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    1. Analysing appropriation and usability in social and occupational lives: An investigation of Bangladeshi farmers' use of mobile telephony

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dey, Bidit Lal (author), Newman, David R. (author), and Pendergast, Renee (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Glyndŵr University
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10915
    Journal Title:
    Information Technology & People
    Journal Title Details:
    24(1):46-63
    Notes:
    28 pages., via online journal., The purpose of this paper is to understand how Bangladeshi farmers interact with mobile telephony and how they negotiate the resulting difficulties. In doing so the paper identifies how farmers integrate mobile telephony into their daily lives and what factors facilitate and limit their use of mobile telephony

    2. Impacts of distance education on agricultural performance and household income: micro-evidence from peri-urban districts in Beijing

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Guo, Jianxin (author), Jin, Songqing (author), Chen, Lei (author), and Zhao, Jichun (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-10-30
    Published:
    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10422
    Journal Title:
    Sustainability
    Journal Title Details:
    10(11)
    Notes:
    19 pages., Article 3945, Via online journal., Information communication technology (ICT) has changed the traditional agricultural extension service mode worldwide. This paper examines the effects of the Rural Distance Education Project (RDEP) on the household income, agricultural productivity, and off-farm employment of farmers in peri-urban areas in Beijing. Using the survey data of 783 randomly selected farm households from 54 villages in three Beijing peri-urban districts in 2014, and the propensity score matching method (PSM), we find that the RDEP has a significant and positive effect on agricultural productivity and input use. Meanwhile, the program’s effects are heterogeneous across districts and households. For example, the RDEP has significant impacts on several outcome indicators, such as agricultural labor productivity (at a 5% level of significance), agricultural land productivity (at a 10% level), and input use intensity (at a 1% level) in Tongzhou (an agriculturally more important district, with a more intensive RDEP usage), but none of these effects is significant in Pinggu district. Furthermore, the RDEP is found to have bigger, and statistically more significant effects, for households with junior high school education than for those with either lower or higher than junior high school education. Furthermore, the RDEP is more effective for households with more assets than those with fewer assets. These results point toward the importance of using a rural distance education program as an effective extension service, and the need to take community and individual characteristics into account in the implementation and design of future programs.