AgComm Teaching, Perspectives about the Programme for Integrated Rural Development in the Humid Tropics (PRODERITH)during 1979-1984. Among the points made: "Traditional knowledge is essential for agricultural research."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00369
Notes:
Via online. 3 pages, "...instead of focusing on what rural India should be learning and doing, perhaps we should focus instead on what it can teach us."
Purvez, Salim Ahmed (author), Khan, Iqbal Alam (author), Khan, S.M. Zubair Ali (author), Seeley, Janet (author), and Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2003-04
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28219
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.chronicpoverty.org/pdfs/2003conferencepapers/purvez.pdf, Presented at "Staying poor: chronic poverty and development policy," a conference at Manchester, UK from April 7-9, 2003.
Assesses the attitudes of rural people towards farm electrification in the United States between 1920-1940. Hesitation of farmers to adopt electricity; impact of electricity on landscape transformation; implication of electrification for farm modernization.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D01529
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Paper presented in the Agricultural Communication Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, February 5-6, 2012. 11 pages.
