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."
New programme, "Shamba Shape-Up," explores typical problems encountered by smallholder families on the outskirts of Kenya's towns and cities, then brings in a crack team of experts to sort them out.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of farms equipped with radios in the U.S. grew from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 to 550,000 in 1925. Farmers were found to tune in not so much for grand opera or baseball or political speecheds as for weather and market reports.
From Printer's Ink, November 2, 1904. Case report of the mail order business developed by Kalamazoo Stove Company, including information about response from readers of farm periodicals in which the product was advertised.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08593
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research study, Louisiana Agriculture College Extension, Baton Rouge. 3 pages.
Pages 13-14 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a thesis for the master of science degree in agricultural extension education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 1961. 141 pages.
Page 26 in Extension Circular 521, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1958, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a research paper for a Master of Science degree in agricultural journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1958. 66 pages.
Damhorst, Mary Lynn (author), Lennon, Sharron J. (author), Kim, Minjeong (author), Johnson, Kim K.P. (author), Jolly, Laura D. (author), and Jasper, Cynthia R. (author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2007-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30221
Damhorst, Mary Lynn (author), Lennon, Sharron J. (author), Kim, Minjeong (author), Johnson, Kim K.P. (author), Jolly, Laura D. (author), and Jasper, Cynthia R. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30541
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01193
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Paper submitted for the 5th World Congress for Rural Sociology,36 pages., Small farmer agriculture in developing countries is conceptualized in terms of a social system elements model in which social organizational (power, rank,status-role), social psychological (norm, belief, sentiment),and social economic (objective, facility,sanction) elements enter the farmer's decision making regarding which technology is most beneficial to employ in his farming operation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14427
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Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 5 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00924
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Paper presented at the 131st EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) seminar, "Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012.
Mason, Debra (author), Nanney, Robert (author), and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH; E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06326
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, [1992]. 39 p. Paper presented at the 1992 Convention of the Radio-Television Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Montreal, Canada
Brower, S.L. (author) and Roskelley, R.W. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1950
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 26 Document Number: B02642
Notes:
AgComm Teaching. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Logan, UT : Extension Service, Utah State AGricultural College, 1950. 9 p. (Extension Bulletin 209)
Jackson, C.W. (author) and Bannister, Claire (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1946
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 33 Document Number: B03588
Notes:
Mimeographed, 1946. 15 p. Class paper for Agricultural Education 614. Texas Agriculture College Extension, College Station. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00153
Notes:
AgComm Teaching. Hal R. Taylor Collection., Ithaca, NY : Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca. 8 p. (Rural Sociology Publication 22)
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08956
Notes:
Page 16 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of research reported by Iowa State College Agricultural Extension. 1941. 11 pages.
"Our findings expose a clear contrast between the ambitious and future oriented ways in which adults imagine ICTwill expand their children's educational and employment opportunities, and social and special horizons, and the everyday ways in which these technologies actually emerge for children in practice."
