Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06700
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Online via Adaptive Path, San Francisco, California. 3 pages., Blog review of a paper presented by Eric Gilbert and colleagues at CHI 2008. (See Document No. D06699) about rural and urban uses of social media. Author comments on evidence of "how people in rural areas say they want to reach beyond their communities, but in practice, they don't."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23810
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"Tuesday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Identifies sources of information and perspectives about farmer deaths by suicide. Cites the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23852
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From The Financial Times via Rand Corporation. 3 pages., Author comments on different perspectives of Europeans and Americans regarding food, eating and other cultural factors, as related to acceptability of genetically modified foods.
4 pages., Author suggests that"social forestry seeks to manage forests through local communities for their own plus national benefits, but is still falls short of the targets set. Reconciling local concerns for livelihood opportunities with the need for accountability requires intermediaries who successfully negotiate in the bureaucratic jungle of forestry as an institution."
