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2. Questions farmers ask: implications for improving information resources for farmer audiences
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Formiga, Alice K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-01
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12300
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 58, Num. 4
- Notes:
- 12 pages, eOrganic, the Organic Agriculture Community of eXtension, has conducted webinars on organic farming research for over a decade. I examined questions asked by farmers and university researchers or educators during 52 webinars presented 2015–2017. A higher proportion of questions asked by farmers than questions asked by researchers/educators were about risks, benefits, and problem solving, and the farmers' questions contained many innovative ideas about production. A higher proportion of researcher/educator questions than farmer questions related to details of research studies, though farmers also posed questions about research methods. This article contains suggestions about tailoring research presentations to farmer audiences and confirms the mutual benefits of collaborations between farmers and researchers.
3. Actors, roles and interactions in agricultural innovation networks: the case of the Portuguese cluster of small fruits
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Madureira, Lívia (author), Cristóvão, Artur (author), Ferreira, Dora (author), and Koehnen, Timothy (author)
- Format:
- ebook chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05-20
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10355
- Journal Title:
- New Metropolitan Perspectives Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon
- Journal Title Details:
- 101
- Notes:
- 8 pages., ISBN 978-3-319-92102-0, Via ebook, The idea underpinning EIP-AGRI for linking producers and users of knowledge and promoting their interaction around problem-solving is well grounded on the evidence provided by the ‘innovation systems’ and related literature. Evidence gaps that matter to the implementation of the EIP-AGRI activities comprise the lack of knowledge regarding the best-fit network configuration for different farming systems and farming styles, and the nature and effectiveness of a facilitator function and role to bridge communication between researchers and farmers. This paper contributes with empirical evidence regarding the networks configuration best-fit for different farming system and farming styles, and provide insights on the facilitator relevance and its desirable profile, built on the study of a particular network: the Portuguese Cluster of small fruits (CSF). The small fruit sector is a novel sector in Portugal that has attracted in recent years a large number of new investors, in particular newly-established small-scale inexperienced producers. The insights provided by the CSF analysis emphasises that agglomeration economies based networks, which are very important in some agricultural sectors (e.g. fruit, wine) and in countries or regions where small-scale farms are significant, can in fact be the ground for knowledge and innovation networks in the sense wanted by the EIP-AGRI, since inclusiveness and facilitation functions are accounted for properly.
4. Livestock's contribution to climate change: facts and fiction
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mitloehner, Frank (author / University of California-Davis)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11025
- Notes:
- Via online., "A white paper, defining the role animal agriculture and other sectors of societ play in their respective contribution of greenhouse gasses, as the societal concerns grow to seek a sustainable global future." ... "Now is the time to end the rhetoric and separate facts from fiction around the numerous sectors that contribute emissions and to identify solutions for the global food supply that allow us to reduce our impact on the planet and its resources."
5. FARMERS’AND RESEARCHERS’PERCEPTIONS ON MEDIATED COMMUNICATION OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH RESULTS BYRWANDA AGRICULTURE BOARD
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Musabyimana, Tharcisse (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11874
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Development Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 30, Issue 1
- Notes:
- 11 Pages, This paper explores how mediated communication is perceived by farmers and agricultural researchers and extensionists in Rwanda, taking Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) as a Case Study. Literature revealed that studies on agricultural communication to farmers have focused on the role of mass media and new technologies in farmers' access to agricultural information. There have not been enough opportunities for farmers to voice how they think agricultural research information can best be communicated to them. In line with interpretive paradigm, qualitative approach, narrative strategy of inquiry and purposive sampling, 50 farmers and 20 RAB staff (researchers and extensionists) participated in the study. While researchers and extensionists at RAB said that they need to increase the use of mass communication media as well as the new technologies in order to effectively communicate to farmers, farmers expressed more reliance on interpersonal, face-to-face exchanges. Farmers said that they need people they can talk to face to face; people who can listen to their questions and grievances and provide adequate answers. They said that very few of them can read and write and have little or no access to technological devices recommended by RAB staff due to their living conditions
6. Science- graphic art partnerships to increase research impact
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramankutty, Navin (author), Miller, Allison (author), Schipanski, Meagan (author), Gore, Michael A. (author), Novy, Ari (author), Mehrabi, Zia (author), Johnson, Nathanael (author), Klabin, Simone (author), Valiño, Álvaro (author), Nowakowski, Kelsey (author), Bartomeus, Ignasi (author), Khoury, Colin K. (author), Kisel, Yael (author), Kantar, Michael (author), Barber, Ellie (author), Ricciardi, Vincent (author), Klirs, Carni (author), and Kucera, Leah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-06
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13223
- Journal Title:
- Communications Biology
- Journal Title Details:
- V.2, N.295
- Notes:
- 5 pages
7. More effective information flow between researchers, extension officers and farmers in Zambia: lessons learned from the Zambian Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Simumba, Davy (author) and Koopman, Martine (author)
- Format:
- Brief
- Publication Date:
- 2011-01
- Published:
- The Netherlands: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D10109
- Notes:
- 5 pages., Via website., This project learning brief describes the lessons learned from the INFORNET (Development of an Effective Information Flow Network) project carried out by the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) with support from IICD. ICT was used to improve access to the knowledge generated by agricultural researchers and transmitted to farmers by extension workers. Improved research-extension linkages, as well as enhanced communication among researchers in different regions, were central to ZARI's INFORNET project.
8. Turn on, tune in, speak up
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2012-10-16
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13085
- Journal Title:
- Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Journal Title Details:
- V.10
- Notes:
- 1 page, Despite low levels of uptake and active engagement, social media and other online tools can be of great benefit to microbiology researchers, and their use is to be encouraged.