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2. Effects of inclusive village level public agricultural extension service: policy reform experiment in western China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huang, Jikun (author), Hu, Ruifa (author), Cai,Yaqing (author), Chen, Kevin Z. (author), and Cui, Yongwei (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2009-08-22
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29720
- Notes:
- Presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009. 20 pages.
3. Extension education for women small farmers in the Eastern Caribbean
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smith, Cynthia Jean (author)
- Format:
- M.A. thesis
- Publication Date:
- 1980
- Published:
- Caribbean: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: C19355
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 115 pages
4. Factors influencing farmers’ satisfaction with the quality of agricultural extension services
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kassem, Hazem S. (author), Alotaibi, Bader Alhafi (author), Muddassir, Muhammad (author), and Herab, Ahmed (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-17
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12478
- Journal Title:
- Evaluation and Program Planning
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 85
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Assessing farmers’ satisfaction with the quality of agricultural-extension services is essential for developing extension programs that comply with farmers’ needs and agroecological conditions. This study aimed to determine factors influencing farmers’ satisfaction with extension services. Data were collected through a questionnaire from a random sample of 393 farmers in the Kafr El Sheikh governorate. Farmers assessed the quality of extension services by five main indicators: (1) availability, (2) accessibility, (3) diversity, (4) relevance, and (5) effectiveness. Descriptive statistics and a logistic-regression model were used to analyze the data. Results showed that farmers had lowly participated in the provided extension services. The accessibility of services was ranked first with regard to satisfaction, while diversity of services was the lowest-ranked quality attribute. Results also revealed that factors significantly influencing farmers’ satisfaction included farm size, diversity of farming activities, annual income, and participation in extension services. Results provide practical implications for policy makers to support smallholder farmers by providing high-quality extension programs.
5. Is Agricultural Extension Helping the Poor? Evidence from Rural Mozambique
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cunguara, Benedito (author) and Moder, Karl (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-05-11
- Published:
- International: Oxford Academic
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12490
- Journal Title:
- Journal of African Economies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 20 (4)
- Notes:
- 35 pages, Mozambique remains predominantly poor. The official statistics show that poverty incidence barely changed from 54% in 2002–03 to 55% in 2008–09, which stands way above the government's target of 45% by the year 2009. This places the country off-target to cut hunger and poverty by half by 2015, despite an annual economic growth of about 7% in the period 1994–2010. In rural areas, poverty levels have slightly increased, due to the underperformance of the agricultural sector. Extension services can have a significant impact on poverty reduction through stimulating growth in agricultural productivity. Based on a nationally representative household survey from Mozambique, this paper uses three econometric models, namely an OLS regression, the doubly robust estimator and matching and regression to estimate the economic impact of receipt of extension. The results suggest that the receipt of extension increases farm incomes by 12%. However, rather than crafting resource-poor technologies, extension services tend to target wealthier households who are relatively more likely to adopt the existing technologies. This might increase income inequality. The impact of extension, and therefore its contribution to poverty reduction, can be enhanced through several mechanisms (e.g., programme design and the number of staff).
6. Technology systems for small farmers : issues and options
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kesseba, Abbas M., ed. (author / Graduate, Cairo University) and Graduate, Cairo University
- Format:
- Conference proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04976
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection; Includes Table of Contents, Forward, and Introduction only; Proceedings of a seminar organized by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the Generation and Transfer of Technology for Poor Small Farmers; 1988 June; Korea, Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1989. 229 p.
7. The use of local knowledge in agricultural extension: A systematic review of the literature
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hainzer, Kirt (author), Hugh Brown, Philip (author), and O’Mullan, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-31
- Published:
- United States of America: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12434
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.14(1)
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Smallholder farms are complex systems, constantly adapting to context and rely on local, place-based knowledges. The vital role of local knowledge in smallholder farming systems has seen attempts throughout low- and middle-income countries to entwine local knowledge with scientific knowledge to improve outcomes from agricultural extension. Using a systematic review and exploratory meta-synthesis of selected literature, this research explored the use of local knowledge in agricultural extension. The synthesis found local knowledge plays a vital role in the adoption of new technologies or practices because as the dominant form of knowledge in communities they give learners confidence and they provide a context upon which new information can be introduced. However, effective use of local knowledge requires a realistic perspective which recognises that some combination of local and scientific knowledge, developed in a participatory process, will likely result in extension delivering greater outcomes to farmers.