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    23. Agroecology, Information and Communications Technology, and Smallholders' Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wei, Cheng (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2020-05-07
    Published:
    International: Sage Publications
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D11922
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Asian and African Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 55(8)
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    15 Pages, Online Journal via U of I subscription, As a bottom-up, grassroots paradigm for sustainable rural development, agroecology is particularly promising for smallholders in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, by adopting agroecology, smallholders will be challenged to take on new perspectives and compile and integrate different sourced information to innovate. Today’s fast evolving information and communications technology in sub-Saharan Africa represents great opportunities for rural populations to enhance the adoption and success of agroecology and to address their daunting challenges simultaneously while conserving, protecting and enhancing natural resources. Agroecology combined with information and communications technology will probably be smallholders’ “precision agriculture” in many developing countries to enhance their food security and livelihood.

    24. Alternative food networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (participatory guarantee systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kaufmann, Sonja (author), Hruschka, Nikolaus (author), Vildozo,Luis (author), and Vogl, Christian R. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022-08-25
    Published:
    USA: Springer Nature
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12628
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Journal Title Details:
    Online
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    24 pages, Alternative food networks (AFN) are argued to provide platforms to re-socialize and re-spacealize food, establish and contribute to democratic participation in local food chains, and foster producer–consumer relations and trust. As one of the most recent examples of AFN, Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have gained notable traction in attempting to redefine consumer-producer relations in the organic value chain. The participation of stakeholders, such as consumers, has been a key element theoretically differentiating PGS from other organic verification systems. While research on farmer participation in PGS is attracting interest, consumer participation is still widely overlooked. Using a mixed methods approach, this paper describes five PGS markets in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia. A survey was conducted with consumers in the PGS markets to explore their awareness of the PGS, how consumers participate in the PGS, and their level of trust in the respective PGS and its certified products. Results showed a low level of awareness of PGS among market consumers, few participation possibilities, and minimal consumer participation overall. Nevertheless, trust in organic quality was generally high. Consumers primarily relied on the direct relationship with producers and the PGS market itself as sources of trust. These results provide novel insight into PGS consumer-market interactions, and contribute to discussions concerning social embeddedness, awareness and participation within AFN.

    25. Alternative media in suburban plantation culture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Caldwell, John T. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    USA: University of California Los Angeles
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09969
    Journal Title:
    Media, Culture & Society
    Journal Title Details:
    5
    Notes:
    21 pages, This article reconsiders the concept of `alternative media', and describes a set of alternative media projects produced over six years in and around migrant farm worker camps in southern California. The media projects described here (small-format videos within marginalized labor communities), challenge assumptions about `alternative media' on three levels - as a theoretical concept, as media practice and as a political project. The article argues the need to attend to the complex spatial and institutional contexts that inflect and complicate any local alternative media project. This examination of how the lived spaces of the migrant camps are both avowed and effaced by local residents and contractors underscores the tortured logic of the region. The study reveals not just how the landed status quo organizes workers lives as parts of its `scenic' landscape. It also describes how indigenous `Mixteco' labor organizers simultaneously work to exploit and resist the same conditions. Occupying semi-public contact-zones and no-man's lands (legally ambiguous spaces), provides migrants with a material beach-head from which to claim other rights that have more legal teeth (including fair labor, health and safety, and civil rights laws). Compared to the conventional video forms the producers/researchers set out to produce, these practices suggested that migrants' unauthorized occupation of space is a consequential form of `alternative media' in its own right; a transnational community response to policies of globalization and `free-trade'.

    26. An international Master's program in green ICT as a contribution to sustainable development

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Klimova, Alexandra (author), Rondeau, Eric (author), Andersson, Karl (author), Porras, Jari (author), Rybin, Andrei (author), and Zaslavsky, Arkady (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016-11
    Published:
    USA: Elsevier Science Publishers
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07540
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Cleaner Production
    Journal Title Details:
    135: 223-239

    27. Analysing agricultural innovation systems: a multilevel mixed methods approach

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Konig, Bettina (author), Kuntosch, Anett (author), Bokelmann, Wolfgang (author), Doernberg, Alexandra (author), Schwerdtner, Wim (author), Busse, Maria (author), Siebert, Rosemarie (author), Koschatzky, Knut (author), and Stahlbecker, Thomas (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2012-09
    Published:
    Germany
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01144
    Notes:
    Paper presented at the 131st EAAE Seminar, "Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012. 17 pages.

