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2. Elements of a paradigm for rural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nelson, Gleen L. (author / Resident Fellow, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.; Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1984-12
- Published:
- USA: Ames, IA : American Agricultural Economics Association.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05831
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 66 (5) : 694-700.
- Notes:
- AGE 85925357; Paper presented at the "Annual Meeting at the American agricultural economics Association," 1984, August 5 - 8; Ithaca, NY, This paper addresses issues surrounding a paradigm for rural development. The first section develops further the consequences of the lack of a generally accepted paradigm. The following three sections present elements of a framework by focusing in turn on target variables, policy instruments, and the structural relationships which link causal factors and target variables. The final section draws conclusions about developing better paradigms and improved policy analysis.
3. Evaluation of rural health care programs employing unobserved variable models : impact on infant mortality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Farmer, Frank L. (author), Miller, Michael K. (author), and Voth, Donald E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Bozeman, MT : Rural Sociological Society.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05867
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 49 (1) : 127-142.
- Notes:
- AGE 84925163, The study evaluates 145 health care programs that were implemented in the 1970s to serve nonmetropolitan populations in the United States. The evaluation employs multiple indicator unobserved variable models to disaggregate the effects of the socio-environmental milieu; i.e., education, income, racial composition, poverty, housing conditions, crowding, occupation structure, and rural health care programs on physician availability and two health status indicators--neonatal mortality and post-neonatal mortality. The results show that rural health care programs did not increase the availability of physicians in the targeted areas. However, implementation of the programs contributed significantly to lowering the neonatal mortality rate.
4. Reconsideration of the agriculture transfer model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feller, Irwin (author / Director, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, Pennsylvania State University.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Indianapolis, IN : Technology Transfer Society.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06848
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Technology Transfer
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (2) : 47-56
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92034694, The cooperative extension system in American agriculture is widely viewed as the paradigmatic public sector technology transfer system. Empirical evidence supports the view that research and extension are complementary inputs in increasing agricultural productivity. Cooperative extension, however, does not perceive itself as a technology transfer system; but as an informal education system. Many participants at the federal, land grant university, or county levels in cooperative extension would not recognize their work within a technology transfer framework. Moreover, many would object to such a characterization of their work. The differences in perspective is accounted for, in part, by the fact that agricultural extension is part of the larger system of cooperative extension. This system, which encompasses agriculture, home economics, 4-H and community and rural development, requires a more encompassing framework than technology transfer to provide an integrated rationale for its program elements. Within the technology transfer framework, the roles of the different components of the system across the states are both highly variable and changing. Based on site interviews in nine states, analysis is presented of the current and prospective roles of extension specialists and county agents. (original)
5. Time for a new look at training for rural-based development projects
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Woods, John L. (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 195 Document Number: D07934
- Notes:
- John L. Woods Collection, RB #353. Development Training and Communication Planning, United Nations Development Training and Communication Planning Asia and Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 10 pages.
6. Toward developing a coefficient of communication convergence
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Flor, Alexander G. (author / Instructor in Development Communication, University of the Philippines at Los Banos)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984-10
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06063
- Journal Title:
- Devcom Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 (4) : 47-58
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
7. Who "moves" the farmer : some issues in communication and extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Colle, Royal D. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07436
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS; copy in ACDC files, In: M. Drosdoff, ed. World food issues, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues, Cornell University, 1984. p. 73-78., Discusses two competing communication strategies. One is a descendent of traditional extension philosophy, which emerged in the US and was developed in the first half of the 20th century. The second is related to the emergence in recent years of the concepts of "integration" and "participation" in rural development. Describes and analyzes each of these strategies and the issues they pose.