Murwira, Kudakwashe (author), Hagmann, Jurgen (author), and Chuma, Edward (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Zimbabwe
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01211
Notes:
Pages 300-309 in Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
Bertolini Romeo (author / International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.) and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Internation Food Policy Resesarch institute
Format:
Brief
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: C21277
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11194
Journal Title Details:
9 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 126 Document Number: C18482
Notes:
7 pages; First International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations February 19-22, 2001 Rome, Italy
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14150
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 9 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
International: African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14143
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education, Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994. Sixteen of the 60 papers presented during the conference are included., 506 pages
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14144
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 1 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Holloway, Karla F.C. (author) and The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2010-01-13
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36334
Notes:
Online via the Bioethics Forum. 1 page., Deals with principles of privacy/confidentiality, consent, justice and autonomy in matters of reproductive health decisions.
International: Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, UK.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C37061
Karembu, Margaret (author), Nguthi, Faith (author), and Bitta, Brigitte (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2015
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07875
Notes:
Pages 103-106 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications,Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
International: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05712
Notes:
258 pages., "The developing world is littered with bodies of abandoned or dead development initiatives...Development dies on the very day that external and internal experts, without an understanding of the local setting, come in with their fancy ideas about implementing strategies and initiatives that do not build on local knowledge and strengths."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14151
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 10 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
International: African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12778
Notes:
Chapter 8 in S.T. Kwame Boafo and Nancy A. George (eds.), Communication research in Africa: issues and perspectives. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 1992. 161 p.
Falola,Toyin (Editor), Afolabi,Niyi (Editor), and Adesanya,Aderonke A. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
492 p., Includes Akintunde Akinyemi's "Transnational displacement and cultural continuity : the survival of Yorùbá religious poetry in the Americas," Niyi Afolabi's "Milton Nascimento's Missa dos Quilombos: musical invocation, race, and liberation," Christopher Adejumo's "Migration and slavery as paradigms in the aesthetic transformation of Yoruba art in the Americas," Ann Albuyeh's "'Africa speaks in me': how the diaspora shaped the languages of the Caribbean, then and now," Raphael Chijioke Njoku's "Symbols and meanings of Igbo masquerades and carnivals of the Black diaspora," and Ray A. Kea's "Religion, texts, and conversion in the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies : questions of self-identity and self-determination."
Quandt, Amy (author), Salerno, Jonathan D. (author), Neff, Jason C. (author), Baird, Timothy D. (author), Herrick, Jeffrey E. (author), McCabe, J. Terrence (author), Xu, Emilie (author), and Hartter, Joel (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2020-08-11
Published:
United States: PLOS
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12425
16 pages., Mobile phone use is increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa, spurring a growing focus on mobile phones as tools to increase agricultural yields and incomes on smallholder farms. However, the research to date on this topic is mixed, with studies finding both positive and neutral associations between phones and yields. In this paper we examine perceptions about the impacts of mobile phones on agricultural productivity, and the relationships between mobile phone use and agricultural yield. We do so by fitting multilevel statistical models to data from farmer-phone owners (n = 179) in 4 rural communities in Tanzania, controlling for site and demographic factors. Results show a positive association between mobile phone use for agricultural activities and reported maize yields. Further, many farmers report that mobile phone use increases agricultural profits (67% of respondents) and decreases the costs (50%) and time investments (47%) of farming. Our findings suggest that there are opportuni- ties to target policy interventions at increasing phone use for agricultural activities in ways that facilitate access to timely, actionable information to support farmer decision making.
Marchant, Tim J. (author), Murphy, Josette (author), and Murphy: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Africa Technical Department, the World Bank; Marchant: Director, Longacre Agricultural Development Center, London, UK
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03935
Notes:
Evans, Burton Swanson Collection, Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1988. 81 p. (World Bank Technical Paper, No. 79. Monitoring and Evaluation Series)
Kinsey, B. (author / University of East Anglia, Norwioh)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C08986
Notes:
E. Clayton and F. Petry (Eds.), Monitoring Systems for Agricultural and Rural Development Projects. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 59-81.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22081
Notes:
Pages 55-64 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
22 pages, In this paper, we investigate the link between windfall gains and losses of income associated with commodity exports and economic performance in a panel of 45 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period from 1990 to 2019. Windfall gains and losses of income are measured in terms of fluctuations in a country-specific commodity terms of trade (CTOT) index in which each commodity is weighted by the ratio of exports of that commodity in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). The CTOT index therefore reflects the commodity export specialisation for individual countries. The data on CTOT are taken from the International Monetary Fund. Additionally, we use changes in real GDP per capita as our SSA economic performance measure. We employ a random coefficient model that yields individual estimates for each of the countries included in the analysis. Our approach is based on the assumption that the effect of windfall gains and losses on real GDP per capita growth varies across different SSA countries. Our main conclusion can be elaborated as follows: first, natural resources have undoubtedly contributed to higher economic growth in SSA countries since 1990. Second, when SSA countries are analytically divided into two groups depending on their commodity export specialisation, we find that resource-rich countries—in particular oil rich—are the best economic growth performers during the observation period. Finally, we find that windfall gains from commodity exports are not significantly associated with increased real GDP per capita growth in most agriculture-exporting countries.