    28. Analysis of conservation agriculture preferences for researchers, extension agents, and tribal farmers in Nepal using Analytic Hierarchy Process

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Reed, Brinton (author), Chan-Halbrendt, Catherine (author), Tamang, B.B. (author), and Chaudhary, Narendra (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014-05
    Published:
    Nepal: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07799
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Systems
    Journal Title Details:
    127: 90-96

    29. Are agriculture and nutrition policies and practice coherent? Stakeholder evidence from Afghanistan

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Poole, Nigel (author), Echavez, Chona (author), and Rowland, Dominic (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-12
    Published:
    Springer Netherlands
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10241
    Journal Title:
    Food Security
    Journal Title Details:
    10(6) : 1577–1601
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    Online ISSN: 1876-4525 Print ISSN: 1876-4517, Via online journal., Despite recent improvements in the national average, stunting levels in Afghanistan exceed 70% in some Provinces. Agriculture serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of the population and has the potential to be a strong driver of a reduction in under-nutrition. This article reports research conducted through interviews with stakeholders in agriculture and nutrition in the capital, Kabul, and four provinces of Afghanistan, to gain a better understanding of the institutional and political factors surrounding policy making and the nutrition-sensitivity of agriculture. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 46 stakeholders from central government and four provinces, including staff from international organizations, NGOs and universities. We found evidence of interdisciplinary communication at the central level and within Provinces, but little evidence of vertical coordination in policy formulation and implementation between the centre and Provinces. Policy formulation and decision making were largely sectoral, top-down, and poorly contextualised. The weaknesses identified in policy formulation, focus, knowledge management, and human and financial resources inhibit the orientation of national agricultural development strategies towards nutrition-sensitivity. Integrating agriculture and nutrition policies requires explicit leadership from the centre. However, effectiveness of a food-based approach to reducing nutrition insecurity will depend on decentralising policy ownership to the regions and provinces through stronger subnational governance. Security and humanitarian considerations point to the need to manage and integrate in a deliberate way the acute humanitarian care and long-term development needs, of which malnutrition is just one element.

    30. Artificial intelligence applications in the agrifood sectors

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kutyauripo, Innocent (author), Rushambwa, Munyaradzi (author), and Chiwazi, Lyndah (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-01-06
    Published:
    Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12818
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 11
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    8 pages, Food security is one of the priorities of every country in the World. However, different factors are making it difficult to meet global targets on food security. Some unprecedented shocks are encumbering food security at the global level. Various interventions have been applied toward food security and artificial intelligence is one of the modern methods that is being used in various stages of the food system. In this paper, the application of artificial intelligence in the whole food production ecosystem ranging from crop production, livestock production, harvesting/slaughtering, postharvest management, food processing, food distribution, food consumption and food waste management is assessed. The objective of this research is to assess the application of artificial intelligence systems in all the stages of food systems. A systematic review was conducted by analyzing 110 articles after the screening of 450 articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results indicated that various artificial intelligence algorithms are being applied to all the stages of the food system from crop/livestock production up to food or agro-waste management.

    31. Assessing the competencies and training needs of agricultural extension workers in Saudi Arabia

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Al-Zahrani, K.H. (author), Aldosari, F.O. (author), Baig, M.B. (author), Shalaby, M.Y. (author), and Straquadine, G.S. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Published:
    Saudi Arabia: Tarbiat Modares University
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08033
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
    Journal Title Details:
    19 (1): 33-46

