daniel osgood assistant extension specialist/assistant professor
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Information, Extension, and Regional Development Spatial Spillovers. Individual vs Coordinated Decisionmaking. Daniel Osgood Assistant Extension Specialist/Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of Arizona. Example: Weather information. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Information, Extension, and Regional Development
Spatial Spillovers.Individual vs Coordinated Decisionmaking
Daniel OsgoodAssistant Extension Specialist/Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of Arizona
Example: Weather information
Agricultural weather information
• Agricultural weather systems– AgriMET, AZMET, CIMIS, LAIS– frost and climate forecasting
• Popular in spite of more precise alternatives
• Private systems limited to value added
• Stand alone private systems rare, short-lived
• Why?
Precision, Profits, and Waste
• Precision technologies
• Information and application
• Public good market failures: Pirating
Conservation Mechanisms
• Extension provision of information– Addresses market failures– Reduces waste– Improves agricultural viability
• Taxes, fees, regulation– Info can out perform taxes, fees– Often taxes, fees, regulation not feasible
• Cooperation: Mexican Ejidos
Extension and Regional Coordination
Example: Yuma Pinmap
Extension as Neutral Moderator
• Yuma pinmap is self-enforced by competing growers
• Required extension as neutral moderator
• Improves productivity
• 90 percent of World Broccoli Seed
• Growers actually requested more regulation
• Growers use to reduce liability
• Enables smaller players to have equal access
• Similar to: Online Water Market
Coordination with Extension Expertise
Example: Pest Management
Impacts
• Improve productivity
• Reduce costs
• Reduce pesticide use
• Prevent pest spread, identify sources
• Document responsible behavior
• Cotton application
Tension at the Ag/Urban Interface
Points Dithered for anonymity
Benefits of Regional Coordination
• Coordination allows reduced pest use– Particularly in sensitive areas
• Agriculture shows responsible behavior
• Proactive cooperation
• Less tension
Endangered species and Urban Development
Endangered Species
• Regulation that does not address information issues may lead to unintended behavior
Climate Education and Agriculture
Example: Ranch viability and drought
Will this ranch survive?
• Drought has driven cattle off range
• Ranchers must decide how to restock
• Ranchers must decide if they should restock
• Retirement vs Bankruptcy
Extension and Information
• Drought Forecast (CLIMAS)
• Educate on climate (CLIMAS)
• Risk management education (RightRisk)
• Post drought option decision support (Ranching for Profitability)
• Regional coordination:– moving cattle, working with agencies– land use change, multifunctionality
Ranch coordination
Hobby Agriculture
Example: Fragmentation of rangelands by ranchettes
Sales 1991
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1992
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1993
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1994
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1995
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1996
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1997
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1998
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 1999
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Sales 1991 - 2000
Source: Yavapai, MIS
Information and Hobby Agriculture
• Fragmentation, not managed for profits
• Brings money but disturbs Ag Community
• Destroy amenity they are seeking– Ranchettes: value ranching, dislike isolation
• Extension roles– Information on ranchette management– Assist in regional coordination
Information Technology and Underserved Stakeholders
Technology and the Underserved
• High Technology. Underserved clientele may not have: – access to– familiarity with– uses for
• Technology can cause imbalance in efficiently evolved management systems
Technology and Underserved
• Eye Openers:– Pinmap interface– Mexican subsistence farmers– Ranchers and first time computer use
• Stakeholders are intelligent
• Information tech important in isolated areas
Information Technology
• Systems must be directly applicable to management issue
• Technology constraints must be recognized (e.g. bandwidth, computer power/access)
• Must update in-person institutions
• Serve only to support in-person outreach
• Make interface similar to low-tech solution
Conclusions:Spatial information
• Ag. Production– Pest, pollination, weather, climate, quality,
water and land
• Ag/Urban/Environmental/Recreational– Multifunctionality, identify win-win,
cooperation, evidence of good behavior
ConclusionsExtension and Regional Coordination
• Some Extension roles– Neutral mediator, communications forum, expertise, inform
policy, step in where private entities cannot
• Information technology– + and - for small stakeholders– must be appropriate– Only is support for in-person outreach
• Regional development, spatial info: Coordinate decisionmaking
Advanced Decision Support Tool
A Demonstration of the Role of Technology
advanced decision tool.swf