178 p., This dissertation is about the role that conservative religious notions of racial ideology played in the historical origins of black nationalism and pan-Africanism. Focuses on the writings of an African Caribbean, Edward Blyden, as the centerpiece of the study. Blyden, a native of Saint Thomas (Virgin Islands) and considered one of the "fathers" of both pan-Africanism and African nationalism, was a particularly complex diasporic intellectual. Traveling first to the United States in the pre-Civil War period, then to Africa and Britain at the height of the European imperial venture - and Christian missionary efforts - Blyden served as a conduit between the West (the United States and Britain) and both a traditional and a Muslim Africa. He saw his role as one of mediating (critiquing/translating) these divergent voices and ideologies with the object of constituting a "modern," pan-African subject.
Wielinga, Eelke (author) and Niesten, Marie-Jose (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1987-10-05
Published:
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19523
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 65-91; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
Baxter, Michael (author / Western Africa Project Department, The World Bank)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05732
Notes:
CAB R742298; Paper initially presented at the Sixth International Farm management Congress; 1986 July 2; Minneapolis, MN, In: Roberts, Nigel, ed. Agricultural extension in Africa. Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1989. p. 93-98, Significant innovations with potentially broad application in agricultural extension that are under way in World Bank funded projects in developing countries are highlighted. These include: (1) the proliferation of the electronic mass media (radio and television); (2S) the availability of small, handy video cameras; (3) the development of interactive voice-computer systems; (4) increased reliance on private extension services; (5) increased role of farmers' groups and individual contacts; and (6) the greater attention being given to women's agricultural extension needs
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00527
Notes:
Pages 70-73 in Charles T. Hein and Keith K. Kanyogonya (eds.), Rural press for village post-literacy literature. Afrolit Paper No. 5. Fifth Biennial Afrolit Society Pan-African Literacy Workshop Report, Afrolit Society, Nairobi, Kenya. 93 pages
Rodríguez,Jaime Arocha (Editor) and Quintero Barrera,Rosa Patricia (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers from a seminar held Oct. 28-29, 2004, at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia., 293 p., A collection of personal tributes to the life and work of Nina S. de Friedemann, as well as writings related to her research on the black population in Colombia.
This short essay offers one frame in which to think about the idea of a black radical tradition, a term whose elements are all essentially unstable and contested. What is at stake is a historically minded inquiry into 'uses' rather than 'meanings' - that is, the historical conjunctures in which the idea of a black radical tradition has been employed. The essay suggests that 'Africa' and 'slavery' are recurrent tropes of this tradition and gives the example of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's discussion of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Lwoga, Edda Tandi (author) and Chilimo, Wanyenda (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-21
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24482
Notes:
Retrieved July 5, 2006, Conference sponsored by the International Association for Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) in Nairobi, Kenya, May 21-26, 2006. Via Livelihoods Connect. 12 pages., Conference theme: "Managing agricultural information for sustainable food security and improved livelihoods in Africa."
210 p., In African and Caribbean literature the question of power relations is omnipresent. It is identifiable in the literature of the independence period, which explored socio-cultural issues while African and Caribbean nations were emerging from the grip of colonial powers, and also in that of today, where developed countries and developing countries are still negotiating their relationship. While the Black woman is the first to feel the effects of power, because the latter is doubly marginalized as a woman and black, she has historically been silenced by a literary canon that does not leave her room for self-expression. Through an analysis of power relations between Black women and the patriarchal institution, we reveal the tactics that women use to endure the alienating systems in which they are located: (1) the rehabilitation of their sexuality (2) feminine solidarity (3) formal education (4) supernatural power and (5) the reexamination of Western values.
International: Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michigan State University, East Lansing; and U. S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05682
Behn,Aphra (Author), Gallagher,Catherine (Editor), and Stern,Simon (Contributor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Lexington, KY: Simon & BrownI
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
77 p., A short novel written by English female author Aphra Behn, published in 1688. It is the story of an African prince who deeply loves the beautiful Imoinda. Imoinda is eventually sold as a slave and is taken to Suriname which is under British rule. Oroonoko is taken prisoner, is sold, and finds himself and Imoinda enslaved on the same plantation. Contents: 1. To the right honourable the Lord Maitland. 2. The history of the royal slave.
