These sensors interface with an Arduino platform, allowing real-time climate data collection. This collected climate data is then sent to the fuzzy logic control system, which dynamically adjusts irrigation timing in response to changing environmental conditions. Our system incorporates an algorithm that generates highly effective (IF-THEN) fuzzy logic rules, significantly improving irrigation efficiency by reducing overall irrigation duration. By automating the irrigation process and precisely delivering the right amount of water, our system eliminates the need for human intervention, rendering the agricultural system more dependable in achieving successful crop yields. Water supply commences when the environmental conditions reach specific thresholds and halts when the requisite climate conditions are met, maintaining an optimal environment for crop growth.

    4. Seeing green: lifecycles of an arctic agricultural frontier

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Price, Mindy Jewell (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-07-14
    Published:
    USA: Wiley Periodicals LLC
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12929
    Journal Title:
    Rural Sociology
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 0, N.0
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    31 pages, Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state-driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.

    5. Just desserts: the morality of food waste in America

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Reno, Joshua (author) and Alexander, Kelly (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-06-06
    Published:
    USA: American Anthropological Association
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12931
    Journal Title:
    Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
    Journal Title Details:
    V.45
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    11 pages, Food, waste, and food waste are embroiled in a wide array of political and moral debates in the United States today. These debates are staged across a range of scales and sites—from individual decisions made in front of refrigerators and compost bins to public deliberations on the U.S. Senate and House floors. They often manifest as a moral panic inspiring a range of Americans at seemingly opposed ends of the political spectrum. This article contrasts three distinct sites where food waste is moralized, with the aim of deconstructing connections between discarded food and consumer ethics. In doing so, we argue that across the contemporary American social strata, food waste reduction efforts enfold taken-for-granted ideas of moral justice, or theodicy, that foreground individual responsibility and, as a result, obfuscate broader systemic issues of food inequality perpetuated by late stage capitalism.

    7. Education for sustainability in the agriculture and livestock sector: educational experience in Gibraltar area (Spain)

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Casanova-Correa, Juan (author), Vargas-Vergara, Montserrat (author), Aragon, Lourdes (author), and Gomez-Chacon, Beatriz (author)
    Format:
    Journal
    Publication Date:
    2022-06
    Published:
    Sciendo
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13383
    Journal Title:
    Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education
    Journal Title Details:
    13(1) : 5-16
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    12 pages, If we are to attain a sustainable future, humanity will need to make drastic changes towards a life based on sustainability in all areas, especially in the economic sector, including food production. The task of educating for sustainability needs to include food producers (farmers and livestock breeders). This article describes an educational experience carried out within the framework of a proposal presented in the “Second Call for Grants to Promote University-Company Projects” at the Technological Campus of Algeciras (Spain). It consisted of conducting in-depth interviews with farmers and livestock breeders, identifying the practices in the daily management of their farms, and having them participate in an education and training event in which they shared their knowledge. It was not an easy task because food producers have systematically been attacked by currents of opinion that blame them for causing greenhouse gas emissions. We adopted an approach based on empathy and on encouraging sustainable food production practices.

    11. Options for reforming agricultural subsidies from health, climate, and economic perspectives

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Springmann, M. (author) and Freund, F. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022-01-10
    Published:
    USA: Springer Nature
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12611
    Journal Title:
    Nature Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 13, N.82
    Notes:
    7pgs, Agricultural subsidies are an important factor for influencing food production and therefore part of a food system that is seen as neither healthy nor sustainable. Here we analyse options for reforming agricultural subsidies in line with health and climate-change objectives on one side, and economic objectives on the other. Using an integrated modelling framework including economic, environmental, and health assessments, we find that on a global scale several reform options could lead to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and improvements in population health without reductions in economic welfare. Those include a repurposing of up to half of agricultural subsidies to support the production of foods with beneficial health and environmental characteristics, including fruits, vegetables, and other horticultural products, and combining such repurposing with a more equal distribution of subsidy payments globally. The findings suggest that reforming agricultural subsidy schemes based on health and climate-change objectives can be economically feasible and contribute to transitions towards healthy and sustainable food systems

