Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25580
Notes:
Pages 17-37 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25581
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Pages 39-52 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages., Examines some theoretical issues on questions politics and power as they relate to the concept of Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25582
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Pages 53-68 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25589
Notes:
Pages 203-217 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
"The debate on how to start and sustain the media network by journlists and other network members generated simmering controversy because of past experiences of unfulfilled expectations and shattered hopes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25989
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4 pages., Reports on activities and contributions of some professional communicators who have worked with International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) during the past half century.
"The participatory crop research in Oaxaca was successful in terms of its functional and empowering purposes. -- [It] "also demonstrated that while participatory research benefited scientists, only a relatively small number of farmers actually benefited directly."
Rudgard, Stephen (author), Janakiram, S. (author), Winder,Dylan (author), Demes, Michal (author), Young, John (author), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003-11
Published:
Armenia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26289
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14 pages., Report of a field visit November 16-24, 2003, to Armenia, as part of: "A collaborative programme for knowledge systems in support of rural livelihoods."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26320
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Posted at www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=75100, Via Media News Daily. 2 pages., Describes honor for the rural reporter of The Hindu newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26321
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Posted at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1329833451&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientld=36305&RQT=309&Vname=PQD, BusinessWorld, Manila, Philippines, via ProQuest. 4 pages.
Examines the dominant Global Information Society framework (competition, private investment, flexible regulation policies, open access to networks), in terms of appropriateness for the developing world.
Examines issues of connectivity, language and content of the internet. Concludes that "in reality the internet concentrates economic activity and power more narrowly in one group. As a result there is a real risk that we are moving towards a two-tier technology society that perpetuates the old distinctions between North and South."
Discusses the career and contributions of Dorothea Lange in documenting, through her photography, the plight of impoverished agricultural workers in the West during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Via www.geographical.co.uk, Describes efforts of an award-winning photographer to document negative effects of forestry policy "imported to Lithuania from the European Union."
Retrieved on open web via Oxfam Publishing., Examines ways in which new web applications are being used for development-related communications - and notes that drawbacks still apply.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26650
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Presented at the Conference on communication and empowerment: uses of media and information technologiesw in developing countries, Los Angeles, California, April 11-13, 1996. 17 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26657
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Presented at the Conference on communication and empowerment: uses of media and information technologies in developing countries, Los Angeles, California, April 11-13, 1996. 23 pages.
Papua New Guinea: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26767
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Reprint of 13 pages provided as CD in John P. Brien, "Research contributions in agricultural extension and communication," a thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Queensland., Case study prepared for the East-West Center.
Corbett, Jon (author), Kulchyski, Tim (author), Hukari, Tom (author), and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26824
2 pages., Describes a Canadian initiative for using new information technologies to aid the survival of an endangered language spoken in a number of rural communities on southern Vancouver Island.
Thompson, Geoff (author) and Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crop Development in Asia and Pacific (CAPSA), subsidiary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-12
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26961
"At a national and local level, many rural development plans have very little in the way of communication components." Author emphasizes need for involving communication more fully in such projects.
Congress organized by the World Bank, The Communication Initiative and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26963
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Posted at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai143e/ai143e01.pdf, Report of a World Congress that took place October 25-27, 2006, in Rome, Italy. 126 pages.
