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12. 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
13. Extension support for cassava (Manihot esculenta) production and processing in Nigeria: Effects on farm practice adoption
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Otubo, Oluchi L. (author) and Molnar, Joseph J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-31
- Published:
- International: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12372
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13 (4)
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is an important regional food source, providing food and income to over 30 million farmers, processors, and traders in Nigeria. Extension programs support awareness and interest in new technologies; they facilitate the adoption and adaptation of new approaches to crop production, post-harvest processing, and marketing. Extension can be understood as an intermediary or catalyst in the dissemination of information to rural farmers. This study analyzed the effect of cassava farmers’ exposure to extension on a broad measure of cassava technology adoption, while considering the influence of some individual and farm characteristics as control variables. Data were obtained from personal interviews with sample of 952 households conducted in southern Nigeria. Results show a relationship between extension exposure and technology adoption. Farmer-to-farmer interaction played the greatest role in diffusion of the technologies. Interactions with extension agents were low, suggesting that adoption of improved technologies could be enhanced by improved regular contact with extension information. The results underscore the importance of farmer-to-farmer interaction processes that often overshadow extension assistance in supporting and guiding the use of production technology. The conclusions consider some implications for 21st century extension.
14. FSR in evolution: past and future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Collison, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1988-10-09
- Published:
- USA: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1 Document Number: D01301
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, pages 1-9 in Proceedings of Farming System Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series, Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
15. FSR/E (Farming Systems Research and Extension) Al Partir: sharing risk with highland community farmers in the Mantara Valley, Peru
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gregory, Constantine (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1988-10
- Published:
- Peru: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00339
- Notes:
- Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 103-107 in Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series. Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
16. 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.
17. Farmer-to-farmer extension in Michoacan, Mexico: implications for adoption, productivity and income on small farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- March, Robin Ruth (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1988-10-09
- Published:
- USA: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1 Document Number: D01307
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, pages 109-123 in Proceedings of Farming Systems Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the university of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas. farming Systems Research Paper Series, Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
18. Farmer-to-farmer extension in Michoacan, Mexico: implications for adoption, productivity and income on small farms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Marsh, Robin Ruth (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1988-10
- Published:
- Mexico: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00340
- Notes:
- Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 109-123 in Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series. Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
19. Government extension, agroecology, and sustainable food systems in Belize milpa farming communities: A socio-ecological systems approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Drexler, Kristin A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- 2020-04-16: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12257
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 9, Issue 3 Spring 2020
- Notes:
- 13 pages, The sustainability of milpa agriculture, a traditional Mayan farming system in southern Belize, is uncertain. For centuries, the milpa has been a sustainable agriculture system. The slash-and-burn aspect of milpa farming, however, has become less reliable and less sustainable over the last 50 years due to several factors, including forest loss, climate change, population growth, and other factors. The traditional milpa practices of slash-and-mulch and soil nutrient enrichment (nutrient cycling) are agroecological practices that produce food in a more sustainable way. Agriculture extension, a government service in Belize, can promote additional agroecological practices to address food and livelihood insecurities in milpa communities. This study examines perceptions of these practices from milpa farmers and agricultural extension officers in Belize using a socio-ecological systems (SES) framework. SES considers multidisciplinary linkages, including social, economic, environmental, cultural, and other factors in the agroecological system. The study finds several of these SES linkages between agroecological practices--specifically slash-andmulch and soil nutrient enrichment--and the sustainability of the milpa farming system in southern Belize. Milpa communities are part of the broader SES and therefore are affected by changes to it. Milpa communities can also be enabled and participate in solution-finding. The findings imply that increasing the use of agroecology practices in milpa communities is needed and that government involvement and action, particularly from agriculture extension services, can facilitate a more sustainable milpa farming system and therefore more food and livelihood security in milpa communities in Belize.
20. Harsh critic reassesses U.S. knowlege systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hightower, Jim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11172
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 3
- Notes:
- Located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., An invited reassessment by the author of a book, Hard Tomatoes and Hard Times, in which he faulted U.S. land grant universities for abandoning the original intended focus on serving small, low-resource farmers. Emphasized farmers' need for neutral, unbiased assessment of new, often very specialized, technologies. "...and at the same time they will need generalists who can assist in developing comprehensive, integrated farming systems that can depend on lessons learned decades ago as well as new knowledge."