Peru, India: Finding Common Ground; ISSN 0920-8771; Summarized from Maria Lina, Danilio Gatchalian, Florencio Galapon Jr., 1998 Kalikasan-NE: a documentation and evaluation of experiences in sustainable agriculture. Internal report of the ILEIA Research Programme
Vreyens, John R. (author / University of Minnesota)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1999-03-23
Published:
Senegal: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20984
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, 8 pages, Session I, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
Seepersad, Joseph (author) and Dowlath, Pauline (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1999-03-23
Published:
Trinidad: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20979
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, 8 pages, Session H, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12847
Notes:
Chapter 10 in Shirley A. White (ed.), The art of facilitating participation: releasing the power of grassroots communication. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. 367 p.
8 pages., via online journal., The paper introduces the pest belief model and Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action to analyze farmers’ decisions in stem borer management. Farmers spent an average of $39/ha (median $18) on insecticides believing that if they had not controlled an average loss of 1004 kg/ha or $402 (median 592, $237) would occur. Farmers’ estimates of the worst attack averaged 19 white heads/m2 (median10) with the associated average loss of 1038 kg/ha or $415 (median 592, $270), implying that farmers’ decisions were guided by the worst attacks. Perceived benefits from insecticides were directly related with farmers’ insecticide use and perceived severity. Perceived susceptibility was also high, with 59% of farmers believing that a loss of 450 kg/ha would be “extremely or very likely”. Farmers believed insecticides could destroy natural enemies but placed only moderate importance to conserving them. Health was believed to be very important but farmers had mixed beliefs that spraying could bring about poor health. This study also provides evidence suggesting high peer pressure on farmers’ spray decisions directly influencing perceived benefits from sprays, insecticide spending and spray frequency.
13 pages., via online journal., Many rice farmers decide to spray insecticides based on their perception of potential damage and losses caused by pest species. Farmers generally overestimate the seriousness of the rice leaf folder from visible damage and apply insecticides early, and therefore, changing perceptions may help reduce the perceived benefits of unnecessary spraying. Farmers in Long An province, Vietnam, were motivated to ‘test’ a heuristic or rule of thumb, ‘insecticide spraying for leaf folder control in the first 40 days after sowing is not needed’, by the distribution of carefully designed communication media materials. The media reached 97% of the farmers in the study sites. Leaflets, radio drama and posters had the most effective reach. Thirty-one months after the media introduction, the number of insecticide sprays dropped significantly from 3.35 sprays per farmer per season to 1.56. The proportion of farmers spraying at early and late tillering and booting stages was reduced from 59%, 84% and 85% to 0.2%, 19% and 30%, respectively. Those who did not use any insecticides increased from 1% to 32%. Correspondingly, farmers' perceptions of leaf folder damage as indicated in a belief index, decreased significantly from 11.25 to 7.62. The proportion of farmers who believed that leaf folders could cause losses was reduced from 70% to 25%, as did those who believed that early season spraying was required, from 77% to 23%, respectively. Farmers' insecticide spray frequencies and the belief index were significantly correlated and were not significantly different between farmers who had attended farmer field school training and those who had not. The cost (insecticide and labour) saving was the most important incentive for farmers to stop early season spraying as cited by 89% of the farmers. A survey of 12 other districts in Long An showed that 82% of the province's 210000 households were reached. About 20% had not applied any insecticides, 77% had stopped early season spraying and the average number of insecticide sprays was 1.6 (compared with 1.55 in study sites). The approach was readily adopted by extension in 15 provinces that launched their own programmes, extending to the whole Mekong Delta of 2 million farmer households.
Roling, N. G. (author / Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands) and Wagemakers, M. A. E. (author / Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Netherlands: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12020
Cole, Remileku Rakey (author / Cornell University) and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Format:
conference papers
Publication Date:
1997-03-04
Published:
Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20269
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, Section A; from "1997 conference papers : Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 13th Annual Conference, 3, 4, 5 April 1997, Arlington, Virginia
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25308
Notes:
Pages 209-229 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Rajasekaran, B. (author), Warren, D.M. (author), and Babu, S.C. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35844
Notes:
Pages 211-217 in D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds.), The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, England. 582 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25562
Notes:
Pages 124-139 in D.M. Warren, L.J. Slikkerveer and D. Brokensha (eds.), The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. 582 pages.
Rajasekaran, B. (author) and Warren, D.M. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35843
Notes:
Pages 202-210 in D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds.), The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, England. 582 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35851
Notes:
Pages 354-370 in D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds.), The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, England. 582 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23507
Notes:
U.S. Information Agency via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 1 page., Responses in a national survey among Japanese residents to a question inviting views about liberalizing rice and other agricultural imports into Japan if it would help to reach an agreement in the world trade talks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C07658
Notes:
Theodore Hutchcroft Collection; material compiled for 1993 Australia-IRRI Day, winner of the 1994 Golden ARC awards program, Mimeograph, 1993. 2 p. International Rice Research Institute.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07676
Notes:
Evans; winner, Golden ARC award 1994; see C07676 for original; sustainability, Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, Parkville, Australia: Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research, 1993. (Proceedings of Australia-IRRI Day, 16 April, 1993). 82 p.
Gordon Bilney (author / Minister for Development Cooperation and Pacific Island Affairs, Australia)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07677
Notes:
Evans; winner, Golden ARC award 1994; see C07676 for original; sustainability, Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, In: Food comes first for Asia. Parkville, Australia: Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research, 1993. (Proceedings of Australia-IRRI Day, 16 April, 1993). p. 3-12.
Paris, Thelma R. (author / International Rice Research Institute) and International Rice Research Institute
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07680
Notes:
Evans; winner, Golden ARC award 1994; see C07676 for original, Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, In: Food comes first for Asia. Parkville, Australia: Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research, 1993. (Proceedings of Australia-IRRI Day, 16 April, 1993). p. 35-44.
Cordova, Violeta (author), David, Cristina C. (author), Otsuka, Keijiro (author), and Tokyo Metropolitan University; International Rice Research Institute
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992-07
Published:
Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06937
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19323
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 515-539; from "Systems approaches for agricultural development"; Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand; volume 2; ISBN 0792318803
