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2. The effects of suburbanization on agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Adelaja, Adesoji O. (author), Andrews, Margaret S. (author), Lopez, Rigoberto A. (author), and Assistant professors, Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Cook College, Rutgers University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05362
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 70 (2) : 346-358.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 88023274, Abstract: This article conceptualizes the effects of suburban population density and land speculation on agricultural production choices, prices, and profits. A dual profit function model and a system of reduced-form price equations are used to estimate these effects for New Jersey. Results show that vegetable production is the only subsector to benefit from suburbanization, while livestock is the most adversely affected. Suburbanization reduces responsiveness to agricultural prices and discourages capital and land use. The overall impact on profits is positive when capital gains on land are included. Policy implications for farmland preservation and "right to farm" legislation are discussed.
3. Crop choice, drought and gender: new insights from smallholders’ response to weather shocks in rural uganda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agamile, Peter (author), Dimova, Ralitza (author), and Golan, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12351
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, No. 3
- Notes:
- 28 pages, We analyse gender differences in the response of smallholder farmers to droughts, taking the duration and severity of the even t into account. Using a novel weather shock measure that combines spatial rainfall data with detailed cropping calendars, survey data from Uganda and standard econometric techniques, we find that adverse weather events provide an opportunity for women to enter the commercial crop market by allocating land from subsistence to income generating crops. This counterintuitive pattern is, in part, explained by the greater propensity of men to allocate time to non-agricultural activities in the event of weather shocks.
4. Role of incentive in adoption of reclamation and management practices of Alkali soils
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ajore, Ram (author) and Orissa Society of Extension Education
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- India: Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Bhubanwswar, India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C20037
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 (1 & 2) : 27-29
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection
5. Farmers' attitudes toward land use planning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Albrecht, Don E. (author / Iowa State University), Bultena, G. (author / Iowa State University), Hoiberg, E. (author / Iowa State University), and Nowak, P. (author / Iowa State University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1981
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: C10194
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 37-41
6. Local knowledge and soil use: an ethnopedological approach [Conhecimento local e uso do solo: uma abordagem etnopedologica]
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alves, A.G.C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-09
- Published:
- Brazil
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26521
- Journal Title:
- Interciencia
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(9) : 524-528
- Notes:
- Via Directory of Open Access Journals. 6 pages., Uses an ethnopedological approach (human/eco interface) to examine the existence and importance of local knowledge systems about soils and mineral materials.
7. Climate change typologies and audience segmentation among corn belt farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arbuckle, J.G. (author), Tyndall, J.C. (author), Morton, L.W. (author), and Hobbs, J. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05
- Published:
- USA: Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10145
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 72(3): 205-214
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Development of natural resource user typologies has been viewed as a potentially effective means of improving the effectiveness of natural resource management engagement strategies. Prior research on Corn Belt farmers’ perspectives on climate change employed a latent class analysis (LCA) that created a six-class typology—the Concerned, Uneasy, Uncertain, Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached—to develop a better understanding of farmer perspectives on climate change and inform more effective climate adaptation and mitigation outreach strategies. The LCA employed 34 variables that are generally unobservable—beliefs about climate change, experience with extreme weather, perceived risks of climate change, and attitudes toward climate action—to identify types. The research reported in this paper builds on this typology of Corn Belt farmers by exploring 33 measures of observable farm enterprise characteristics, land management practices, and farmer demographics to assess whether variations in these observable characteristics between the six farmer classes display systematic patterns that might be sufficiently distinctive to guide audience segmentation strategies. While analyses detected some statistically significant differences, there were few systematic, meaningful observable patterns of difference between groups of farmers with differing perspectives on climate change. In other words, farmers who believe that anthropogenic climate change is occurring, that it poses risks to agriculture, and that adaptive action should be taken, may look very much like farmers who deny the existence of climate change and do not support action. The overall implication of this finding is that climate change engagement efforts by Extension and other agricultural advisors should use caution when looking to observable characteristics to facilitate audience segmentation. Additional analyses indicated that the farmer types that tended to be more concerned about climate change and supportive of adaptive action (e.g., Concerned and Uneasy) reported that they were more influenced by key private and public sector actors in agricultural social networks. On the other hand, farmers who were not concerned about climate change or supportive of adaptation (e.g., the Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached groups, comprising between one-third and one-half of respondents) were less integrated into agricultural networks. This suggests that Extension and other agricultural advisors should expand outreach efforts to farmers who are not already within their spheres of influence.
8. The role of institutional actors and their interactions in the land use policy making process in Ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ariti, Adenew Taffa (author), Van Vliet, Jasper (author), and Verburg, Peter H. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10626
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 237: 235-246
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., This study investigates the role of the different institutional actors involved in the development and implementation of land use policies in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The work is based on interviews with key informants from different administrative levels and these results are compared to the relevant policy documents. While the constitution prescribes a participatory policy development process, our results show that in reality policies are made at the highest level and implemented in a top-down approach from the higher to the lower administrative levels. Moreover, the institutional network mainly consists of institutions that are hierarchically linked, while horizontal and diagonal relations are less common and less important. Consistently, higher level institutions are mostly involved in the development of land use policies, while the roles of lower level institutions are predominantly in the implementation thereof. This lack of participation by lower level institutions, in addition to a lack of capacity and absence of clear institutional mandates, hampers the effectiveness of land use policies. Our results also provide suggestions to improve the development, communication, and eventually the acceptability of land use policies towards sustainable land management.
9. Environmental journalism: the best from the Meeman Archive
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bardwell, Lisa (author), Nowak, Paul F. (author), Hamilton, Christopher C. (author), and Kuras, Amy B. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA: School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23125
- Notes:
- 265 pages, Seven examples of award-winning environmental journalism.
10. Using social media to discover public values, interests, and perceptions about cattle grazing on park lands
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barry, Sheila J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05783
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 : 454-464