11 pages, Climatic change has a negative impact on people’s livelihoods, agriculture, freshwater supply and other natural resources that are important for human survival. Therefore, understanding how rural smallholder farmers perceive climate change, climate variability, and factors that influence their choices would facilitate a better understanding of how these farmers adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. A Zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa. Different socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, and experience in crop farming, institutional factors like access to extension services, and access to climate change information significantly influenced the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa. Concerning intensity of adoption, age, educational level, farming experience, on-farm training, off-farm income, access to information through ICT and locational variables are the significant determinants of intensity of adaptation strategies. Thus, education attainment, non-farm employment, farming experience are significant incentives to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity through the adoption of many adaptation approaches. This study therefore concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers, particularly during the off-cropping season. The income from non-farm employment can be plough-back into farm operations such as the adoption of soil and water conservation, use of improved planting varieties, insurance, among others to mitigate climate variability and subsequently increase productivity. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting education, providing on-farm demonstration trainings, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Thus, the government, stakeholders, and donor agencies must provide capacity-building innovations around the agricultural extension system and education on climate change using information and communication technologies.
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com/?i=October%202007, Summarizes briefly the results of a national telephone survey among 500 farmers with gross farm incomes of more than $100,000 a year.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/?iid=9297, Pages 16-18 in 2008 Agribusiness Employer Guide, a special supplement of Agri Marketing magazine.
Argues that the knowledge and ability to build and describe collections needs to be spread among a larger distributed group of participants in the face of two trends: (1) Traditional methods of organizing,k describing and providing access to documents are being overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number of digitized materials. (2) Cultural and indigenous knowledge is disappearing as environments and people cease to exist. Suggests three mechanisms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09926
Notes:
NCR-90 Collection, From Document D09924, "Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1990". Page 5.
10 pages., via online journal., The main purpose of this study was to categories and describes the profile characteristics of the women beneficiaries, to determine the use of communication sources by the women beneficiaries, and to explore the relationship between the profile characteristics of the women beneficiaries of RDRS with their use of communication sources. Data were collected using interview schedule from a sample of 112 women beneficiaries selected from the population of 280 by multistage random sampling procedure from five villages of Rajendrapur union under sadar upazila of Rangpur district. Use of communication sources by the RDRS women beneficiaries was determined on three dimensions viz. attitude, contact and application, and finally the use of communication sources index (UCSI) was computed. The UCSI ranged from 45.24 to 277.68 with a possible range of 0 to 300. Based on UCSI, among the 10 communication sources the first five communication sources were husband (277.68), neighbours (219.05), RDRS-worker (205.95), RDRS group meeting (193.45) and relatives (160.42). However, the last five communication sources were RDRS officer (134.82), mobile phone (112.80), television (68.75), inputs dealer (63.99) and SAAOs (45.24). The findings revealed that the highest proportion (38.39%) of the women beneficiaries had medium use of communication sources compared to 33.93% low use and 27.68% high use. Among the ten selected characteristics of the women beneficiaries’ education, farm size, annual income, daily time use, credit received and participation in IGAs showed positive significant relationship while fatalism showed negative significant relationship with their use of communication sources. Age, family size and dependency had no significant relationships. The women beneficiaries of RDRS had moderate exposure with various communication sources so, the concerned Government Organizations and Non-government Organizations engaged in extension activities should make necessary arrangements for improving the use of communication sources by them in income generating activities.
Levin, J.B. (author), Ortmann, G.F. (author), Woodburn, M.R. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nata, Pietermaritzburg; Department of Statistics and Biometry, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
South Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08424
James F. Evans Collection, In a postal survey conducted among 199 commercial farmers in Natal during 1993, sources and costs of information were studied. Respondents indicated that the most important sources of information was own farm records/budgets. This source was ranked highest for production, marketing and financial decisions by respondents from all regions in the province. Respondents spent an average of R3 504 per year on information sources. Keeping own farm records and preparing budgets was the most time consuming activity while it had the second highest expenditure of all the information sources considered. The greatest expenditure was on tax preparers/accountants which contributed 44 percent to total information costs. Discriminant analyses showed that various sources of information were rated differently by farmers depending on region and farm size. (original)
Doster, D. Howard (author / Purdue University), Ortmann, G.F. (author / University of Natal, South Africa), Patrick, G.F. (author / Purdue University), and Musser, W.N. (author / Pennsylvania State Univeristy, University Park, Pa.)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 105 Document Number: C09123
Radhakrishna, Rama (author), Cidro, Dario A. (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE).
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-14
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24254
Notes:
Retrieved June 16, 2006, Pages 134-142 in proceedings of the AIAEE conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida, May 14-17, 2006., Traces differences between effectiveness ratings of farmers and extension agents.
Coutts, Jeff (author), Roberts, Kate (author), Samson, Amy (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007-07
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27019
Notes:
Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-103sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-103.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 07-103. 21 pages.
