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2. How Agricultural farmers respond to risks during the covid-19 pandemic: an exploration through the dual social capitals approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hao, Mingsong (author), Xi Zhou, Chuntian Lu (author), and Xu, Jing (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-17
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12831
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, N. 2
- Notes:
- 18 pages, The degree of risk to which agricultural farmers are exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they tackle those difficulties is a critical topic. Although the topic has been paid considerable attention by worldwide scholars, this study intends to compensate for it via conducting a ground-breaking analysis based on sample survey data. Integrating theoretical perspectives of individual- and collective-level social capitals rooted in sociology, and using NPRM (Nested Poisson Regression Model) to analyze a sample survey data collected in rural China in August 2020, we generated the following findings. (1) The overall risks and damages to agricultural production and management are relatively minimal. Thus, farmers are highly confident in conquering the pandemic and recovering their business. (2) Compared with micro- and macro-level influencing factors, social capital at both levels could greatly help agricultural farmers obtain informal and formal supporting resources (such as encouragement and financial supports), thus helping them to cope with the pandemic shock. (3) Specifically, the acquisition of informal supporting resources is mainly affected by the size of farmers’ ordinary networks (Spring Festival Visiting Network) and the frequency of public activities held in a village; gaining access to formal supporting resources is also influenced by the frequency of public activities, but the state of farmers’ personal connections with official departments plays a crucial role in determining the amount of such resources can be obtained. According to these empirical findings, suggestions on how to suppress the negative effects and lift the positive effects of dual social capitals in the process of responding to risks are proposed.
3. Surviving as an argentine farmer: factors that influence risk management strategies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clay, Pablo Mac (author), Accursi, Federico M. (author), and Harmath, Pedro (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-01
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12699
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, N.3
- Notes:
- 16pgs, Agricultural production is a challenging business in Argentina due to output variability, unfavorable government policies, and the absence of public risk management programs. Based on probit modeling and information surveyed from producers farming in the Humid Pampa, this paper studies the influence of (a) risk attitudes, (b) risk perceptions, and (c) socioeconomic factors on the probability of choosing five different risk management strategies. Besides confirming that some results previously found in the literature apply to the Argentine case, we find that local farmers have a particular understanding of specific risk management strategies. Some strategies usually applied to reduce risks, such as the use of futures markets or vertical integration are perceived by Argentine farmers as risk-increasing. Cost control is the preferred strategy for risk-averse farmers. Policymakers and companies providing services should take into consideration the particular way in which Argentine farmers perceive and manage risks to build a common language.
4. Foot and mouth disease ready? How co-creation of and participation in knowledge development and sharing cantransform relationships between livestock producers and other animal health stakeholders — an Australian case study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Manyweathers, Jennifer (author), Maru, Yiheyis (author), Hayes, Lynne (author), Loechel, Barton (author), Kelly, Jennifer (author), Felton, Simone (author), El Hassan, Marwan (author), Kruger, Heleen (author), Woodgate, Rob (author), and Hernandez-Jover, Marta (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-28
- Published:
- Italy: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12742
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 21, I. 2
- Notes:
- 18pgs, Building a strong and trustworthy communication network to report unusual signs of disease will facilitate Australia’s response to a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. In a four-year study, the FMD Ready Farmer-led surveillance project adopted the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) framework, modelling transformation of how knowledge is co-created, valued, and communicated. The FMD Ready project has highlighted the need for multiple stakeholders’ voices to be heard, and the importance of regulatory bodies to listen. Relationships take time and need to be valued as a necessary tool in a participatory, innovative approach to animal health and disease management.
5. Digital extension, price risk, and farm performance: experimental evidence from Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen (author), Chamberlain, Jordan (author), Abdoulaye, Tahirou (author), and Maertens, Miet (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-21
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12539
- Journal Title:
- American Journal fo Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 104 (2)
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Despite decades of investment in agricultural extension, technology adoption among farmers and agricultural productivity growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remain slow. Among other shortcomings, extension systems often make recommendations that do not account for price risk or spatial heterogeneity in farmers' growing conditions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of extension approaches for nutrient management that consider these issues. We analyze the impact of farmers' access to site-specific nutrient management recommendations and to information on expected returns, provided through a digital decision support tool, for maize production. We implement a randomized controlled trial among smallholders in the maize belt of northern Nigeria. We use three waves of annual panel data to estimate immediate and longer term effects of two different extension treatments: site-specific recommendations with and without complementary information about variability in output prices and expected returns. We find that site-specific nutrient management recommendations improve fertilizer management practices and maize yields but do not necessarily increase fertilizer use. In addition, we find that recommendations that are accompanied by additional information about variability in expected returns induce larger fertilizer investments that persist beyond the first year. However, the magnitudes of these effects are small: we find only incremental increases in investments and net revenues over two treatment years.
