International: Editions Quae, Versailles Cedex, France, and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08517
Notes:
ACDC holds citation information, table of contents, and conclusion., 107 pages.
Benson, Marge (author / J. Walter Thompson Company)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1985-04
Published:
USA: AgEcon
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10574
Notes:
3 pages., Via proceedings from a seminar, "Research on effectiveness of agricultural commodity promotion," of NECC-63 Research Committee on Commodity Promotion, Arlington, Virginia, April 9-10, 1985., Research is vital as communication planning "incorporates the consumer point of view throughout."
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., "...for all their seeming importance, these continuous outpourings of government and foreign aid and the steady diffusion of developmental projects and innovations are only pallatives. Thus, the wheel of agricultural development must reel off with a farmer-oriented concept of development which gives prominent role to farmers' participation in programs which are supposedly designed for their upliftment. ... "How can farmers be mobilized to participate in their own development? Simply by the abolition of 'transmission mentality' in communication and its replacement with a more liberating type of communication that would contain more dialogue..."
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Author's graduate research identifies factors limiting effectiveness of farmers' exposure to various information sources they use.
