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2. Assessing rural women food producers capacity to adopt modern ICTs - a case study of the Mfantsiman District of Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sampong, D.D. (author), Egyir, I.S. (author), and Yaw, Osei-Asare (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10923
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the African Association of Agricultural Economists second international conference, Accra, Guana, August 20-22, 2007. 4 pages., The traditional way of information dissemination has been through people; the modern way is through the electronic media – improved information and communication technologies (ICTs). For effectiveness, modern ICTs should help women to improve on their income generating capacity. Issues of level of resource capacity of women, information needed, and current sources of such information become important. This study sought to investigate the issues above with respect to rural women food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in the data analysis of 91 randomly selected respondents. The results of the study showed that: In general, the women food producers were aged, subsistence food crop farmers. They depended on the natural rainfall cycle and had inadequate funds, so they use traditional inputs for production and sell surpluses in the community. The most important agricultural information needed was on inputs, specifically, low cost in-kind or cash credit. Currently, the major information sources are relatives and other farmers in the locality, agricultural extension agents, the radio and television. This suggests that the women food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for information dissemination. Yet, the regression results show that the few (6) mobile phone users have a higher income generating capacity. In order to improve on capacity to use modern ICTs for increased access to other resources, women farmers’ should organize themselves into formidable groups so local institutions can assist easily.
3. Extension contact of Ohio farm housewives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Havens, A. Eugene (author) and Rogers, Everett M. (author)
- Format:
- Bulletin
- Publication Date:
- 1961
- Published:
- USA: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Ohio State University, Columbus.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17041
- Notes:
- Research Bulletin 890. 18 pages.
4. How extension stacks up
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Awa, Njoku E. (author), Van Crowder, L., Jr. (author), and Department of Communication Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Department of Communication Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1978-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04922
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 (1978 March/April) : 19-25
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
5. Influence of farm management style on adoption of biologically integrated farming practices in California
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brodt, Sonja B. (author), Klonsky, Karen (author), Tourte, Laura (author), Duncan, Roger (author), Hendricks, Lonnie (author), Ohmart, Cliff (author), and Verdegaal, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Research paper
- Publication Date:
- 2004-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23445
- Journal Title:
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 19(4) : 237-247
- Notes:
- The authors consider the adoption of biologically integrated agricultural practices from the perspective of farm management style. Adoption decisions for farming practices must fit into a broader farm decision-making context that incorporates economic, environmental, social, family and personal considerations, as well as use of agricultural information sources. Drawing from a study of California almond and winegrape growers, the authors demonstrate that management styles differ substantially among farmers and that these differences affect use of information sources and adoption of biologically based practices on the farm. A two-season mail survey of farming practices and information sources demonstrated that differences in management styles affect the adoption of practices.
6. Influences on professional behavior of agricultural communications staff
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Diel, Tom D. (author / ST International Consultants, Inc,.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08447
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 79 (2) : 25-33
- Notes:
- search through journal, This study examined the daily influences that affected the behavior of agricultural communications personnel as professional communicators. If focused on the conditions that the employees perceived as influencing their behavior and how these phenomena related to the total communications process of the department. The researcher used Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory method of qualitative research. The findings of this study suggest that changing organizational needs are affecting the professional behavior of communications personnel. The relationship between agricultural communications departments and their clientele, both internal and external, is changing because of budget-slashing priorities common throughout institutions of higher education. (original)
7. Information-seeking behavior of Iranian extension managers and specialists
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pezeshki-Rad, Gholamreza (author) and Zamani, Naser (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26695
- Journal Title:
- Information Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10, No. 3
- Notes:
- Online access
8. Staying local for sustaining beekeeping
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Islam, Nurul (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09
- Published:
- Bangladesh: MISEREOR e.V., Aachen, Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36953
- Notes:
- Posted at http://leisaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PLDP-FINAL-PDF-medium.pdf, Pages 27-30 in Strengthening people-led development: a joint effort of local communities, NGOs and donors to redefine participation. 56 pages.
9. The information challenge : new directions in the 1990's
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Poley, Janet K. (author / Director, Communication, Information, and Technology Extension Service, USDA)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06894
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 91022954, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; January 31-February 1, 1990, Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 1-8.
10. Tomorrow's informated agriculture : where do extension specialists and agricultural economists fit in?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sonka, Steve (author / Professor of Agricultural Management, University of Illinois)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08057
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, In: The Information Age: what it means for extension and its constituents. Columbia, MO: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Missouri, 1994. (Proceedings of a North Central Region Extension workshop for marketing and management specialists, May 24-26, 1994, St. Louis, MO.) p. 251-256.