Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25989
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4 pages., Reports on activities and contributions of some professional communicators who have worked with International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) during the past half century.
Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26273
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Posted at http://www.wkkf.org > Search on title., Via W. K. Kellogg Foundation. 2 pages., Identifies, describes and provides audio access to nine half-hour radio programs about challenges facing rural America today. Produced by
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26320
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Posted at www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=75100, Via Media News Daily. 2 pages., Describes honor for the rural reporter of The Hindu newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26321
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Posted at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1329833451&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientld=36305&RQT=309&Vname=PQD, BusinessWorld, Manila, Philippines, via ProQuest. 4 pages.
Describes conflict between a fruit corporation and farm workers trying to organize. Examines efforts by the corporation to eliminate unfavorable visual information, curb First Amendment rights of free speech and use negative communications.
Corbett, Jon (author), Kulchyski, Tim (author), Hukari, Tom (author), and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26824
2 pages., Describes a Canadian initiative for using new information technologies to aid the survival of an endangered language spoken in a number of rural communities on southern Vancouver Island.
Thompson, Geoff (author) and Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crop Development in Asia and Pacific (CAPSA), subsidiary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26961
"At a national and local level, many rural development plans have very little in the way of communication components." Author emphasizes need for involving communication more fully in such projects.
Congress organized by the World Bank, The Communication Initiative and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26963
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Posted at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai143e/ai143e01.pdf, Report of a World Congress that took place October 25-27, 2006, in Rome, Italy. 126 pages.
Seshagiri, Sarita (author), Sagar, Aman (author), and Joshi, Dhaval (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-05-08
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29704
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Pages 855-862 in proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007. Track: Technology for Developing Regions.
Xiaoming, Hao (author), Banerjee, Indrajit (author), and Jinqui, Zhao (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-12-15
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36116
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Presented to the Conference on Empowering Rural Communities through ICT Policy and Research, Chennai, India, December 15-17, 2007. 17 pages., Case study of a rural community internet access center that lacked sustainability.
International: Research and Extension Division, Natural Resources and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36136
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38 pages., Findings of a series of regional studies, consultations and workshops organized by FAO in preparation for the World Congress on Communicationfor Development (Rome, October 2007).
USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
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205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
