Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14108
Notes:
First published in Africa Media Review, 1(2), 1987., Chapter 5 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Development Communication Principles. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 365 pages.
Bourgeois, Michel (author), Marathey, Ram (author), and UNESCO expert in educational broadcasting, Togo; UNESCO expert in educational radio and literacy teaching, Gabon
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1965
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04335
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Includes Table of Contents only, In: Radio broadcasting serves rural development. Paris, France : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 1965. p. 31-51 (Reports and Papers on Mass Communication, No.48)
Kamlongera, Christopher (author / Centre of Communication for Development (CCD))
Format:
Workshop report
Publication Date:
2001-02
Published:
Italy
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 126 Document Number: C18484
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14 pages; First International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations February 19-22, 2001 Rome, Italy
Barry, David (author / Inter-African Centre of Studies on Rural Radio)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International: African Council on Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28629
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Pages 20-23 in The New World Information and Communication Order - Implications for Africa, a report of two workshops in Nairobi, Kenya, October 9-16, 1983, and Dakar, Senegal, December 12-17, 1983. 39 pages.
Reviews several books on slavery. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital, by David Baronov; The Virgin, The King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780, by María Elena Díaz; The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, by David Eltis.;
Darkey, D.K.G. (author / Lincoln College, New Zealand)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C09040
Notes:
FAO Economic and Social Development Series No. 26. 1982 Training for Agriculture and Rural Development. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 1983. 7-13.
36 pages., via online journal., This article examines the challenges facing agriculture in Africa. First the article outlines agriculture’s connection with overall economic growth; then, the author evaluates agricultural productivity and food security in Africa in 2010. From this point, the author evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of seven paths that African agriculture is likely to evolve along between now and 2050: five for Sub-Saharan African and two for North Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the types of farming proposed are: extensive, mechanized; intensive export; intensive peri-urban; subsistence; and reserves, game ranching, and tourism. In North Africa, the author proposes: irrigated and rainfed. In order to realize the most positive benefits of these paths in 2050, Africa has to tackle six challenges, outlined by the author: reducing population growth, promoting irrigation, adapting the role of the state, promoting the acceleration of technical change (including fertilizer and biotechnology), and preparing for climate change. Increasing the competitiveness of Africa’s commercial farming will improve income, inequality, and nutrition across the continent.
Cole, Remileku Rakey (author / Cornell University) and Ceesay, Mustapha M. (author / Cornell University)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1999-03-23
Published:
Africa: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20976
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, 6 pages, Session F, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
cited reference, In colonial Africa, scientific institutions were researching into ways of making life easier for expatriates, e.g., tropical medicine and the production of crops for export. With independence, the British handed over most of the research institutes and educational establishments to the new states, while the French retained a strong presence. There is now a severe shortage of trained scientists in black Africa, and heavy dependence on international assistance and transfer of knowledge. It is argued that more enduring structures for scientific and technological cooperation must be developed. (original)