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212. How technology features influence public response to new agrifood technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ronteltap, Amber (author), Reinders, Machiel, J. (author), Van Dijk, Suzanne M. (author), Heijting, Sanne (author), Van der Lans, Ivo A. (author), and Lotz, Lambertus A. P. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10266
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(4) : 643-672
- Notes:
- 30 pages., Via online journal., New agrifood technologies are often difficult to grasp for the public, which may lead to resistance or even rejection. Insight into which technology features determine public acceptability of the technology could offer guidelines for responsible technology development. This paper systematically assesses the relative importance of specific technology features for consumer response in the agrifood domain in two consecutive studies. Prominent technology features were selected from expert judgment and literature. The effects of these features on consumer evaluation were tested in a consumer study (n = 745). Fictitious technologies were used to avoid any uncontrollable contextual influences that existing new technologies may evoke. Results show that technologies that were seen as more natural and newer were perceived less risky, more beneficial, and were evaluated more positively. Technologies applied to food were judged to be more beneficial, but also more risky than those applied to non-food. Technologies used in the production process were perceived to be less risky and evaluated more positively than those used in the product. Technologies owned by the market leader were perceived to be more beneficial, and evaluated more positively than those that were freely available. In a next study (n = 440), effects of the technology features on consumer response were tested for existing new agrifood technologies. This study replicated the results for perceived naturalness, perceived newness, and place in the production process where the technology is applied. However, in contrast to the first study, we did not find an effect of application area (food versus non-food) and technology ownership.
213. ICT Leadership Education for Agricultural Extension in Sri Lanka: Assessing a Technology Stewardship Training Program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gow, Gordon (author), Dissanayeke, Uvasara (author), Jayathilake, Chandana K (author), Kumarasinghe, Isuri (author), Ariyawanshe, Kumudu (author), and Rathnayake, Sanduni (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Barbados: The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12390
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Education and Development using ICT
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 16 (1)
- Notes:
- 19 pages., This article reports on a technology stewardship training program to promote ICT leadership development with agricultural extension practitioners in Sri Lanka. Researchers used a multi-method approach with a single embedded case study. Data were collected using a pre-course survey, formal course evaluation, classroom observation, and semi-structured interviews with participants. Kirkpatrick's four-level evaluation model was used to structure analysis of the results. Findings from this study show a positive response to technology stewardship training among agricultural extension practitioners in the course, that learning objectives of the course are achievable when offered as an in-service training program, that self-confidence with ICT is improved, and that some participants applied their learning in a post-course activity. Results from the study also raise a number of considerations for future course design in order to better support digital leadership development in practice. Technology stewardship training shows promise as a form of ICT leadership education for agricultural communities of practice in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. This article contributes to a better understanding of the role of social learning among communities of practice in agricultural extension services, and in contributing to effective use of ICT for agriculture development more broadly.
214. ICT: A new horizon in Indian culture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nehra, V. (author) and Nehra, K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26399
- Journal Title:
- IETE Technical Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(5): 395-400
- Notes:
- 6 p.
215. ICTs adoption for accessing agricultural information: evidence from Indian agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Das, Bibhunandini (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07529
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics Research Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 (2): 199-208
216. IFDC's experience in usiing simulations in its training programs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kerry F. Byrnes (author)
- Format:
- Special Report
- Publication Date:
- 1984-05-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Green Revolution Game File Document Number: D01647
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, International Fertilizer Development Center, 43 pages.
217. INFORMATION NEEDS AND SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF FARMERS IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kaske, Deribe (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-23
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12361
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Fall 2020
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Information is an important factor in agricultural development. The study investigated farmers’ agricultural information needs and seeking behavior in the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional research design was employed and the study population included all household heads of the eight sampled villages in four administrative zones. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to obtain a sample of 320 farmers. Quantitative data were collected and research adopted descriptive statistics. The results revealed information on crop production technologies; information about diseases, pests and weather forecasts, and market information were identified as the top three most important types of agricultural information. Similarly, crop production technologies; animal husbandry technologies, and information about agricultural inputs were the information farmers seek frequently. Farmers use development agents as the first source of agricultural information. All of the respondents communicate with development agents face-to-face.
218. IOT Solutions for Farmers on Livestock Management in Smart City: A Bibliometric Survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gaikwad, Mohini M (author) and Harikrishnan, R (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05-01
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12357
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Summer 2021
- Notes:
- 29 pages., With modernize city approach, concept of IOT – Internet of things achieving popularity and becoming major source for smart innovations. Added advantage of internet application the technology enables sensing, processing and execution automatically and remotely on finger tip. IOT makes sure an easy availability and access to the information available at any corner of the world. In growing countries like INDIA, increase in urbanization led infrastructure expansion; most of the urban cities are now expanding in nearby towns and villages. So towns and villages are merging and becoming part of nearby cities. So the farms, farmer community and their domestic animals (livestock) are surrounded by concrete and eastern life style. Purpose behind this survey is to provide a bibliographic survey on IOT managed smart solutions to the farmers on their day-to-day work, loose housing, dairy farm and managing livestock to balance quality of life style in urban society towards achieving smart city target
219. Impact Assessment of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture: Application of The Ambitec-TICs Method
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pinto, Daniela Maciel (author), De Oliveira, Priscilla (author), Minitti, André Fachini (author), Mendes, Angelo Mansur (author), Vilela, Gisele Freitas (author), Castro, Gustavo Spadotti Amaral (author), Nogueira, Lauro Rodrigues (author), Bogiani, Julio Cesar (author), Rocha, José Dilcio (author), Novaes, Renan Milagres Lage (author), de Barros, Inácio (author), and Rodrigues, Geraldo Stachetti (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08-30
- Published:
- Brazil: Association of Management
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12384
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Technology Management & Innovation
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 16 No. 2
- Notes:
- 12 pages., An extraordinary moment of agricultural modernization is currently underway due to innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this process, management precepts are renewed, fostering significant gains in efficiency, productivity, and sustainable use of natural resources and the environment. The growing supply of ICTs and the extension of connectivity in rural areas, with their transforming roles in productive practices and economic relations, bring about questions regarding their impacts. These technologies include precision positioning systems and large volume databases, electronic sensors of site-specific production and environmental conditions, repositories of relational data, statistical and crop forecasting software, methodologies and processes; web-based information services, among others. The assessment of impacts focused on ICTs for agriculture needs innovative approaches, due to the peculiarities of their applications, the different scales of their socioenvironmental scopes and, at the same time, the verification of effectiveness of institutional investments on research, development, and innovation (RD&I). Based on these premises, the objectives of this work are to present a ‘module of impact indicators for Information and Communication Technologies (Ambitec-TICs)’, and assess its application to six typical technology adoption cases resulting from agricultural RD&I projects. The results detail critical analyses of the contributions of the proposed module for the registration, interpretation, and communication of impacts, with recommendations for technology transfer and accountability in institutional Social Balance documentation.
220. Impact of a training program on participants' mastery of fertilizer-related subject matter: an evaluation of a fertilizer marketing and distribution course
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1979-08-25
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Presentations at Professional Meetings File Document Number: D01618
- Notes:
- Includes slides, Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Annual Meeting of the rural sociological society,31 pages with 20 slides.