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2. Perspectives of gatekeepers in the Kenyan food industry towards genetically modified food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bett, Charles (author), Ouma, James Okuro (author), and De Groote, Hugo (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11460
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 35 : 332-340
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., The study involved a survey among 39 respondents from the milling industry and supermarkets, the main processors and distributors of maize products, in seven urban centres of Kenya. Identified information sources, knowledge level of biotechnology, and perceptions and preferences involving genetically modified food.
3. The evolution of the MasAgro hubs: responsiveness and serendipity as drivers of agricultural innovation in a dynamic and heterogeneous context
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Camacho-Villa, Tania Carolina (author), Almekinders, Conny (author), Hellin, Jon (author), Martinez-Cruz, Tania Eulalia (author), Rendon-Medel, Roberto (author), and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico, D.F. Wageningen University, The Netherlands Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas University of Bonn, Germany
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10-17
- Published:
- Mexico: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10955
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(5) : 455-470
- Notes:
- 17 pages, via online journal, Purpose: Little is known about effective ways to operationalize agricultural innovation processes. We use the MasAgro program in Mexico (which aims to increase maize and wheat productivity, profitability and sustainability), and the experiences of middle level ‘hub managers’, to understand how innovation processes occur in heterogeneous and changing contexts. Design/methodology/approach: We use a comparative case study analysis involving research tools such as documentary review, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and reflection workshops with key actors. Findings: Our research shows how a program, that initially had a relatively narrow technology focus, evolved towards an innovation system approach. The adaptive management of such a process was in response to context-specific challenges and opportunities. In the heterogeneous context of Mexico this results in diverse ways of operationalization at the hub level, leading to different collaborating partners and technology portfolios. Practical implications: MasAgro experiences merit analysis in the light of national public efforts to transform agricultural advisory services and accommodate pluralistic agricultural extension approaches in Latin America. Such efforts need long-term coherent macro level visions, frameworks and support, while the serendipitous nature of the process requires meso-level implementers to respond and adapt to and move the innovation process forward. Originality/value: This paper contributes to the debate on how to operationalize large programs by showing that the innovation support arrangements enacted in the field should allow for diversity and have a degree of flexibility to accommodate heterogeneous demands from farmers in different contexts as well as continuous changes in the politico- institutional environment.
4. Farming in the digital age
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Campos Solis, Jorge Luis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09714
- Journal Title:
- Wallaces Farmer
- Notes:
- Via online. 4 pages.
5. Do agricultural research and rural extension organizations satisfy households’ agricultural demands? Evidence from maize growers in sussundenga district, mozambique
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Come, Sérgio Feliciano (author), Neto, José Ambrósio Ferreira (author), and Cavane, Eunice Paula Armando (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12346
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 13, N. 2
- Notes:
- 9 pages, This paper compares the supply and demand of agricultural technologies related to maize crop in Sussundenga district, Mozambique. The field work was carried out in February and March 2018 and comprises of a survey of 140 households’ maize growers, interviews with 15 agricultural technicians and six focus group meetings (four with maize growers and two with agricultural technicians). Data analysis was done using Bardin’s content analysis and descriptive statistics. The results reveal that agricultural research and rural extension focus more on supplying technologies related to maize production. But farmers have holistic expectations that go beyond production technologies to include the entire marketing chain. It makes the technical support provided with little use to maize growers. Besides it, there are also farmers’ unanswered demands and the supply of non-demanded technologies. It means that there is a mismatch between supply and demand of maize farming technologies. Agricultural research and rural extension organizations are suggested to supply not only agricultural technologies that maximize crop yield, but also services that help households improve their ability to store agricultural products and to sell it when prices are high. These actions have the potential to improve agricultural market performance and make the agricultural technologies more useful to maize growers.
6. Marketing efficiency among gender-based decision-making farm households in southern ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gezimu Gebre, Girma (author), Isoda, Hiroshi (author), Amekawa, Yuichiro (author), Bahadur Rahut, Dil (author), Nomura, Hisako (author), and Watanabe, Takaaki (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-28
- Published:
- United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12588
- Journal Title:
- Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 27pgs, This study examines the effect of gender on marketing efficiency among maize producing households using data collected in the Dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia. Results indicate that the amount of maize assigned to the first ranked (most efficient) channel for male, female and joint decision-making households is significantly larger than that of the second, third, and fourth ranked channels, respectively. Significant results vary across gender categories at the same stage of marketing channel. Female decision-making households receive a lower producer price, as well as cover higher marketing costs and margins of middlemen, as compared to male and joint decision-makers at the same stage of the marketing channel. This study also found a limited financial ability for local institutions to establish maize storages in the study area. There is a need for an integrated agricultural marketing information system that would help female decision-making maize producers to better engage in available market opportunities.
7. Technical, economical and social actions of farmers to mitigate water deficit in Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gutiérrez-Castorena, Edgar Vladimir (author), Ortiz-Solorio, C.A (author), Gutiérrez-Castorena, M.C. (author), Cajuste-Bontemps, L. (author), and Rocha-Aguilar, M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-10
- Published:
- Mexico
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07600
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- 128 (1-2): 77-85
8. Global networks of genetically modified crops technology: a patent citation network analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ji, Jiaojiao (author), Barnett, George A. (author), and Chu, Jianxun (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10590
- Journal Title:
- Scientometrics
- Journal Title Details:
- 118(3): 737-762
- Notes:
- 26 pages., via online journal., This paper employs the patent data of four major genetically modified (GM) crops, soybeans, cotton, maize and rapeseed, to illustratee how the innovation of GM crop technology diffused and distributed globally over time. Data collected from the Derwent Innovation Index, were employed to construct country patent citation networks, from 1984 to 2015, and the results revealed that developed countries were early adopters, and the primary actors in the innovation of GM crop technology. Only seven developing countries appeared in the country citation network. Most developed countries were reluctant to apply GM crop technology for commercial cultivation. Private businesses stood out in the patent citation network. The early adoption and better performance of developed countries can be explained by the activities of large established private companies.
9. Factors affecting adoption of improved maize seeds and use of inorganic fertilizer for maize production in the intermediate and lowland zones of Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kaliba, Aloyce R. M. (author), Verkuijl, Hugo (author), and Mwangi, Wildred (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18693
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 32 (1) : 35-47
- Notes:
- This paper examines factors influencing the adoption of improved maize seeds and the use of inorganic fertilizer for maize production by farmers in the intermediate and lowland zones of Tanzania. The results indicate that availability of extention services, on -farm field trials, variety characteristics and rainfall were the most important factors that influcented the extent of adopting improved maize seeds and the use of inorganic fertilizer for maize production. Farmers preferred those varieties which minimize field loss rather than maximizing yields. Future research and extension policies should empahsize farmer participation in the research process and on-farm field trials for varietal evaluation and demonstration purposes.
10. Determinants of soil conservation technologies among small-scale farmers in Tanzania: evidence from national panel survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lasway, Jovin Aveline (author), Temba, George Raphael (author), and Ruhinduka, Remidius Denis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11323
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Economic Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 89-105
- Notes:
- An analysis of secondary data from the National Panel Survey in Tanzania revealed physical, socioeconomic, and institutional factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation technologies among small-scale maize farmers. Findings revealed, for example, only 13.9 percent of those had adopted soil conservation technology. This was cited as small, compared with other countries.