Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as a credible alternative to tackle food insecurity under the changing climate is gaining wide acceptance. However, many developing countries have realized that concepts that have been recommended as solutions to existing problems are not suitable in their contexts. This paper synthesizes a subset of literature on CSA in the context of small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa as it relates to the need for CSA, factors influencing CSA adoption, and the challenges involved in understanding and scaling up CSA. Findings from the literature reveal that age, farm size, the nature of farming, and access to extension services influence CSA adoption. Many investments in climate adaptation projects have found little success because of the sole focus on the technology-oriented approach whereby innovations are transferred to farmers whose understanding of the local farming circumstances are limited. Climate-smart agriculture faces the additional challenge of a questionable conceptual understanding among policymakers as well as financing bottlenecks. This paper argues that the prospects of CSA in small-scale agriculture rest on a thorough socio-economic analysis that recognizes the heterogeneity of the small farmer environment and the identification and harnessing of the capacities of farming households for its adoption and implementation
James F. Evans Collection, Many state governments in the United States promote locally-produced farm products. This paper discusses issues related to the ethics and equity of such promotional programs. The paper argues that generic promotion is generally easier to justify in terms of ethics and equity than brand promotion. It also argues that informative and factual brand promotions are easier to justify than deceptive and persuasive brand promotions. Additional equity issues arising when taxpayers finance state-promotional programs are also discusses. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36965
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 16, 6 pages., APA emphasizes need for gathering current agricultural statistics and reporting them promptly.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11768
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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.
13 pages., via online journal., Drawing on the increasing body of literature on policy stakeholders and the ever-growing acknowledgement that communication policy is crafted by more than just parliamentarians and formal communication regulators this paper examines the role that another set of regulators plays in communication policy: agriculture regulators. Based on a study of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS), this paper explores alternative agents of communication policy. More specifically, through document analysis we examine the way in which the Rural Utilities Service has shaped rural broadband policy in the United States over the last three decades. The implications for this research are wide, as it brings another policy actor into the policy making melee, and pushes communication policy scholars to consider the role that non-traditional communication regulators play in the communication policy making process.
Anik, Asif Reza (author), Breustedt, Gunnar (author), and Bauer, Siegfried (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
Published:
Bangladesh
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30576
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Presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 6 pages.
Avery, Elizabeth Johnson (author) and Lariscy, Ruthann W. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA: Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36167
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Pages 319-334 in W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Halladay (eds.), The handbook of crisis communication. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, U.K. 737 pages., Authors analyze mishandled communications by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in connection with serious wildfires in California during 2007.
Conference paper / journal article, The paper focused on COVID-19 pandemic, its implication on the Nigeria agriculture and the role of extension. The review uncovered a subtle but undeniable negative impact on all the value chain of the Nigeria agriculture. One of the most important factors that may avert this negative impact is agricultural extension service. With lockdown, travel ban and social distancing, the way out becomes technology. Government and institutions at all levels should intentionally deploy technology tools to aid effective agricultural extension service to farmers.
search through journal, The responsibility and tasks of a national agricultural information system (NAIS) is discussed with emphasis on the Ministry of Agriculture Library in Jamaica. The nature of the institutional and interinstitutional infrastructure for agricultural activities; lack of professional staff; lack of awareness of the need for information by potential users; lack of provision for collecting locally generated material; and lack of skills in documentation on the part of agriculturalists are identified as factors hindering the coordination and progress of a NAIS in Jamaica. The development of the National Information Plan; availability of training at the professional and paraprofessional level within the island; cooperation and commitment among librarians at formal and informal levels; and the possibility of approaching funding agencies are described as advantages to a NAIS. Recommendations are made concluding that the problems cannot be fully addressed by librarians without the support of user organizations and there is a definite need for librarians to be active in the problem solving process. (author).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 2 Document Number: B00211
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AgComm Teaching. Hal R. Taylor Collection, CRC Report No. 3. Communications Research Center, School of Public Relations and Communication, Boston University. 51pp.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12865
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Chapter 13 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07788
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James F. Evans Collection, cited reference, The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1989. 37 p. (OFCOR Comparative Study Paper No. 3).
Boehm, William T. (author), Knutson, R.D. (author), Penn, J.B. (author), and Texas A&M University; Economic Perspectives, Inc.; The Kroger Co.