    33. Attitudes of Bulgarian farmers for adopting eco-innovations

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Todorova, Kristina (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022
    Published:
    Scientific Papers
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13450
    Journal Title:
    Scientific Papers: Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture & Rural Development
    Journal Title Details:
    22(1) : 663-668
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    7 pages, With the growing needs of society for food safety and quality, as well as habitat protection, soil and water quality improvement, the role of eco-innovations in agriculture can be considered to provide ecosystem services and environmental protection. The attention paid by institutions to food safety and quality encourages innovative solutions. The aim of this paper is to present the attitudes of farmers to implement eco-innovative solutions such as organic farming and agri-environmental practices. A survey was conducted among 64 organic farmers dealing with perennial crops, pastures, and beekeeping in Bulgaria. The data from the survey was used to build logistic regression to analyze the factors affecting the decisions to implement eco-innovative solutions. The results reveal that three most important factors affect willingness to adopt eco-innovations are: positive perception of the impact of eco-innovation on environment quality, positive change in income as a result of organic farming, and adequate state policy and regulation of the agricultural sector.

    34. Biotechnology and genetically modified foods: the role of environmental journalists

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Manning, Richard (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05888
    Journal Title:
    Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
    Journal Title Details:
    89 : 103-107

    35. Can a nature reserve help feed a family?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dudley, Nigel (author) and Stolton, Sue (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08786
    Notes:
    Pages 71-89 in Gordon, Iain J. Prins, Herbert H.T. Squire, Geoff R. (eds.), Food production and nature conservation: conflicts and solutions. United Kingdom: Routledge, London. 348 pages.

    36. Can the TV makeover format of edutainment lead to widespread changes in farmer behaviour and influence innovation systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10461
    Journal Title:
    Land Use Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    76: 338-351
    Notes:
    14 pages., Edutainment, the combination of education with entertainment through various media such as television, radio, mobile phone applications and games, is increasingly being used as an approach to stimulate innovation and increase agricultural productivity amongst smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Shamba Shape Up, a widely publicised makeover reality TV programme, is an example of edutainment that has received considerable attention, and airs in three countries in East Africa where it is estimated to be watched by millions of viewers. There is no published academic research on the influence of makeover television formats on innovation systems and processes in smallholder agriculture. Using an Agricultural Innovation Systems approach, this paper explores how makeover edutainment is influencing smallholder farmer innovation systems together with the effect this is having on smallholder farms. In the absence of previous research, it articulates a Theory of Change which draws on research traditions from mass communication, agricultural extension and innovation systems. Data came from two large scale quantitative (n = 9885 and n = 1572) surveys and in-depth participatory qualitative research comprising focus group discussions, participatory budgets, agricultural timelines, case studies and key information interviews in Kenya. An estimated 430,000 farmers in the study area were benefiting from their interaction with the programme through increased income and / or a range of related social benefits including food security, improving household health, diversification of livelihood choices, paying school fees for children and increasing their community standing / social capital. Participatory research showed SSU enhanced an already rich communication environment and strengthened existing processes of innovation. It helped set the agenda for discussions within farming communities about opportunities for improving smallholder farms, while also giving specific ideas, information and knowledge, all in the context of featured farm families carefully selected so that a wide range of viewers would identify with them and their challenges. Broadcasts motivated and inspired farmers to improve their own farms through a range of influences including entertainment, strong empathy with the featured host farm families, the way ideas emerged through interaction with credible experts, and importantly through stimulating widespread discussion and interaction amongst and between farmers and communities of experts on agricultural problems, solutions and opportunities. The fact that local extension workers also watched the programmes further enhanced the influence on local innovation systems. The findings indicate that well designed makeover edutainment can strongly influence agricultural innovation processes and systems resulting in impact on the agricultural production and behaviours of large numbers of smallholder farmers.

    37. Case study integration in the undergraduate classroom: can we enhance willingness to communicate?

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Harsh, Jessica (author), Lamm, Alexa (author), Telg, Ricky (author), and Meyers, Courtney (author)
    Format:
    Paper abstract
    Publication Date:
    2018-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10019
    Notes:
    Abstract of paper presented at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) Agricultural Communications Section, Jacksonville, Florida, February 4-5, 2018.

    38. Chicago marketplaces: advancing access to healthy food

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Roubal, Anne (author) and Morales, Alfonso (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2016
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08845
    Notes:
    Pages 191-211 in Dawson, Julie C. and Morales, Alfonso (eds.), Cities of farmers: urban agricultural practices and processes. United States: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. 333 pages.