Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25911
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 3 pages., "A low-profile, but innovative and imaginative farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala." Variously spelled "Adike Patrike" and "Adike Pathrike"
International: Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, United Kingdom.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26338
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Posted at www.recep.org.uk/bioreport.htm, 96 pages., A section on public acceptability describes six causes of concern about use of biomass as a renewable energy source. These pages of the report are photocopied.
Gordon, Jenny (author), Fisher, Sarina (author), Garrett, David (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-07
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27015
Notes:
Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/04-103sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/04-103.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 04-103. 39 pages.
Clark, Andrea (author), Harvey, Mark. L. (author), Kane, Deborah (author), and Social Sciences National Technology Development Team, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-12-28
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27276
Balit, Silvia (author / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-07
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27920
International: Research and Extension Division, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27946
Hoban, Thomas J. (author) and Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-05
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28740
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Posted at http://www.fao.org/es/esa. Also http://www.croplifeasia.org/ref_library/biotechnology/public_att_biotech_hoban.pdf, ESA Working Paper No. 04-09. 14 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36255
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Regional workshop of this title held in Quito, Ecuador, April 20-22, 2004. 7 pages., Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in cooperation with the Latin American Association for Radio Education and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.
Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00372
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Via online. 4 pages., Describes a project, involving a software known as Bhoomi, by Karnataka State Government and the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to computerize land records and make updated information available online to farmers in sync with the time.
USA: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22045
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13 pages., "While the biopharm industry pushes forward toward commercialization, USDA has kept the public and interested stakeholders in the dark about this reemergence (of approved applications for genetic engineering of plants to produce pharmaceuticals, industrial compounds and other novel proteins).
Alexander, Merle (author), Chamundeeswari, K. (author), Kambu, Alphonse (author), Ruiz, Manuel (author), and Tobin, Brendan (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23188
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Communication Initiative. 2 pages., Exerpts from the executive summary of a 48-age report published by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies. The report features seven case studies in Venezuela, Panama, Canada, India and Peru.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23355
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16 pages., Author describes contradictory pulls in the food policy landscape, including deskilling of consumers on the one hand and new skills on the other.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23928
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 1 page., "Mediawatch Brief" says Doordarshans audience research wing studied the impact of its rural development programs on rural households. "It then announced happily that 59 per cent of the rural audience in the country was watching its agriculture programme, and 48 per cent was watching Grameen Bharat." However, "rural households" in the study were located in eight cities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23929
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Reprinted from the Hindu, December 19, 2004. 3 pages., "The rural news network is live and well." Two newspapers compete in starting local editions, using stringers. Article describes the careers and activities of these rural reporters.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23930
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 3 pages., Describes the approach of a vernacular fortnightly published in Orissa's Western Nuapada district. "Besides being interactive and people-centred, the newspaper makes people cognizant of their rights."
Ninan, Sevanti (author) and Malaviya, Sushmita (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-06-28
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23931
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 6 pages., "Two years ago newspaper publishers in these parts witnessed a decline in circulation because of the influence of electronic media. But now there is a whole new territory being carved out in Hindi-speaking rural India b y newspapers which see their urban markets stagnating, and advertising being taken away by TV channels."
Fernandez-Cornejo, J. (author), Alexander, Corinne (author), Goodhue, Rachael E. (author), and Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24240
Notes:
Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Report 347. 44 pp.