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32. Emerging market opportunity: rural lifestyle update
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Surface, Lyssa (author / Market Directions, Inc.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28270
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 46(7) : 32
- Notes:
- Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/, Introduction to a special section.
33. Endorsement of agrarian ideology and adherence to agricultural paradigms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beus, Curtis E. (author), Dunlap, Riley E. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA: Rural Sociological Society, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08402
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 59 (3) : 462-484
- Notes:
- search through journal, Despite the fact that groups of alternative and conventional agriculturalist do not differ in their overall scores on an agrarianism scale, their response do differ significantly on several of the agrarianism items and on the items related to agrarianism from a scale designed to assess competing agricultural paradigms. This suggests that there are differences in these groups' agrarian ideologies even though their overall scores on the agrarianism scale are nearly identical. Although divergent agricultural groups support agrarian ideals such as family farms and the farm way of life, the way in which these groups conceptualize and would achieve these ideals appear to be different... (original)
34. Environmental Issues and Perceptions of Rural Nebraskans
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Allen, John C. (author), Cordes, Sam (author), Smith, Amy M. (author), Spilker, Matt (author), Hamilton, Amber (author), and The Center for Rural Community Revitalization and Development
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2002-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29239
- Notes:
- Posted online at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/caripubs/37/
35. Escaping to country: media, nostalgia, and the new food industries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Phillipov, Michelle (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06940
- Journal Title:
- Popular Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 111-122
36. Evaluating farmers’ access to agricultural information: evidence from semi-arid region of Rajasthan State, India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parmar, Ishwar S. (author), Soni, Peeyush (author), Kuwornu, John K. M. (author), and Salin, Krishna R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-21
- Published:
- MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10331
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3)
- Notes:
- 17 pages., Via open source journal., The rural farmers in western Rajasthan State are uneducated and most of the applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are demonstrated and run in the English Language. The majority of these rural farmers who are illiterates with a very low level of understanding of the English Language find it difficult to take advantage of the availability of ICT to facilitate their access to information for their farm businesses. This study examined the role of ICT in enhancing the farmers’ access to production and marketing information in western Rajasthan State in India. Primary data was collected from 133 farmers consisting of 71 ICT users and 62 Non-ICT users through questionnaire administration. The results of the Analysis of Variance test regarding the farmers’ access to different types of production and marketing information revealed that the user type (i.e., ICT versus Non-ICT user) significantly explains the differences in farmers’ access to the different types of marketing and production information. These results are consistent with the empirical results of the student’s t-test that farmers’ access to different types of production and marketing information from ICT sources is significantly higher than from Non-ICT sources. Consistently, the empirical results of the multiple regressions revealed that the percentage of production and marketing information obtained from ICT sources had positive significant influence on the farmers’ access to marketing and production information; and that the percentage of marketing and production information obtained from Non-ICT sources had negative significant influence on the farmers’ access to marketing and production information. These results suggest that ICT sources of marketing and production information play a crucial role in the farmers’ access to this information for their business operations. The implication is that proper education and training of farmers (especially the female farmers) about the utilization of ICT sources to accelerate access to information is crucial
37. Evaluation and impact of a reflective training process for rural extension agents
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landini, Fernando (author), Brites, Walter (author), and University of La Cuenca del Plata
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-07-18
- Published:
- Argentina: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10931
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(5) : 457-472
- Notes:
- 15 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This article assesses a non-traditional training methodology for extension agents, focused on the exchange of experiences among peers and the reflection on practice, with the aim of exploring its potential as a training strategy. Design/Methodology/approach: A quali-quantitative investigation was conducted, which included interviews with extension agents, the use of different questionnaires, and recordings of the evaluation sessions carried out during each workshop. Findings: This research allowed us to understand the importance of effective group coordination, a participatory climate, working in small groups, and the feedback loop between theory and practice for processes of experience sharing and reflection on practice. Some of the positive effects of the training observed were that extension agents acquired new knowledge and methodologies, reflected critically upon their practice, and put into question their own extension approach. Practical Implications: Given its potentialities, implementing training processes focused on experience sharing and reflection on practice for rural extension workers, seems advisable. Theoretical Implications: This article contributes to the understanding of how experience sharing and reflection on practice can generate transformations in rural extension agents’ approaches and positioning. Originality/Value: This study systematically assesses the impacts that training has on extension workers, as well as the underlying processes that made it possible to generate them.
38. Evolution of an integrated socio-economic village development programme : a pragmatic approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kempadoo, Peter L. (author / Consultant on Rural Development and Education, Guyana) and Consultant on Rural Development and Education, Guyana
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1977
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05330
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 711-724., Started spontaneously by a couple of village women cassava workers, in reaction to a social injustice that was being perpetrated in our village, the group had no other objective, at first, than wanting to solve that particular problem. The solution they worked out - a cooperative, economic one - soon attracted a large number of other villagers. Together they became the Bantu Society. Economic success and interaction within the group also made them generally aware of the social underdevelopment of their families, and this led to a wide range of socio-economic activities which now comprise a closely-integrated village development programme. (original).
39. Experiences in using WiFi for rural internet in India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Raman, Bhaskaran (author) and Chebrolu, Kameswari (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- USA: IEEE - Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27138
- Journal Title:
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 104-110
40. Extension work with older rural youth, 1930-1949
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grandy, M.C. (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1950
- Published:
- USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08921
- Notes:
- Page 11 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - January to June 1950, Extension Service Circular 470, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1950. Summary of findings from analytic studies of four phases of extension work in Colorado, Colorado Agriculture College Extension, Fort Collins. 1950. 12 pages., Includes analysis of changes in older youth activities by agricultural and home Extension workers during that period.