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    2. Attacking rural poverty: how nonformal education can help

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ahmed, Manzoor (author) and Coombs, Philip H. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1974
    Published:
    International: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23836
    Notes:
    A research report for the World Bank, prepared by the International Council for Educational Development. 292 pages.

    3. Declare the war won

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Compaine, Benjamin M. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
    Notes:
    Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.

    4. Dorothea Lange: photographer as agricultural sociologist

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gordon, Linda (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2006-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26504
    Journal Title:
    Journal of American History
    Journal Title Details:
    93(3) : 698-727
    Notes:
    Discusses the career and contributions of Dorothea Lange in documenting, through her photography, the plight of impoverished agricultural workers in the West during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

    7. Poverty stretches the digital divide: Investigative Reporting Workshop study shows widening gap in internet connection speeds across the U.S

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dunbar, John (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2012-03-27
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01030
    Notes:
    Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C. 5 pages.