This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Recommendations from a conference of communication and rural development experts representing countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Bentz, Robert P. (author), Evans, James F. (author), Fliegel, Frederick (author), Lancaster, F. Wilfrid (author), Malone, Violet M. (author), Santas, John W. (author), Swanson, Burton E., chair (author), and Woodis, Raymond A. (author)
Format:
Proposal
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11181
Notes:
Transferred from the "INTERPAKS Administration" file maintained in International Program records of the Agricultural Communications Program, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois., 28 pages., Proposal to Title XII Representative William N. Thompson from the International Extension Committee, College of Agriculture, of faculty members representing five fields of study: Library and Information Science, Agricultural Communications, Rural Sociology, Extension Administration and Education, and Agricultural Education. This document includes the proposal and a report from an external consultant with experience involving the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., "...for all their seeming importance, these continuous outpourings of government and foreign aid and the steady diffusion of developmental projects and innovations are only pallatives. Thus, the wheel of agricultural development must reel off with a farmer-oriented concept of development which gives prominent role to farmers' participation in programs which are supposedly designed for their upliftment. ... "How can farmers be mobilized to participate in their own development? Simply by the abolition of 'transmission mentality' in communication and its replacement with a more liberating type of communication that would contain more dialogue..."