12 pages, Canning and home demonstration clubs played an important role in improving agriculture and home life shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Organized in local communities, these clubs for young girls and their mothers provided the opportunity for females to engage in experiential learning through the growth and canning of vegetables. Club work and activities allowed the involved individuals to learn important home life concepts including incorporating more nutritious meals, record keeping, maintaining the family garden, and other duties surrounding the home. In addition, clubs promoted cooperation among various groups, fostered friendships, and provided entrepreneurial opportunities for farm women. Movements such as these increased the demand for agricultural and extension education and many of the strategies developed through these clubs can be implemented in both formal and non-formal education today.
22 pages., This study assessed the accessibility to nutrition education sources and level of knowledge on soya bean products as alternative/cheap source of protein by rural women. Multistage sampling procedure was utilized in selecting 234 respondents in the study area. Interview schedule and focus group discussion was used to collect information from the rural women. Data was analysed through descriptive statistics (percentages, frequencies and means) and inferential statistics (Analysis of variance). The results showed that the women had access to nutrition education on soya beans mostly through; family and friends (x̅= 0.82), local health centres (x̅= 0.78), radio (x̅= 0.80) and television (x̅= 0.71) programmes. The women had overall ‘below average’ knowledge on the products. There was no significant difference in the knowledge scores of the women across the three products (soya milk, iru and cake) (F= 0.167, p≥ 0.05). The result of the bivariate analysis indicated that local health centres (P = 0.035) and Women in Agriculture (P = 0.019) were nutrition education sources whose accessibility had a significant relationship with the level of soya bean product knowledge of the rural women. There is an urgent need for an aggressive campaign on the soya product nutrition education programme in order to increase the knowledge of this important and cheap protein source.
Online from publisher. 3 pages., Activities and achievements of the California Women's Association, a volunteer organization of women concerned about challenges to California agriculture. Consists of 21 local chapters that focus on promoting agriculture locally and providing scholarships to students majoring in farming-related majors.
International: Autogrow Systems Limited and Agritecture LLC
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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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11738
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2 pages, Online via Agri.Marketing. 2 pages., "Kansas Agri-Women is now replacing familiar signs on highways that aim to connect producers and consumers."
12 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Findings showed that women smallholders' uptake was affected by limited access to credit, extension, restricted membership in cooperatives and water user associations, lack of access or user rights to land, skill training, information, and restricted mobility. Authors suggested that expanding off-farm diversification and rural employment opportunities through changing the land tenure system, which is currently state-owned, are essential to enhance women smallholders' access to land and other agricultural inputs.
23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.
Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
Online from publisher website., By embracing modern technology and engaging enthusiastic young people, the work of an NGO in Malawi is extending the reach of agricultural extension across the country.
1 page., September-November issue via online., Digitalisation is improving the agricultural extension system by providing services at the right time, and facilitating adoption of new agronomic practices, resulting in yield improvements and higher incomes for farming households.
10 pages, Online via UI Library electronic subscription. Open access., "This paper re-affirms that women make essential contributions to agriculture and rural enterprises across the developing world. But there is much diversity in women's roles and over-generalization undermines policy relevance and planning."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10013
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Research summary from Corteva Agriscience retrieved online via Agri Marketing Weekly. 2 pages., Results of a survey among 4,160 respondents from 17 countries.
Palloni, G. (author), Aker, J. (author), Gilligan, D. (author), Hidrobo, M. (author), and Ledlie, N. (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
Ghana
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D11668
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26 pages., Paper presented at the 2018 conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), July 28-August 2, 2018, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada., Researchers assessed farmers' willingness to pay for a newly introduced digital nutrition-sensitive agricultural information service in Ghana, called Vodafone Farmers' Club (VFC). Findings suggested that farmers' willingness to pay for VFC service was high at low prices, then decreased rapidly as the price increased. Women had statistically lower willingness to pay than men, whether for agricultural information only or information involving both agriculture and nutrition.
Vaiknoras, Kate (author), Larochelle,Catherine (author), Birol, Ekin (author), Asare-Marfo, Dorene (author), and Herrington, Caitlin (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2017-07-30
Published:
Rwanda
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09237
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Research paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 38 pages; only the abstract and conclusions section are printed for ACDC archiving.
Online from publisher. 6 pages., Case example includes description of successful use of farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange and festivals for rural-urban populations featuring ways to get these climate-hardy crops back on their plates.
Kenney, Naomi (author) and De la O Campos, Ana Paula (author)
Format:
summary report
Publication Date:
2016-03-03
Published:
International: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10571
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5 pages., via website, FAO., This introduction to a Legal Paper involves a legal assessment tool for gender-equitable land tenure that was developed by the Gender and Land Rights Database of FAO. 5 pages.
Via online. 13 pages., Author analyzes the role that patriarchal practices play in structuring the perceptions of women's interactions with mobile phones.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05924
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Online via TruffleMedia. Transcript of a presentation at the 2015 Ag Issues Forum sponsored by Bayer CropScience in connection with the 2015 Commodity Classic,Phoenix, Arizona, February 24-25, 2015. 16 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05918
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Via website of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland. UNCTAD Current Studies on Science, Technology and Innovation, No. 9. 84 pages.
