2 pages., Findings suggest that the rural farm marketplace can be a reliable communication link between scattered farm villages and district headquarters.
13 pages, via online journal, In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in farming systems research (FSR) as a means of getting formal research and extension systems to work with and respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers. However, the results of many FSR programmes have been disappointing. This paper reviews a number of ‘successful’ FSR activities and argues that the development and use of research approaches and methods cannot be separated from the political, economic and institutional context in which they were developed and used. A closer examination of some of the new FSR methods shows that an understanding of the specific context in which these activities were developed and used is essential to understanding the potential relevance of the methods/approaches to other circumstances. A lack of an historical perspective concerning the source and advocacy of new FSR approaches and methods is one of the reasons why many FSR programmes in the past have given rise to disappointing results.
Briscoe, Charles Buford (author / Winrock International, Arlington, VA)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06019
Notes:
In: Haugen, Christine; Medema, Lee; and Lantican, Celso B., eds. Multipurpose tree species research for small farms : strategies and methods : proceedings of an international conference held November 20-23, 1989 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Arlington, VA : Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1990. p. 173-174
21 pages., via online journal., This article offers a critical rhetorical ecofeminist analysis of the Meatless Monday campaign, a U.S.-based meat reduction initiative focused on public health and the environment. By examining the campaign's online discourse, the study sheds light on vegetarian advocacy defined by an apolitical small-steps strategy and identifies constraints on the campaign's significant empowerment potential. Extending past scholarship on how some vegetarian discourses resist and reproduce meat-eating culture's hegemonic norms of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and human–nonhuman relations, I develop and demonstrate what I call the critique of neoliberal backgrounding as an intersectional ecofeminist heuristic. I conclude that the campaign should address the meaningful consequences that its affirmation of neoliberalism has for its targeted areas of concern and for interconnected societal problems.
Broadhead, Dean (author), Opperman, Mike (author), Mayfield, Laura (author), Berg, Nolan (author), Nickerson, Greg (author), Johnson, Phil (author), Monroe, Mark (author), Kovac, F. Peter (author), Barr, Steve (author), and Quarry, Alan (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2008-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27748
Browning, Ned (author), Knecht, Tom (author), Ashman, Meg (author), and Jasa, Lisa (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22574
Notes:
Power Point presentation at the conference of Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), San Antonio, Texas. 11 pages., Part of a panel discussion, this part featuring publishing processes and perspectives at Mississippi State University.
Bruns, Catherine J. (author / James Madison University)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10901
Notes:
See also D10895., Pages 171-178 in Brigitta R. Brunner and Corey A. Hickerson (editors), Cases in public relations: translating ethics into action. Oxford University Press, New York City, New York. 359 pages., Author examines the actions, accountability and ethical stance of government agencies in communicating environment risk to citizens in Flint, Michigan.
