In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Author introduces reasons why top-down management and decision making generally results in ineffective extension systems. Also addresses reasons why resistance to organizational change is so persistent and difficult. "Huge benefits will come from changing to a decentralized system that fosters acceptance of responsibility through incentives and provides for local programming through involvement and interaction with the clientele."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07785
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cited reference, The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research, May 1990. 8 p. (ISNAR Linkages Discussion Paper No. 5e)., The experience of the Projet Agricole du Centre-Ouest (PACO) in Cote d'Ivoire sows that informal, personal relationships between the staff of different institutes can be vital for technology transfer. By building a sense of task interdependence and a commitment to shared goals, such relationships can help solve problems not addressed through formal linkage mechanisms. However, their contribution is limited by their short duration, and to situations in which the technology to be transferred is relatively simple. Informal links can thus complement, but not substitute for, formal ones. (original)
In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Summary of a presentation by Charles H. Antholt, Asian Region of the World Bank, at an Extension seminar in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 7, 1990. Case examples of new factors to be considered involving the relevance and responsiveness of agricultural extension: interdependence of nations thrugh trade and telecommunications, limits of land an water resources, and budgetary constraints in all governments. Caneed for closer integration between agricultural universities and extension.
Leonard, David (author), Sims, Holly (author), and Sims: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Claremont College, CA; Leonard: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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Book chapter
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04852
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In: Kaimowitz, David, ed. Making the link. Boulder, CO : Westview, 1990. p. 43-73
In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Nine guidelines for national research systems in the transfer of information about new agricultural technologies, with emphasis on maximizing communication, interaction, and collaboration between researchers and transfer agents during the entire development process, from national to local levels.
