Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23514
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The New Agriculturist On-Line. 5 pages., Highlighted remarks from a seminar on this subject sponsored by the CTA (Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation in EU-ACP Countries), Government of Mozambique and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23736
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Best practices database in improving the living environment. 2 pages., Describes a market information system and service for smallholder farmers, using low-cost information and communication technologies. During the last season, farmers who used the MIS to market their maize obtained 22% higher prices than those who did not.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23638
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Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 24 pages., Describes several early wireless groups, including the rural telephone cooperatives that emerged in the early 1900s because Bell and other independent companies had little interest in serving rural areas.
