The International Fund for Agricultural Development
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: C19524
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 93-119; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
Gillard-Byers, Thomas E. (author) and Bulla, Grasiano (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1988-10
Published:
Malawi: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00335
Notes:
Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 13-24 in Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research and Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series, Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05737
Notes:
"Blog Stories on Extension." Online via the website of AgroInsight, Ghent, Belgium. 2 pages., Example of negative results from a top-down approach to Extension teaching.
INTERPAKS, Examines some aspects of rural development in Malawi and, in particular, looks at the importance of sociological and psychological variables and how they appear to relate to economic variables. The paper first describes the survey from which the results were obtained. The following three sections deal with constraints felt in the rural sector, financial behavior, and the state of and changes in attitudes and beliefs of smallholders, respectively.