Batie, Sandra S. (author), Swinton, Scott M. (author), and Food and Agricultural Policy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C08024
search through journal, Sustainable agricultural research and education have gained acceptability within the land-grant system, but they still must be fully integrated into its fabric. Challenges remain in three key areas: knowledge generation, research and education, and funding. New biological and ecological knowledge is needed on plant-animal-human-environment interactions from the microbial level on upward to that we can move beyond anecdotal evidence of biological integration efficiencies to scientific understanding of the underlying processes and opportunities for human intervention. Socioeconomic research must address human motivations to change farming methods and the likely impacts of these changes on farmers, consumers, other species, and the quality of the environment. Generating this knowledge will affect the integration of research and education. Having farmers set the research and outreach agenda dissolves the old distinction between research and extension. This situation is complicated by budgetary stress and uncertainty about the dividing line between public and private responsibilities. The funding of sustainable agriculture creates a dilemma. Earmarked funding has helped legitimize sustainable agriculture in the land-grant university, but if it fails to become integrated into the routine land-grant research and education agenda, it will lose its newly gained momentum in the event those funds disappear. (original)
Alison, Kathleen I. (author / U.S. Agency for International Development)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1992-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06686
Notes:
project management, Kathleen I. Alison Collection, Washington, D.C. : Water and Sanitation for Health Project, U.S. Agency for International Development. 1992, 75 p. (WASH Field Report No. 378)
Glynn, C.J (author), McDonald, D.G (author), Tette, J.P. (author), and Department of Communication, Cornell University; Department of Communication, Cornell University; New York State Integrated Pest Management Program
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 101 Document Number: C08617
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36214
Notes:
Section 3 in Don Richardson and Lynnita Paisley (eds.), The first mile of connectivity, Communication for Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Via online. 9 pages.
USA: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00342
Notes:
Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 139-144 in Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series. Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
