Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05240
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1977. Paper presented at the Symposium on Risk and Uncertainty in Decision Processes of Small Farmers in Less Developed Countries, San Diego, CA, July 31-August 3, 1977. 27 p., Describes research towards the generation of production technologies appropriate to the conditions of small farms. notes the conclusion drawn about the decision processes followed by small farmers with regard to what, how much and how to produce, soil preparation, seeding or planting, use of fertilizer, weed control, diseases and insect control, harvesting, and product handling. Despite efforts to transfer improved technologies, small farmers have been reluctant to adopt them, mainly because they perceive them to be inappropriate for their particular conditions and resources and because the element of risk is too strong.
Pastore, Jose (author / University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: C12496
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection; See B03082, Pages 136-141 in Robert H. Crawford and William B. Ward (eds.), Communication strategies for rural development. Proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT international symposium, Cali, Colombia, March 17-22, 1974. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 278 p.
Bandong, J.P. (author), de la Cruz, C.G. (author), Goodell, G.E. (author), Kenmore, P.E. (author), Litsinger, J.A. (author), and Lumaban, M.D. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07432
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Report of an exploratory workshop on the role of anthropologists and other social scientists in interdisciplinary teams developing improved food production technology. Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1982. p. 25-41., Describes how the interdisciplinary team formed by IRRI in 1978 to test and improve IRRI's integrated insect pest management (IPM) technology for farmers tilling small irrigated plots in Southeast Asia developed the technology from an initial Western orientation to its present form. Shows how IPM was tested in two projects in Central Luzon, each comprising five villages - one project "top down", the other "bottom up". Also describes how IPM was introduced in a control area with no attempt to organize farmers. Evaluates only the interdisciplinary research conducted in the "bottom up" villages where the project was the most successful.
