Darrow, Ken (author), Saxenian, Michael (author), and Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, CA; Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, CA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04318
Ray, Howard (author), Smith, William (author), and Smith: Senior Vice President, Academy for Educational Development; Ray: Director of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Academy for Educational Development
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04514
Green, Coppie (author / Assistant to the Statewide Director, University of Alaska Instructional Telecommunication Services (UAITS)) and Assistant to the Statewide Director, University of Alaska Instructional Telecommunication Services (UAITS)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04515
Ansah, Paul A.V. (author / Director, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Ghana) and Director, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Ghana
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04516
Heasley, Daryl K. (author / Extension Leadership and Program Development Specialist, Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) and Extension Leadership and Program Development Specialist, Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04655
Prabhakaran, T. (author), Raj Kamal, P.J. (author), and Raj Kamal: Department of Extension, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Trichur; Prabhakaran: Department of Extension
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04861
AGRICOLA AGE 85926146, Extract: The study examines evaluations of recent life experience in farming and expectations for life quality in the future as a function of farm structural characteristics and selected individual attributes. Based on a random sample of farm operators, the two sets of variables are used to predict subjective well-being within farm size categories. The results show that individual characteristics tended to be more important determinants of well- being than were farm structure dimensions. farm size and income measures had minor effects on self-ratings of well-being. Under controls, off-farm work status was not related to well-being. The determinants of well-being were particularly difficult to specify among large-farm operators.
AGRICOLA AGE 86926762, Extract: This paper describes four agribusiness simulators which can be processed on a microcomputer for use in undergraduate and extension teaching. The simulators model the environment in which supermarket chains, farm supply centers, and cooperative and proprietary grain elevators compete for business. Instruction manuals, user's manuals, and a diskette are distributed for each simulator. Each diskette contains programs to enter and print reports, and to create graphs of team performance. The simulators can be used to teach financial management concepts and techniques, as well as economic principles.
daCosta, Richard C. (author), Shaw, Anthony B. (author), and Shaw: Department of Geography, Brock University; daCosta: School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05122
AGRICOLA AGE 85925741, Extract: This study examined returns to scale for three categories of rice farms in a region of Guyana where there have been differential rates of technology adoption. It identified the various factors which affected rice production and assessed their relative importance on output. Production functions have been used in analyzing problems of resource allocation in peasant agriculture. These enable a comparison of relative performance of farmers, between farm types, and between geographical areas.
Ellis, John R. (author), Lacewell, Ronald D. (author), Reneau, Duane R. (author), and Ellis: Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Lacewell: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Reneau: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas, AR
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05123
Taylor, Daniel B. (author), Young, Douglas L. (author), and Taylor: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.; Young: Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05167
AGRICOLA AGE 85926239, Extract: The complementary interaction between topsoil depth and technical progress for winter wheat in the Palouse region was found to strengthen the long run payoff to conservation tillage. Nonetheless, conservation tillage was found to be competitive with conventional tillage only if its current yields disadvantages were eliminated. Conservation tillage was relatively more competitive on shallower topsoils and for longer planning horizons. Short-term subsidies coupled with research directed towards reducing the cost and yield disadvantages of conservation tillage in the Palouse were advocated to maintain long-term soil productivity.
Pearson, Dave (author), Weber, Jeff (author), Young, Douglas (author), and Associate Professors, Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA: Urbana, IL : National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05209
Cox, Graham (author), Lowe, Philip (author), Winter, Michael (author), and Cox, Winter: University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bath, UK; Lowe: Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, London, UK
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: Elmsford, NY : Pergamon.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05210
Kher, A. O. (author), Vasoya, B. P. (author), and Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Campus, Gujarat Agricultural University, Junagadh, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
India: Ahmedabad, India : The University.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05213
McCarthy, David A. (author), Williams, David L. (author), and Williams: Department Chairperson, Agricultural Education, Iowa State University; McCarthy: Discipline Leader, Mechanized Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Waseca, MN
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: [Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Education.]
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05216
Korsching, Peter F. (author), Nowak, Peter J. (author), and Nowak: Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Korsching: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
USA: Ankeny, IA : Soil Conservation Society of America.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05250
AGRICOLA AGE 85925870, Extract: The thesis of this paper is that adaptive ability is unimportant when the processes generating the variables, which farmers take as exogenous, are stationary and unaltered. However, when these processes undergo structural change, adaptive ability is expected to affect the quality of production, marketing, and investment decisions. Farmers who have superior adaptive skills are expected on average to make better decisions. Furthermore, given the highly competitive nature of U.S. agriculture, successfully adapting to structural change is selective. Farmers possessing poor adaptive skill can be expected to comprise a relatively large share of the persons forced by economic circumstances to seek alternative employment or retirement, provided governmental intervention does not neutralize this selection process.
AGRICOLA AGE 85925869, Extract: The present paper consider both knowledge diffusion and adoption, assuming that a relevant and viable new technology is available. The focus is on the rationale for and scope of public sector involvement in these processes. Such involvement includes publicly sponsored information dissemination, intervention in output and input markets, intervention in the credit market, and investment in infrastructure. These issues are discussed below.
Dalrymple, Dana G. (author / Agricultural economistand senior research advisor, CGIAR Staff, Office of Agriculture, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05308
Holt, J.E. (author), Schoorl, D. (author), and Holt: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Schoorl: Redlands Horticultural Research Station, Ormiston, Queensland, Australia
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05310
Okuneye, P.A. (author / Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria) and Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05311
Fewster, Jean W. (author), Kuhonta, Cleofe M. (author), and Fewster: Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Reform Division, The Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy; Kuhonta: Communication specialist, Rome, Italy
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05312
AGRICOLA FNI 85008260, Extract: Communicating more effectively with rural women in developing countries can help accelerate the acceptance of change. These women are and have been deprived of the information they need for problem-solving and for evaluating options before making decisions. They need information that responds to their multiple roles as parents, partners, and food producers. They need networks to link them with other women. A model of the communication process is presented, showing the variables that interact and influence communication. Attention is directed to the need to identify and differentiate audience groups, to provide information that is situationally relevant and easy to comprehend, and to use an appropriate combination of interpersonal, group and mass communication. Integrating a communication component into programs and projects is recommended. (author).