6. Farmers’ perception regarding climate change in Southern Turkey: The case of the Mersin province
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hayran, Seyit (author), Duru, Sinan (author), Kapur, Burcak (author), Gul, Aykut (author), and Turgut, Yavuz Sahin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-01
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12396
- Journal Title:
- New Medit: Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture & Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 20, iss. 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Climate change is responsible for the negative effects in human life causing a decrease in agricultural products, biodiversity, soil fertility, and forest areas. In contrast, climate change increases plant diseases and pests, the cost of agricultural production and risk in food security. This study aims to determine whether climate change is a phenomenon via the analysis of the perceptions of the farmers in the Mersin province conducted over 251 questionnaires. Farmers primarily perceive climate change over production costs and the reduction in yield. Moreover, they are highly aware of its relation to natural events such as floods, drought, and storms. Nevertheless, inappropriate agricultural practices also lead to the negative consequences caused by climate change. In this respect, this study revealed that farmers with high cooperative partnerships and experience perceived climate change significantly.
7. Hierarchy of controls: keeping toothpaste in the tube!
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA: Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12183
- Notes:
- Online from UMASH. 2 pages., Through use of an inverted pyramid, this article introduce a tool that emphasizes the value of preventing farm injuries and saving lives. Five sections of the pyramid range in effectiveness from "Elimination" (most effective) to "Personal Protective Equipment" (least effective).
8. Catastrophe and Environmental Restoration: Analyzing the Frames and Sources of Oyster Restoration News Stories
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Hannah O. (author), Jacobson, Susan K. (author), and Israel, Glenn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12031
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 104, Issue 4
- Notes:
- 22 Pages, Online Public Access, Restoration of oyster habitats is a critical solution to halt the decline of one of the world’s most threatened resources. News coverage about environmental topics, like oyster restoration, is important to local communities that are directly impacted. However, little research has assessed how restoration topics are framed by journalists, nor how environmental disasters may affect framing of news stories for the public. This study employed a longitudinal framing analysis, using the quantity of coverage and social responsibility theories, to examine how coverage of the restoration of oyster ecosystems shifted before, during, and after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The frames and sources of 763 newspaper articles were assessed, including 18 local newspapers from five U.S. Gulf Coast states and three high-circulation national newspapers. Logistic regression analyses revealed that the occurrence of an environmental catastrophe shifted media focus from environmental frames before the spill to community and economic frames during and after the spill. Stories were dominated by environmental frames (49%) and primarily relied on quotes from resource managers (50%) over all other groups. Local resource users were quoted less than 5% of the time in local articles. Findings provide a foundation for natural resource managers and communication specialists to understand how information about natural resources changes during disasters and reveals the perspectives that are most and least commonly used to frame and define stories about coastal resources and important gaps in coverage.
9. Killing the Vegas pipeline: Nevada's changing attitude toward water
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Siegel, Eric (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11963
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(10) : 10-11, 29
- Notes:
- Online from publication., Describes a 31-year battle by the Great Basin Water Network against the Southern Nevada Water Authority's "groundwater development project" proposed to pump 58 billion gallons of water a year 300 miles to Las Vegas from the remote rural valleys of Nevada and Utah. Developments highlighted lack of trust and mutual goal-seeking.
10. When its OK to say "I don't know"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sowder, Amy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-25
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11969
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online from publication. 3 pages., Author reports on a panel discussion about managing workforce challenges in a COVID-19 environment. Speakers advised that during pandemics or other challenging situations employers should communicate with their employees and other stakeholders, even when plans and next steps are not in place. Other counsel: be transparent, tell (and show) employees that you care and are doing something, provide opportunity for them to talk, ask questions, create an anonymous hotline. send email updates.