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2. Engaging dairy farmers in safety messages: Values, moral norms, barriers, and implications for communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilmes, Emily (author), Swenson, Rebecca (author), and University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10244
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(1)
- Notes:
- 19 pages, via online journal, Dairy farms pose many hazards to farmers and their employees, including the risk of injury caused by handling animals. On many farms, there is a lack of consistent information and training related to farm safety topics, including stockmanship, or safe animal handling. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore effective communication strategies that support the application of stockmanship practices and more broadly support health and safety measures and the adoption of new behaviors by farmers and their employees. Research was conducted in three stages via in-depth farm tours and in-person interviews, a qualitative survey, and follow-up phone interviews with dairy farmers. Findings identified four values and moral norms important to dairy farmers and four barriers to implementation of farm safety practices. The research also revealed publications and in-person meetings as key channels of communication and on-farm consultants as important influencers. From the research findings, three major recommendations emerged. These include using a train the trainer educational model, engaging with professionals and encouraging farmer-to-farmer communication, and leveraging digital resources.
3. Factors affecting performance of agricultural extension: evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ragasa, Catherina (author), Ulimwengo, John (author), Randriamamonjy, Josee (author), Badibanga, Thaddee (author), and International Food Policy Research Institution Washington, DC office Western and Central Africa Regional Office
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Published:
- Netherlands: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10953
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(2) : 113-143
- Notes:
- 32 pages, via online journal article, Purpose: As part of the institutional reforms and agricultural restructuring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this paper provides an assessment of the performance of the agricultural extension system as well as factors explaining it. Method: This paper involves key informants’ interviews and surveys of 107 extension organizations and 162 extension agents in randomly selected 156 villages, analyzed using qualitative and logistic regression methods. Findings and Practical Implications: Results show that despite having one of the highest extension agent-to-farmer ratio and a pluralistic extension system, DRC fails to deliver knowledge and technologies to rural areas due to lack of coordination, no unified and clear policy and mandate, lack of funding, aging and low competencies of agents, and lack of mobility and interactions of agents with key actors. This paper complements findings by other studies that number of agents is not a sufficient indication of performance, but an effective system needs to focus on the enabling environment for agents to be motivated to work as mandated. In this paper, enabling conditions that are found to be statistically significant are external funding, enforcement of performance targets, systems of rewards and sanctions, mobility to foster linkages, and skills development. Originality: This paper contributes by: (1) analyzing a cross-section of various organizations and agents to identify factors that explain variations in performance in a statistical and systematic approach; (2) providing insights on how to prioritize investments and options for a fragile state like DRC, with weak infrastructure and institutional capacity and with a long history of neglect for their national extension system; and (3) illustrating how a rich and well-cited conceptual framework can be implemented empirically to provide policy options for a country like DRC.
4. Listening to your customers: asking good questions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brasier, Kathy (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-07
- Published:
- USA: College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29419
- Notes:
- 2 pages.
5. Listening to your customers: selecting customers to participate in interviews, focus groups and surveys
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brasier, Kathy (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-07
- Published:
- USA: College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29420
- Notes:
- 2 pages.
6. Participatory rural communication appraisal: a handbook
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anyaegbunam, Chike (author), Mefalopulos, Paolo (author), and Moetsahi, Titus (author)
- Format:
- Handbook
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29815
- Notes:
- Posted at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/y5793e, Second Edition. 160 pages., Handbook prepared for the SADC Centre of Communication for Development in collaboration with the Communication for Development Group, Extension, Education and Communication Service, Sustainable Development Department of FAO. Only the 13-page introduction is filed.
7. When people speak: their opinions, their feelings
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lubell, Samuel (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1960-09
- Published:
- USA: Opinion Reporting Workshop, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29303
- Notes:
- 30 pages.