Hamblen, Bob (author), Harriman, Bill (author), Holman, Karen L. (author), and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06903
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 91022985, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; 1990 January 31 - February 1; Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 192-197, Marketing agricultural commodities has become as important to overall farm profitability as producing them. County extension offices can play a significant role in assisting producers in making better marketing decisions and in providing them with market information. Many sources of this information are available to both county offices and individual producers. (original)
Costantino, P. (author), Schuster, C.P. (author), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 61 Document Number: C01869
21 pgs., CTs (Communications technologies) have revolutionized agricultural information services at every level in the agricultural sector, thus impacting rural development and catalysing poverty alleviation strategies. This has largely been the case with small-scale farmers in rural areas in developing countries where mobile technologies have penetrated more than most other ICT tools. However, in some of the farming environments, mobile phone use is largely driven by agricultural extension workers. This paper seeks to examine the way mobile phones are used for information access in situations where agricultural extension workers are a critical intermediary in the agricultural information services. Interviews were conducted with 10 randomly selected farmers who were part of the Dzindi irrigation scheme. The findings were that from the variety of information available to the farmers the most important source was the extension officer. The extension officer and the radio were indicated to be the most reliable independent sources of information. The other sources, such as the radio, family members, and friends, suppliers of chemicals, books and magazines, were only considered reliable if the information could be verified or vouched for by the extension officer. Increasing the information handling skills of extension officers, training of farmers to use smart features of their phones and promoting the usual face-to-face communication use of conventional methods, which is what usually gives rise to the mediation of mobile phones, were recommended.
20 pages., Via online from the University of Illinois website., Authors' review provided an overview of the data sources, computational methods, and applications of text data in the food industry. Applications of text data analysis were illustrated with respect to food safety and food fraud surveillance, dietary pattern characterization, consumer-opinion mining, new-product development, food knowledge discovery, food supply-chain management, and online food systems.
Francis, Joe Douglas (author) and Lionberger, Herbert Frederick (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1969
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 14 Document Number: B01712
Notes:
#1305, Harold Swanson Collection, Columbia, MO : University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1969. 75 p. (Research Bulletin 948)
Taylor, Melissa R. (author), Lamm, Alexa J. (author), and Lundy, Lisa K. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2017-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08156
Notes:
Research paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) conference in Mobile, Alabama, February 4-7, 2017. 22 pages.
Weckman, Randy (author) and Witham, Deborah (author)
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
2001-07-28
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11980
Journal Title Details:
8 pages
Notes:
The document is available in electronic or paper format, Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group, 2001 ACE/NETC Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 28 July- 01 August 2001
Sarbaugh, L.E. (author / Editoral Assistant, Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois) and Editoral Assistant, Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1953
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00095
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Urbana, IL : Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1953. 7 p.(EE314)
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/88. Box No. 3. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center
8 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., Researchers measured farmer demand for a new agricultural technology , a triple-layered hermetic storage bag which reduces storage loss from insect pests and neutralizes aflatoxin contamination in grain. Findings revealed a highly elastic demand that that the wholesaler could increase profit by lowering the price. Farmers who had prior awareness of the bag were willing to pay 20% more on average than those previously unaware of it. Farmers' valuation of the bags was not significantly different based on the medium (text, audio, or video) through which they received the information.
Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, England.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2008-02-24
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27342
Notes:
2 pages., Survey among large-scale, commodity farmers. Includes a reference to findings that many farmers disapprove of past cuts in public funding for agricultural advisory services. "It is now complicated and expensive for farmers to get good advice."
James F. Evans Collection; See C04120 for original, The study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to determine how much a farmer will actually use his/her computer after purchase. The introductory study looked broadly at the farmers' background, environment, and personality. It set out to discover what focuses in farm life enhance or diminish a farmer's computer use. The variables suggested include: Complexity of Farm, Degree of External Support, Age, Views on Management, Time, Experience, network, Availability of Information, and Personality and Approach to Learning. Several implications are suggested by these preliminary findings that might facilitate the use of computers.
Myers, Fred (author / Agricultural editor, Tennessee Valley Authority)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1967-11-29
Published:
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10755
Notes:
3 pages., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Five-minute speech at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 1967., Author suggests drawing upon the expertise, experiences, and perspectives of communicators beyond the AAEA membership and agricultural journalism field.
Zilberman, David (author) and Kaplan, Scott (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07636
Notes:
Selected paper presented at the 2014 AAEA/EAAE/CAFS joint symposium: Social networks, social media and the economics of food, Montreal Canada,May 23-24, 2014. 13 pages.
Ginsburg, Ariel (author) and Morales, Dionisia (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2017
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09344
Notes:
Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE). 7 pages., Report of a research project conducted through the ACE Grant Project 2016.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22520
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association. Article for Judicious Advertising. 2 pages., Refers to market information now available to farmers via radio and describes the positive financial condition of farmers. Urges readers to advertise to farmers through the agricultural press.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10690
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Claude W. Gifford Collection. 15 pages., Preliminary results of this national survey research study for the Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Awaiting statistical analysis. Findings are from the National Opinion Research Center survey for PACER.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06588
Notes:
Unpublished notes of responses during an interview/video session with Fawn Kurtzo, graduate student at the University of Arkansas, July 14, 2015. 4 pages.