    12. A rural perspective on Covid-19 responses: access, interdependence, and community

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Sloan, Margaret F. (author), Trull, Laura (author), Malomba, Maureen (author), Akerson, Emily (author), Atwood, Kelly (author), and Eaton, Melody (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022
    Published:
    USA: Sagamore-Venture Publishing Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13249
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership
    Journal Title Details:
    V.12, N.1
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    17 pages, Much of the press on the pandemic has been focused on urban environments where the virus was quick to spread and the numbers of cases are high. Beyond the greater risk for COVID-19-related health complications, rural populations are particularly susceptible to disruptions in the economic infrastructure of their communities. This study explores the impacts of COVID-19 on rural communities and the responses of nonprofit and other community infrastructures. Using a strengths-based approach and mixed methods design, this qualitative research asked rural residents and nonprofit leaders about their needs, challenges, and assets as a result of COVID-19. Themes relative to access, interdependence, and community emerged from a priori categories. The research offers implications for both nonprofit education and rural nonprofit leadership.

    14. The case for AMAs

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Henderson, Greg (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2021-08
    Published:
    USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13143
    Notes:
    2 pages

    15. Feeding relations: applying Luhmann’s operational theory to the food system

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Guptill, Amy (author) and Peine, Emellie (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-01-03
    Published:
    USA: Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12039
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Notes:
    12 pages, via Online Journal, Current, prevalent models of the food system, including complex-adaptive systems theories and commodity-as-relation thinking, have usefully analyzed the food system in terms of its elements and relationships, confronting persistent questions about a system’s identity and leverage points for change. Here, inspired by Heldke’s (Monist 101:247–260, 2018) analysis, we argue for another approach to the “system-ness” of food that carries those key questions forward. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, we propose a model of the food system defined by the relational process of feeding itself; that is, the food system is made of feeding and only feeding, and system structures are produced by the coupling of that process to its various contexts. We argue that this approach moves us away from understandings of the food system that take structures and relations as given, and sees them instead as contingent, thereby helping to identify leverage points for food system change. The new approach we describe also prompts us as critical agrifood scholars to be constantly reflexive about how our analyses are shaped by our own assumptions and subjectivities.

    16. 2020 global CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) census report

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2020-12
    Published:
    International: Autogrow Systems Limited and Agritecture LLC
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12004
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    Online in issue of The Packer. 27 pages., This is the second Census to be conducted and ran from July 8 to September 4, 2020. It was promoted through Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, industry partners and various online media and industry channels. The 371 respondents were from 58 countries with the largest percentage from the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Respondents were growers and small to large businesses. Twenty percent founded their business in 2020.

    17. The impact of export promotion schemes on agricultural growth in Nigeria

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Okunlola, Olalekan C. (author) and Akinlo, Enisan A. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-11-21
    Published:
    South Africa: African Journals Online
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13165
    Journal Title:
    African Journal of Economic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    V.9, Iss.1
    Notes:
    27 pages

    18. Impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on community partners in the agriculture industry in hawai'i

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Cheang, Michael (author) and Yamashita, Georgia L. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-10-01
    Published:
    United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12290
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 58, Num. 5
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    14 pages, We explored ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected those who work in the agriculture industry in Hawai'i. Although economic hardship seems to be the obvious consequence, changes to the logistical and daily routines in the home also emerged as major impacts, and psychological effects may be even more distressing. Those who work in agriculture are an essential component of the agricultural and human ecologies to which land-grant universities are connected. Our findings provide valuable insights as to how Extension professionals across the United States may assist agricultural producers and farm families in their own communities at this time.

    19. Impacts of the usda broadband loan and grant programs, the: Moving toward estimating a rate of return

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kandilov, Ivan T. (author) and Renkow, Mitch (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-07-01
    Published:
    United States: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12777
    Journal Title:
    Economic Inquiry
    Journal Title Details:
    Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 1129 - 1145
    Notes:
    17pgs, In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code Business Patterns for the period from 1997 to 2007. Our results indicate that two of the smaller broadband programs (the Pilot loan program and the broadband grants program) likely had no effect on local payroll per workers. On the other hand, the largest program in terms of funding and coverage (the current broadband loan program) likely had a positive impact. Our estimate implies that a $1 per capita increase in a particular zip code's one-time receipt of the current program broadband loan results in a $0.92 increase in payroll per worker annually. Our calculated point estimates of the benefit: cost ratios for this broadband program range from 1.98 to 2.99, depending on assumptions about the time frame over which benefits accrue. However, the confidence intervals are wide enough to include the possibility that the costs outweigh the benefits.