Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03025
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Three-part research report for a course, Agricultural Communications 300, University of Illinois, Urbana. 12 pages., Part 1 - Communication methods used by the Extension Service in Nigeria. 13 pages. Part 2 - Factors that effective effectiveness of communication. 17 pages. Part 3 - Ways to overcome problems and recommendations in use of communication in the Extension Service. 28 pages.
International: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05712
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258 pages., "The developing world is littered with bodies of abandoned or dead development initiatives...Development dies on the very day that external and internal experts, without an understanding of the local setting, come in with their fancy ideas about implementing strategies and initiatives that do not build on local knowledge and strengths."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05737
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"Blog Stories on Extension." Online via the website of AgroInsight, Ghent, Belgium. 2 pages., Example of negative results from a top-down approach to Extension teaching.
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: 139 Document Number: D05915
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ACDC file contains cover, contents page and complete reference list., Online from UNICEF. 153 pages., Report on a literature review and consultations with an expert reference group and UN focal points on Communication for Development (C4D).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05918
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Via website of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland. UNCTAD Current Studies on Science, Technology and Innovation, No. 9. 84 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05928
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Pages 27-38 in Allan Eaglesham, Sandra Ristow and Ralph W.F. Hardy (eds.) Biotechnology: science and society at a crossroad. NABC Report 15. National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Ithaca, New York. 292 pages., "...holding innumerable debates about the pros and cons of agricultural biotechnology will not resolve the issues raised here, as long as the problem is framed as a lack of knowledge."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06354
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Presented at the International Communications Workshop at the national meeting of the Association for Communications Education, Madison,Wisconsin, July 21, 1983. 1 page.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06528
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Panel presentation at "Food and Agricultural Communications: The next frontier." Symposium sponsored by the Agricultural Communications Program,offered jointly by the College of Media and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, in Champaign, Illinois, February 17, 2012. 4 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06623
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Presentation at a conference, "Concentration in agriculture: how much, how serious and why worry" at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, February 4, 2003. 18 pages.
Traces adoption and identifies "two pressing issues that affect the digital divide -- affordability of these technologies to the rural population and the educational level of rural users that impact upon usage capability.
Knierim, Andrea (author) and Prager, Katrin (author)
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Report
Publication Date:
2015-07
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06722
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Online via Proakis.com.eu. 4 pages., "Overall, the analysis revealed that European AKIS are characterised by a mix of public and private actors, and there are no countries where only public actors dominate the knowledge system."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06736
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Pages 321=-348 in Nico Stehr (ed.), Biotechnology: between commerce and civil society." Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey., Tempers benefits of the Green Revolution with concerns of adverse impacts of industrial agriculture, the power of corporate firms and other less visible infrastructure agents in the political networks of Asia.
Via online. 13 pages., Author analyzes the role that patriarchal practices play in structuring the perceptions of women's interactions with mobile phones.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06819
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Pages 107-117 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06820
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Pages 118-133 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Tseng, Shu-Fen (author) and You, Yu-Ching (author)
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Book chapter
Publication Date:
2013
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Taiwan
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06822
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Pages 147-164 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
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Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Sarwono, Billy (author), Ali, Zarqa S. (author), and Eide, Elisabeth (author)
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Book chapter
Publication Date:
2012
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International: Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06846
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Pages 281-295 in Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius (eds.), Media meets climate: the global challenge for journalism. Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden. 340 pages.
Paul Hixson Collection., Reports on a speech by representatives of the American Soybean Association expressing concern about resources being directed by the U.S. Agency for International Development toward aiding foreign competitors. They suggested changing emphasis of government programs from helping other countries grow more soybeans to helping them use more soybeans.
