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1. Privatization of agricultural extension services in the EU: towards a lack of adequate knowledge for small-scale farmers?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Labarthe, Pierre (author) and Laurent, Catherine (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02747
Journal Title:: Food Policy
Journal Title Details:: 38 : 240-252

2. The animal welfare lobby

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Byrnes, John (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1981-06
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03016
Journal Title:: Hog Farm Management
Journal Title Details:: : 20-22, 24, 26

3. Delivery of scientific and technical information (STI) through rural public libraries: project final report

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Report
Publication Date:: 1985-11-07
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03080
Notes:: Shawnee Library System, Carterville, Illinois. 14 pages., Report of an 18-month program to engage business people and farmers with information services provided by community libraries.

4. Farmers' views on agricultural issues

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Guither, Harold D. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1981
Published:: USA: College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03092
Journal Title:: Illinois Research
Journal Title Details:: 23(2) : 3-4

5. Information use and delivery preferences among small-acreage owners in areas of rapid exurban population growth

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Branson, Mark (author) and Price, Emily A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2009-10
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03115
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: 47(5) : Article 5FEA4

6. Promoting alternative enterprises: assessing farmers' needs in research, education and extension

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Muhammad, Safdar (author), Isikhuemhen, Omoanghe S. (author), and Basarir, Aydin (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2009-12
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03116
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: 47(6) : Article 6RIB5

7. American Small Farm Magazine

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: November/December 1992
Published:: USA: Magnet Communications, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-Co V1.14; Folder: V1.14.A.025 Document Number: D03311
Journal Title:: 1
Journal Title Details:: 1
Notes:: 66 pgs, Volume One Number One Collection; James F. Evans Collection

8. New South Wales Small Farms: A Specialist Publication for the Small Farmer

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: 1988-10
Published:: Australia: Percival Publishing, Co.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Mo-Se V1.14; Folder: V1.14.N.158 Document Number: D03428
Journal Title:: 1
Journal Title Details:: 1
Notes:: 40 pgs, Volume One Number One Collection; James F. Evans Collection

10. Family Farm Developer, The

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Newspaper
Publication Date:: Spring 1983
Published:: USA: Dump the NDB Campaign
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-W V1.14; Folder: V1.14.F.073 Document Number: D03485
Journal Title:: 1
Journal Title Details:: 1
Notes:: 8 pgs, Volume One Number One Collection, James F. Evans Collection

11. American Small Farm Magazine

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: 1993-01
Published:: USA: Magnet Publications
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: RS.14; Folder: RS.14.A.001 Document Number: D03513
Journal Title:: 2
Journal Title Details:: 1
Notes:: 66 pages, Rare Serials Collection; James F. Evans Collection

13. Smallholder information sources and communication pathways for cashew production and marketing inTanzania: an ex-post study in Tandahimba and Lindi Rural Districts, Southern Tanzania

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nyambo, Brigitte (author) and Ligate, Elly (author)
Format:: Journal article abstract
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: Tanzania
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05670
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 19(1) : 73-92

14. Factors influencing access to integrated soil fertility management information and knowledge and its uptake among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gwandu, T. (author), Mtambanengwe, F. (author), Mapfumo, P. (author), Mashavave, T.C. (author), Chikowo, R. (author), and Nezomba, H. (author)
Format:: Journal article abstract
Publication Date:: 2014
Published:: Zimbabwe
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05675
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 20(1) : 79-93
Notes:: Highlights effectiveness of extension agents, learning centers and farmer-to-farmer interactions.

15. Evaluation of information and communication technology utilization by small holder banana farmers in Gatanga District, Kenya

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mwombe, Simon O.L. (author), Mugivane, Fred I. (author), Adolwa, Ivan S. (author), and Nderitu, John H. (author)
Format:: Journal article abstract
Publication Date:: 2014
Published:: Kenya
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05677
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 20(2) : 247-261

16. Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Warner, Benjamin P. (author), Kuzdas, Christopher (author), Yglesias, Mariel G. (author), and Childers, Daniel L. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: Costa Rica
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05702
Journal Title:: Global Environmental Change
Journal Title Details:: 30 : 101-112

17. Letters as indicators of community values: two case studies of alternative magazines

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Reader, Bill (author) and Moist, Kevin (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2008
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05866
Journal Title:: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Journal Title Details:: 85(4) 823-840
Notes:: One case study involves the U. S. magazine, Small Farmer's Journal.

18. Assessment of the adoption of agroforestry technologies by limited-resource farmers in North Carolina

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Faulkner, Paula E. (author), Owooh, Bismark (author), and Idassi, Joshua (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2014-10
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06040
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: 52(5) : 5RIB7
Notes:: 7 pages.

19. Locally grown: portraits of artisanal farms from America's heartland

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Blessing, Anna H. (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: USA: Midway, Chicago, IL
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06504
Notes:: 287 pages.

20. The impact of education on agricultural productivity of small scale rural female maize farmers in Potiskum Local Government, Yobe State: a panacea for rural economic development in Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Okpachu, Adogwu (author), Okpachu, Oche (author), and Obijesi, Ifeoma (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2014-08
Published:: Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06509
Journal Title:: International Journal of Research in Agriculture and Food Sciences
Journal Title Details:: 2(4) : 26-33

21. Extension agents' perception of constraints to fertilizer use by rural farmers in Cross River State Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Idku, Friday Ogar (author), Aboh, Caroline Linus (author), Ijogu, Jimmy Bassey (author), and Wonah, Clement Oyidi (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015-02
Published:: Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06512
Journal Title:: International Journal of Research in Agriculture and Food Sciences
Journal Title Details:: 2(10) : 9-16

22. Consumer preferences for animal source foods in Uganda: quality, retail forms and retail outlets

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mtimet, Nadhem (author), Baker, Derek (author), Pica-Ciamarra, Ugo (author), and Jagwe, John (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: Uganda
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06521
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: 4(2) : 106-116

23. Even small farmers need crisis communication

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lancaster, Kendra (author) and Boyd, Josh (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015-06
Published:: USA: National Communication Association
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06787
Journal Title:: Communication Currents
Journal Title Details:: 10(3)
Notes:: 2 pages., Case example of a small farmer's response to an activist group's use of undercover video to accuse him of animal abuse.

24. Animal production: ag-gag laws, and the social production of ignorance: exploring the role of storytelling

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Broad, Garrett M. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06926
Journal Title:: Environmental Communication
Journal Title Details:: 10(1) : 43-61

25. "What a thing, then, is this cow..." Positioning domestic livestock animals in the texts and practices of small-scale "self-sufficiency"

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Holloway, Lewis (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2003
Published:: United Kingdom
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06969
Journal Title:: Society and Animals
Journal Title Details:: 11(2) : 145-165

26. Bilingual literacy in and for working lives on the land: case studies of young Welsh speakers in North Wales

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Martin-Jones, Marilyn (author), Hughes, Buddug (author), and Williams, Anwen (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2009
Published:: United Kingdom
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D06996
Journal Title:: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Journal Title Details:: 2009(195) : 39-62

27. Food tyrants: fight for your basic right to health food in a toxic world

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Faires, Nicole (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: International: Skyhorse Publishing, New York City, New York.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07327
Notes:: 242 pages.

28. Drivers of transaction costs affecting participation in the rental market for cropland in Vietnam

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hoang, Trieu Huy (author), Lyne, Michael (author), Ratna, Nazmun (author), and Nuthall, Peter (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016
Published:: Australia: Wiley-Blackwell
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07559
Journal Title:: Australian Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Journal Title Details:: 60 (3): 476-492

29. Monitoring small farm credit

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wilson, Frank A. (author) and University of Bradford, Project Planning Centre, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1983
Published:: United Kingdom: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 160 Document Number: D07765
Journal Title:: Agricultural Administration
Journal Title Details:: 14 (4): 191-202

30. Assessing the competencies and training needs of agricultural extension workers in Saudi Arabia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Al-Zahrani, K.H. (author), Aldosari, F.O. (author), Baig, M.B. (author), Shalaby, M.Y. (author), and Straquadine, G.S. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2017
Published:: Saudi Arabia: Tarbiat Modares University
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08033
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
Journal Title Details:: 19 (1): 33-46

31. Efficiency effects of access to information on small-scale agriculture: empirical evidence from Uganda using stochastic frontier and IRT models

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Abdul-Salam, Yakubu (author) and Phimister, Euan (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-09-09
Published:: Uganda: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08323
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: ONL

32. Bovine dermatophilosis: awareness, perceptions and attitudes in the small-holder sector of north-west Zimbabwe

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ndhlovu, Daud N. (author) and Masika, Patrick J. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-03-09
Published:: Zimbabwe
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08759
Journal Title:: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
Journal Title Details:: 83(1)
Notes:: 7 pages.

