Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28720
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Presented at the World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT (IAALD-AFITA-WCCA2008), Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan, August 2008. 11 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36984
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5 pages., Describes process and outcomes of a four-day workshop in Bangladesh involving representatives of several organizations that have been actively involved in the farmer-led approach.
Authors describe a workshop approach to helping participants gain skill in gathering information about field experiences and sharing them by various means.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36962
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9 pages., Describes outcomes of two workshops aimed at documenting and analyzing the experiences gained in building multi-stakeholder partnership in implementing 12 DURAS-funded projects.
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36985
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5 pages., Describes process and outcomes of a four-day workshop in Orissa, India, involving representatives of several organizations that have been actively involved in the farmer-led approach.
