22 pages, via online journal, Past explanations of why rural people respond as they do to external development interventions have emphasized the role of key limiting factors or critical characteristics (wealth, education, land tenure, etc.) which are thought to influence peoples' behavior in predictable ways. Efforts to promote tree planting and soil conservation in eight neighboring villages in the Philippines revealed that variation in participation did not reflect clear patterns based on existing household or village characteristics. Instead, specific responses to interventions reflected a complex, but interpretable interaction between existing socio-economic factors and historic trends or events. Characteristics like the degree of local knowledge, security of land tenure and community cohesion affected peoples' participation, in general, but their specific influence was neither predictable nor consistent between, and even within, individual villages. An appreciation of the specific historic context was often sufficient to explain these variations. The following historic trends and events were found to have important consequences for peoples' participation: migration and settlement history; family and group lineages; history of socio-political organization and conflict; history of physical isolation; labor history; economic–ecological history; environmental history; and past exposure to development agents. The paper concludes with a preliminary checklist of questions intended to assist researchers and development agents to discover relevant and interesting historical information about rural villages.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder.
Philippines: Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development, Laguna, Philippines
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10056
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This brochure is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., 8 pages., A founding document for CARD, a Philippines-based association of professionals and practitioners devoted to the advancement of the communication profession.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10041
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This 1981 description is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, ACES College, University of Illinois, Urbana > "International" section > "Philippines - UPLB" file., Project file, Description of a pioneering university program in development communication through flyers and catalog descriptions.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Excerpts from a survey of farm radio broadcasting in developing Asian-Pacific countries by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP)
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder.
The OCIAC Update series is maintained in the Agricultural Communications Program records > "International" section > "OCIAC" file., Summary of V.L. Cabanilla and T.R. Hargrove, "The effectiveness among farmers of a farmer's primer on growing rice in two Philippine dialects." Research Paper Series No. 127, February 1987. Manila, Philippines.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Summarizes findings of a study by the Philippine Tobacco Research and Training Center. They revealed effectiveness of radio schools involving instruction for tobacco farmers.
This editorial is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Discusses why multi-media campaigns for corn, vegetables, and fish have not enjoyed success matching that of the widely-cited media campaign which the Philippine Ministry of
Agriculture staged for rice (Masagna 99). Calls for research.