33. Factors influencing access to agricultural knowledge: the case of smallholder rice farmers in the Kilombero district of Tanzania

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mtega, Wulystan P. (author), Ngoepe, Mpho (author), and Dube, Luyanda (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-05-27
Published:: Tanzania
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08776
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Information Management
Journal Title Details:: 18(1)
Notes:: 8 pages.

34. Horses, harness, and transport: information interdisciplinary interpretation

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Corson, Barbara (author)
Format:: Book chapter
Publication Date:: 2016
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08805
Notes:: Pages 169-186 in Debra A. Reid, Interpreting agriculture at museums and historic sites. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 265 pages.

35. The Food Safety Modernization Act: implications for U.S. small scale farms

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Boys, Kathryn A. (author), Ollinger, Michael (author), and Geyer, Leon L. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09437
Journal Title:: American Journal of Law and Medicine
Journal Title Details:: 41 : 395-405

36. The implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the strength of the Sustainable Agriculture Movement

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wiseman, Samuel R. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09438
Journal Title:: American Journal of Law and Medicine
Journal Title Details:: 41 : 259-273

37. Sisters, Oregon: Lynn Miller, editor, The Small Farmer's Journal

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Interview
Publication Date:: 2011-03-06
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09455
Notes:: Online via blog. 14 pages., Interview with Lynn Miller, publisher of The Small Farmer's Journal. Part of a series: "Stewards: stories and perspectives on American agriculture."

38. Americans support farming - to an extent, poll reveals

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Waterfield, Larry (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1980-02-14
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09600
Journal Title:: Drovers Journal
Journal Title Details:: 48 : 1-2
Notes:: Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Summary of results of a national public poll sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

39. Aricultural technology adoption in Zambia: Are women farmers being left behind?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Namonje-Kapembwa, Thelma (author) and Chapoto, Antony (author)
Format:: Poster
Publication Date:: 2017-01-01
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09700
Notes:: Poster prepared for presentation at the 2017 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting. 2 pages.

40. Nonmetropolitan population change in Missouri in the 1980's

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Campbell, Rex R. (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 1988-06-30
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09708
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Rural Sociology Agricultural Exper. Station University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri

41. A summary of research in progress at Iowa State University

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Abbott, Eric A. (author)
Format:: Research summary
Publication Date:: 1985
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09729
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Eric Abbott Collection, Iowa State University, 5 pages.

42. A communication plan for disseminating information about traditional agriculture in the department of Puno, Peru

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Brinkmeier, Daniel Alan (author)
Format:: study summary
Publication Date:: 1981
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09732
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Eric Abbott Collection, Iowa State University, Page 5 of "A summary of research in progress at Iowa State University".

43. Recent communications studies at Cornell University

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: study summary
Publication Date:: 1985-10-23
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09879
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Department of Communication Arts, Cornell University. 20 pages.

44. Computer diffusion among New York farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Yarbrough, Paul (author) and Scherer, Clifford (author)
Format:: study summary
Publication Date:: 1985-10-23
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09880
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, From Document D09879, "Recent communications studies at Cornell University". Page 1.

45. Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1990

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 1990
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09924
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, Prepared for the NCR-90 meeting. Iowa State University, Oct. 24-26, 1990. 13 pages.

46. Use and utility of information sources used by farmers in southern Brazil to deal with their major farming problems

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Holz, Celivio (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 1990
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09926
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, From Document D09924, "Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1990". Page 5.

47. Small farmer participation in the CTTA-Honduras project: A case study

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nuila, Ramon W. (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 1990
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09929
Notes:: NCR-90 Collection, From Document D09924, "Department of agricultural journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison: Faculty and graduate student research, 1990". Page 6.

48. A survey of communication media preferred by smallholder farmers in theGweru District of Zimbabwe

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Moyo, Rachel (author), Salawu, Abiodun (author), and Department of Communication, North West University, Private Bag X2046, Mafikeng, 2735, South Africa
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-02
Published:: South Africa: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10129
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 66 : 112-118
Notes:: 7 pages., Via online journal., This study is a quantitative survey of communication media preferred by smallholder farmers resettled under the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe. Data were gathered using a questionnaire and simple random sampling. Communication is integral to agricultural development, particularly so in the context of the FTLRP characterized by a dearth of information, education and training, ensued by the discriminatory command agriculture (Murisa and Chikweche, 2015). Farmers' preferences of communicationmedia in receiving agricultural innovations should be prioritised to improve agricultural communication andsubsequently, productivity, which is dire in Zimbabwe in the light of the continuing food insecurity. Thefindingsindicated that farmers prefer media that are stimulating and engaging such as television and demonstrations;convenient such as mobile phones and detailed such as books probably because the majority of them do not have training in agriculture. Demographic variables of age-group and education were found to be associated with communication preferences of some media. The study has implications for agricultural communication media policy. Beyond prioritization of farmers’preferences, a model of a multi-media approach to agricultural communication has been developed, that could widen communication reach if implemented.

49. Fair to the cow or fair to the farmer? The preferences of conventional milk buyers for ethical attributes of milk

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Markova-Nenova, Nonka (author) and Watzold, Frank (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018
Published:: Germany
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10314
Journal Title:: Land Use Policy
Journal Title Details:: 79 : 223-239
Notes:: Via UI online subscription.

50. A novel NGO approach to facilitate the adoption of sustainable innovations in low-income countries: lessons from small-scale farms in Nicaragua

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dyck, Bruno (author) and Silvestre, Bruno S. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2018
Published:: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10522
Journal Title:: Organization Studies
Journal Title Details:: 40(3): 443–461
Notes:: 19 pages., via online journal., There are about 500 million small-scale farms in low-income countries on the planet. Farmers have been slow to adopt a threefold set of sustainable agronomic practices known as “conservation agriculture” (CA) that have been shown to double productivity. Our study of a novel CA project in Nicaragua, organized based on principles that counter convention, may point to improved ways of understanding and managing sustainable innovations in low-income countries. In particular, by connecting core ideas from the innovation literature to the literature that explores the role of intermediaries such as NGOs, our case study suggests that the efficacy of NGOs to facilitate the adoption of sustainable innovations by small-scale farmers in these settings may be enhanced if NGOs employ non-centrist approaches in order to address the critical uncertainties associated with such innovations. We discuss how our findings contradict some of long-standing arguments in the literature, and their implications for theory and practice.

51. Concerns about where farmers are going to get their information and relate to the public

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:: Speech
Publication Date:: 1973-06-25
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10722
Notes:: Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Speech presented at the 1973 American Farm Bureau Federation Information Conference, Rochester, New York. 17 pages., Author describes six concerns about where farmers are going to get their information during the years ahead. Also, he notes that he "can't imagine anything, including religion and politics, that is so fraught with misunderstanding, danger and distrust as farmers' public relations." Suggests two points that might gain general acceptance: (1) farm organizations aren't going to get together in the name of public relations or anything else and (2) public relations is extremely hard, difficult work. Offers suggestions.

52. Training material on program proposals for small farmers as farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Report
Publication Date:: 1967-11
Published:: USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10767
Notes:: Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Preliminary draft for discussion purposes. 30 pages., Contains materials to be used in meetings to be held by USDA and other officials during meetings with small farmers.

53. Plight of New York dairy farmers detailed in articles that won awards in National Newspaper Association contests

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Reader, Bill (author / Ohio University)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2019-06-21
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10892
Notes:: Online from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky, Rural Blog. 3 pages., Describes the editorial approach of two award-winning local newspapers in focusing on the human toll of changing market forces in the dairy industry.

54. Perception of change: Narratives and strategies of farmers in Madagascar

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Stoudmann, Natasha (author), Waeber, Patrick O. (author), Randriamalala, Ihoby H. (author), Garcia, Claude (author), and Forest Management and Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Madagascar Wildlife Conservation, Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar Forêts et Sociétés, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2017-11
Published:: Madagascar: Science Direct
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10938
Journal Title:: Journal of Rural Studies
Journal Title Details:: 56(2017) : 76-86
Notes:: 10 pages, via online journal

55. Engagement with extension services by small-acreage sugarcane farmers in selected districts of Pakistan

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Khan, Faheem (author), Wegener, Malcolm (author), and Khan, Muhammad Zafarullah (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018
Published:: Pakistan: Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN)
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11211
Journal Title:: Rural Extension and Innovation Systems Journal
Journal Title Details:: 14(2) : 34-42
Notes:: Personal interviews with 336 small-acreage sugarcane growers indicated that less than half had any knowledge of the public extension services available. Growers who were aware of extension services and sought information from extension achieved substantially higher average yields than growers who did not. Authors recommended that the Pakistan government review current extension services and consider strengthening them.

