Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05754
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Online from Rural Reporters. 3 pages., Addresses the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in strengthening the rural sector of developing countries, with emphasis on Africa.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00685
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Pages 108-114 in Sunday Odedele (ed.), Public relations and communication management in Africa. Public Relations for Africa, Lagos, Nigeria. 184 pages. Via online.
Boland, Hermann (author), Hoque, Nazmul (author), and Haque, Sadika (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
Published:
Kenya
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30718
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Paper presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
4 pages., Online from publisher., "For the first time, a landmark report on digitalisation for agriculture (D4Ag) in Africa compiles and highlights data on digital solutions that are enabling the transformation of African agriculture."
Foti, Richard (author), Nyakudya, Innocent (author), Moyo, Mack (author), Chikuvire, John (author), and Foti, Richard (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-21
Published:
Zimbabwe
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24489
Notes:
Retrieved July 5, 2006, Conference sponsored by the International Association for Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) in Nairobi, Kenya, May 21-26, 2006. Via Livelihoods Connect. 10 pages., Conference theme: "Managing agricultural information for sustainable food security and improved livelihoods in Africa."
8 pages, Does it matter whether farmers receive advice on pest management strategies from public or from private (pesticide company affiliated) extension services? We use survey data from 733 Swiss fruit growers who are currently contending with an infestation by an invasive pest, the fruit fly Drosophila Suzukii. We find that farmers who are advised by public extension services are more likely (+9–10%) to use preventive measures (e.g. nets) while farmers who are advised by private extension services are more likely (+8–9%) to use synthetic insecticides. These results are robust to the inclusion of various covariates, ways to cluster standard errors, and inverse probability weighting. We also show that our results are unlikely to be driven by omitted variable bias. Our findings have implications for the current debates on both the ongoing privatization of agricultural extension and concerns regarding negative environmental and health externalities of pesticide use.
