18 pages, Based on panel data from the Rural Fixed Point Survey of the Ministry of
Agriculture over the period 2004-2016 and supplementary survey data on information
and communications technology (ICT) applications in the countryside, this paper employs
the difference in differences (DID) method to analyze the effects of ICT applications on
rural households’ agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) with mobile phone signal,
internet and 3G mobile network connections as indicators, and decomposes and evaluates
the constituent factors. Our findings reveal a positive effect of ICTs on rural households’
TFP, which primarily stemmed from rising agricultural technical efficiency. However, ICTs
exerted no significant effect on agricultural technical progress during this paper’s data
period due to limited rural human capital. These findings are consistent with robustness test
results based on counterfactual and matching methods.
Online from publication. 3 pages., "As we find evermore convenient ways to serve customers and work smarter, let's not lose the human touch. We all need it, no matter our age or location."
UI Library subscription., Update on progress and activities of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Foundation, including student internships and scholarships, as well as fund-raising efforts.
USA: The Center for Good Integrity. Gladstone, Missouri.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10561
Notes:
3 pages., Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri., Features research results indicating that public conversation about the environment is growing and so is the scrutiny applied to consumption of natural resources. Information source urges producers to engage more actively.
Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
2 pages., Via online summary of an online article dated December 10, 2018, from PCMag.com., "This represents an important step towards a more inclusive global information society," International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary General Houlin Zhao said in a statement. However, he added that more needs to be done to connect the rest of the world to internet.
Tourte, Don (author / Agri Media Committee of Connectiv), Hagins, Scarlett (author / Livestock Publications Council), and Wilson, Mike (author / American Agricultural Editors' Association)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2017-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09031
21 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This article outlines the emergence of programme teams in the Australian dairy farm sector as a response to counter weaknesses in the institutional environment for agricultural innovation which favours technology adoption/diffusion approaches.
Design/methodology/approach: The strengths, weaknesses and risks of different approaches to innovation in the Australian dairy sector RD&E system are analysed and key features of an emerging programme team approach defined. The programme team approach is compared and contrasted with the features of innovation capacity from international literature. An analysis of the relative investment in this innovation capacity in different topics or domains of dairy innovation is provided.
Findings: The programme team approach to innovation involves groups of researchers, extension people, public and private organisations, farmers, community groups, and policy and service groups brought together to progress innovation and change in a topic area or domain. Leadership of the process is provided by an area expert or champion. The team takes responsibility for: (a) understanding the businesses of key players who have an influence in the innovation or domain; (b) deciding the nature of the desired change that all stakeholders can align to; (c) identifying features of the enabling environment to establish what capacity is needed; (d) designing a ‘route to change’ strategy (in contrast to traditional route-to-market thinking); and (e) piloting and refining the approach within the target populations. The group manages emerging risks and keeps on top of issues, as well as identifies any knowledge gaps for research that are preventing innovation and change.
Conclusions/practical implications: The programme team approach provides a semi-formal governance mechanism for innovation to develop, despite an institutional environment that favours technology adoption. Further, the activities of programme teams consist of practices which integrate research-led and demand-pull approaches. Currently, investment in such innovation capacity is relatively low and highly variable across different topic domains.
Added value: The article provides tangible activities that managers of agricultural RD&E programmes can invest in to progress systemic approaches to innovation and is a guide for agricultural education and extension practitioners to proceed in their innovation work.
National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2013-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D01164
Notes:
6 pages., Official review of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. "Farm broadcasting and America's farmers and ranchers: partners in agriculture."
Joseph, Lura (author), Pitts, Stephanie (author), and Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, ACES Funk Library, University of Illinois, Urbana
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05769
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02363
Notes:
Report of a workshop of the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention, held in Washington, D.C., November 5, 2012. 76 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37364
Notes:
See C37280 for original, Page 117-118 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37289
Notes:
See C37280 for original, Page 10 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D00854
Notes:
Via online. 2 pages., Fact sheet describes progress in Goal 8, which includes improving access to information and communication technology, as part of the Millennium Development Goals for 2015. Based on United Nations Summit, High-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, September 20-22, 2010, in New York.