56. Status of agricultural technologies adoption and sustainable intensification in chickpea crop in rain-fed region: a study in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in India

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Rajalaxmi, Amand (author) and E.Revathi (author)
Format:: Paper
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: India
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11321
Notes:: 17 pages., Paper presented at the 8th EAAE PhD student workshop, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala,Sweden, June 10-12, 2019., Authors analyzed household behavior in adoption of chickpea as an improved crop, as well as the crop's impact at farm level and grower experiences with it.

57. Determinants of soil conservation technologies among small-scale farmers in Tanzania: evidence from national panel survey

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lasway, Jovin Aveline (author), Temba, George Raphael (author), and Ruhinduka, Remidius Denis (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11323
Journal Title:: African Journal of Economic Review
Journal Title Details:: 8(1) : 89-105
Notes:: An analysis of secondary data from the National Panel Survey in Tanzania revealed physical, socioeconomic, and institutional factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation technologies among small-scale maize farmers. Findings revealed, for example, only 13.9 percent of those had adopted soil conservation technology. This was cited as small, compared with other countries.

58. The role of information and interaction processes in the adoption of agriculture inputs in Uganda

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Freeman, Kathlee (author) and Qin, Hua (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: Uganda
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11373
Journal Title:: Agronomy
Journal Title Details:: 10, 202
Notes:: 16 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ.org)., Interviews with 203 smallholder farmers in Uganda indicated that households with higher level of information access through cell phone use and weak-tie information sources were more likely to use inputs.

59. The effectiveness of audio media in enhancing farmers' knowledge: the case of smallholder banana farmers in western Uganda

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kaahwa, Mark (author), Zhu, Chang (author), Muhumuza, Moses (author), Mutyebere, Rodgers (author), and Karemera, Charles (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Uganda
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11374
Journal Title:: International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science and IT
Journal Title Details:: 7(2) : 68-90
Notes:: 23 pages., Authors used a baseline survey, an intervention, and an end line survey to assess farmers' knowledge of farming practices, knowledge level, and relationship between information source and knowledge gain. Interventions were provided by radio broadcasts and audio CDs. Findings suggested that '...audio media remains a vital source of information for resource-poor farmers and can greatly enhance their agricultural knowledge when audio media is used as an intervention."

60. Mobilizing opinion: achieving results

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Harris, Sam (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1990
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11450
Journal Title:: Food Policy
Journal Title Details:: 15(4) : 313-318
Notes:: 6 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Describes the scope, mission, and activities of Results, an international citizen's lobby which has grown to include 150 groups in seven countries. Focuses on these major approaches to ending hunger and poverty in the Third World: small-farmer agricultural development, improving the survival of small children through immunization, oral rehydration therapy, breast-feeding and growth monitoring, promoting small loans to the poorest people. and adopting concrete, measurable goals to reduce global poverty.

61. Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Thinda, K.T. (author), Ogundeji, A.A. (author), Belle, J.A. (author), and Ojo, T.O. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: International: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11872
Journal Title:: Land Use Policy
Journal Title Details:: 99
Notes:: 11 pages, Climatic change has a negative impact on people’s livelihoods, agriculture, freshwater supply and other natural resources that are important for human survival. Therefore, understanding how rural smallholder farmers perceive climate change, climate variability, and factors that influence their choices would facilitate a better understanding of how these farmers adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. A Zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa. Different socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, and experience in crop farming, institutional factors like access to extension services, and access to climate change information significantly influenced the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa. Concerning intensity of adoption, age, educational level, farming experience, on-farm training, off-farm income, access to information through ICT and locational variables are the significant determinants of intensity of adaptation strategies. Thus, education attainment, non-farm employment, farming experience are significant incentives to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity through the adoption of many adaptation approaches. This study therefore concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers, particularly during the off-cropping season. The income from non-farm employment can be plough-back into farm operations such as the adoption of soil and water conservation, use of improved planting varieties, insurance, among others to mitigate climate variability and subsequently increase productivity. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting education, providing on-farm demonstration trainings, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Thus, the government, stakeholders, and donor agencies must provide capacity-building innovations around the agricultural extension system and education on climate change using information and communication technologies.

62. Agroecology, Information and Communications Technology, and Smallholders' Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wei, Cheng (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2020-05-07
Published:: International: Sage Publications
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D11922
Journal Title:: Journal of Asian and African Studies
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 55(8)
Notes:: 15 Pages, Online Journal via U of I subscription, As a bottom-up, grassroots paradigm for sustainable rural development, agroecology is particularly promising for smallholders in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, by adopting agroecology, smallholders will be challenged to take on new perspectives and compile and integrate different sourced information to innovate. Today’s fast evolving information and communications technology in sub-Saharan Africa represents great opportunities for rural populations to enhance the adoption and success of agroecology and to address their daunting challenges simultaneously while conserving, protecting and enhancing natural resources. Agroecology combined with information and communications technology will probably be smallholders’ “precision agriculture” in many developing countries to enhance their food security and livelihood.

63. Information and Communication Technologies to Provide Agricultural Advice to Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Van Campenhout, Bjorn (author), Spielman, David J. (author), and Lecoutere, Els (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2020-03-26
Published:: United States: Wiley Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12029
Journal Title:: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol 103, Issue 1
Notes:: 21 Pages, Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information. This approach is not always effective and has proved hard to scale sustainably, particularly in highly dispersed smallholder farming systems. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been advanced as a promising way to overcome many of the problems associated with conventional agricultural extension. We evaluate the effectiveness of an ICT‐mediated approach to deliver agricultural information in a field experiment conducted among small‐scale maize farmers in eastern Uganda. Three complementary technologies designed to address both informational and behavioral constraints to technical change are considered. First, we investigate the effectiveness of audiovisual messages (video) as a means of delivering information on input use and improved maize management practices to farmers. Second, we quantify the additional impact of complementing video with an interactive voice response (IVR) service. Third, we estimate the incremental effect of time‐sensitive short message services (SMS) messages designed to remind farmers about applying key practices at specific points during the season. We find that households that were shown a short video on how to become better maize farmers were performing significantly better on a knowledge test, more likely to apply recommended practices, and more likely to use fertilizer than households that did not view the video. These same households also reported maize yields about 10.5% higher than those that did not view the video. We find little evidence of an incremental effect of the IVR service or SMS reminders.

64. Farmers' perceptions of climate variability, their adaptation strategies and agricultural productivity: a case of Limpopo province, South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Aful, D. B. (author) and Ayisi, K. (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2020-12
Published:: South Africa: SciELO
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12093
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 48 No.2, 2020
Notes:: 14 pgs., The provision of farm management decision support and advisory services to insure climate resilient agricultural production systems, especially for subsistence farmers, depends on data on such producers. The main objective of the paper was to generate such data by comparing the status quo regarding dryland, subsistence grain farmers’ perceptions of climate variability, their adaptation strategies and crop productivity. Using a survey questionnaire, the comparison was made across time (2014 and 2017) in selected municipalities of Limpopo province. The findings across time and aggregated for all the different local municipalities investigated were similar regarding respondents’ perceptions of climate variability, adaptation strategies used and crop productivity. The perceptions revealed that respondents were aware of the reality of climate variability and its negative effects on their crop and livestock production, Agricultural productivity amongst extension and non-extension recipients was low, with minimal differences. These findings auger well for the development of common strategies to improve the effectiveness of the support for farm management including climate variability that is provided by the public agricultural extension service to the group of producers in this study to reduce the negative effects of climate variability on their crop productivity. This will eventually help to improve their food security.

65. Activating the local food system in emergency food response

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ollove, Andy (author) and Hamdi, Samiha (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2021-01-22
Published:: United States: Lyson Center fo r Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12096
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Special Issue: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Food System
Notes:: 3 pgs., Online Journal, Resilient local food systems are a necessary component to keep our communities healthy, especially during times of emergency. With a history of supporting local farmers and food access in less-resourced communities, Fresh Approach was in a prime position at the time of shelter-in-place orders to pivot our efforts to emergency food relief in this time of uncertainty. By collaborating and mobilizing resources, Fresh Approach was able to strengthen existing connections with small farmers, build new relationships with other food access nonprofits, and support families in need by providing them with farm-fresh, local, and healthy produce. We outline how these partnerships and collective efforts have fortified a resilient and transformative food system in our area.

