Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23742
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 4 pages., "Hardly a handful of major newspapers in India have weekly pages or sections devoted to science. From across the border, science writers in Pakistan seem to have similar experiences."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36229
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Accessed 03/22/2011, Pages 342-353 in S. Healy, B. Berryman and D. Goodman (eds.), Proceedings Radio in the World: Radio Conference 2005, Melbourne, Australia. Via online from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23930
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 3 pages., Describes the approach of a vernacular fortnightly published in Orissa's Western Nuapada district. "Besides being interactive and people-centred, the newspaper makes people cognizant of their rights."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23929
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Reprinted from the Hindu, December 19, 2004. 3 pages., "The rural news network is live and well." Two newspapers compete in starting local editions, using stringers. Article describes the careers and activities of these rural reporters.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23741
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 9 pages., "The indiscriminate nature of local news does not encourage purposeful reporting on the development needs of local areas, and their populations."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23740
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 10 pages., "Have district editions created a public sphere? Or have they merely created a daily bulletin board which people read to see if their names are mentioned?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23754
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 4 pages., "Journalists either lack access to information about GM crop trials or don't understand the issues at stake. Meanwhile, biotech corporations are pressing ahead, leaving decisions that will affect millions of Indians unexamined."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23928
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 1 page., "Mediawatch Brief" says Doordarshans audience research wing studied the impact of its rural development programs on rural households. "It then announced happily that 59 per cent of the rural audience in the country was watching its agriculture programme, and 48 per cent was watching Grameen Bharat." However, "rural households" in the study were located in eight cities.
Ninan, Sevanti (author) and Malaviya, Sushmita (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-06-28
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23931
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 6 pages., "Two years ago newspaper publishers in these parts witnessed a decline in circulation because of the influence of electronic media. But now there is a whole new territory being carved out in Hindi-speaking rural India b y newspapers which see their urban markets stagnating, and advertising being taken away by TV channels."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25911
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 3 pages., "A low-profile, but innovative and imaginative farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala." Variously spelled "Adike Patrike" and "Adike Pathrike"
International Programme for the Development of Communication, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2004-02-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24721
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, 1 page., Describes a monthly selection of rural reportage from a wide range of local and community newspapers from different parts of India. "A considerable number of mainstream newspapers are now using 'Grassroots' as a source of rural news features."
Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00372
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Via online. 4 pages., Describes a project, involving a software known as Bhoomi, by Karnataka State Government and the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to computerize land records and make updated information available online to farmers in sync with the time.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37087
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See C37085 for original, Pages 35-56 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Sulaiman, V, Rasheed (author) and Holt, Georgina (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22996
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Pages 44-89 in Ian Christoplos and John Farrington (eds.), Poverty, vulnerability and agricultural extension. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India. 251 pages.
Rogers, Alan (author), Patkar, Archana (author), and Saraswathi, L.S. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
India: Routledge, London, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37091
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See C37085 for original, Pages 117-138 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22549
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Online from indiatogether.org. 5 pages., Reports on a successful experiment of "farmers penning for their fellowmen" through a farm periodical, Adike Pathrike.
Waisbord, Silvio (author), Deane, James (author), Dixit, Kunda (author), Mue, Njonjo (author), and Banda, Fackson (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2003-11
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36259
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Retrieved at http://comunica.org/com_rights/, Pages 65-100 in Bruce Girard and Sean O. Siochru (eds.), Communicating in the information society, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland. 223 pages.
Mahajan, Prashant (author) and World Conservation Union (IUCN), International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources.
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2003-09-07
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C24938
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Chapter 21 in Denise Hamu, Elisabeth Auchincloss and Wendy Goldstein (eds.), Communicating protected areas. Presented to the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 8-17, 2003.
Tripp, Robert (author), Padre, Shree (author / Agricultural Research in Extenstion Network), Sudarshana (author), and Agricultural Research in Extension Network, United Kingdom
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003-07
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21063
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AgREN Network Paper No. 128. 10 pages, Adike Pathrike is a monthly farm magazine catering to cash-crop growers in parts of Karnataka and Kerala. The magazine covers a wide range of crops (commercial and subsistence) and farm and houshold management themes. It is 15 years old, is self-supporting, and has established a unique niche for itself, based on a philosophy of farmer participation in the generation of information. This approach is expressed through an insistence on farmer verification of technologies described in the magazine, an adaptive and interative approach to technology, and encouragement of farmer-to-farmer communication, and a counterbalance to government and industry promotional campaigns.
