Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02363
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Report of a workshop of the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention, held in Washington, D.C., November 5, 2012. 76 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37233
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Via BBC World Service - Communication, Media and Development Policy. 5 pages., Author suggests that the complexities of climate change may prompt consideration of staging probable near-future scenarios - "what if" and "what next" case reports that might be presented through popular theatre. They might illustrate probable situations, bold decisions of some, reluctance to change among others.
INTERPAKS; see also C07214, Aims to show that it can be of great advantage to the design of a rural development project if the cognitive strategies which lie behind farmers' decisions to adopt new technology are understood. This is done by using a case study of an agronomic recommendation of the Plan Puebla in Mexico which did not diffuse. Of the 1973-4 recommendations, the one to increase the number and change the timing of fertilizer applications was the non-adopted recommendation. The theory of choice used in this study assumes that people choosing between two alternatives do not make complex calculation of the overall worth or utility of each alternative. Instead people tend to use procedures which simplify their decision making calculations.