66. Utilisation of mobile phones in accessing agricultural information by smallholder farmers in Dzindi Irrigation Scheme in South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Holmner, Marlene (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021
Published:: International: African Journals Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12100
Journal Title:: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 29 No. 1
Notes:: 21 pgs., CTs (Communications technologies) have revolutionized agricultural information services at every level in the agricultural sector, thus impacting rural development and catalysing poverty alleviation strategies. This has largely been the case with small-scale farmers in rural areas in developing countries where mobile technologies have penetrated more than most other ICT tools. However, in some of the farming environments, mobile phone use is largely driven by agricultural extension workers. This paper seeks to examine the way mobile phones are used for information access in situations where agricultural extension workers are a critical intermediary in the agricultural information services. Interviews were conducted with 10 randomly selected farmers who were part of the Dzindi irrigation scheme. The findings were that from the variety of information available to the farmers the most important source was the extension officer. The extension officer and the radio were indicated to be the most reliable independent sources of information. The other sources, such as the radio, family members, and friends, suppliers of chemicals, books and magazines, were only considered reliable if the information could be verified or vouched for by the extension officer. Increasing the information handling skills of extension officers, training of farmers to use smart features of their phones and promoting the usual face-to-face communication use of conventional methods, which is what usually gives rise to the mediation of mobile phones, were recommended.

67. Perceptions of Social Media Use Among U.S. Women Farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Daigle, Kerry (author) and Heiss, Sarah N. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-02
Published:: United States: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12101
Journal Title:: Journal of Applied Communications
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 105, Issue 1
Notes:: 23 pgs., Online Journal, Communication networks and knowledge sharing are important for the persistence of small farms that operate outside of industrial agriculture. In past years, internet platforms have been promoted as a tool for farm businesses to connect with customers and other farmers. Social media in particular has gained attention as a user friendly and accessible tool for small business viability. Drawing on Uses and Gratifications Theory, this study uses examines interviews with women farmers' in the United States to explore how they view the role of social media for their agricultural practice. Results demonstrate that women farmers report using social media to reach consumers, seek agricultural information, and maintain emotional connections with other farmers. Though important, women farmers are often overlooked in agricultural research and training programs. Theoretical and practical implications highlight how social media and agricultural trainings can promote media literacy and promote women farmers' success in agriculture.

68. Information Needs of Women Subsistence Farmers in a Village in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Zimu-Biyela, Acquinatta (author), Dube, Luyanda (author), and Van der Walt, Thomas (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: South Africa: University of South Africa Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12171
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Information Studies
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 38 Issue 1, p1-17
Notes:: 18 pages., This article reports on findings of a study that was conducted to establish the information needs of women subsistence or smallholder farmers and the various information sources they consulted to resolve their information needs. The study was qualitative,and a grounded theory design was used. Focus group interviews and observation were used to collect data from 14 women crop farmers and three women livestock keepers.The farmer-to-farmer extension (FFE) model was adopted to understand theinformation-seeking behaviours of women farmers and how they can be improved, if need be. The findings revealed that while the women crop farmers needed help with seeds, soil treatment and the protection of crops from pests and stray animals,they needed more information on drought preparedness and management, and,on how to transform from subsistence to commercial farming. Women livestock keepers needed information on livestock feeds, the treatment of various ailments, and disaster preparedness and management. In addition, they needed the reintegration of the extension officer.It also transpired that local libraries were not responding to the information needs of farmers.The main source of information was oral communication. The use of radio, television, cell phones and extension officers was limited.This study echoes other studies which propose it is important that libraries, non-government organisations (NGOs) and extension officers respond to the information needs of smallholder farmers, especially women.

69. Management information sources and communication strategies for commercially oriented smallholder beef cattle producers in Limpopo province, South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mapiye, Obvious (author), Makombe, Godswill (author), Mapiye, Cletos (author), and Dzama, Kennedy (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-06-19
Published:: International: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12172
Journal Title:: Outlook on Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol 49, Issue 1, 2020
Notes:: 7 pages., A survey was conducted to identify management information sources and communication channels used by commercially oriented smallholder beef cattle producers (n = 62) in Limpopo province, South Africa. A total of 62 commercially oriented smallholder farmers under the Limpopo Industrial Development Corporation-Nguni cattle project were interviewed using a structured questionnaire to collect data. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data on farmers’ demographic and farm characteristics, sources of information and communication channels used. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to evaluate factors that influenced farmers’ choices of information sources and communications channels used. Findings show that government extension (53% of the respondents) and other farmers (30%) were the major sources of management information for the farmers. Based on the logistic regression results, the decision to choose government extension as the main source of information was mainly influenced by respondents’ gender (p = 0.001) and access to training (p = 0.023). Communication was mainly through farm-to-farm visits (56%) and the use of mobile phones (30%). Based on the current findings, the infusion of modern information communication technologies such as mobile phone-based innovations with the existing government extension service could further strengthen the capacity of farmers to share information among themselves as well as providing feedback to extension agents. Furthermore, it is essential to take cognizance of farmers’ socio-economic factors when identifying and characterizing their management information sources and communication strategies.

70. Access and use of agricultural market information by smallholder farmers: Measuring informational capabilities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ko, Jesuk (author), Magesa, Mawazo M. (author), and Kisangiri, Michael (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2020-03-03
Published:: International: Wiley Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12194
Journal Title:: The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
Journal Title Details:: Volume 86, Issue 6
Notes:: 21 Pages, While farmers sell their crops, middlemen provide a linkage between them, markets and buyers. Middlemen have good knowledge of working conditions of markets and have access to agricultural market information. Due to poor access to markets and agricultural market information by smallholders, there is a feeling that middlemen benefit more while farmers sell their crops. Good access to markets and market information may help farmers bypass middlemen while selling crops and thus benefit more. Thus, it is best to improve the informational capabilities (ICs) of farmers in agricultural marketing. Thus, this research measured ICs of farmers accessing market information, through a program NINAYO, while selling their crops. The research utilized the informational, psychological, social, and economic dimensions of the empowerment framework in identifying capability indicators to formulate survey questions. Data were collected from smallholders in six regions in Tanzania. The analysis utilized measures of life satisfaction and results showed that about half of the variation in the dependent variable, satisfaction with capabilities, was explained by the model. Backward elimination analysis confirmed that life satisfaction is multidimensional. Robustness test confirmed a positive relationship between satisfaction and capabilities. Overall, results confirmed ICs are multidimensions, their improvement empowers farmers in agricultural marketing.

71. Dissemination of information to dairy farmers in Jammu and Kashmir: Developing a web module

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Singh, Jaspal (author), Jumar, Pranav (author), and Singh, Amandheep (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-11-03
Published:: International: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12195
Journal Title:: Information development
Journal Title Details:: Vol 36, Issue 4, 2020
Notes:: 13 pages., The Internet is booming with need-based information and communication technologies (ICTs) catering to the needs of a huge number of farmers. For dissemination of scientific dairy practices a need-based Web Module for Scientific Dairy Practices (WMSDP) was developed. A total of 120 farmers from Jammu District and 20 scientists from the Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu were selected by proportionate random sampling for assessing and prioritizing the information needs of the farmers. Information on healthcare management was highly required by the farmers, followed by information on fodder production and management, general management, nutrition and feeding, and least on breeding and reproduction. The scientists prioritized information on general management as most required, followed by information on healthcare management, breeding and reproduction, nutrition and feeding, and least on fodder production and management. Keeping the information needs of the farmers and priority of the scientists in mind, an interactive IT-enabled web module was developed using the latest Microsoft dot (.) net technology. The perceived utility of WMSDP was calculated based on six indicators and the overall perceived utility score was found to be 11.18 out of 12.00. ICT tools like WMSDP can be an excellent medium for dissemination of required information to the farmers.

72. A review of soil fertility management communication in sub-Saharan Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Amoakohene, Margaret (author) and Nanaa Baah-Ofori, Rebecca (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021
Published:: Germany: Kassel Univ Press GMBH, Kassel, Germany
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12206
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol 122, No 1
Notes:: 12 pages., In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), declining soil fertility is among the factors affecting optimal food production. Although a number of interventions have been implemented to improve soil fertility management (SFM) in SSA, their adoption especially among small scale farmers has been low. Although the literature provides considerable evidence of socio-economic factors which influence adoption, the subject of how communication influences adoption of SFM remains under-explored. This paper therefore reviewed studies on SFM communication in SSA. The objectives were to identify the current focus of studies on SFM communication, the current definitions of communication which informed such studies, and the type of SFM practices being communicated in the SSA region. Using specific search terms, articles were collected from various databases and content analysed. The review revealed five main themes as the focus of current studies on SFM. The study also revealed two main interpretations of communication which in turn influence the use of either diffusion or participatory communication strategies for SFM communication. The review also showed a focus on integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) messages in the SSA area. The study concludes that while each of the two communication strategies has their individual strengths, farmers prefer participatory strategies. This is because participatory strategies foster interaction and greater understanding; thereby, increasing the likelihood of farmer adoption of SFM practices in SSA. The review concludes by calling for further research on the use of participatory communication to engage farmers about various SFM practices in SSA.

