Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
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192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes.
(p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02003
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279 pages., Papers presented at the UGC/SAP National Seminar on Agricultural Communication and Sustainable Development at Kolhapur, India, February 25-27, 2008.
USA: Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15127
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352 pages., (Pages 123-124) "United States Farm Periodicals" -- cites changes in agriculture, identifies 126 agricultural and farm periodicals and provides 1954 data about combined circulation and revenue from subscriptions, advertising and miscellaneous sales.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15133
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Volume 1, Detailed chronology of magazines of this period. Includes a section on "Agricultural Papers," with a discussion about establishment of the Agricultural Museum in 1810. "... it was not until 1810, apparently, that any periodical was devoted wholly to agriculture."
USA: Ronald Press Company, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15134
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A general history, starting with English magazine origins. Emphasizes the "social and economic influence" of magazines. Includes descriptions of prominent national and regional farm periodicals: Country Gentleman, Farm Journal, Cappers Farmer, Successful Farming. Emphasizes agricultural leadership played by editors of farm magazines.
Hudson, Heather E. (author) and Parker, Edwin B. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16748
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306 pages, Role of rural telecommunications infrastructures in economic development; recommendations for state development agencies. Prepared for the Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program, Aspen Institute.
Amtmann, Carlos A. (author) and Fernandez M., Francisco (author)
Format:
Book
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
International: Instituto de Ciencias Historicas y Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile a traves de su "Programa Centro de Sociologia del Desarrollo Rural."
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16938
Middleton, John (author) and Rahim, Syed A. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International: East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17229
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Communication Monographs No. 3. 363 pages., Includes 14 papers divided into three sections: theoretical issues, national level communication policy and planning, institutional level communication policy and planning.
Bellamy, Margot (author) and Greenshields, Bruce L. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
International: Gower Publishing Company, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17325
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Contributed papers read at the 18th International Congress of Agricultural Economists., International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) Occasional Paper No. 3. 312 pages
Albrecht, Hartmut (author), Hoffmann, Volker (author), Bergmann, Herbert (author), Diederich, Georg (author), Grober, Eberhard (author), Keller, Peter (author), Payr, Gerhard (author), and Sulzer, Rolf (author)
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19151
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357 pages, (From the author's introduction) "If I have learned anything from this work, it is the simple fact that many of the problems faced by Native Americans today already were widely recognized in the 1800s. We seem to continue through repeated cycles in which issues remain the same and problems rarely are fully resolved. The roots of these challenges lie deep in our national history."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19696
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165 pages, Authors use a case experience in Pakistan as a platform for examining broad issues of agricultural and rural development, including the role and operation of extension services.
Dunwoody, Sharon (author), Friedman, Sharon M. (author), and Rogers, Carol L. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA: Free Press, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20213
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Issues in Science and Technology Series, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Also see item C01871 for Table of Contents and Introduction, 333 pages
