Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23371
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3 pages., "Sustainable agriculture is not just about sustaining agriculture, it is about sustaining people through agriculture. It is about stopping the exploitation and extraction of industrialization and finding self-renewing, regenerative systems that will sustain the land, sustain rural people, and sustain all people, of all times." Describes a farmer to consumer cooperative, Grow Alabama.
Roberts, Rebecca (author) and Hollander, Gail (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02281
Notes:
Pages 55-72 in Brian Ilbery, Quentin Chiotti and Timothy Rickard (eds.) Agricultural restructuring and sustainability: a geographical perspective. CAB International, Oxon, UK. 348 pages.
Ngoma, Hambulo (author), Mason-Wardell, Nichole M. (author), Samboko, Paul C. (author), and Hangoma, Peter (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
Zambia: Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11674
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4 pages., Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research Paper 164., Using games, researchers tested the hypothesis that innate behavioral traits such as risk and time preferences play a role in Zambia farmers' decisions about adoption of Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. "Given our findings that more risk-averse individuals are less likely to adopt CSA, a practice that is intended to be risk-reducing, a key policy implication is the need for a retooling of both public and private extension services to better demonstrate and educate farmers on the risk-reducing effect of CSA practices such as conservation agriculture. Moreover, if insurance and subsidies are to be used successfully to nudge adoption, extension will need to educate farmers on the structure of and mechanisms of payouts. This is important to build trust in the incentive systems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35851
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Pages 354-370 in D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds.), The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, England. 582 pages.
traditional knowledge, Evans, cited reference, Although inter-cropping (IC) is widely practiced in rank that practical small -- scale agricultural and agricultural research scientist have not systematically explored. The rationale for and have rarely attempted to improve it. Instead, they have concentrated on planting crops computer stands an extension advice has been to replace. IC with peer strands. This has reduced the impact of the research and extension activities. A review of East Africa experience from the 1930s, considers reasons for the research concentration on Pier stand planting and reveals two phases one formal experiments on IC were carried out. Despite generally favorable results, neither of these lead to, including IC an extension, advised to farmers. IC can contribute to one more of five, and objectives of small-scale farmers, but the standard design of agronomic experiments at best of takes account of only one of these, so that benefits are underestimated the erroneous policy conclusions drawn the paper advocates, enter alia, bolted disciplinary research for small-scale agriculture and active participation by farmers themselves.
Summary from Donald A. Holt, "Artificial intelligence and supercomputers: new frontiers in agriculture." Address to the International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs, Lake Bueno Vista, Florida, February 4, 1986.
Hoover, Herbert (author), West, Peter (author), Wirth, M.E. (author), and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02728
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James F. Evans Collection; Contains abstracts, preface, and summary only, Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service, 1986. 52 p. (ERS Staff Report, no. AGES 860815)
Ruiz-Carpio, Miguel Rafael (author), Safai, Cyrus (author), Djobo, Arafat (author), Gaichuk, Ivan (author), and Safai, Nick M. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10863
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Poster/paper published in proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference and exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2018, pages 1-15., Motivating, promoting interest in teaching engineering subjects is always a challenge for undergraduate engineering students especially for junior and lower level students. This approach also brought social awareness to members of the group, as well as tolerance and responsibility. It also emphasized to the students a tolerant and an open-minded world, now and forevermore. A group of multinational, multicultural undergraduate students at Salt Lake Community College, majoring in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer engineering are working on a project involving vertical farming, hydroponic watering, and making the plant growing process smart.
Food and its availability is of major concern in all nations, especially the underdeveloped communities. Students get exposed to different engineering disciplines, and learn how to work in a multicultural team and become socially responsible in an ever increasing connected world. Each student also becomes a teacher to other students at times discussing his specialty and field of engineering.
Amarasuriya, Nimala (author / Assistant Director of Publications, Natural Resources, Energy, and Science Authority of Sri Lanka) and Assistant Director of Publications, Natural Resources, Energy, and Science Authority of Sri Lanka
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: C02929
Using the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture as an empirical example, the author shows the epistemic significance of technology as a form of human knowledge created for doing things and solving problems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08905
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In B. L. Greenshields & M. A. Bellamy (eds.), Rural development: growth and inequity, contributed papers read at the 18th International Conference of Agricultural Economics. aldershot, Hants, England. 67-72.
Online via the University of Illinois Online Catalog, using the Article search term, "demonstrations", This study involved determining preferences of researchers and producers regarding their preferences for providing and gathering information. Findings revealed and described differences in preference. Authors identified on-farm demonstrations as particularly important for technologies that involve major transitions in farming methods.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17322
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Paper presented at a meeting about involving farmers in the development of agricultural technology, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, September 20-25, 1983., Pages 139-150 in Peter Matlon, Ronald Cantrell, David King and Michel Benoit-Cattin (eds), Coming full circle: farmers' participation in the development of technology. IDRC-189e, International Development Research Centre, Canada. 176 pages.
Authors emphasize the growing need for standardized terminology when explaining soil, plant and livestock management practices to an increasingly diverse array of producers.
Feakpi, Rose (author), Zinnah, Moses (author), Drafor, Ivy (author), Compton, Julia (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Format:
conference papers
Publication Date:
1997-03-04
Published:
Ghana
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20292
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, Section H; from "1997 conference papers : Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 13th Annual Conference, 3, 4, 5 April 1997, Arlington, Virginia
Feakpi, Rose (author), Zinnah, Moses (author), Drafor, Ivy (author), and Compton, Julia (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1997-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11777
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education, Arlington, Virginia, April 3-5, 1997.