73. The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Emeana, Ezinne M. (author), Trenchard, Liz (author), and Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina (author)
Format:: unknown
Publication Date:: 2020-02
Published:: 2020-01-09: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12211
Journal Title:: Sustainability
Journal Title Details:: 2020, 12(2)
Notes:: 27 pages., The provision of information through mobile phone-enabled agricultural information services (m-Agri services) has the potential to revolutionise agriculture and significantly improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Africa. Globally, the benefits of m-Agri services include facilitating farmers’ access to financial services and sourcing agricultural information about input use, practices, and market prices. There are very few published literature sources that focus on the potential benefits of m-Agri services in Africa and none of which explore their sustainability. This study, therefore, explores the evolution, provision, and sustainability of these m-Agri services in Africa. An overview of the current landscape of m-Agri services in Africa is provided and this illustrates how varied these services are in design, content, and quality. Key findings from the exploratory literature review reveal that services are highly likely to fail to achieve their intended purpose or be abandoned when implementers ignore the literacy, skills, culture, and demands of the target users. This study recommends that, to enhance the sustainability of m-Agri services, the implementers need to design the services with the users involved, carefully analyse, and understand the target environment, and design for scale and a long-term purpose. While privacy and security of users need to be ensured, the reuse or improvement of existing initiatives should be explored, and projects need to be data-driven and maintained as open source. Thus, the study concludes that policymakers can support the long-term benefit of m-Agri services by ensuring favourable policies for both users and implementers.

74. Use of information and communication technologies by Vietnamese smallholders: Implications for extension strategies

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hoang, Hung Gia (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-02-18
Published:: International: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12212
Journal Title:: Information Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol.37(2)
Notes:: 9 pages., In order to facilitate the adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for accessing agricultural information by smallholders, it is critical to understand their perspectives on the use of ICT. However, few empirical studies have considered how smallholders utilise ICT in Central Vietnam. This research investigates the Central Vietnamese smallholders’ views on the extent of use of ICT for accessing agricultural information. A sample size of 250 smallholders was randomly selected from a total of 687 smallholders in Trieu Phong district, Central Vietnam. A two-section questionnaire was used to gather data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The smallholders used mobile phones, TV and radio networks/broadcasts as the common ICT tools, and these were also effective ICT tools for accessing agricultural information. Lack of knowledge and skills for using applications on mobile phones were the main challenge to the smallholders’ use of ICT. A statistically significant relationship, existing between the extent of mobile phone use and the smallholders’ age (χ = 10.04, p = 0.040), gender (χ = 5.99, p = 0.014) and the type of households (χ = 6.84, p = 0.033), was found. Similarly, there was a statistically significant relationship existing between the extent of radio network/broadcast use and the smallholders’ age (χ = 9.58, p = 0.048) and gender (χ = 4.83, p = 0.028).

75. Reliability of the Agricultural Extension and Technological Services among Rice Farmers in the Rural Areas of Tanzania

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: D. Kulyakwave, Peter (author), Shiwei, Xu (author), Wen, Yu (author), Sar, Sary (author), and Muyobozi, S. (author)
Format:: unknown
Publication Date:: 2021-05-21
Published:: South Africa: African Journals Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12213
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 25 No. 2 (2021)
Notes:: 14 pages., This study provided insights into the availability and use of agricultural information by small scale farmers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. The research used structured questionnaires to interview 240 rice farmers in the Mbeya region. The findings revealed that farmers accessed agricultural information from various agents including local government extension staff, neighbors and friends, advertisements, electronic media including the internet, television, radio, and other channels. The identified technological information application methods included by lectures, field demonstrations, exposure visits to various places, and printed production. The majority of farmers perceived to have dissatisfied (43%), strongly dissatisfied (25%), strongly satisfied (20%), satisfied (8%), and no opinions (4%) concerning accessibility to agricultural information and technological services. The majority of farmers claimed that both agricultural information and technological communication are strongly needed for agricultural performance. The study suggests that government and non-government organizations should collaborate to bridge the existing information-sharing gap between farmers and information providers.

76. Growing tiny publics: small farmers' social movement strategies

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Steup, Rosemary (author), Santhanam, Arvind (author), Logan, Marisa (author), Dombrowski, Lynn (author), and Makoto, Norman (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018-11
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12243
Journal Title:: Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction
Journal Title Details:: Volume 2, Issue CSCW
Notes:: 24 pages, Drawing from fieldwork of 14 small food farms in the Midwest, we describe the on-the-ground, practical challenges of doing and communicating sustainability when local food production is not well-supported. We illustrate how farmers enact learned and honed tactics of sustainability at key sites such as farmers' markets and the Internet with consumers. These tactics reveal tensions with dominant discourse from government, Big Ag, and popular culture. The success of these tactics depends on farmers having fortitude--control, resilience, and the wherewithal to be exemplars of sustainability. In our discussion, we highlight how the local farmers' social movement work constitutes loosely organized small groups connecting others to an amorphous idea of a sustainable society--one that sustains an environmental, economic, local, cultural, and physical way of life. Using Fine's concept of tiny publics, we identify design opportunities for supporting this less directed kind of social movement.

77. What makes a small farm successful? a review of success factors, needs, and challenges

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tritsch, Katie (author), Mix, Ken (author), Edwards, Michelle L. (author), and Legault, Eileen (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-06-16
Published:: United States: Clemson University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12294
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: V. 59, N. 3
Notes:: 8 pages, Small-scale farmers face unique challenges. In this review, we conceptualize small farm success by aggregating and categorizing results from recent (post-2000) literature on small farm success factors and producer needs assessments. Our findings suggest that small farm success is multifaceted and not limited to profitability. We find that small farms have a diverse range of needs, though little has been done to rank their importance. We conclude that future research would benefit from increased methodological transparency and a systematic approach to needs evaluation. We consider the role of Extension professionals regarding the continued success of small farms.

78. Information and communication technologies (ICT) towards agricultural development in rural areas: case of smallholder farmers in Umzimvubu local municipality of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa Authors

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Makaula, Z. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-05-25
Published:: South Africa: Academy of Science of South Africa
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12307
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 49 No. 1 (2021)
Notes:: 11 pages., This paper was initiated in order to find the usage and relevance of theInformation and Communication Technologies(ICT) by the smallholder farmers of the Umzimvubu Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A survey questionnaire was then developed to collect the relevant data from randomly selected six villages of Umzimvubu Local Municipality targeting 138 respondents. The questionnaires structure employed both closed and open-ended questions that were administered using a face to face interview, conducted on the sample population in each village. There seems to be a correlation between ICT usage and the economies of scale in agricultural development, where smallholder farmers tend to use less of highly modernized ICT, while commercial large scale farmers use more of the modernized ICT. This disparity amongst farmers is exacerbated in many areas by the differing support systems employed by the public extension services.

79. Adoption and intensity of use of mobile money among smallholder farmers in rural Ghana

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kofi Asravor, Richard (author), Boakye, Afia Nyarko (author), and Essuman, John (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-04-21
Published:: International: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12310
Journal Title:: Information Development
Journal Title Details:: Online First
Notes:: 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.

80. Using hybrid learning to improve educational programs for small-acreage farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: DePhelps, Colette (author), Newman, Soren (author), Golden, Lauren (author), and Mayes, Iris (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-08
Published:: United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12328
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: v. 57, n. 4
Notes:: 8 pages, A whole-farm planning course in Idaho has evolved from an in-person course offered by a single instructor in one location to an online course to a hybrid learning course that combines online learning with in-person and webinar components offered simultaneously at multiple sites across the state. Evaluation data suggest that all three approaches have been effective at increasing knowledge and skills. The hybrid learning model allows for using technology to leverage faculty and farmer expertise and increase participant numbers while maintaining in-person interaction and experiential learning. Findings support the concept of the hybrid learning model as a tool for Extension audiences in rural states.

