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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00713
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PowerPoint presentation at"New perspectives on rural extension," U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington,D.C., March 29, 2011. Parts 1 (4 pages), 2 (3 pages) and 3 (2 pages).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
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Via KCET and "Documenting the Face of America" web site. 3 pages., Announcement and summary of a documentary about "the legendary group of New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930s and early 1940s to capture some of the most iconic images in history."
Agricultural Education and Extension Service, Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Refrom Division, Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20562
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Burton Swanson Collection, 5 sections, World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08680
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Pages 33-50 in Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar (eds.), Agriculture and food in crisis: conflict, resistance and renewal. Monthly Review Press, New York City, New York. 348 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00573
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Pages 3-14 in Arnold Pichot and Josef Lorenz (eds.) ICT for the next five billion people: information and communication for sustainable development. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 122 pages.