Nellis, John R. (author), Young, Frank W. (author), and Young: Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nellis: Public Sector Management Unit, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05314
Babu, I. Reddi (author), Satyanarayana, Ch. (author), and Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India; Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05315
China, Richard A. (author), Langmead, P. (author), and China: Agricultural extension and training specialist, AGTECS; Langmead: Media and rural communications speicalist, AGTECS
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-09
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05317
Just, Richard E. (author), Zilberman, David (author), and Just: Professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Zilberman: Associate professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05318
AGRICOLA AGE 85925871, Extract: This paper draws on some recent rigorous results to illuminate the distributional consequences of agricultural policy. The paper begins by discussing the important characteristics of the agricultural sector that must play a role in a minimally realistic model of distributional effects. Heterogeneity gives rise to different regimes of behavior among farmers. These regimes are used to illustrate the equity effects of agricultural policy.
Branson, Floyd F., Jr. (author), Davis, Shirley M. (author), and Branson: Assistant Director, Personnel and Training, Indiana Cooperative Extension Service, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Davis: Director, Division of Independent Study, Continuing Education Administration, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05713
Chang, Julio (author), Thompson, Stan (author), Ward, Ronald W. (author), and Ward, Chang: Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida; Thompson: Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics Department, Michigan State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06178
Information technology (computers, communication, etc.) has become an indispensable part of modern life. As such, it is being transferred to the developing world from industrialized countries. However, real technology transfer rarely takes place in such transactions. What the Third World ends up with are prepackaged end products, for which it typically pays a great deal of money. As long as the industrialized countries hesitate to share their research and manufacturing methods, the developing nations will be at their mercy in this vital area. The Third World, in turn, should not expect a "free ride" in this connection, but should develop an information technology of its own.
Bubolz, Thomas A. (author), Dahlgren, Robert B. (author), and Dahlgren: Iowa cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Bubolz: Department of Animal Ecology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06481
James F. Evans Collection, Adult Iowans who were members of national conservation-oriented organizations were far more politically active on hunting issues than were nonmembers. Further, only those members who read these organizations' publications were politically active. Among background variables, education and income were not associated with political activity, but males were more active than females; persons raised in small- and medium-sized town were more active than those raised on a farm or in a city; persons under 30 were the most active organization members; and persons who currently hunt were most politically active with hunting issues. Members of antihunting organizations were nearly as active as members of prohunting groups. Publications of national conservation-oriented organizations afford natural resource managers the opportunity to convey information to the group of politically active persons most likely to use such information to the manager's advantage. Finally, professional conservationists interested in promoting prohunting causes should be aware that organization members who are against hunting are as likely to be actively pursuing their beliefs as are their counterparts who are for hunting. (original)
James F. Evans Collection, The choice by Telecom Australia of the Digital Radio Concentrator System (DRCS) as the mainstay for providing services to outback Australia has raised wide interest. This paper provides some background to this decision by way of discussing the DRCS and the main alternative, a satellite system. The characteristics of these two alternatives are discussed and a comparison is made on the basis of cost. This comparison, based on the latest industry figures, reveals that the DCRS is till the most cost-effective means of providing services in outback Australia by 1990. (author)
Fear, Frank A. (author), Lambur, Michael T. (author), Whalon, Mark E. (author), and Lambur: Michigan Cooperative Extension Service; Whalon: Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Fear: Department of Resource Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: Lanham, MD : The Entomological Society of America
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06942
Chambers, Robert (author), Ghildyal, B.P. (author), and Chambers: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Ghildyal: ford Foundation, New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07298
INTERPAKS, Describes the cultural based nature of home economics that is a consequence of its particular development in the US. A male agricultural extension service, when transferred overseas, has cultural and value underpinnings that have made the content of training and technical expertise inappropriate or ineffective under conditions in developing countries. To an even greater extent home economics extension, which was aimed primarily at women, has had problems in developing countries in responding to the actual activities of women in rural settings. Home economics, both domestically and overseas, has traditionally ignored farm women's production work because it has had an implicit commitment to certain cultural norms about the proper role or women. These norms may have served some function during a time in the US when the sex ratio was heavily male-biased. In developing countries, however, where sex ratios in rural areas are often skewed toward females, male temporary migration is the rule rather than the exception, and women have traditionally been the producers of food. To be effective in providing a women-oriented extension service, must take into account both the productive and reproductive roles of women and serve to help women better integrate them in their activities.
cited reference, In colonial Africa, scientific institutions were researching into ways of making life easier for expatriates, e.g., tropical medicine and the production of crops for export. With independence, the British handed over most of the research institutes and educational establishments to the new states, while the French retained a strong presence. There is now a severe shortage of trained scientists in black Africa, and heavy dependence on international assistance and transfer of knowledge. It is argued that more enduring structures for scientific and technological cooperation must be developed. (original)
search through journal, Scientific research in Africa should be aimed at optimizing human and material resources. Scientific education is of fundamental importance in promoting the growth of productivity. While African technological growth is desirable, it must be considered in the light of the relevant cultural and economic backgrounds. Technological transfer should be approached with caution, and only appropriate or adaptable techniques should be imported. Capital-intensive industries of the West are not suitable for third world countries with much labour and little capital (original)