81. Factors influencing smallholder farmers to participate in farmer-led research of agro-ecological practices in selected areas, Tanzania

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kihoma, Luambano (author), Churi, Ayubu J. (author), Sanga, Camilius A. (author), and Tisselli, Eugenio (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-10-22
Published:: International: Academic Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12336
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol.13(4)
Notes:: 11 pages., Declining crop productivity is a great challenge facing smallholder farmers in Tanzania. Agro-ecological practices can improve crop productivity in a sustainable way and produce healthy food among smallholder farmers. Initiation of “Farmer-Led Research of Agro-Ecological Practices” (FLRAG) may enhance farmers’ capacities for innovation and co-develop suitable agro-ecological practices. This study aimed at identifying factors influencing smallholder farmers to participate in FLRAG. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect qualitative and quantitative data from 90 smallholder farmers in Mvomero, Bagamoyo and Masasi districts in Tanzania. Data were also collected from key informants who were extension officers. The study identified that experience in farming, easiness in accessing agro-ecological inputs, interest in doing experiments and farm size ownership are the factors that substantially influence smallholder farmers to participate in FLRAG. Therefore, researchers are advised to select participants of FLRAG by considering the mentioned factors. Furthermore, farmers selected to participate in FLRAG are advised to the use of ugunduzi app” that was developed purposefully to enhance agro-ecological research in order to test and understand its potential on smoothing agro-ecological research activities.

82. Edu-Communication Strategies of Cashew Production in a Rural Ghanaian Community

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Anyarayor, B.K (author), Amadu, M.F. (author), and Alhassan, A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-10-03
Published:: Ghana: Extension Education Society
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12337
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension Education
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 32 No. 3
Notes:: 10 pages., This study examined the edu-communication strategies that agriculture extension service agencies use in the dissemination and promotion of innovation adoption among cashew farmers in the Kpandai district agricultural zones in Northern Ghana. A total of 140 cashew farmers were sampled using simple random sampling technique. Three District Agricultural Officers (DAO) and twenty-one satellite Agriculture Extension Officers (AEO) were also drawn into the sample. The results of the study show that, face to face interaction, field demonstration, entertainment- education through community radio broadcasting and Farmer Group Discussions (FGDs) were extensively and efficiently used by the AEOs to promote adoption of improved production technologies among cashew farmers. The study discovered that EduCom strategies contribute to higher rates of adoption and partly accounts for increased cashew yields in the study area. The indigenisation of agriculture extension services approaches using local language in the design and dissemination of adoption process is, highly recommended as a core tenet of technology dissemination if higher adoption rates are expected.

83. Rural Farmers' Problems Accessing Agricultural Information: A Case Study of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Obidike, Nnenna (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2011-11-01
Published:: United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12353
Journal Title:: Library Philosophy and Practice
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 660
Notes:: 12 pages, Rural farmers account for the greater part of the population of any developing country such as Nigeria. Governments of developing countries have a major responsibility of ensuring that there is adequate rural development in their various communities and local governments which would lead to effective and efficient agricultural systems that will not only supply food and animal protein but also foster the utilization of natural resources in a sustainable manner (CGIAR, 1995). When the rural farmers lack access to knowledge and information that would help them achieve maximum agricultural yield, they are not only grope in the dark but are driven to the urban centres in search of formal employment, as the only option for survival (Munyua, 2000). Blait (1996) pointed out that the least expensive input for improved rural agricultural development is adequate access to knowledge and information in areas of new agricultural technologies, early warning systems (drought, pests, diseases etc), improved seedlings, fertilizer, credit, market prices etc. There have been short-comings of traditional print and library based methods (Van and Fortier, 2000) of providing such agricultural information to rural farmers who are generally illiterate and relatively remote from formal sources of information (e.g. extension stations, libraries). Aina (2007) also, was of the opinion that farmers would benefit from global information, if information centres, are cited in rural areas complete with all information and communication gadgets. Rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu state are not noted to produce enough food, probably due to some constraints that lead to lack of access to timely and up-to-date information which would have enabled them to achieve optimal yield from their farmlands. Such information is highly desired by these farmers and can only be made available to them via extension workers, community libraries, state and local government agricultural agencies (ADP, ENADEP etc), e-mail or the World Wide Web (WWW) in a telecentre (Telecommons Development Group, 2000). In this modern day of information technology, telecentres provide the rural farmers with prompt and reliable information about what is happening in areas of improved seedlings, better methods of cultivation and fertilizer application, pest and weed control/eradication, new advances in livestock production and disease control etc. Where rural farmers are not faced with constraints in accessing agricultural information, traditional media such as rural radio, has been used in delivering agricultural messages to rural farmers (Munyua, 2000). Other ways of delivering these messages or information to the rural farmers include print, video, television, films, slides, pictures, drama, dance, folklore, group discussions, meetings, exhibitions and demonstrations (Munyua, 2000). The lack of access to basic agricultural knowledge and information by rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State which may be as a result of certain constraints has made these farmers to stick to their old traditional methods of farming system and animal husbandry practice, hence resulting in poor crop and livestock productivity. Information and knowledge are very vital in agricultural development of any community and where they are poorly disseminated as a result of certain constraints, the community’s agricultural development becomes highly impeded. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the constraints of the rural farmers in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State in accessing agricultural information.

84. Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Agricultural Community of Attabira area of Bargarh District, Odisha: A Survey

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Panda, Abinash (author), Rani Dash, Lipsa (author), and Panda, Debasmita (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-03
Published:: United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12355
Journal Title:: Library Philosophy and Practice
Notes:: 27 pages., The study on the information-seeking behavior of the agricultural community was undertaken in the attabira area of bargarh district of Odisha with objectives to study the different areas in which they require information frequently and determine the sources through which they rely on. It was found that most of the people are dependent upon agriculture in the attabira area. They started working at the age of 18. Most of the farmers (85.6%) of farmers opted for pooja seeds for cultivation. The study shows 7.36% of the respondents are facing difficulties in irrigation facilities. About 78.9% of the people are talking about MSP (Minimum support price). About 7.3% of farmers gathered information from social media, TV, Call centers, etc. It is observed that the highest numbers of people are talking from a nationalized bank. The farmers were getting information from various sources like TV media, print media, etc. The library plays a crucial role in the dissemination of knowledge. The farmer knowledge center was established where they could get their query solved. The knowledge centers need to provide the right information at the right time in a personal way. The result reveals that a large number of people of the attabira district are influenced by socio-economic variables.

85. Information Needs and Resource Utilization of Rice Farmers in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Iorver, Richard Tondo (author), Ternenge, Simon Tofi (author), Terlanga, Ugba (author), and Terkaimo, Akaaimo (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12375
Journal Title:: Library Philosophy and Practice
Journal Title Details:: Spring 2019
Notes:: 53 pages., The study was design to investigate the information needs and resources utilization of rice farmers in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria.. The study adopted descriptive research design. The population of the study comprises rice farmers in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The sample size of 70 rice farmers was drawn from the population using simple random sampling technique. A self-design questionnaire was used as instrument of data collection. Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyzed the collected data. The findings of the study indicated that, rice farmers need information. The study also indicated that, the information resources needed by rice farmers in Anyiin are journals and pamphlets. The findings of the study showed that, the sources of information used by rice farmers in the area under study are extension services, research institutes and public library. The study also showed that, the rice farmers need information to get improved varieties, modern farm technology, market location, agricultural loan and credit facilities. The information needs of the rice farmers under study are not being satisfied. The study showed that, the rice farmers are faced with the problem of high cost of information resources, inadequate funds and high level of illiteracy. The study concluded that a great number of rice farmers encountered difficulties in utilizing information resources to meet up their information needs. This is either because, most of the information resources are not adequately provided. The study recommended amongst others that, Government should organize and provide agricultural workshops for farmers. This is because, through this workshops and conferences, farmers will be trained on modern farming technique which in will help improve their farmer produces.

86. Farmers' Perception Analysis about the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Agriculture Extension services of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Salam, Abdus (author) and Khan, Muhammad Zafarullah (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-07-25
Published:: Pakistan: Smith and Franklin Publishers
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12381
Journal Title:: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 36 Issue 3
Notes:: 7 pages., Agricultural extension as a mean of dissemination of agricultural latest technologies to the farming communities and motivating them for its adoption can be achieved through better use of communication among relevant stakeholders. The existing extension and communication strategies used in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have many limitations. The present study was thus conducted to compare and analyze the farmers’ perceptions regarding use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture extension at three selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Based on the multi-stage sampling technique, population for the current study, 3 zones from 5 were purposively selected on the basis of their different agricultural condition. Selection of sample size was made using Yamane formula. The number of respondents as per formula was confined to 188 respondents in district Mansehra, 153 respondents in district Swabi and 59 respondents from district Karak, where data were collected randomly. Five point Likert scale was used to record responses of the respondents. The results of the study clearly showed that majority of the farmers in the study area were literate (73%) and comparatively was greater in district Mansehra (77%), while least in district Swabi (64%) using ICT for agricultural purposes and observed a significant correlation between the literacy and ICT i.e. 0.77. The results also showed that 39% respondents from District Mansehra, and 33% from district Swabi were fulltime farmers, used ICT. The results also showed that regarding the effectiveness of ICT tools in crop production, printed material; TV and Mobile Phone were used in districts Mansehra, Karak and Swabi respectively. Similarly, it was also inferred that ICT is very effective tool for communication between farmers and with extension workers. Hence, ICT is the most effective and useful tool for the improvement of the overall extension delivery system, so agriculture extension department may establish a formal structure to initiate free SMS and voice message service in the easiest and understandable languages for increasing overall coverage of the extension delivery.

