6 pages, via online journal, In order to design and implement public policies in the context of rural development, information tends to be gathered about family farming in different Latin American countries. In contrast, scarce attention has been given to the description of rural extensionists, who are the ones supporting family farming in the fi eld. A cross-sectional investigation was conducted between 2010 and 2012 including surveys to rural extensions working in 10 different Latin American countries, this allowing for a preliminary description of the socio-demographic profile of the respondents. The samples were incidental ranging from 19 (Bolivia) to 220 (Argentina) subjects, this implying that they were not representative. Significant statistical differences were found with regards to the sex, age, experience, level of education and university degree of the samples pertaining to the different countries. In average, most extensionists are men (70.1%), age 40.3 and have little more than 11 years of experience as extensionists. Brazilian practitioners surveyed are the oldest, most educated and experienced among the different samples. In general, most extensionists have a technical background and are agricultural engineers. The Uruguayan sample showed the highest percentage of extensionists coming from the area of social sciences.
USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
Notes:
205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
Citation, abstract, and conclusions (2 pages) printed for ACDC filing and storage., This study identified five underlying frames (mostly in print media but with attention to a television soap opera based on the MST's activities) and examined the images of the movement that the frames presented. "Though the coverage often presents the MST in a favorable light, it does not necessarily encourage the goal of mobilization that the movement seeks to promote."
Coughenour, C. Milton (author) and Swanson, Louis E. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA: Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37083
Notes:
See C37075 for original, Pages 103-116 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Coughenour, C. Milton (author) and Swanson, Louis E. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18461
Notes:
Pages 103-116 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
USA: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21249
Notes:
Examines public issues related to farm size, ownership structure, labor, soil conservation, food supply, others. Includes a discussion (p. 99-106) about the inadequacy of the statement, "I speak for the farmers." Cites Prof. J.E. Boyle in the North American Review who once described farmers as the most organized Americans. Said Boyle: "Farming is not one business but an infinite tangle of competing businesses."
Kirschenmann, Frederick (author / Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture) and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-04-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23919
Notes:
Written for a conference considering Wendell Berry's Unsettling of America 25 years later, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2002. 15 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26478
Notes:
324 pages., Author documents ways in which agriculture and rural culture stirs the artistic impulse, in many forms. Examines evidence in art, literature, farm magazines, rural radio, country music.
Harris, Craig K. (author), Molnar, Joseph J. (author), Wimberley, Ronald C. (author), and Tomazic, Terry J. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA: Praeger, Westport, Connecticut
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18454
Notes:
163 pages, Compares 1986 and 1992 survey data about U.S. public attitudes/perceptions of agriculture, in terms of agricultural policies, pest management, food safety, water quality, farm animal welfare, agrarianism and other aspects.
Johnston, Robert D. (author / Department of History, Yale University)
Format:
Book review
Publication Date:
1999-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23352
Notes:
Via H-Net Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University. 5 pages., Review of Deborah Fink, Cutting into the meatpacking line: workers and change in the rural Midwest.
Rodriguez, Lulu (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University, Ames, IA)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C08029
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1994. 30 p. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention in Atlanta, GA, August 10-13, 1994.
