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2. ICT platform for climate change adaption in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Singh, Dineshkumar (author), Piplani, Divya (author), Nar, Siddhesh (author), Karthik, Srinivasan (author), Sharma, Rahul (author), and Tiwari, Aditya (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01-06
- Published:
- IEEE
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10972
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4799-8439-8, 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Climate change is now more visible in the form of frequent changes in the weather patterns leading to severe drought or floods. It endangers the food security, especially shrinking of cultivable land and increasing population. Agricultural Research Institutes are working on new cropping patterns, new heat and flood tolerant varieties and cultivation practices. However in the absence of sound knowledge extension system the results of such massive and costly research do not reach its end users, in this case farmers, on time. This research paper talks about the, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) pilot conducted to develop strategies to enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in vulnerable regions in India. As part of this research, extensive field demonstrations and data analysis were done to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a crucial role in establishing a two way connect between the Research Lab and the end users of research. While Agricultural research can focus on identification of current and future risks to livelihoods due to climatic variability and development or identification of regional climate specific crop varieties and crop practices, the IT and ICT can work jointly to use the outcome of such research to spread awareness and promote the use of such varieties and practices in adaptation by farmers and other stakeholders through an ICT platform.
3. Reflections on the transfer of technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kabore, Joseph (author) and Director, Services Agricoles, Upper Volta
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1980
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07403
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, In: V. Kumble (ed.). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Development and Transfer of Technology for Rainfed Agriculture and the SAT Farmer, August 28 - September 1, 1979. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 1980. p. 231-233., Identifies the need for a code or framework for the transfer of technology. Discusses the necessity of such a framework to strengthen the capacity of developing countries for organizing and receiving new techniques and improving access to technology at prices all can afford. Identifies the establishment and development of facilities for technical and in-service training in the countries themselves as prerequisites for the efficient and durable transfer to technology. Notes that new technologies must be assimilated, modified, and adapted to conditions peculiar to each country. Discusses fact that agricultural research carried out in developed countries involves means of production that have nothing in common with those of the small farmer of Upper Volta. Stresses that scientists are needed who can assimilate the people's everyday problems and work out a realistic research program that will raise the technological level of the farmer.
4. The fourth criterion social and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Busch, Lawrence (author), Lacy, William B. (author), and Lacy: Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Busch: Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06114
- Notes:
- Jim F. Evans Collection; see c06599 for book; Paper presented at the Third Annual National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology at the crossroads : biological social & institutional concerns. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 153-168