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Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wineman, Ayala (author), Yélognissè Alia, Didier (author), and Anderson, C. Leigh (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2020-10-01
Published:
International: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11859
Journal Title:
Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:
Vol. 79
Notes:
14 pages, via online journal, Designing effective policies for economic development often entails categorizing populations by their rural or urban status. Yet there exists no universal definition of what constitutes an “urban” area, and countries alternately apply criteria related to settlement size, population density, or economic advancement. In this study, we explore the implications of applying different urban definitions, focusing on Tanzania for illustrative purposes. Toward this end, we refer to nationally representative household survey data from Tanzania, collected in 2008 and 2014, and categorize households as urban or rural using seven distinct definitions. These are based on official administrative categorizations, population densities, daytime and nighttime satellite imagery, local economic characteristics, and subjective assessments of Google Earth images. These definitions are then applied in some common analyses of demographic and economic change. We find that these urban definitions produce different levels of urbanization. Thus, Tanzania's urban population share based on administrative designations was 28% in 2014, though this varies from 12% to 39% with alternative urban definitions. Some indicators of economic development, such as the level of rural poverty or the rate of rural electrification, also shift markedly when measured with different urban definitions. The periodic (official) recategorization of places as rural or urban, as occurs with the decennial census, results in a slower rate of rural poverty decline than would be measured with time-constant boundaries delimiting rural Tanzania. Because the outcomes of analysis are sensitive to the urban definitions used, policy makers should give attention to the definitions that underpin any statistics used in their decision making.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Liu, Yanyan (author), Barrett, Christopher B. (author), Pham, Trinh (author), and Violette, William (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2020-07-01
Published:
USA: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11867
Journal Title:
Food Policy
Journal Title Details:
Vol. 94
Notes:
14 pages, via online journal, We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to 2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to the structural transformation of rural Vietnam, especially within the agricultural sector. Our study adds to the emerging literature on structural transformation in low-income countries using micro-level data and helps to answer several policy-related questions. We find limited employment creation potential of agriculture, especially for youth. Rural-urban real wage convergence has gone hand-in-hand with increased diversification of the rural economy into the non-farm sector nationwide and rapid advances in educational attainment in all sectors’ and regions’ workforce. Minimum wage laws seem to have played no significant role in increasing agricultural wages. This enhanced integration also manifests in steady attenuation of the longstanding inverse farm size-yield relationship. Farming has remained securely household-based and the family farmland distribution has remained largely unchanged. Small farm sizes have not obstructed mechanization nor the uptake of labor-saving pesticides, consistent with factor substitution induced by rising real wage rates. As rural households rely more heavily on the labor market, human capital accumulation (rather than land endowments) have become the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Blue, John (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2014-08-14
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02908
Notes:
Online from Truffle Media Networks, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2 pages., Identifies recent surveys that help identify use of social media in various sectors of agriculture.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Patten, Eileen (author) and Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2013-07-28
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01995
Notes:
Via online. 3 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2013-06
Published:
USA: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington , D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02883
Notes:
Economic Brief Number 23. 6 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Baxter, Mary (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2013-04-09
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02876
Notes:
The Canadian Journalism Project, Ottawa, Canada. 2 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
O'Hanlon, Kevin (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2013-01-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01039
Notes:
Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C. 6 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Glaze, Catherine "Dru" (author), Edgar, Leslie D. (author), Rhoades-Buck, Emily (author), and Rutherford, Tracy (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01604
Journal Title:
Journal of Applied Communications
Journal Title Details:
97(1) : 9-24
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Miller, Carolyn (author), Purcell, Kristen (author), Rainie, Lee (author), and Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2012-12-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01996
Notes:
Via online. 8 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
News releases
Publication Date:
2012-11-15
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00678
Notes:
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance. 2 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Sonderman, Jeff (author) and Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2012-09-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01992
Notes:
4 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Ogundari, Kolawole (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-08
Published:
Nigeria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00934
Notes:
Paper presented at the NZARES (New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society) conference, Nelson, New Zealand, August 30-31, 2012. 28 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wang, Qingbin (author) and Li, Minghao (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012-02-06
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02783
Journal Title:
First Monday
Journal Title Details:
17(2)
Notes:
Via online. 10 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Naile, Traci L. (author) and Charanza, Ashley D. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D01532
Notes:
Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, February 5-6, 2012. 23 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Booklet
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
USA: U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00655
Notes:
12 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Calix, Petaluma, California
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00708
Notes:
Via online. 10 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wade, Greg (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02907
Notes:
King's Journalism Review via Canadian Journalism Project, Ottawa,Canada. 3 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
He, Wei (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01024
Journal Title:
Asian Agricultural Research
Journal Title Details:
4(8) : 86-89
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Naile, Traci L. (author) and Charanza, Ashley D. (author)
Format:
journal articles
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00837
Journal Title:
Journal of Applied Communications
Journal Title Details:
96(3) : 38-50
Notes:
Online via open access.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Gao, Wan-lin (author), Wang, Mao-hua (author), Zhang, Gang-hong (author), and Zhao, Jia-ning (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01018
Journal Title:
Asian Agricultural Research
Journal Title Details:
4(11) : 124-129
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Chin, Yik Chan (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02788
Journal Title:
Media, Culture and Society
Journal Title Details:
34(7) : 898-912
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Pemunta, N.V. (author) and Obara, T.B. (author)
Format:
journal articles
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00647
Journal Title:
Arts and Social Sciences Journal
Journal Title Details:
2012 : ASSJ-35
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Eid, Nabil (author) and Telecentre.org Foundation, Manila, Philippines
Format:
Articles
Publication Date:
2011-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00714
Notes:
Via Telecentre.org. 3 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Malaga, Jaime E. (author), Xu, Bin (author), and Martinez-Mejia, Pablo (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00236
Journal Title:
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Journal Title Details:
43(03) : 433-442
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2011-06-17
Published:
USA: Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36392
Notes:
Posted at http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0622/DOC-307877A1.pdf, GN Docket No. 11-16. 29 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wallis, Cara (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011-05
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00466
Journal Title:
New Media and Society
Journal Title Details:
13(3) : 471-485
Notes:
Via UI electronic subscription, "This article shows that as much as the mobile phone is a liberatory and equalizing technology, it can also reinforce rather than upset patriarchal power relationships."
