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    1. Moonshine: from no business to big business

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Roysdon, Keith (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2023-02-22
    Published:
    United States: Daily Yonder, The
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12821
    Journal Title:
    Daily Yonder, The
    Journal Title Details:
    Online
    Notes:
    8pgs, Once illegal but highly sought-after, the hard “likker” of Appalachia is slowly trickling into the wide river of government-sanctioned booze.

    4. Competitor orientation and value co-creation in sustaining rural New Zealand wine producers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Crick, James M. (author), Crick, Dave (author), and Tebbett, Natalie (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-11-07
    Published:
    United States: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11218
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    73(2020) : 122-134
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    12 pages, via online journal, This study, underpinned by the Resource-Based View and its association with the Relational View, contributes to the existing cross-disciplinary literature involving economic geography, tourism and marketing by extending the current understanding of the relationship between firms' value co-creation activities and sales performance in the context of rural wine producing firms. Specifically, by investigating how a firm's competitor orientation (possessing and acting upon knowledge of competitors) affects the relationship between firms' capabilities to engage in value co-creation activities and sales performance. This investigation utilises a multi-level qualitative investigation within small-to-medium-sized, New Zealand wine producers engaging in various value co-creation activities (wine hospitality and tourism such as accommodation and restaurants through to wine sales, including at cellar doors). The methods employed involved 40 interviews across 20 businesses; observations of cellar door employees in all 20 firms; and collection of archival data. The findings reveal that by having a high degree of a competitor orientation, the enhanced value co-creation activities can help individual companies improve sales performance and support cluster sustainability, including via repeat tourism. However, results vary among competing businesses based on the product-markets served, where illustrations of potential tensions highlight the need for the management of complementary relationships, within and across clusters (the latter typically being to serve overseas markets). This study consequently offers new unique insights that explain strategies affecting not just an individual firm's performance, but also, the sustainability of other businesses.

    5. Model farmers, extension networks and the politics of agricultural knowledge transfer

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Taylor, Marcus (author) and Bhasme, Suhas (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-11
    Published:
    International: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10128
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    64 : 1-10
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    10 pages, via online journal, Model farmers are a common feature of many developing world agricultural extension networks within which they demonstrate new cultivation techniques and technologies to local communities. The diverse political-economic and socio-cultural roles that such farmers assume, however, are rarely afforded critical scrutiny. To do so, we emphasise the ways in which model farmers facilitate not only the production and transfer of knowledge but also of materials and legitimacy. These transfers occur both horizontally to community members and vertically through linkages with extension agents, research institutions and private sector interests. We establish how these transfers have important impacts upon both efficiency and equity. To illustrate, we use examples of model farmers drawn from research on hybrid rice dissemination in Mandya district, Karnataka. Despite having the same official functions within the extension network, the model farmers we surveyed assumed strongly different roles with notable implications for the effectiveness of knowledge transfer alongside equity considerations.

    6. Agriculture and historical thinking

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Reid, Debra A. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2017
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08803
    Notes:
    Pages 41-57 in Debra A. Reid, Interpreting agriculture at museums and historic sites. United States: Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 265 pages.

    7. Millenium development goals and combating agricultural child labour in Nigeria

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ben-Chendo, G.N. (author), Lemchi, J.I. (author), Nwosu, F.O. (author), and Ehirim, N.C. (author)
    Format:
    Review
    Publication Date:
    2014-10-31
    Published:
    Academic Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10170
    Journal Title:
    African Journal of Marketing Management
    Journal Title Details:
    6(6) : 75-81
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    7 pages., Via online journal., A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. They are frequently employed as farm labourers, bird scarers, food crop harvesters, processors and hawkers. More than 132 million children work in agriculture. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, followed by mining and construction. Child labour is increasing in postharvest processing, transport, marketing and a range of agroindustries. Child labour is maybe one of the most striking indicators identifying vulnerable children and as such pointing to shortcomings in several of the millennium goals as poverty eradication, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. Most working children do so after a decision in their parental household. To understand the household labour supply decisions, relation to the labour market and to public interventions is critical in designing programmes in order to achieve the MDGs. The research on child labour represents in this respect a largely untapped resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of agriculture, education programmes and poverty reduction programmes. The effect of lack of education opportunities on child labour is well documented, but existence of widespread agricultural child labour also reduces the effectiveness of investment in education. It is recommended in this paper that the legislator should enact laws that will reduce agricultural child labour through redistribution of the nation’s resources, women should be integrated in the fight to combat child labour and that alternative income sources should be provided for rural families whose children are the most vulnerable.

    10. Some critical issues of women entrepreneurship in rural India

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kumbhar, Vijay M. (author)
    Format:
    Paper abstract
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    India
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11247
    Journal Title:
    European Academic Research
    Journal Title Details:
    1(2)
    Notes:
    Online via Social Sciences Research Network. 1 page., Author's analysis of obstacles for women entrepreneurship. Among those cited: "traditional mindset of the society," "negligence of the state and respective authorities," "absence of definite agenda of life, absence of balance between family and career obligations of women, poor degree of financial freedom for women," "lack of professional education," and others. Cited "need of continuous attempt to inspire, encourage, motivate and co-operate women entrepreneurs..."