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52. The use of social media technologies to create, preserve, and disseminate indigenous knowledge and skills to communities in East Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Owiny, Sylvia A. (author), Mehta, Khanjan (author), and Maretzki, Audrey N. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- International Journal of Communicaitons
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10904
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 8: 234–247
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in rural Africa. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap experienced in rural Africa. Other challenges facing oral cultures are the disappearance of traditional knowledge and skills due to memory loss or death of elders and the deliberate or inadvertent destruction of indigenous knowledge. The rapidly increasing use of social media and mobile technologies creates opportunities to form local and international partnerships that can facilitate the process of creating, managing, preserving, and sharing of knowledge and skills that are unique to communities in Africa. This article proposes the use of social media and mobile technologies (cell phones) in the creation, preservation, and dissemination of indigenous knowledge and discusses the role of libraries in the integration of social media technologies with older media that employ audio and audiovisual equipment to reach a wider audience.
53. To free ourselves we must free ourselves
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Penniman, Leah (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- United States: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11871
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(3) : 521-522
- Notes:
- 2 pages, We tossed our soiled shovels into the back of the pickup truck and took one last satisfied look at the backyard garden we built for Ronya Jackson and her seven children in Troy, NY. The siblings were excitedly tucking peas and spinach into the fresh earth as we headed home to nearby Soul Fire Farm to tend the crops that would be distributed to neighbors in need. Our sacred mission is to end racism and injustice in the food system, which we do by getting land, gardens, train-ing, and fresh food to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), including refugees and immigrants, survivors of mass incarceration, and others impacted by state violence.As Mama Fannie Lou Hamer said, “When you have 400 quarts of greens and gumbo soup canned for the winter, no one can push you around or tell you what to say or do.” Before, during, and after the outbreak, food apartheid dis-proportionately impacts (BIPOC) communities who also face higher vulnerability to COVID-19 due to factors like shared housing, lack of access to health care, environmental racism, job layoffs, immigration status, employment in the wage economy without worker protections, and more. This pandemic is exacerbating existing challenges and lays bare the cracks in the system that prevent many of us from having anything canned up for this metaphorical winter. Our society is called to account. Is now finally the time when we will catalyze the 5 major shifts needed to bring about a just and sustainable food system?
54. Towards promotion and dissemination of indigenous knowledge: A case of NIRD
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tella, Rama Devi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30136
- Journal Title:
- The International Information and Library Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 39 (2007): 185-193
55. Will St. Louis-grown GMOs help East African farmers avoid food shortages? It's complicated
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Buscaren, Durrie (author)
- Format:
- Radio script
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10-14
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07703
- Notes:
- Online script provides link to the radio program (7:00), Script retrieved online via WILL Radio/TV/Online. 10 pages.
56. Winrock #8
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
- Format:
- File
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes8 Document Number: D09069
- Notes:
- Includes Documents C12667 "Setting minds in motion in the developing world" and C12668 "Training for agricultural research in Pakistan". In 4 folders in the box., Francis C. Byrnes Collection
57. ‘Communication sovereignty’ as resistance: strategies adopted by women farmers amid the agrarian crisis in India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-04
- Published:
- India: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10354
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communication Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(1) : 24-46
- Notes:
- 23 pages., Via online journal., This study draws on a culturally centered collaboration with a community of dalit women farmers in South India who were organized in a cooperative in their collective resistance against the corporatization of agriculture. Situated in the backdrop of the epidemic of farmer suicides in the region, this manuscript examines how those at the margins of global neoliberal transformations symbolically and materially make sense of and resist these transformations. The voices of the women farmers disrupt the underlying neoliberal assumptions that undergird the importation of cash crop agriculture into a subsistence and community-centered farming culture. They depict the ways in which Western cash crop agriculture disrupts community, food security, local health care systems, and the unique gender relations. Moreover, the communication advocacy work carried out by the women seeks to transform agricultural policy through material interventions as alternative practices of agriculture that challenge the hegemony of cash-based individualized agriculture.
58. “Organic is more of an American term... we are traditional farmers”: discourses of place-based organic farming, community, heritage, and sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hoffmann, Jeffrey Alan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: D10729
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(6): 807-824
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., The following study looks at how traditional, organic, cooperative farmers starting a new farming cooperative in the US Southwest communicate about their farming as a set of (sustainable) cultural practices. The study draws on environmental communication theory, the theory of the coordinated management of meaning, and Vandana Shiva’s three-tiered economic model to construct a communication-based framework through which to view farmers’ stories about sustainability. This framework is productive, showing how some Nuevo Mexicano farmers (and others) orient toward farming, sustenance, and human-nature relationships through community, family, heritage, and education. Moreover, in addition to a conceptualization of sustainability as specific practices for nurturing and enduring in environments, communities, and organizations/institutions, sustainability can be understood as embedded ecocultural and historical experience with cross-cultural parallels in land-based communities. This study advances the ethical duty of environmental communication to better understand the ways in which environmental discourse and ecocultural and material realities are imbricated, as well as the call for such discursive study to be grounded in phenomenological experience of the natural world.