In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Review of a book, Farmer first: farmer innovation and agricultural research, edited by Robert Chambers, Arnold Pacey, and Lori Ann Thrupp, Intermedia Technology Publications, London, 1989.
Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
Format:
Publication
Publication Date:
1991-06-30
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
Notes:
World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
Naeem, Arshia (author), Anjum, Maria (author), Rehman, Mariam (author), Mahmood, Zahid (author), Kamran, Muhammad Asif (author), and Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan
National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
Pakistan: Asianet-Pakistan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08248
International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11614
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3 pages., Online from publisher., Author addresses "large gap between African extension services ... and the number of farmers being reached." ... "Africa's existing mobile network (currently the second biggest mobile market in the world) could be better utilised to bridge this gap and provide mobile-based agricultural information, advice and support to smallholder farmers."
International: Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, Japan.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25331
Notes:
Report of an APO study meeting, February 25-March 6, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan. 259 pages., Includes four papers about agricultural and extension information systems in Japan. Also includes brief country reports from Bangladesh, Republic of China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo (author), Babu, Suresh Chandra (author), Glendenning, Claire J. (author), Govindarajan, Senthil Kumar (author), and International Food Policy Research Institute.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2011-12
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00940
Notes:
ACDC holds contents page and discussion section. URL provides full-text access., Via AgEcon Search. 53 pages.
