22 pages, via online journal, Past explanations of why rural people respond as they do to external development interventions have emphasized the role of key limiting factors or critical characteristics (wealth, education, land tenure, etc.) which are thought to influence peoples' behavior in predictable ways. Efforts to promote tree planting and soil conservation in eight neighboring villages in the Philippines revealed that variation in participation did not reflect clear patterns based on existing household or village characteristics. Instead, specific responses to interventions reflected a complex, but interpretable interaction between existing socio-economic factors and historic trends or events. Characteristics like the degree of local knowledge, security of land tenure and community cohesion affected peoples' participation, in general, but their specific influence was neither predictable nor consistent between, and even within, individual villages. An appreciation of the specific historic context was often sufficient to explain these variations. The following historic trends and events were found to have important consequences for peoples' participation: migration and settlement history; family and group lineages; history of socio-political organization and conflict; history of physical isolation; labor history; economic–ecological history; environmental history; and past exposure to development agents. The paper concludes with a preliminary checklist of questions intended to assist researchers and development agents to discover relevant and interesting historical information about rural villages.
Knapp, Jill (author) and Griffieon, LaVon (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
USA: Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29706
Notes:
Competitive Grant Report 98-57. Pages 17-19 in Leopold Center Progress Reports, Volume 8., Reports on effectiveness of an educational program to help non-farmers better understand agriculture through presentations and farm tours.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37382
Notes:
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California. 4 pages., Describes a historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers - black and white -and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. 56 minutes. 1999.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37383
Notes:
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California. 2 pages., Reviews a historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers - black and white -and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. 56 minutes. 1999.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14397
Notes:
Chapter 10 in Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka and Michael D. Warren (eds.), Biological and cultural diversity: the role of indigenous agricultural experimentation in development. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. 1999. 218 pages
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14400
Notes:
Chapter 13 in Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka and Michael D. Warren (eds.), Biological and cultural diversity: the role of indigenous agricultural experimentation in development. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. 1999. 218 pages
Ou, Li (author), Xiaoyun, Li (author), and Zhaohu, Li (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14402
Notes:
Chapter 15 in Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka and Michael D. Warren (eds.), Biological and cultural diversity: the role of indigenous agricultural experimentation in development. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. 1999. 218 pages