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Khatun, Samia (author), Debeljak, Klara (author), and Power, Gerry (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011-03
Published:
International: International Institute of Communications, London, U.K.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36292
Journal Title:
InterMedia
Journal Title Details:
39(1) : 18-23
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Golbeck, Jennifer (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011-02-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02782
Journal Title:
First Monday
Journal Title Details:
16(2)
Notes:
Via online. 13 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2011-02
Published:
USA: Gallup, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36326
Notes:
Findings from 15 Gallup Polls. 5 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Vanek, J. (author), Jarolimek, J. (author), and Vogeltanzova, T. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Czech Republic
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01107
Journal Title:
Agris On-line Papers in Economics and Informatics
Journal Title Details:
3(3) : 67-76
Notes:
Via www.doaj.org
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
United Nations, New York City, New York.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00853
Notes:
Via online. 72 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Tran, Phuong (author), Ng, Felicia (author), Chia, Cathy (author), Chib, Arul (author), and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36276
Notes:
Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Pages 9-10 in Book of Abstracts: Participatory Communication Research Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Lei, Weizhen (author) and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36286
Notes:
Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Page 8 in Book of Abstracts: Digital Divide Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Hu, Xinli (author), Ma, Lianjie (author), and IEEE, New York City, New York.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-06-13
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36592
Notes:
Pages 396-399 in proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Engineering, Chengdu, China, June 12-13, 2010.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wellman, Barry (author) and Stern, Michael J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30312
Journal Title:
American Behavioral Scientist
Journal Title Details:
53(9) : 1251-1256
Notes:
Introduction to a special issue of the journal.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Hale, Timothy M. (author), Drentea, Patricia (author), and Goldner, Melinda (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30314
Journal Title:
American Behavioral Scientist
Journal Title Details:
53(9) : 1304-1325
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Gilbert, Eric (author), Karahalios, Karrie (author), and Sandvig, Christian (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30316
Journal Title:
American Behavioral Scientist
Journal Title Details:
53(9) : 1367-1388
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Radio transcript
Publication Date:
2010-04-29
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30434
Notes:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Craig, Steve (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36353
Notes:
Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno, Nevada, April 2010. 12 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Bahaman, A.S. (author), Jeffrey, L.S. (author), Azril, M.S. Hayrol (author), and Jegak, U. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Malaysia: Asian Network for Scientific Information
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00088
Journal Title:
Journal of Applied Sciences
Journal Title Details:
10(19) : 2310-2315
Notes:
Via www.doaj.org
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Roussou, Nayia (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36432
Journal Title:
European Journal of Communication
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 259-272
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Paek, Hye-Jin (author), Lariscy, Ruthann Weaver (author), and Reber, Ryan H. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36557
Journal Title:
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal Title Details:
54(1) : 102-120
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
von Braun, Joachim (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00573
Notes:
Pages 3-14 in Arnold Pichot and Josef Lorenz (eds.) ICT for the next five billion people: information and communication for sustainable development. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 122 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Campbell, Scott W. (author) and Kwak, Nojin (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36750
Journal Title:
New Media and Society
Journal Title Details:
12(3) : 435-451
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Dimmick, John (author), Feaster, John Christian (author), and Hoplamazian,Gregory J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00468
Journal Title:
New Media and Society
Journal Title Details:
13(1) : 23-39
Notes:
Via UI electronic subscription
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Garfrerick, Beth H. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02895
Journal Title:
American Journalism
Journal Title Details:
27(3) : 151-157
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Payne, T.A. (author) and Stevens, D.R. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New Zealand
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30661
Journal Title:
Extension Farming Systems Journal
Journal Title Details:
6(1) : 53-61
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Bertot, John Carlo (author), Jaeger, Paul T. (author), McClure, Charles R. (author), Wright, Carla B. (author), and Jensen, Elise (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2009-11-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02784
Journal Title:
First Monday
Journal Title Details:
14(11)
Notes:
Via online. 19 pages.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Rudgard, Stephen (author) and CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-10-21
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29639
Notes:
Presented as a PowerPoint at the CABI Global Summit, October 19-21, 2009, London, UK. 19 pages.