87. Knowledge management best practices among rice farmers in selected areas of Tanzania

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mtega, Wulystan Pius (author) and Ngoepe, Mpho (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-07-19
Published:: South Africa: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12389
Journal Title:: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 52 (2)
Notes:: 14 pages., For improved rice production, farmers need access to timely and relevant knowledge at each stage of the rice-cropping calendar. To understand how farmers involve themselves in acquiring and sharing agricultural knowledge, this study investigates how knowledge management best practices can be enhanced among rice farmers in selected rural areas of Tanzania. Data were collected from 226 rice farmers in three districts (Kilombero, Kilosa and Mvomero) of the Morogoro region in Tanzania. Findings from structured questionnaires and focused group discussion indicate that rice farmers accessed, shared and used agricultural knowledge. It was found that individual, institutional and knowledge factors influence the performance of agricultural knowledge management activities. For enhancing effective agricultural knowledge management, it is important to take into consideration the knowledge management best practices, which include developing effective knowledge infrastructure, involving different stakeholders and using appropriate information and communications technology tools in enhancing access to knowledge. It is concluded that effective knowledge management activities increase the level of adoption of agricultural innovations. It is recommended that the proposed agricultural knowledge management best practices be adapted for improving rice production.

88. Sustaining agriculture with information: An assessment of rural citrus farmers’ information behaviour

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hassan, Ali (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-07-14
Published:: United States: Sage Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12411
Journal Title:: Information Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 37 Issue (3)
Notes:: 15 pages, Information needs, surveys, extension agents, information seeking, small farmers, small farms, development, Pakistan(Southern Asia), This study investigated information behaviour of citrus farmers residing in rural areas of Sargodha, Pakistan. The data were collected from 120 adult male farmers through face to face interviews using preformulated questionnaire and analyzed by applying descriptive statistics. The citrus farmers required information on land preparation, soil fertility management, better citrus varieties, citrus trees protection, harvesting techniques, pest and diseases control, fertilizer applications, plantation techniques, finance, Government policies and programs, better pricing, labor information in the locality, agrochemicals, how to stop fruit drop, weather, irrigation management, pesticides application, health and safety information, buyers, collections and traders, and herbicide. These farmers relied overwhelmingly on their prior experience and interpersonal relationships such as fellow farmers/friends, progressive farmers, for agricultural information. More than two-third of these farmers did not seem to have any contact, either written or oral, with government agricultural officials. The farmers’ farm size, education, and income appeared to predict their information needs and sources. Lack of timely access, inaccessibility, unawareness, bad timing of television programs, poor economic conditions, infrequent visits of extension staff, low level of education and language barriers were the primary obstacles in information acquisition. The results will be helpful for extension agents and librarians of the public libraries in the area while making adjustments for efficient and effective information delivery. This study would make a contribution in the existing research on farmers’ crop-specific information behaviour.

89. Factors influencing the information needs and information access channels of farmers: An empirical study in Guangdong, China

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lu, Yonghe (author) and Chen, Yongshan (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-01-08
Published:: China: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12412
Journal Title:: Journal of Information Science
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 46 Issue (1)
Notes:: 20 pages., China, Information needs, access, rural communities, small farms, information channels, surveys, development, Information plays an important role in meeting the quantitative and qualitative goals of agriculture in the 21st century. As an emerging economy in a developing continent, China has already made many interventions to use information technology to support agricultural development. However, information service in some rural areas is still severely limited. The overall impact of the changing information environment on the farmers’ information needs and access channels has not been fully studied. Thus, this study systematically investigates the characteristics of the information needs and channels of farmers in Guangdong, China. We have collected 4006 questionnaire samples and used correlation analysis to explore the relationships between farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. The results indicate that individual characteristic factors, social factors and family factors have different degrees of influence on farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. These findings can provide a reference for information construction in the rural areas of Guangdong Province and thus promote its economic development. This study can also provide useful insights for policy-makers and researchers from other developing countries to formulate implementation plans to promote agricultural development.

90. The influence of public relations on food security among cocoa marketers in Ondo State, Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Abdulganiyu Salau, Shehu (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-12-28
Published:: Poland: Poznan University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12416
Journal Title:: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol 62 No 4 (2021)
Notes:: 4 pages., Food insecurity is quickly becoming a key topic in national and international debates. Consequently, series of studies have been conducted on food security and its determinants. However, none of these studies have measured food security among cocoa marketers and have considered the influence of public relations (PR) on food security among cocoa marketers in Nigeria Thus, this study measured food security status and determined the influence of PR strategies on food security of marketers. A combination of purposive and random sampling techniques were employed to select 100 respondents for this study. The analytical tools include: descriptive statistics, food security index and logistic regression analysis. The result revealed that majority of the sampled respondents were males with an average household size of 8 persons. The food security index indicated that 65% and 35% of the respondents were food insecure and secure respectively. The logistic regression indicated that about 53% of the total variation in food security of the wholesale cocoa marketers was accounted for by the estimated explanatory variables. Age of the respondents, marketing margin, household size, credit access and PR strategies were the critical determinants of food security among cocoa marketers in the area. Government should provide PR tools at subsidized rate as well as train marketers on the effective use of these tools. Policies to address irregular network and high airtime tariff challenges associated with the adoption of PR strategies in the country must be supported. Policy aimed at reducing household size should be encouraged.

91. Adoption Determinants of Agricultural Extension Communication Channels in Emergency and Non-emergency Situations in Ghana

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Bawa, Kambersua (author), Abukari, Abdul-Basit Tampuli (author), Awuni, Joseph Agebase (author), and Yildiz, Fatih (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-01-21
Published:: International: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12426
Journal Title:: Cogent Food & Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 7 Issue 1
Notes:: 15 pages., The determinants of agricultural extension communication channel usage depend on several factors but have not been explored in the context of emergency (Fall Armyworm outbreak) and non-emergency situations. A multistage purposive sampling technique was used to select 318 farmers, focusing on the districts and the communities with the highest reported cases of fall armyworm infestation. Descriptive statistics and a multivariate probit analysis were used in the analysis of the data. The results showed an increase in the intensity of channels’ usage in the emergency situation. It was also found that fertilizer and improved seeds were the most common extension need. Channels are found to be more complementary in the emergency case. In both situations, some factors explaining the choices of these channels varied, while others agreed. The study recommends multiple channels are made available and that time-consuming channels irrespective of their effectiveness should be avoided by extensionists in emergency situations.

92. The Role of Social Media Applications in Palm Oil Extension Services in Malaysia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Peng, Tan Say (author), Lyndon, Novel (author), Hashim, Khairuman (author), and Aman, Zaki (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: Malaysia: UKM Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12428
Journal Title:: Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 91 (3)
Notes:: 21 pages, The Malaysian palm oil industry faces many challenges, especially in agricultural technology at the plantation level because smallholders have trouble getting detailed information and the latest data on the palm oil industry issues. More efficient extension services are needed in meeting the need to increase knowledge. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the best method to accelerate agricultural technology transfer from research institutions to smallholders. Growing concerns about the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on health have prompted development agents to change the course and landscape of their delivery to social media application as a new norm socialisation agent. The study aims to examine the role of information and communication technology as a tool for developing new norms in conveying information and empowering smallholders’ knowledge. This study uses a qualitative approach through content analysis on several reports from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The study found that the use of social media platforms among Malaysians is high, thus the level of application of technology and palm oil information needs to be improved through social media applications. The government needs to develop social media applications that are friendly, easily accessible and the information presented is easy to understand. The implication of this study is that the use of information and communication technology will change the pattern of expansion of the palm oil sector in Malaysia in the future.

