Engel, Paul (author), Kaimowitz, David (author), Snyder, Monteze (author), and Research fellow, ISNAR; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Assistant Professor of Extension, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04781
Notes:
In: Kaimowitz, David. ed. Making the link : agricultural research and technology transfer in developing countries. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1990. p. 227-269
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07428
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INTERPAKS, In: D.F. Cusack, ed. Agroclimate information for development : reviving the Green Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983. p. 313-329., Addresses the challenges of the information revolution with particular emphasis on using agroclimate information for agricultural development: 1) how to sort out and organize the information already available; 2) how to identify and collect the right kinds of information; 3) how to absorb, analyze, and interpret the information; and 4) how to put it to work for the benefit of humankind. Presents a model of process approach by which agroclimate information may be transferred to benefit agricultural development.
Claar, John B. (author) and Johnson, Sam H. III (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07418
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private sector, INTERPAKS, In V. W. Ruttan (Ed.), Agricultural research policy and development. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization by the United Nations, 1985. (draft manuscript). 45 p., Explores the relationship between research and extension systems. Details the factors determining the utilization of research results as well as the importance of the feedback mechanisms. Presents examples of approaches to improve linkages between research and extension, such as on-farm trials, farming systems research, and use of extension technical liaison personnel. The final section discusses complementarity between research and extension and provides suggestions toward facilitating cooperation between the two organizations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07423
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INTERPAKS, In: M. Drosdoff, ed. World food issues, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues, Program in International Agriculture, Cornell University, 1984. p. 65-71., Discusses factors and strategies necessary in developing countries to increase food production by agricultural research and technology transfer. Notes that factors affecting these issues include: (1) available physical and biological resources as they promote or constrain food production (2) the milieu for the initiation, development, testing, and delivery of new and improved technology appropriate to a given environment (local research and extension institutions); (3) government policies relative to incentives for farmers to produce more food; and, (4) existence of regional and international institutions to facilitate the generation and transfer of technology. Strategies identified as appropriate to the transfer of technology are: (1) the indigenous capability to understand the technology to be transferred; (2) adequately trained extension agents; (3) availability of researchers to modify the technology to fit local conditions; (4) ability to generate technology in situ; and (5) on-going farmer training.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19791
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Pages 13-20 in Burton E. Swanson, Robert P. Bentz and Andrew J. Sofranko (eds.), Improving agricultural extension: a reference manual. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 220 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C12679
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Pages 175-187 in William M. Rivera and Daniel J. Gustafson (eds.), Agricultural Extension: worldwide institutional evolution and forces for change. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 312 p.
Gonzalez, Alberto (author) and Bradley, Charmaine (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00879
Notes:
Pages 63-75 in Martin J. Medhurst, Alberto Gonzalez and Tarla Rai Peterson, Communication and the culture of technology. Washington State University Press, Pullman, Washington. 285 pages., Documents resistance of residents to the secular discourse of a tribal newspaper promoted by the government.
