Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00369
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Via online. 3 pages, "...instead of focusing on what rural India should be learning and doing, perhaps we should focus instead on what it can teach us."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27070
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Posted at http://www.scidev.net > indigenous knowledge, Via Science and Development Network. 3 pages., "More should be done to build bridges between formal scientific research and informal grassroots innovations."
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "The concept of IPRs is tied to a neo-liberal worldview that says that everything in the world - material goods, creative works, even DNA - can and should be privatised."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24452
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Retrieved June 28, 2006, at http://www.grain.org/jargon/?id=7&docu=%252Fseedling%252Findex%252Ecfm%3Fid%3D196%2b, 2 pages., Expresses concern that the concept of traditional knowledge is being diminished as "fixed, mummified, and unfit for modern times." "What is really being done is crushing or violating the right of many peoples of the world to continue freely creating, promoting, protection, exchanging and enjoying knowledge."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23361
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College class resource. 13 pages., In section on labor skills the author notes how the new Nike assembly worker (trained in two hours) transferred from the rural sector loses mastery of "a great many skills such as a knowledge of the land, fertilizer, animals, tools, farm machinery, construction skills, etc."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00802
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Review of an event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 18-21, 2010. 14 pages. Via Prolinnova Europe.
