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 Document Number: C25308
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Pages 209-229 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25312
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Pages 143-164 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
"The recent global food crisis shows that agro-technology and markets alone cannot reduce hunger. A ground-breaking three-year study recently concluded that the agriculture sector should use the know-how of smallholder farmers better." For details about the study, see www.agassessment.org.
Moumouni, Ismail M. (author) and Labarthe, Pierre (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-03-09
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27875
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Presented at the 24th annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) at EARTH University, Costa Rica, March 9-15, 2008. 10 pages.
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30262
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7 pages., "If more of our news is going to be produced by non-traditional sources - like NGOs who have an interest in promoting their own agenda - how can news consumers sort through their sources and figure out who to believe?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37110
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See C37105 for original, Pages 261-275 in Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura and Mark Shucksmith (eds.), From community to consumption: new and classical themes in rural sociological research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, U.K. 275 pages., Case study of the "Rural Heroines Exciting Network" - one of the first national networks of women farmers in Japan.
