Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11753
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Association of U.S. University Directors of International Agricultural Programs and Agricultural Communicators in Education at the University of Rhode Island, Galilee, Rhode Island, June 2-4, 1987. 194 pp.
Dahlgran, Roger A. (author / Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Arizona) and Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Arizona
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03915
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19528
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 191-207; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
Bembridge, T.J. (author / Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Fort Hare, Ciskei, South Africa) and Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Fort Hare, Ciskei, South Africa
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: C02699
17 pages, via online journal, The greatest challenge now facing agricultural science is not how to increase production overall but how to enable resource-poor farmers to produce more.
The transfer-of-technology (TOT) model of agricultural research is part of the normal professionalism of agricultural scientists. In this model, scientists largely determine research priorities, develop technologies in controlled conditions, and then hand them over to agricultural extension to transfer to farmers. Although strong structures and incentives sustain this normal professionalism, many now recognise the challenge of its bad fit with the needs and conditions of hundreds of millions of resource-poor farm (RPF) families. In response to this problem, the TOT model has been adapted and extended through multi-disciplinary farming systems research (FSR) and on-farm trials. These responses retain power in the hands of scientists. Information is obtained from farmers and processed and analysed in order to identify what might be good for them. A missing element is methods to encourage and enable resource-poor farmers themselves to meet and work out what they need and want.
Trigo, Eduardo J. (author / Director of the Technology Generation and Transfer Program with the Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), San Jose, Costa Rica) and Director of the Technology Generation and Transfer Program with the Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), San Jose, Costa Rica
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03406
Notes:
In: Ruttan, Vernon W.; and Pray, Carl E., eds. Policy for agricultural research. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1987. p. 251-281
