AgComm Teaching, Perspectives about the Programme for Integrated Rural Development in the Humid Tropics (PRODERITH)during 1979-1984. Among the points made: "Traditional knowledge is essential for agricultural research."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07331
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Pages 21-53 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., This historical analysis traces predominance of emphasis on applied types of expert-based knowledge and information, as well as technological innovation packages from outside the developing countries themselves. Author identifies questions about who decides which knowledge is regarded as crucial, is produced and shared, for what purpose and in whose interest. Extensive reference list.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07333
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Pages 119-143 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., Examines farmer adaptation to traditional weather knowledge and "modern" meteorological information.
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19151
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357 pages, (From the author's introduction) "If I have learned anything from this work, it is the simple fact that many of the problems faced by Native Americans today already were widely recognized in the 1800s. We seem to continue through repeated cycles in which issues remain the same and problems rarely are fully resolved. The roots of these challenges lie deep in our national history."
Via Association AGRIDEA., "Learning how small-scale farmers learn from the new technologies exhibited in Mekelle by their peers and by modern workshops and research centres made us realize how little the majority of 'educated' people in agricultural research and development understand what interests the farmers."
