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2. Harsh critic reassesses U.S. knowlege systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hightower, Jim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11172
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 3
- Notes:
- Located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., An invited reassessment by the author of a book, Hard Tomatoes and Hard Times, in which he faulted U.S. land grant universities for abandoning the original intended focus on serving small, low-resource farmers. Emphasized farmers' need for neutral, unbiased assessment of new, often very specialized, technologies. "...and at the same time they will need generalists who can assist in developing comprehensive, integrated farming systems that can depend on lessons learned decades ago as well as new knowledge."
3. The agricultural-rural research and information delivery system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Buttel, Frederick H. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06290
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, In: Johnson, Glenn L., Bonnen, James T., Fienup, Darrell, Quance, C. Leroy, and Schaller, Neill, eds. Social science agricultural agendas and strategies. East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 1991. p. I 39 - I 41