Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24758
Notes:
Retrieved September 27, 2006, Via Poynteronline. 3 pages., Case report about award-winning coverage by the News and Observer of issues related to big swine operations in North Carolina.
Examines five cases of rural areas that deployed information and communication technology programs. "There is little evidence that telecommunications lead to economic growth or that businesses in the communities are using ICT extensively." Instead, "the physical deployment of the hardware is not sufficient to achieve success."
Singh, Amit (author) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26292
Notes:
8 pages., Case study of Indiagriline.com, an agricultural information portal created by a sugar processing company. The portals/kiosks are franchised to local entrepreneurs in rural communities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23342
Notes:
2 pages., Access Communications, New York City, New York, describes a media relations program in support of new organic standards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Reports on a campaign, "The Attack of the Mutant Artificial Trees," sponsored by the National Christmas Tree Association to encourage consumers to buy real trees.
Singh, Amit (author) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26291
Notes:
6 pages., Case study of an information distribution service providing farmers and traders with access to market and technical information on crops and other commodities with which they deal in the form of a newspaper, magazines, short message service by mobile phone, and web services.
Lebowitz, Abraham (author), Gelb, Ehud (author), and Taragola, Nicole (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2005-07-18
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23524
Notes:
In the e-book, E.Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICT in Agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 9 pages.
Van Mele, Paul (author), Salahuddin, Ahmad (author), and Magor, Noel P. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Bangladesh: CABI Publishing, Oxfordshire, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24690
Notes:
307 pages., Case studies that emerged from the Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance (PETRRA) project, funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development, 1999-2004.
