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2. Decentralized Extension brings better results
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Claar, John B. (author / University of Illinois)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11178
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(1) : 3-4
- Notes:
- In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Author introduces reasons why top-down management and decision making generally results in ineffective extension systems. Also addresses reasons why resistance to organizational change is so persistent and difficult. "Huge benefits will come from changing to a decentralized system that fosters acceptance of responsibility through incentives and provides for local programming through involvement and interaction with the clientele."
3. Harsh critic reassesses U.S. knowlege systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hightower, Jim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11172
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 3
- Notes:
- Located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., An invited reassessment by the author of a book, Hard Tomatoes and Hard Times, in which he faulted U.S. land grant universities for abandoning the original intended focus on serving small, low-resource farmers. Emphasized farmers' need for neutral, unbiased assessment of new, often very specialized, technologies. "...and at the same time they will need generalists who can assist in developing comprehensive, integrated farming systems that can depend on lessons learned decades ago as well as new knowledge."
4. Mobilizing the potential of rural and agricultural extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Christoplos, Ian (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International: Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06759
- Notes:
- 34 pages.
5. Organisational change within DPI: minimsing (t)errors and seizing opportunities?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sapin, Valerie (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2001-10-05
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 119 Document Number: C13530
- Notes:
- 7 p., APEN (Australasia Pacific Extension Network) 2001 International Conference, Oct3-5, 2001, at University of South queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
6. The spirit and philosophy of extension work, as recorded in significant extension papers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bliss, R. K. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1952
- Published:
- USA: Graduate School, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and Epsilon Sigma Phi.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07907
- Notes:
- 393 pages.
7. Transforming systems: Pakistan outreach case
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Seiders, William (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11176
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(2) : 6-7
- Notes:
- In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., First-hand experience in a technical assistance program aimed at the transfer of the extension function from an established government base to a new university base, capitalizing on the university's competencies in instruction and capacities in technology development - and experience with the next-best alternative when the optimum could not be realized.
8. University extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shannon, Theodore J. (author) and Schenfeld, Clarence A. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1965
- Published:
- USA: Center for Applied Research in Education, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07906
- Notes:
- 115 pages.