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2. Factors determining crop farmers' willingness to pay for agricultural extension services in Tanzania: A case of Mpwapwa and Mvomero Districts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shausi, Gosbert Lukenku (author), Ahmas, Athman Kyaruzi (author), and Abdallah, Jumanne Mushi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-08
- Published:
- Nigeria: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13207
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V.11, N.12
- Notes:
- 9 pages, This study assessed crop farmers’ willingness to pay for AESs and identified factors influencing their willingness to pay for AESs. Data were collected from 292 randomly selected crop farmers’ households between December 2017 and February 2018 using a questionnaire through face-to-face interviews. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and Tobit regression model. The study found that 92% of the respondents are willing to pay for AESs. It was also found that farmer’s age, education attainment, farming experience, distance from farm to the nearest important road, income (both farm and nonfarm) and attitude towards AESs are significant determinants of farmers willingness to pay for AESs. The study recommends that these variables be given proper policy consideration by the government and other stakeholders in the design and the implementation of a workable fashion of privatizing extension services for the expected impact of improving extension services and farmers’ productivity hence improved quality of life.
3. Measuring farmers' well- being: influence of farm- level factors on satisfaction with work and quality of life
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Herrera Sabillón, Beatriz (author), Gerster- Bentaya, Maria (author), and Keshwani, Jenny (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-13
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12347
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 20 pages, To achieve social sustainability, there is a need to incorporate social metrics of farmers’ well- being into agricultural monitoring systems. We contribute to the operationalisation of the measurement of farmers’ well- being by determining how farm- level factors influence farmers’ satisfaction with their work and quality of life. Using a data sample of 1099 farms that are part of the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) in nine European countries, we tested a set of hypotheses related to work satisfaction and life quality perception based on a structural equation model. Satisfaction with on- farm work has a significant and substantial influence on satisfaction with quality of life. Farm- level aspects, such as working time, age of assets, financial situation of the farm and community engagement, significantly influenced farmers’ satisfaction with farming, but their joint effect explained less than one- fifth of the satisfaction. The results suggest that agricultural information systems intended to monitor and compare sustainability progress on farms would benefit from the integration of a metric measuring social concerns from the farmers’ point of view
4. Mental wellbeing of children engaged in agricultural work activities and quality of family environment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lachowski, S. (author), Lachowska, B. (author), and Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Jaczewskiego 2, 20-950 Lublin, Poland,
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Poland
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07821
- Journal Title:
- Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 (1): 115-121