International: Research and Extension Division, Natural Resources and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36136
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38 pages., Findings of a series of regional studies, consultations and workshops organized by FAO in preparation for the World Congress on Communicationfor Development (Rome, October 2007).
Sampong, D.D. (author), Egyir, I.S. (author), and Yaw, Osei-Asare (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Ghana
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10923
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Paper presented at the African Association of Agricultural Economists second international conference, Accra, Guana, August 20-22, 2007. 4 pages., The traditional way of information dissemination has been through people; the modern way is through the electronic media – improved information and communication technologies (ICTs). For effectiveness, modern ICTs should help women to improve on their income generating capacity. Issues of level of resource capacity of women, information needed, and current sources of such information become important. This study sought to investigate the issues above with respect to rural women food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in the data analysis of 91 randomly selected respondents. The results of the study showed that: In general, the women food producers were aged, subsistence food crop farmers. They depended on the natural rainfall cycle and had inadequate funds, so they use traditional inputs for production and sell surpluses in the community. The most important agricultural information needed was on inputs, specifically, low cost in-kind or cash credit. Currently, the major information sources are relatives and other farmers in the locality, agricultural extension agents, the radio and television. This suggests that the women food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for information dissemination. Yet, the regression results show that the few (6) mobile phone users have a higher income generating capacity. In order to improve on capacity to use modern ICTs for increased access to other resources, women farmers’ should organize themselves into formidable groups so local institutions can assist easily.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36924
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3 pages., Representative of TVE Asia Pacific speaks about his comments at the 8th Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka. His session title: "Taking it off the page: alternative mediums of communication to influence change." Comments on inept media coverage of the poor and offers some basic rules of engagement in "telling media stories from the Bottom of the Pyramid."
Thompson, Geoff (author) and Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crop Development in Asia and Pacific (CAPSA), subsidiary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
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Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26961
"At a national and local level, many rural development plans have very little in the way of communication components." Author emphasizes need for involving communication more fully in such projects.
Corbett, Jon (author), Kulchyski, Tim (author), Hukari, Tom (author), and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26824
2 pages., Describes a Canadian initiative for using new information technologies to aid the survival of an endangered language spoken in a number of rural communities on southern Vancouver Island.
Rodas, Elizabeth (author), Lopez, Martin (author), Chowdhury, Mridul (author), Ofwono, Nelson (author), James, Tina (author), Bagiire, Vincent Waiswa (author), and International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), The Hague, Netherlands.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007-11
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00748
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Via website. 7 pages., Report of collaborative work involving the association for Progressive Communications (APC) and IICD.
USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
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205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
Xiaoming, Hao (author), Banerjee, Indrajit (author), and Jinqui, Zhao (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-12-15
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36116
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Presented to the Conference on Empowering Rural Communities through ICT Policy and Research, Chennai, India, December 15-17, 2007. 17 pages., Case study of a rural community internet access center that lacked sustainability.
Congress organized by the World Bank, The Communication Initiative and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26963
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Posted at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai143e/ai143e01.pdf, Report of a World Congress that took place October 25-27, 2006, in Rome, Italy. 126 pages.