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 57 Document Number: C01545
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Includes part of chapter 10 only; See also C01101, In: Knutson, R.D., Penn, J.B., and Boehm, W.T. Agricultural and food policy : the structure of agriculture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1983. p. 254-258
8 pages., via online journal., This study appraised the level of usage of satellite imaging and selected Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools by agricultural extension workers (EWs) in the North Central Zone of Nigeria. Specifically, information on usage of satellite imaging, personal skill ratings, and constraints faced by respondents in the usage of ICT equipment were gathered. Findings revealed that a majority of the respondents (97%) perceived themselves as incompetent in reading and interpreting satellite imaging for agricultural information dissemination. The study posited that government at various levels should assist in training EWs on digital compatibility.
Bruns, Catherine J. (author / James Madison University)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10901
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See also D10895., Pages 171-178 in Brigitta R. Brunner and Corey A. Hickerson (editors), Cases in public relations: translating ethics into action. Oxford University Press, New York City, New York. 359 pages., Author examines the actions, accountability and ethical stance of government agencies in communicating environment risk to citizens in Flint, Michigan.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01230
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Pages 223-238 in Steven A. Wolf (ed.), Privatization of agricultural information and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, New York. 299 pages.
Burke, Stephen C. (author), Menanteau-Horta, Dario (author), and Professor, Rural Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Marywood College, Marywood, PA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA: St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08202
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11769
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Online from BroadbandNow, a registered trademark of Centerfield BBN LLC. 3 pages., Whereas the FCC reports that broadband is unavailable to 21.3 million Americans, BroadbandNow Research analyzed FCC Form 477 data and estimated that 42 million Americans do not have the ability to purchase broadband internet. This is an additional 6.5 percent of Americans beyond FCC estimates.
Buse, Rueben C. (author), Driscoll, James L., eds. (author), and Buse: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Driscoll: Research and Development, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA, Kansas City, MO
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06498
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Contains Table of Contents only; See C06499-C06505 for individual chapters; James F. Evans Collection, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. 1992. 458 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes7; Folder: MSU student papers file Document Number: D09086
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Chapter review of Lorwin, Val R., The French labor movement, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1954. Michigan State University, East Lansing. 4 pages.
Chern, Wen S. (author), Hushak, Leroy J. (author), Tweeten, Luther (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06500
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James F. Evans Collection; See C06498 for book, In: Rueben C. Buse and James L. Driscoll, eds. Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval, 1992. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 118-213
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07489
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cited reference, In: The role of extension services in national development. Lusaka, Zambia: National Council for Scientific Research, May 1984. p. 38-47
Online via keyword search of UI e-catalog., Authors exmined the "forgotten history" of a scientific literature involving relationship between the media and farmers from the 1960s to date. "Farmers were once greatly valued in the media. There was a tacit agreement between members of the farming, government, and journalistic elite on the portrayal of the modern farmer figure. And yet this unity began to dissolve in the 1980s. Farmers were challenged in the public eye: awareness was raised about union struggles, doubt was cast on the cost of agricultural activities financed by society, new environmental concerns arose, promoted by journalists, and a series of health-related crises flourished in the 1990s."
Claar, John B. (author), Swanson, Burton E. (author), and Swanson: Associate Professor, International Agricultural Education; and Associate Director, INTERPAKS, University of Illinois; Claar: Director, International Programs for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), University of Illinois
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: C03481
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John Behrens Collection; see C03480 for original, In: Swanson, Burton E., ed. Agricultural extension : a reference manual. 2nd ed. Rome, Italy : Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, 1984. p. 1-19
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07806
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James F. Evans Collection, see C07805 for original, In: Walter J. Armbruster and John E. Lenz, eds. Commodity promotion policy in a global economy: proceedings of a symposium, October 22-23, 1992, Arlington, Virginia. Oak Brook, IL: Farm Foundation, 1993. p. 3-9.
Cotner, M.L. (eds.) (author), Halcrow, H.G. (author), Heady, E.O. (author), and University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural Economics; Iowa State University, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development; USDA, ERS (Economic Research Service)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01261
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Cited Reference. Includes table of contents only; See also C01263 (Chapter 6) and C01264 (chapter 10), Ankeny, Iowa : Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. 330 p.
Dahlan, M. Alwi (author / Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Jakarta) and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03356
