International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07293
12 pages., Via online journal., Rural Resources Centers (RRCs) managed by community-based organisations, where farmers come together for training and demonstration, have been an innovative extension approach in Cameroon since 2006. This paper describes information flow in RRCs and farmers’ assessment of RRCs as information sources. All the RRCs in Cameroon were studied and 29 group interviews, involving 118 producers and 7 individual interviews with RRC managers, were performed. RRCs share information with several stakeholders including farmers, research institutions, and educational and religious institutions; and interpersonal channels are commonly used. Farmers and agricultural extension workers are the most important sources of information for RRCs. Farmers rank RRCs as their second best sources of information after fellow farmers. On average, each year, RRCs organise at least 40 training sessions for about 1777 participants. The themes are mainly agroforestry (29%), marketing (20%), group dynamics (20%) and post-harvest techniques (11%). The issue of funding the activities of the RRCs needs to be addressed, they need to be better structured, and their human resources increased and strengthened.
Enghel, Florencia (author) and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36284
Notes:
Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Pages 13-14 in Book of Abstracts: Participatory Communication Research Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
Byrnes, Kerry J.;Jessee, David;Bathrick, David, Chemonics International (author)
Format:
Special Report
Publication Date:
2009-04-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Presentations at Professional Meetings File Document Number: D01576
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, USAID and T-lad,38 pages
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Presentations at Professional Meetings File Document Number: D01580
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Observations from a cross-cutting analysis of case studies of pakistani water users associations, 26 pages.
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19527
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Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 185-190; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
Africa: The World Bank Regional Mission in Eastern Africa Preferential Trade Area for Eastern & Southern African States
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19742
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 16-23 From "Proceedings of regional workshop on agricultural research and extension and their interaction" In Cooperation with the Republic of Kenya Minitries of: Agriculture Livestock Development & Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Kenya December 2-9, 1990
Africa: Northern Region Agricultural Rehabilitation Project, Khartoum, Sudan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20502
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Burton Swanson Collection, pages 87-94, from "Transfer of technology for the agricultural development in the northern region of Sudan", Proeceedings of the in-house meeting Khartoum, Sudan, 20-22 October 1987
Africa: The World Bank Regional Mission in Eastern Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20555
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pages 16-40 from "Proceedings of regional workshop on agricultural research and extension and their interaction" Kenya December 2-9, 1990
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23122
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Presented at the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Workshop of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, December 15-16, 2002. 7 pages.
Talero, Eduardo (author), Gaudette, Philip (author), and World Bank
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1996-03
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23451
Notes:
Telecommunications and Informatics Division, Industry and Energy Department, Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency, The World Bank. 6 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07064
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, see C07062-C07070, In: W. Rivera and S. Schram (eds.) Agricultural Extension Worldwide. New York : Croom Helm, 1989. p.66-74
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07395
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INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1983. Washington, D.C.: Education department, World Bank. Paper prepared for Inter-agency Workshop on Agricultural Education and Training, World Bank, September 6-9, 1983. 25 p.
search through journal, Governments' agencies are the dominant information technology (IT) users in Africa. As in the developed countries, the returns of the use of IT are mixed. Analysis of 76 World Bank projects in Africa shows that government and aid agencies alike need to make more intensive efforts in the design of projects with IT components, taking into account clients' limited absorptive capacity. Specific examples of IT use show the core constraining factors to lie in limited human and organizational capabilities (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07787
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cited reference, The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research, October 1990. 10 p. (ISNAR Linkages Discussion Paper No. 8)., This paper focuses on the links between rice research and extension in the Matara District of Sri Lanka. Various formal linkage mechanisms were set up when the training and visit system of extension was implemented nationwide, including regional technical working groups, research-extension dialogues, bi-weekly training, and the use of subject-matter officers as liaison between research and extension. These mechanisms improved the links but could not overcome the poor communication and great social distance between researchers and extension workers. After World Bank project funding ended, the mechanisms could not be fully sustained. (original)
Moore, Mick (author / Fellow, the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton) and Fellow, the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984-07
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03871