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Harlem in 1918. By 1924 there were over 700 branches in 38 states and over 200 branches throughout the world as far away as South Africa at a time when there was no e-mail, television, or even radio to advertise. Those who could not hear Garvey directly received his views through his newspaper called the Negro World, which boasted a circulation as high as 200,000 by 1924. In 1919, the UNIA and Negro World were blamed for the numerous violent colonial uprisings in Jamaica, Grenada, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago. British and French authorities deported all UNIA organizers and banned the Negro World from all their colonies, but seamen continued to smuggle the paper throughout the world.
Africa: Sasakawa Centre for Continuing Education in Agriculture, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20526
Notes:
Burton Swancon Collection, 12-25 pages, from "Professional development of mid-career, front-line agricultural extension staff in Sub-Saharan Africa", Proceedings from a workshop
Okundi, Philip O. (author / East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, Nairobi, Kenya) and East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, Nairobi, Kenya
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1976-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05490
Hoddinott, John (author) and Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28220
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2002-UPaGiSSA/papers/Hoddinott2-csae2002.pdf, Presented at "Understanding poverty and growth in sub-Saharan Africa," a conference at the University of Oxford from March 18-19, 2002.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22082
Notes:
Pages 65-76 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Mefalopulos, Paolo (author) and Kamlongera, Christopher (author)
Format:
Handbook
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23914
Notes:
Second edition. For the Southern African Development Community Centre of Communication for Development in collaboration with the Communication for Development Group Extension, Education and Communication Service, Sustainable Development Department.
Bessette, Guy (author) and Rajasunderam, C.V. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
USA: Canadian-based International Development Research Centre
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: C21666
Notes:
138 p., This publication represents a milestone in the formulation of a viable development communication program within the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). More than 2 years ago, it was realized that a critical link was missing in the information chain that formed the basis of the Centre's information sciences and systems program. There is demonstrable evidence that for over twenty years the Centre has invested in an effective program in the processing, manipulation, and dissemination of information in support of the development process. What was equally evident was the absence of a dedicated program related to the "communication" processes. There was an absence of research initiatives that examined how information was being received, acted upon, assessed by the various target groups, and perhaps most importantly, how this assessment was communicated back to those who were responsible for the original messages. Without this critical link in the information chain, there could be no real success in furthering the development process. Thus, 2 years ago, a subprogram within the information sciences and systems program was created. This development communication program took the name of "CIME" to reflect the interrelations between Communication at the grassroots level, the exchange of Information, two-way Media, and nonformal Education. This publication presents the conceptual framework which led to the articulation of the CIME program, and explains in detail how it was formulated, with references to the conclusions of a regional meeting of Central and West African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) held in Burkina Faso, in November 1994. It also contains the conclusions of another meeting in Canada, in February 1995, organized to discuss various aspects of the program with Canadian experts in development communication and representatives of African NGOs taking part in the program in West Africa. Another interesting dimension of this publication is that there is something for everyone interested in development communication. There are valuable inputs on the use of participatory communication for nonformal education, and on the specific needs of women and young girls and the role they can play as communicators within their community. [Publishers abstract]
369 p., Looks at contemporary novels of the anglophone African diaspora through the lens of movement, migration, and dislocation, with particular attention to how the selected authors depict black diasporic identity formation, and how they contribute to it through their writings. Thematically, this dissertation examines literary representations of the social, cultural, and psychological consequences that involuntary and voluntary migrations have had for black communities and individuals in North America, the Caribbean, and Britain. It explores the juncture of history, memory, geography, and diasporic identity, as represented by eight contemporary novelists of African and African-Caribbean descent: Charles Johnson ( Middle Passage ), Lawrence Hill ( The Book of Negroes ), Toni Morrison (Sula and Tar Baby ), George Lamming (The Emigrants ), Caryl Phillips (The Final Passage, A State of Independence, and Crossing the River ), Andrea Levy (Small Island ), Cecil Foster (Sleep on, Beloved ), and Edwidge Danticat ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14428
Notes:
Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 6 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
Luning, H.A. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics of the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands) and Department of Agricultural Economics of the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1967
Published:
USA: 15(1967) : 161-169
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: B05504
The Peace Corps and the Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace at Texas Southern University partnered to send 10 students to live with current Peace Corps volunteers in Haiti, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Panama and Bolivia. The program, which was started last year, aims to increase minority student interest in global service centers. To honor this year's interns, a reception was held in July at the Houston Urban League.