Important results of a survey on "Information needs and information behavior in extension service in agriculture, home economics and nutrition" are given. This study was carried out by the Department for Economic and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan from May, 1979 to November, 1981. It revealed, by interviewing 14 leading personnel of documentation centers for nutrition, agriculture and forestry, that extension agents only form a very small sector of the centers' user. Various surveys using personal as well as written interviews and participant observation of extension agents resulted in a host of data on the determinants of extension agents' behavior toward information in general and "prophylactic" and "curative" in particular. Conclusions are drawn on optimal configurations of the future sources of information in the field of extension services in nutrition, home economics, and agriculture.
Full Title: Die gemeinsame erarbeitung eines systems zur informationsauswahl und nutzung in der landwirtschaft der mitgliedlander des RGW = Joint achievement of an information selection and utilization system in agriculture in member nations of the council for mutual economic assistance farm management, Phase I
Hamburg, Germany: Institut fur Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut fur Globale und Regionale Studien
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Most economies in Latin America and the Caribbean were supported primarily by exports in 2005, and economic growth, though slower than in 2004, was at more than 4 % and still above the average annual growth rate from 1996-2005. While slower but still relatively robust growth is anticipated for 2006, the outlook is not particularly favorable for approaching the remarkable growth in other developing nations and regions as serious economic risks threaten development.
Christiansen, M. (author / Tele Agrar SH, Kiel, Germany)
Format:
Conference paper
Language:
German
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05703
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 88035258; Paper presented at the "Btx-Agrar" meeting, 1986, Kiel, West Germany., In: Schiefern, Gerhard and Graumann, Ulrich, eds. Information, Beratung, Markt : Bildschirmtext in der Landwirtschaft : Vortrage der Anbietertagung "Btx-Agrar 86." Kiel, Germany : Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk, 1987. p. 93-102.
Berghorn, Claudia (author), Berghorn, Hans-Heinrich (author), and International research project of the regional Farmers' Union, Westfaelisch-Lippischer Landwirtschaftsverband (WLV) with the support of the German and European Farmers' Unions (DBV/COPA).
Format:
Research report
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02697
Notes:
78 pages., Report of research by the authors in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and the United States of America, August-December 2012.
