Moss, Geoffrey (author / Moss Associates, Wellington, New Zealand)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2016-06-06
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11023
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Via email from author's website. 3 pages., Author's five basic principles for stimulating agriculture in countries. "Each country is unique and must work things out for themselves, but there are basic principles to be considered and, if necessary, put in place." Three principles focus on farmer collaboration and training needs.
Author expresses concern about a trend toward agricultural names for housing developments in urban areas. Examples: Green Pastures, Scott Farms, Shepherd's Landing, Walker Meadows. "As a member of the farming minority, I'm offended."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26321
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Posted at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1329833451&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientld=36305&RQT=309&Vname=PQD, BusinessWorld, Manila, Philippines, via ProQuest. 4 pages.
2 pages., "If African farmers feel disenfranchised and marginalized, the system is not working. Now's the time to try to fix it, improve communication systems, and move towards feeding hungry people."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36925
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Via SciDev.net. 2 pages., Director of the non-profit media organisation, TVE Asia Pacific, argues that "the media and development organizations are currently part of the problem."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37232
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Via BBC World Service - Communication, Media and Development Policy. 5 pages., Author urges change in the approach to development rather than assume that an infusion of good communication would enhance development. "..the heart and soul seems to have seeped out of the development world - it has, without doubt turned into a giant business governed at a corporate level with mind-numbing rules and regulations. There remains little room for creativity and innovation - in our mind a hallmark of good development."
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: 190 Document Number: D02316
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Second article in a three-part series posted on the website of Palms Australia, an assisting organization based in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02317
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Third article in a three-part series posted on the website of Palms Australia, an assisting organization based in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. 2 pages.
Fleury, Jean-Marc (author / Executive Director, World Conference of Science Journalists in Canada)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2004-06-10
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23745
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Via BBC World Service Trust.Org. 2 pages., "Development journalism is an oxymoron. Developing countries need good journalism and good journalists, period."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23918
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Prairie Writers Circle of The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. 3 pages., Author offers 10 reasons why he thinks agrarianism has something to offer contemporary Americans, "with or without dirt under their fingernails."