Hagmann, Jurgen (author) and Ngwenya, Hlamalani (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
South Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29791
Notes:
Pages 220-229 in Ian Scoones and John Thompson (eds.), Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development. Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, U.K. 357 pages.
Bennewies, Gary (author), Johnson, Jan (author), Claussen, Ron (author), Wilson, Steve (author), Finegan, John (author), Gross, Joe (author), and Jasper, Bob (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2008-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28359
USA: Academic Programs Special Interest Group, Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27720
Notes:
24 pages., Includes program reports from 10 universities that offer academic programs in agricultural communications and agricultural journalism.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25859
Notes:
Presented at the 2007 ACE/NETC conference sponsored by the International Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) and the National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 16-19, 2007. 12 pages., Reports from 11 of the universities that offer such programs.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27919
Notes:
3 pages., Q/A discussion with Dr. Royal Colle, 40-year member of the faculty of the Department of Communication, Cornell University, about the development, role and prospects of information technologies in support of development, internationally.
USA: Academic Programs Special Interest Group, Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), Gainesville, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24473
Chain coordination is growing in importance for those in the food industry to maintain access to global markets and competitive advantage. Information communication facilitates coordination and is seen as the glue that holds organisational chain relationships together. This paper describes how Australian food processors have been exchanging information to coordinate customers and suppliers in their chains along with changes over time. The most frequent information exchanged was to resolve problems. Operational issues were only discussed when exceptions arose and this was decreasing over time, as problems were resolved and processes improved. For the organisations studied, they were increasingly formalising processes to review progress and performance. A wide range of organisational departments were involved in communications with customers and suppliers, especially to resolve problems and develop new products. While the traditional telephone and face-to-face communication methods were the most popular, e-mails were replacing faxes. There were also moves to increasing use of reports, electronic data interchange and intranets for more well developed relationships with larger customers and suppliers. These changes in communication systems were the source of some increased satisfaction with information systems by improving timeliness and depth of information shared. However, there was perceived to be some room for further improvement.
Introduction
USA: Academic Programs Special Interest Group, Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), Gainesville, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24472
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29007
Notes:
Via infOpinions. 2 pages., Author describes expansion in services provided by ZimmComm Communications, which provides information services to agribusiness companies and other clients.
Abstract and citation available via Ebscohost.com., Author cites the rapid growth of agricultural websites in China, with almost 714 set up via each local government and 31 provinces with their own. They are "not well distributed geographically."
Waters-Bayer, Ann (author), van Veldhuizen, Laurens (author), and Reij, Chris (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01215
Notes:
Pages 347-354 in Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01213
Notes:
Pages 325-330 in Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26650
Notes:
Presented at the Conference on communication and empowerment: uses of media and information technologiesw in developing countries, Los Angeles, California, April 11-13, 1996. 17 pages.
Meaders, O. Donald (author), Beach, Ross D. (author), denBiggelarr, Christoffel J. (author), Masangano, Charles M. (author), Simpson, Brent M. (author), Stockil, Jonathan (author), and Agricultural and Extension Education and Institute of International Agriculture
Format:
unknown
Publication Date:
1988-09
Published:
International: Michigan State University
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: C19789
Schramm, Wilbur (author) and Sathre, Eugene (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1976
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17064
Notes:
Pages 1-14 of Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages.
Lerner, Daniel (author) and Schramm, Wilbur (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1976
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17086
Notes:
Pages 340-344 in Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages.
Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Correspondence
Publication Date:
1973-09-18
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10741
Notes:
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/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 9 pages., In a memo to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, author identifies elements of effective communications management within an organization. He describes steps taken to achieve it in the USDA, and responds to suggestions of an ad hoc committee.
Page 77 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of Federal Extension Service, ER&T-77, U.S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 1962. 3 pages.
Page 77 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of Federal Extension Service, ER&T-146, U.S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 1962. 3 pages.
Director summarizes activities of NPAC during its first 18 months, describes the financial situation and identifies some project activities planned for 1955.
White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1917-06-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24815
Notes:
Presented at the Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, 13th annual convention, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1917. 7 pages., Describes accomplishments, weaknesses and suggestions for strengthening the Association.
