Laschewski, Lutz (author), Siebert, Rosemaria (author), Dargan, Lorna (author), and Harris, Edmund (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36972
Notes:
Pages 61-75 in Maria Fonte and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos (eds.), Naming food after places: food relocalisation and knowledge dynamics in rural development. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Surrey, England. 285 pages.
Important results of a survey on "Information needs and information behavior in extension service in agriculture, home economics and nutrition" are given. This study was carried out by the Department for Economic and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan from May, 1979 to November, 1981. It revealed, by interviewing 14 leading personnel of documentation centers for nutrition, agriculture and forestry, that extension agents only form a very small sector of the centers' user. Various surveys using personal as well as written interviews and participant observation of extension agents resulted in a host of data on the determinants of extension agents' behavior toward information in general and "prophylactic" and "curative" in particular. Conclusions are drawn on optimal configurations of the future sources of information in the field of extension services in nutrition, home economics, and agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C04008
Notes:
In: Agricultural information to hasten development : proceedings of the VIth World Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists; 1980 March 3-7; Manilla, Philippines. Los Banos, Philippines : Agricultural Information Bank of Asia, 1981. p. 277-285
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26344
Notes:
Posted at http://www.epobio.net/0704AttitudesReport.pdf, From the EPOBIO project supported by the European Commission. 128 pages., Results of a six-nation European public survey related to an international project (EPOBIO) to raise the economic potential of plant-derived raw materials by designing new generations of bio-based products that will reach the marketplace 10-15 years from now. Six-page printout includes the summary of findings.
Hegglin, Daniel (author), Bontadina, Fabio (author), Gloor, Sandra (author), Romig, Thomas (author), Deplazes, Peter (author), and Kern, Peter (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27887