Rostow, Walt W. (author / Special Assistant, U.S. President)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12330
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 250-254 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
10 pages., he impact of mobile money services in sub-Saharan Africa have been largely recognised. However, empirical studies are principally lacking on the factors influencing the decision to own a mobile phone (first hurdle), register with mobile money (second hurdle) and the intensity of use of mobile money services (third hurdle). This study examined the determinants of the mobile phone ownership, drivers of registration (participation) of mobile money services, and the intensity of use of mobile money services in rural Ghana by employing the triple hurdle approach. The first and second hurdle were analysed using the logit model while quasi-poisson regression was used to analyse the third hurdle. The analysis from the cross-sectional data showed that the decision to own a mobile phone was driven by household size, marital status, the farm size, access to electricity, income status and the type of occupation engaged, whereas the decision to register with mobile money was influenced by the age, educational status, marital status, household size, farm size and the type of occupation engaged in by the household head. The intensity of usage of mobile money services was influenced by the age of the household head, higher educational level, marital status of the household head, household and farm size as well as the distance of the household heads from the mobile money agent which directly influences the intensity of use of mobile money services by household heads. The study recommends that strategies that promote access to electricity and occupation in the formal sector or both farming and trading in the rural communities should be promoted. Furthermore, policy attention should focus on location, farmers and farm characteristics.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 48 Document Number: B05863
Notes:
Chapter in Rodefeld, R.D., Jan Flora, Donald Voth, Isao fujimoto and Jim Converse, Change in rural America: causes, consequences, and alternatives. C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri, pp 273-281.
Christiansen, M.K. (author), Donohue, George A. (author), Fienup, D.F. (author), Jensen, H.R. (author), Routhe, H.G. (author), and University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05646
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P. Tichenor. Special Report No. 10. Agricultural Extension service, University of Minnesota. 6 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07427
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INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1981. Paper prepared for the Development Studies Association Annual Conference, September 10-12, 1981. 9 p., Briefly examines the relation between agricultural extension innovation and social change. Discusses the importance of extension organizations listening to their clients more carefully. Notes the difficulty and complexity of identifying induced change or 'development'. Illustrates the effect social change may have on extension-related development work. Cases include sale of cocoa by New Guinea growers involving kinship systems and changing concept of inheritance and the effect of access to new irrigation systems on social change in two south Indian villages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: C15644
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13 p., Talk given on August 1, 1980, at Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia, to the annual meeting of the Central Council, Victorian Farmers & Graziers' Association
Voth, Donald E. (author / University of Arkansas), Rodefeld, R.D. (author / Penn State University), Flora, J. (author / Kansas State University), Fujimoto, I. (author / University of California), and Converse, J. (author / Kansas State University)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1978
Published:
USA: C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 48 Document Number: B05864
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11984
Journal Title Details:
Weekly Edition
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20 Pgs., Named essential workers, the country’s small farmers, ranchers and farmworkers are coping with the pandemic without a corporate safety net, persevering through shutdowns, slowdowns and supply-chain meltdowns.
6 pages, Background: An effort was made by the Ethiopian government to increase the level of technical efficiency of farmers across the country. However, due to climate change, smallholder farmers were facing challenges to increase technical efficiency in crop production. Adaptation to climate change is crucial to uphold and increase food crop productivity. This study analysis the impact of climate change adaptation and policy issues on food crop production efficiency in Kellem Wollega, Ethiopia.
Methods: The data was gathered from 400 randomly selected food crop smallholder farmers. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used by including the climate change adaptation measures as explanatory variables in technical inefficiency. Simulation was made to adaption measures that can be influenced by the policy variables to see their impact on the level of technical efficiency.
Result: The finding show that the use of adaptive practices (multiple crop type, improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation) had a significant and positive effect on technical efficiency whereas land fragmentation reduces efficiency level. Regarding simulation of policy variables the result show that the mean technical efficiency would increase with rising level of improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation practices. The results of the simulation of land fragmentation climate change adaptation variables show that the mean technical efficiency declines as a result of land fragmentation. Empirical results reveal that with appropriate policy intervention (climate change adaptation measures) the technical efficiency level of food crop farmers can be enhanced.
Reports on author's findings that "contract farming does not have the effect of deskilling predicted based on the factory assembly line, because the environmental specificity of agriculture requires more independent decision making than does factory work."
4 pgs, As telecommunications companies prepare to sunset their 3G networks, some activists are worried about what that will mean for residents of rural America, particularly those who may find themselves in situations of domestic violence.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12334
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 315-325 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
Buse, Rueben C. (author), Driscoll, James L., eds. (author), and Buse: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Driscoll: Research and Development, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA, Kansas City, MO
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06498
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Contains Table of Contents only; See C06499-C06505 for individual chapters; James F. Evans Collection, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. 1992. 458 p.
17pgs, Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat from anthropogenic environmental change to their use as food for human consumption and their role in the livelihoods of fishers and coastal communities. The analysis finds a growing polarisation in the Japanese seafood sector as the cyborg fish of highly-processed food products and globally traded commodities inundate markets and dinner plates, while locally caught animals turn from basic foodstuff into folklorist stars of a vanishing rurality, a symbol of authenticity and national identity advertised as cultural commodities in romanticising campaigns to revitalise rural areas.
Toland, Alexandra R. (author), Wessolek, Gerd (author), and Institute for Ecology, Dept. of Soil Protection, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2010-08
Published:
Austria: International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), c/o Institut fur Bodenforschung, Universitat fur Bodenkultur; Wien; Austria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08056
Journal Title Details:
pp. 8-12
Notes:
Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science: Soil solutions for a changing world, Brisbane, Australia, 1-6 August 2010. Symposium 4.5.2 Soil and human culture
International: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07932
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, 598 pages., Beyond general information about adult and continuing education, includes information about rural education in multiple countries.
Embree, D.G. (author / Canadian Forestry Service, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) and Canadian Forestry Service, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01045
Notes:
Phase 2; Evans, In: Moeller, G.H. and Seal, D.T., eds., Technology transfer in forestry : proceedings of a meeting of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, subject group s608; 1983 25 July - 1 August. London : Great Britain Forestry Commission, 1984. (Forestry Commission Bulletin No. 61) p. 38-42.
