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2. Being a good communicator doesn't solve all of extension's problems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zijp, Willem (author / Senior Extension Specialist, World Bank, Washington, DC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA: Clearinghouse on Development Communication, Arlington, VA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07233
- Journal Title:
- Development Communication Report
- Journal Title Details:
- 80 (1993/1) : 20
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
3. Changes in Indian agrarian sector : implications for extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Radhakrishna, Rama B. (author) and Yoder, Edgar P. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07519
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Digest
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (2) : 11-12
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS
4. Developing agricultural extension for women farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Saito, K.A. (author) and Spurling, D. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26921
- Journal Title:
- World Bank Discussion Papers
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 156, 105 p, 1992
5. Dissemination of (technical) agricultural information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Williams, C.E. (author), Williams, S.K.T. (author), and Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1978-10
- Published:
- UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05030
- Journal Title:
- Quarterly Journal of Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 (1) : 87-93
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference
6. Exploring the role of agricultural extension in promoting biodiversity conservation in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abdu-Raheem, Kamal Adekunle (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10465
- Journal Title:
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(9): 1015-1032
- Notes:
- 19 pages., ISSN: 2168-3565 (Print) 2168-3573 (Online), Via online journal, Biodiversity conservation outside designated protected areas remains challenging in South Africa, where 80% of the biodiversity resources occur on private and communal lands. This applies to the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, which is the focus of this study. Landholders logically choose agricultural production ahead of conservation, which they often perform using non-ecological methods. Extension is well positioned to promote ecological agriculture, but its current contribution is unknown. This study examined the role of extension in ecological agriculture in KZN by investigating extension’s promotion of ecological agriculture among smallholder farmers and the factors impacting their employment of ecologically compatible practices. Data was collected through semistructured interviews with 44 respondents, comprising 5 provincial biodiversity conservation practitioners, 1 national biodiversity conservation manager, and 1 national and 4 provincial agricultural extension managers, selected by purposive sampling; as well as 25 extension officers and 8 farmers, selected by convenience sampling. The study found that extension mainly engages in technology transfer and distribution of production inputs, which poses challenges to biodiversity conservation. Extension shows little concern for biodiversity, and effectively promotes its degradation. Four sets of factors impacting extension’s capacity to promote ecological agriculture emerged: household/community-level, governmental, extension management, and ecological factors. Key among these were inadequate involvement of youth and men in agriculture; inadequate household production resources; poor collaboration and coordination between extension and biodiversity conservation institutions; top-down extension intervention; poor extension management and delivery capacities; and irregular and inadequate rainfall, as well as droughts and flooding. The study concluded that there is a need for a clearly articulated extension and biodiversity conservation policy supporting appropriate linkages and better coordination and integration of services among extension and biodiversity agencies within the National and Provincial Departments of Agriculture and with farmers; more effective agricultural education in schools; strengthening extension support systems; and creating conducive atmospheres for effective extension.
7. Extension systems and modern farmers in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weidemann, Celia J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07416
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 : 56-59
- Notes:
- 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.
8. Farming systems research and rural poverty: Relationships between context and content
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Briggs, Stephen D. (author) and University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10961
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(1995) : 161-174
- Notes:
- 13 pages, via online journal, In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in farming systems research (FSR) as a means of getting formal research and extension systems to work with and respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers. However, the results of many FSR programmes have been disappointing. This paper reviews a number of ‘successful’ FSR activities and argues that the development and use of research approaches and methods cannot be separated from the political, economic and institutional context in which they were developed and used. A closer examination of some of the new FSR methods shows that an understanding of the specific context in which these activities were developed and used is essential to understanding the potential relevance of the methods/approaches to other circumstances. A lack of an historical perspective concerning the source and advocacy of new FSR approaches and methods is one of the reasons why many FSR programmes in the past have given rise to disappointing results.
9. From agricultural extension to rural information management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zijp, Willem (author / Extension Specialist, The World Bank)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06972
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Digest
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (1) : 1-3
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection; Excerpts from a presentation at the 12th World Bank Agricultural Symposium; 1992 January 8-10; Washington, D.C.
10. How extension stacks up
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Awa, Njoku E. (author), Van Crowder, L., Jr. (author), and Department of Communication Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Department of Communication Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1978-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04922
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 (1978 March/April) : 19-25
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
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