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2. Notes on traditional knowledge, modern knowledge and rural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Swift, Jeremy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- UK: Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05281
- Journal Title:
- IDS Bulletin
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (2) : 41-43
- Notes:
- traditional knowledge, Evans, cited reference, The body of knowledge, scientific needs used by rule people is well developed, and can make an important contribution to development, but there's a conflict between it and modern knowledge. Modern knowledge is and instrument of power belonging to the technician. By emphasizing the government agents knowledge, development projects devalue traditional rule People's knowledge and the knife and creativity. We need new institutional ways of release in the creative abilities of roll people. In order to achieve a synthesis of traditional and modern knowledge.
3. Soy dairy performance metrics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Krause, Julia (author), Cornelius M. (author), Goldsmith, P. (author), and Mzungu, M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-01
- Published:
- Kenya: Africa Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12993
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V.21, N.10
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Soybean (Glycine max (L. Merr.) has been a crop of interest to address both poverty and malnutrition in the developing world because of its high levels of both protein and oil, and its adaptability to grow in tropical environments. Development practitioners and policymakers have long sought value added opportunities for local crops to move communities out of poverty by introducing processing or manufacturing technologies. Soy dairy production technologies sit within this development conceptual model. To the researchers’ knowledge, no research to date measures soy dairy performance, though donors and NGOs have launched hundreds of enterprises over the last 18 years. The lack of firm-level data on operations limits the ability of donors and practitioners to fund and site sustainable dairy businesses. Therefore, the research team developed and implemented a recordkeeping system and training program first, as a 14-month beta test with a network of five dairies in Ghana and Mozambique in 2016-2017. Learning from the initial research then supported a formal research rollout over 18 months with a network of six different dairies in Malawi and key collaboration from USAID’s Agricultural Diversification activity. None of the beta or rollout dairies kept records prior to the intervention. The formal rollout resulted in a unique primary dataset to address the soy dairy performance knowledge gap. The results of analysis show that the dairies, on average, achieve positive operating margins of 61%, yet cannot cover the fixed costs associated with depreciation, amortization of equipment and infrastructure, working capital, marketing and promotion, and regulatory compliance. The enterprises in our sample operate only at 9% of capacity, which limits their ability to cover the normal fixed costs associated with the business. The challenge is not the technology itself, as when operated, it produces a high-quality dairy product. The challenges involve a business that requires too much capital for normal operations relative to a nascent and small addressable market.
4. The exploitation of indigenous knowledge or the indigenous exploitation of knowledge : whose use of what for what?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bell, Martin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- UK: Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05282
- Journal Title:
- IDS Bulletin
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (2) : 44-50
- Notes:
- traditional knowledge, Evans, cited reference, This article argues that concern with technical knowledge, which is indigenous to disadvantaged rule groups, must go beyond, an interest in extracting fragments of it to make marginal improvements to existing types of R and D project. The main issue must be beats to which such groups are involved in, and have influence upon, the technical change which affects their lives. Arrange a potential uses for indigenous technical knowledge is therefore far wider than those involved in Rand D, and the central concern must be with augmenting the whole spectrum of indigenous capabilities to create, transform and use technical knowledge. This implies there must be a shift from the dominant approach to the rule of technical change, which really seeks to introduce into roll society techniques conceived and developed outside it. Rather, one must seek the technical development of roll society, which enables it more effectively to pursue and control its own path of technical change.
5. Urban-rural interfaces: linking people and nature
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Laband, David N. (author), Lockaby. B. Graeme (author), and Zipperer, Wayne C. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- USA: American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America and Crop Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06961
- Notes:
- 332 pages.