93. The use of local knowledge in agricultural extension: A systematic review of the literature

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hainzer, Kirt (author), Hugh Brown, Philip (author), and O’Mullan, Catherine (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-01-31
Published:: United States of America: Academic Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12434
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol.14(1)
Notes:: 12 pages, Smallholder farms are complex systems, constantly adapting to context and rely on local, place-based knowledges. The vital role of local knowledge in smallholder farming systems has seen attempts throughout low- and middle-income countries to entwine local knowledge with scientific knowledge to improve outcomes from agricultural extension. Using a systematic review and exploratory meta-synthesis of selected literature, this research explored the use of local knowledge in agricultural extension. The synthesis found local knowledge plays a vital role in the adoption of new technologies or practices because as the dominant form of knowledge in communities they give learners confidence and they provide a context upon which new information can be introduced. However, effective use of local knowledge requires a realistic perspective which recognises that some combination of local and scientific knowledge, developed in a participatory process, will likely result in extension delivering greater outcomes to farmers.

94. Information and communication technologies (ICTs): The potential for enhancing the dissemination of agricultural information and services to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mapiye, Obvious (author), Makombe, Godswill (author), Molotsi, Annelin (author), Dzama, Kennedy (author), and Mapiye, Cletos (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-12-21
Published:: South Africa: SAGE Journals
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12436
Journal Title:: Information Development
Journal Title Details:: I-21
Notes:: 21 pages, The transformation of smallholder farming is poised to be one of the key drivers of achieving the dual objectives of food security and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Smallholder farmers account for between 60–80% of the food produced in the region but face many challenges that impede their productivity. Such challenges include a lack of timely access to appropriate agricultural information and services, which results in poor decision-making, particularly in addressing challenges and responding effectively to opportunities. In that context, the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in improving accessibility to appropriate agricultural information and services presents substantial prospects for transforming the productivity and livelihoods of the farmers. Currently, the region experiences massive penetration and propagation of mobile and web-based applications. However, there is a dearth of compelling, comprehensive reviews evaluating their importance in enhancing agricultural information and services dissemination to smallholder farmers. Therefore, the current review explores the potential of enhancing agricultural information and services dissemination to smallholder farmers through ICTs and highlights gaps in their development and deployment in SSA. Five existing mobile applications used to disseminate agricultural information and services to smallholder farmers were identified, and their advantages, limitations, and opportunities were discussed. These were Esoko, iCow, Community Knowledge Workers, WeFarm and DigiFarm. The development and deployment of user-driven mobile applications that provide curated skill-sharing platforms, encourage farmers to give feedback to extension systems in real-time and promote the participation of women and youth in agriculture are recommended. Keywords

95. Influence of public agricultural extension on technology adoption by small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Worth, S. (author) and Masere, T.P. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-11
Published:: South Africa: SciELO
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12446
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 49 No. 1 (2021)
Notes:: 18 pages, This paper presents the findings of challenges facing Zimbabwe’s extension services and how these have affected the adoption of technologies they render to small-scale farmers. This study uses a critical review of relevant literature on Zimbabwe’s primary public extension agency (AGRITEX). Additionally, 21 key informant interviews (KIIs) were conducted to corroborate data collected in secondary research on extension approaches currently in use, the key factors affecting technology adoption, and the technology adoption process of small-scale farmers. The study found AGRITEX’s major challenges to be poor funding, poor remuneration and incentives for extension personnel, lack of in-service training, lack of appropriate technology, as well as poor operational resources like transport to reach all farmers. Consequently, services offered to small-scale farmers were compromised, which led to poor adoption of recommended technologies. Furthermore, the study determined that key factors influencing technology adoption are related to the farmers’ circumstances, the operating environment, and the attributes of technology itself. As a lasting solution to poor technology adoption, an adaptive extension system that promotes building the capacity of extension workers and researchers, as well as embracing farmers and their indigenous knowledge, is proposed

96. Information from markets near and far: Mobile phones and agricultural markets in Niger

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Aker, J. C. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2010-06-01
Published:: United States: American Economic Association
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12456
Journal Title:: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 2(3)
Notes:: 14 pages, Price dispersion across markets is common in developing countries. Using novel market and trader-level data, this paper provides estimates of the impact of mobile phones on price dispersion across grain markets in Niger. The introduction of mobile phone service between 2001 and 2006 explains a 10 to 16 percent reduction in grain price dispersion. The effect is stronger for market pairs with higher transport costs. (JEL O13, O33, Q11, Q13)

97. Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: Assessing the effects on production and wellbeing

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hermann, Raoul (author), Ciani, Federico (author), Burchi, Franchesco (author), and Biggeri, Mario (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018-08-01
Published:: International: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12457
Journal Title:: Food Policy
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 79
Notes:: 15 pages, Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by involving them in the production of high-quality durum wheat and linking them to the pasta industry via farmers’ cooperatives. Using primary data collected in 2014 and retrospective information, this paper investigates the AVCPO’s effects on the quantity of cereal production, the share of cereals that have been sold through cooperatives, food security, and education. In order to account for potential violations of the exclusion restriction assumption, an instrumental variable approach is applied, together with three additional estimation strategies. The results suggest that the project has had a large and positive effect on gross and net values of cereal production per hectare, as well as on the share of production sold to pasta makers through cooperatives. These benefits accrue equally to land-rich and land-poor farmers. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the AVCPO has improved educational outcomes and reduced food insecurity, without affecting crop rotation practices. Overall, our findings point to the effectiveness of the project. Before replicating or scaling up this intervention, however, it is necessary to understand how to better involve poorer farmers and which adjustments are needed if the areas selected have a lower potential than Bale Zone.

98. The impacts of information on returns from farming: evidence from a nationally representative farm survey in India

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Devesh, Roy (author), Pratap, S. (author), Kumar, Shiv (author), and Negi, Digvijay S. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015-05-01
Published:: International: Wiley Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12458
Journal Title:: Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol 46, Issue 4
Notes:: 12 pages, Using a nationally representative sample of farm households from India, this paper examines the impact of use of information on net farm incomes. Employing methodologies that mitigate potential biases in the estimation of the impact, the empirical results show that farmers who use information realize over 12% higher net returns per hectare. The paper also establishes a pecking order in access to information. Small farmers and those at the bottom of social hierarchy (based on caste) have access to fewer information sources, and they depend more on informal social networks and input dealers for their information needs. The larger farmers and those from upper caste rely relatively more on sources such as radio, television and newspaper.

99. The Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture among Small-Scale Farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Abegunde, Victor (author), Sibanda, Melusi (author), and Obi, Aburuchukwu (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-03-01
Published:: United States of America: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12470
Journal Title:: Climate
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 7 Issue 11
Notes:: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as a credible alternative to tackle food insecurity under the changing climate is gaining wide acceptance. However, many developing countries have realized that concepts that have been recommended as solutions to existing problems are not suitable in their contexts. This paper synthesizes a subset of literature on CSA in the context of small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa as it relates to the need for CSA, factors influencing CSA adoption, and the challenges involved in understanding and scaling up CSA. Findings from the literature reveal that age, farm size, the nature of farming, and access to extension services influence CSA adoption. Many investments in climate adaptation projects have found little success because of the sole focus on the technology-oriented approach whereby innovations are transferred to farmers whose understanding of the local farming circumstances are limited. Climate-smart agriculture faces the additional challenge of a questionable conceptual understanding among policymakers as well as financing bottlenecks. This paper argues that the prospects of CSA in small-scale agriculture rest on a thorough socio-economic analysis that recognizes the heterogeneity of the small farmer environment and the identification and harnessing of the capacities of farming households for its adoption and implementation

100. Drivers and Constraints to the Adoption of Organic Leafy Vegetable Production in Nigeria: A Livelihood Approach

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Adbegboyega, J.A. (author), Olabisi, L.S. (author), Liverpool-Tassie, L.W. (author), and Delate, K. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-12-21
Published:: United States: MTDI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12471
Journal Title:: Sustainability
Journal Title Details:: 12(1), 96
Notes:: Nigeria, the seventh most populous country in the world, is plagued by livelihood challenges such as poverty and food insecurity, which are more pervasive among farming households and rural communities. Organic farming is being promoted by some domestic non-governmental organizations as a means of addressing the problem of poverty and food insecurity among farming households and rural communities in the country. Promoters consider organic farming to be well-suited to smallholder farmers’ socio-economic conditions in Nigeria, and that it can help improve their livelihood conditions through increased agricultural productivity and farm income. However, the adoption of the technology by smallholder farmers has been underwhelming, for reasons yet to be studied. Using a livelihood framework and through a case study of farmers in Ibadan, Oyo State, this study qualitatively explores and provides insights into the factors that influence, constrain, and gender the adoption of organic farming in Nigeria. Overall, it was found that a mix of factors, which include institutional considerations, farmers’ livelihood assets and vulnerability contexts, their livelihood activities, and gender-related variables shaped adoption decision-making. The policy implications of the findings were outlined.

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