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2. Agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: a workshop on research issues
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
- Format:
- Publication
- Publication Date:
- 1991-06-30
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
- Notes:
- World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
3. Appropriate opportunities as well as appropriate technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roling, Niels (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07400
- Journal Title:
- Ceres
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 (1) : 15-19
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Reviews how the agricultural extension agent has dealt with the process of technology transfer and the categories of farmers affected by the diffusion process. Discusses CIMMYT's model of grouping rural populations into homogenous target categories to develop appropriate technologies and the influence it has had on the process of technology development. Points out that strategies intended to assist small farmers depend as much on the creation of appropriate opportunities as on the creation of appropriate technologies.
4. Better communication for successful food technology development: a Delphi study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ragona, M. (author), Raley, M. (author), Sijtsema, S.J. (author), and Frewer, L.J. (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2013-06
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02468
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the 2nd Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata (AIEAA) Conference, Parma, Italy, June 6-7, 2013. 10 pages., Conference theme: "Between crisis and development: which role for the bio-economy"
5. Learning differential in the agents of technical change: the case of biotechnology in Mexico
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lopez-Martinez, Roberto (author), Gonzalez, Rosa Luz (author), and Ismael Nunez, Ismael (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Mexico
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29554
- Journal Title:
- Science Technology and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(1) : 225-238
6. Reaching the unreached: how can we use information and communication technologies to empower the rural poor in the developing world through enhanced access to relevant information?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arunachalam, Subbiah (author / M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-08-18
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23540
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Information Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(6) : 513-522
- Notes:
- This article originally was a paper presented at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' (IFLA) General Conference, Aug. 18-24, 2002, in Glasgow, Scotland., 10 p., Often funding agencies and donor governments face the question should they support information and communication technology (ICT) activities in their development projects. Should the money be invested in computers and communication devices or will it be better spent on food, shelter, health and education? The choice need not be "either/or." If used intelligently and innovatively, ICTs can form an integral component of developmental projects, as is shown by the award-winning Information Village project of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. The important point to remember is that one does not have to use technology because it is there, but one uses it if there is a genuine advantage. In any developmental program, people and their contexts should decide how one goes about implementing developmental interventions. The needs of the people and the best means to satisfy them should determine the whole program. Often ICT-based development projects do not bring in the expected results because of undue emphasis on technology. Against this background, the factors that led to the success of the Pondicherry experience are analyzed.
7. Technology development, transfer, and feedback systems in agriculture: an operational systems analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Swanson, Burton E. (author) and Claar, John B. (author)
- Format:
- Proposal
- Publication Date:
- 1983
- 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 Document Number: D11187
- Notes:
- This project proposal is located in the "INTERPAKS - Technology Development Project" file, which is maintained in the International Projects section of the Agricultural Communications Program records, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Contact ACDC for assistance in access., 70 pages., Proposal submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., resulting in a five-year $1.7 million project. Work initiated March 1, 1984.