Stone, Glenn Davis (author / Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2003-04-22
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23356
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Paper presented at the Conference on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, April 22,2003. 20 pages.
Bhatnagar, Subhash (author), Dewan, Anika (author), Torres, Magui Moreno (author), Kanungo, Parameeta (author), and World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36945
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Empowerment Case Studies. 7 pages., Recipient of the "Most Promising Social Enterprise Award 2002" by Digital Partners USA and the "Best Information and Communication Technology Story Award" by the International Institute for Communications and Development (IICD) and Infodev (World Bank).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23190
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The Communication Initiative. 2 pages., Describes a program to introduce wireless telephone and Internet service in 5,000 West Bengal villages. An accompanying brief describes plans to provide information services in a Laos village via special computers powered by stationary bicycles.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25912
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 5 pages., "Community radio takes root in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh as women's self help groups use the media for local development."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23927
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 2 pages., Policemen in a rural village use the Discovery Channel's "Medical Detectives" while on duty to improve their knowledge of forensic methods and their skills in gathering evidence.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23926
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 2 pages., Analysis shows gap between newspaper content and village conditions. Author quotes one village source: "Water, forest and land are traditional system here. Our culture is linked with it. Newspaper should."
This article originally was a paper presented at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' (IFLA) General Conference, Aug. 18-24, 2002, in Glasgow, Scotland., 10 p., Often funding agencies and donor governments face the question should they support information and communication technology (ICT) activities in their development projects. Should the money be invested in computers and communication devices or will it be better spent on food, shelter, health and education? The choice need not be "either/or." If used intelligently and innovatively, ICTs can form an integral component of developmental projects, as is shown by the award-winning Information Village project of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. The important point to remember is that one does not have to use technology because it is there, but one uses it if there is a genuine advantage. In any developmental program, people and their contexts should decide how one goes about implementing developmental interventions. The needs of the people and the best means to satisfy them should determine the whole program. Often ICT-based development projects do not bring in the expected results because of undue emphasis on technology. Against this background, the factors that led to the success of the Pondicherry experience are analyzed.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27908
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Presented at the Participatory Communication Research Section in the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002. 11 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23735
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PREMnotes (Poverty Reducation and Economic Management Network), Number 70. 4 pages., Information and communications technology can improve poor people's lives - but only if policies and projects are designed to exploit its potentials.
Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), The study aims to track adoption of improved chickpea varieties, and assess their on-farm benefits in some remote and backward tribal villages in Gujarat, India, where few newly developed varieties were introduced by a non-government organization. It also determines key factors which were influencing their adoption. The study found that adoption of improved chickpea varieties was gradually increasing by replacing a prominent local variety. Duration of crop maturity, farm size, yield risk, and farmers' experience of growing chickpea crop were significantly influencing their adoption. The on-farm benefits as a result of improved varieties were realized in terms of increased yield levels, higher income and labor productivity, more marketable surplus, price premium and stabilized yields in fluctuating weather. Breeding short duration varieties with stable yield levels under varying weather, and organizing seed multiplication and dissemination in regions, where moisture stress is a problem during maturity of chickpea, are the major suggestions.
International: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27924
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Prepared for the International Congress of Information, "Information, knowledge and society: challenges of new era," Havana International Conference Center, Cuba, April 22-26, 2002. 11 pages.
Bhattacharjea, Ajit (author / Director, Press Institute of India)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-04-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23925
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Extracted from the Indian Express, New Delhi. 2 pages., Access to information reveals that funds for rural development projects in Rajasthan were mis-appropriated by local officials.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16303
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Chapter 6 in Rafiq Dossani (ed.), Telecommunications reform in India. Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut. 258 pages., Author describes a proposal wherein the state should build 5,000 communications centers or "work centers" and link these to the rail and fiber infrastructures. Every citizen can access a telephone, the Internet, health care and education. "People stay within the traditional semirural or rural infrastructure, within their 'circle,' rather than moving away from their families to the overcrowded cities."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16302
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Chapter 5 in Rafiq Dossani (ed.), Telecommunications reform in India. Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut. 258 pages., Rural aspects include data on the low teledensity in rural areas of India.
