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1. Facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural area

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Jarvandi, Soghra (author), Johnson, Kristen (author), and Franck, Karen (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2022-06-16
Published:: United States: Clemson University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12614
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: V. 60 Iss. 2
Notes:: 7 pgs, Farmers’ markets may improve access to healthful foods in rural areas. Our objective was to identify facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural county. We collected data via surveys, focus group sessions, and key informant interviews. Study participants identified the two existing farmers’ markets as community assets. Barriers to use farmers’ markets included inconvenient market hours, not accepting nutrition assistance program benefits, limited transportation, and limited variety. Interventions to improve food access should include ways to meet the needs of specific populations such as low-income residents and residents living in outlying areas without farmers’ markets.

2. Building Self-reliance: A Framework to Evaluate Smallholder Coffee Farmers’ Pursuit of Commercialization

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Silvert, Colby (author), Diaz, John (author), Warner, Laura (author), Grady Roberts, T. (author), and Injoque, Raul (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-08-21
Published:: United States: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12525
Journal Title:: Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 28(4)
Notes:: 18 pages, This study examines the application of a self-reliance framework for practitioners and evaluators to better understand the capacities and intrinsic factors impacting smallholder coffee farmers’ commercialization behaviors. We surveyed 40 smallholder coffee producers in Peru using a quantitative instrument. Data were analyzed to determine if statistical relationships exist between farmers’ self-reliance (measured via knowledge and skills, attitudes, and aspirations) and their commercialization behaviors. Findings indicate the self-reliance framework effectively illustrates relationships between farmers’ aspirations, knowledge and skills and their commercialization behaviors, while future, additional studies are needed to better measure and understand the role of commercialization-related attitudes. Practitioners can leverage the study’s findings by using a self-reliance framework to infer farmers’ likeliness to pursue sustainable commercialization practices and align their trainings and design interventions based on evaluation findings. The conceptual self-reliance framework is the first of its kind applied for smallholder coffee commercialization. The findings demonstrate that self-reliance concepts employed recently in other contexts may potentially be used similarly by extension and development facilitators.

3. Bridging the gender gap in forest stewardship: facilitating programs for women landowners

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Koshollek, Alanna (author), Thostenson, Katy (author), and Shaw, Bret (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-04
Published:: United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12314
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: vol. 58, num. 2
Notes:: 9 pages, Nationwide, women woodland owners are increasingly taking on the primary decision-making role for their land. In Wisconsin and beyond, most existing landowner outreach efforts target mixed-gender audiences. We explored how facilitation techniques can be incorporated into a women-centric workshop to increase women landowners' confidence, knowledge, and readiness to take action in forest stewardship. We highlight three core techniques Extension workshop developers can use to promote landowner learning and engagement: creating space for participant-driven open dialogue, generating opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, and enabling participants to receive personalized advice from professionals about their land.

4. Actors, roles and interactions in agricultural innovation networks: the case of the Portuguese cluster of small fruits

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Madureira, Lívia (author), Cristóvão, Artur (author), Ferreira, Dora (author), and Koehnen, Timothy (author)
Format:: ebook chapter
Publication Date:: 2018-05-20
Published:: Springer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10355
Journal Title:: New Metropolitan Perspectives Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon
Journal Title Details:: 101
Notes:: 8 pages., ISBN 978-3-319-92102-0, Via ebook, The idea underpinning EIP-AGRI for linking producers and users of knowledge and promoting their interaction around problem-solving is well grounded on the evidence provided by the ‘innovation systems’ and related literature. Evidence gaps that matter to the implementation of the EIP-AGRI activities comprise the lack of knowledge regarding the best-fit network configuration for different farming systems and farming styles, and the nature and effectiveness of a facilitator function and role to bridge communication between researchers and farmers. This paper contributes with empirical evidence regarding the networks configuration best-fit for different farming system and farming styles, and provide insights on the facilitator relevance and its desirable profile, built on the study of a particular network: the Portuguese Cluster of small fruits (CSF). The small fruit sector is a novel sector in Portugal that has attracted in recent years a large number of new investors, in particular newly-established small-scale inexperienced producers. The insights provided by the CSF analysis emphasises that agglomeration economies based networks, which are very important in some agricultural sectors (e.g. fruit, wine) and in countries or regions where small-scale farms are significant, can in fact be the ground for knowledge and innovation networks in the sense wanted by the EIP-AGRI, since inclusiveness and facilitation functions are accounted for properly.

5. Networked learning for agricultural extension: a framework for analysis and two cases

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Bennett, M. John (author) and Starasts, Anna (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2017-05-24
Published:: Australia: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10131
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 23(7) : 399-414
Notes:: 17 pages., Via online journal., Purpose: This paper presents economic and pedagogical motivations for adopting information and communications technology (ICT)-mediated learning networks in agricultural education and extension. It proposes a framework for networked learning in agricultural extension and contributes a theoretical and case-based rationale for adopting the networked learning paradigm. Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights the economic and pedagogical need for adopting a networked learning approach. Two examples are described to instantiate the language for learning networks: a small community of farmers in India and large Twitter community of Australian farmers. Findings: This paper reviews evidence that successful networked learning interventions are already occurring within agricultural extension. It provides a framework for describing these interventions and for helping future designers of learning networks in agricultural extension. Practical implication: Facilitation of learning networks can serve to achieve efficient agricultural extension that connects farmers across distances for constructivist learning. To realize these benefits, designers of learning networks need to consider set design, social design and epistemic design. Theoretical implication: This paper contributes a theoretical framework for designing, implementing and analysing learning networks in agriculture. It does this by integrating existing ideas from networked learning and applying them to the agricultural context through examples. Originality/value: This paper contributes an understanding of the value of networked learning for extension in terms of economic and pedagogical benefits. It provides a language for talking about learning networks that is useful for future researchers and for practitioners.

6. Human conflicts and the food, energy, and water nexus: building collaboration using facilitation and mediation to management environmental disputes

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Fowler, Lara B. (author) and Shi, Xiaoxin (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D11524
Journal Title:: Journal of Environmental Studies and Science
Journal Title Details:: 6 : 104-122
Notes:: 19 pages., Online via UI Catalog., Authors discussed the benefits and challenges of managing environmental disputes through facilitation and mediation, where a neutral third party is engaged to help design and manage a constructive problem-solving process. The article included examples of mediation efforts.

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