7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
Online via UI Library electronic subscription, To close the gap between ecologists and policy makers, the author proposed a program of embedding ecologists into the political syst4em in much the same way the U.S. military embeds journalists into combat units. Emphasized the importance of developing personal relationships.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26287
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Via Radio Netherlands Worldwide. 2 pages., Describes expansion of a program begun in 2002 whereby publishers make information available on the Internet to scientists in developing countries, free or almost free of charge. "Information charity."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25907
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Posted at http://wesj2007.internetguruhosting.net/conference-program, Report of two related sessions at the 5th World Congress of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, on April 16-20, 2007. 2 pages., Summaries of two sessions: "Climate change in ocean and how the media balance the reporting" and "Reporting climate change: the developing world perspective."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28079
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Pages 95-99 in Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi (eds.), Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, New York, New York. 286 pages., Examines the uneasy relationship between science and journalism, including influences on coverage of issues such as environment and conservation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25896
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Report of a session, "Biasing scientific information," at the 5th World Congress of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, on April 16-20, 2007. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25697
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University of Illinois News Bureau. 2 pages., Researcher's analysis of high school chemistry textbooks reveals gaps and bias iin educating students about the nature of science.