Wing, Steven (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2003-07-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25843
Notes:
Posted at http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/2003/cs_conference_abstract.pdf, Pages 38-39 in "Conflicted science: corporate influence on scientific research and science-based policy," a conference on July 11, 2003.
Navarro, M.J. (author), Escaler, M. (author), Ponce de Leon, M.I. (author), and Tababa, S.P. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29778
Notes:
Pages 327-337 in Dominique Brossard, James Shanahan and T. Clint Nesbitt (eds.), The media, the public and agricultural biotechnology. CAB International, Oxon, U.K. 405 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28847
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Via Marketwire. 3 pages., News release from the International Federation for Animal Welfare, Zoocheck Canada Inc., Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, Humane Society International, Animal Alliance of Canada and Canadian Federation of Humane Societies.
International: Development Advisory Service, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20434
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Economic Development Report No. 154. Presented at the summer meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Columbia, Missouri, August 9-12, 1970. 44 pages.
Lewison, Sarah (author) and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36271
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Retrieved 03/22/2011 at http://www.iamcr.org/conference-abstracts, Via online. Page 26 in Book of Abstracts: History Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06597
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Abstract of paper presented in the History Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010., Features an independent quarterly periodical that testified to the importance of sustainable agricultural practice from 1939 to 1954.
16 pages, The importance of smallholder farming is increasingly recognized in rural areas where increased crop productivity and market participation can effectively improve their dietary diversity and nutrition quality. However, rural households are still faced with severe food insecurity and malnutrition. The study sought to assess the role of smallholder farming in crop productivity and market access on rural household dietary diversity. The secondary data were collected using a quantitative research method, and 1520 participants were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. The descriptive results showed that cereals were the most (98%) consumed food group, while vegetables and fruits were the least consumed food groups, at 37% and 23%, respectively. The results from the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) showed that 57% of smallholder farmers consumed highly diverse diets (more or equal to six food groups), whereas 25% and 18% of smallholder farmers consumed medium dietary diversity (four to five food groups) and low diverse diets (less or equal to three food groups), respectively. The findings from the Conditional Mixed Process (CMP) and Poisson endogenous treatment effect models showed that household size, ownership of livestock, wealth index, and involvement in crop production positively influenced household dietary diversity. On the other hand, output and access to market information showed a negative effect. Social grants had contradicting effects: they had a negative impact on the HDDS received from crop productivity while they had a positive effect on the HDDS from market participation. Providing different ways smallholder farmers can use their funds effectively can help improve household dietary diversity and nutrition quality. The study recommended that more workshops and training be conducted that cover all the sustainable production systems that smallholder farmers can undertake to produce different food groups. These will raise awareness among smallholder farmers about the requirements for balanced diets for food and nutrition security.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29781
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Pages 73-81 in Ian Scoones and John Thompson (eds.), Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development. Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, U.K. 357 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: C10380
Journal Title Details:
Page from 73 through 81
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Cornell University, Call number: S542 T35 R38x 1996, Fifth chapter of the book "Agricultural Research and the Peasants-- The Tanzanian Agricultural Knowledge and Information System"
"Results show that larger farmers, with more productivity technologies, and with younger, more educated farmers, are more likely to adopt rbST. While rbST is shown to significantly increase milk production, there is no evidence that it increases profits on a per cow basis."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08640
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington. Prog. Rpt. 40. 18 pages.
Ankli, Robert E. (author), Olmstead, Alan L. (author), and Ankli: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph; Olmstead: Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 66 Document Number: C02568
Penders, J.M.A. (author / Director of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, The Hague) and Director of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, The Hague
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05320
Notes:
cited reference, In: J.M.A. Penders, ed. Rural Extension at the Crossroads. Wageningen, The Netherlands: International Agricultural Centre, 1963. p. 237-249.
Morton, Lois Wright (author) and Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative of the U.S.Department of Agriculture and land grant colleges and universities.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2007-06-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27065
Notes:
PowerPoint presentation posted at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/waterquality/2007%20BMPs/Workshop/Presentations/Wright%20Morton.pdf, Presented at a workshop, "Targeting critical areas for implementation of best management practices," in Nebraska City, Nebraska, June 5-7, 2007.
Linton, Ralph (author) and Kardiner, Abram (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1952
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12489
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 222-231 in Guy E. Swanson, Theodore M. Newcomb and Eugene L. Hartley (eds.), Readings in Social Psychology, Revised Edition. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 680 p.
Duvel, Gustav H. (author), Annor-Frempong, Charles (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-05
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00436
Notes:
Pages 58-66 in the proceedings of the 25th annual meeting of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 24-28, 2009.
Morris, Carol (author) and Andrews, Charlotte (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02282
Notes:
Pages 87-99 in Brian Ilbery, Quentin Chiotti and Timothy Rickard (eds.) Agricultural restructuring and sustainability: a geographical perspective. CAB International, Oxon, UK. 348 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36976
Notes:
Pages 149-171 in Maria Fonte and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos (eds.), Naming food after places: food relocalisation and knowledge dynamics in rural development. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Surrey, England. 285 pages.
Gibbon, David (author) and Khadka, Ramesh (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1988-10
Published:
Nepal: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00344
Notes:
Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 159-171 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.
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: D01311
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, pages 159-171 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 series, paper No.17. 395 pages.
