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2. Factors determining crop farmers' willingness to pay for agricultural extension services in Tanzania: A case of Mpwapwa and Mvomero Districts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shausi, Gosbert Lukenku (author), Ahmas, Athman Kyaruzi (author), and Abdallah, Jumanne Mushi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-08
- Published:
- Nigeria: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13207
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V.11, N.12
- Notes:
- 9 pages, This study assessed crop farmers’ willingness to pay for AESs and identified factors influencing their willingness to pay for AESs. Data were collected from 292 randomly selected crop farmers’ households between December 2017 and February 2018 using a questionnaire through face-to-face interviews. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and Tobit regression model. The study found that 92% of the respondents are willing to pay for AESs. It was also found that farmer’s age, education attainment, farming experience, distance from farm to the nearest important road, income (both farm and nonfarm) and attitude towards AESs are significant determinants of farmers willingness to pay for AESs. The study recommends that these variables be given proper policy consideration by the government and other stakeholders in the design and the implementation of a workable fashion of privatizing extension services for the expected impact of improving extension services and farmers’ productivity hence improved quality of life.
3. Securing the future of US agriculture: the case for investing in new entry sustainable farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlisle, Liza; (author), de Wit, Maywa Montenegro (author), DeLonge, Marcia S. (author), Calo, Adam (author), Getz, Christy (author), Ory, Joanna (author), Munden-Dixon, Katherine (author), Galt, Ryan (author), Melone, Brett (author), Knox, Reggie (author), Iles, Alastaire (author), and Press, Daniel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: University of California Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12775
- Journal Title:
- Elementa
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 7, I. 1
- Notes:
- Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in the United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health crisis, and a rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural workforce: both because the current farm population is aging, and because sustainable agriculture is knowledge-intensive work that substitutes experiential knowledge of farm ecosystems for harmful industrial inputs. Given its social value, sustainable agriculture ought to be a welcoming profession. But at present, US agriculture is decidedly unwelcoming for nearly all who work in it – and it puts new entry and sustainable farmers at a distinct disadvantage. In this paper, we first examine why it is so hard to enter and succeed in sustainable farming. We find that new entrants struggle to gain critical access, assets, and assistance, encountering substantial barriers that stand between them and the land, capital, markets, equipment, water, labor, and training and technical assistance they need to succeed. Secondly, we review promising policy and civil society interventions targeted at addressing these barriers, nearly all of which have already been piloted at the local and state levels or through modest public funding. These interventions are most effective, we find, when they are linked up through robustly governed networks to provide “wraparound” coverage for new entry sustainable farmers. Such networks can help patch together complementary sources of support (e.g. federal, state, local, NGO, cooperative) and synergistically address multiple barriers at once. Finally, we propose additional interventions that are more aspirational today, but that could offer important pathways to support new sustainable farmers in the longer term.