Courtney, Pip (author) and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Format:
Radio script
Publication Date:
2009-01-03
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28939
Notes:
8 pages., Feature on "Landline" television program highlights the role and effectiveness of rural radio dramas such as "Blue Hills" on ABC and "The Archers" on BBC.
"Theatre can reveal to development workers both villagers' problems and their capacity to analyse such programs." Also: "the main obstacle to development is not ignorance or apathy but structural limits on villagers' access to resources, information and power."
14pgs, The World Health Organization (WHO) has used communication methods to promote the international ban of the agricultural pesticides paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos. This ban has led to misunderstanding among farmers who still use these chemicals, which may be available under different brand names. Communication with the non-scientific community is uncertain leading to miscommunication, especially where scientific language is used. Governments have banned the use of these agricultural chemicals. The scientific arguments are not necessarily understood by famers so they may ignore the prohibition and continue using them or other similar chemicals. This study uses story-telling and qualitative research methods where a questionnaire is combined with the content analytical technique. The quantitative research method was used to collect data in the field where 351 participants took part. Participatory action research is a method where community farmers engaged in self-reflection on the impact of chemicals on their fields, their health and the health of others. Their understanding of the non-chemical usage model and good agricultural practice farmers in the vicinity, especially as they were personally involved in the creation of the media from script preparation, to acting, filming, and evaluating the final docu-dramas. The findings of the docu–drama programmes of 5 GAP farmers are presented to identify the perception of how to avoid using chemicals and their solutions for tangerine farmers through a manual that is the media output from the project and the resulting findings suggesting that the factors related to the effectiveness of scientific communication are divided into pull factors and push factors.
USA: International Cooperation Administration, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 193 Document Number: D07248
Notes:
Hal R. Taylor Collection., Contains three units: Bibliography, A-V Materials and Trade Journals. 116 pages., Resource used in the Communication Training Program of the National Project in Agricultural Communications (NPAC), headquartered at Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01294
Notes:
See C02027 for original. Claude W. Gifford Collection., Pages 39-53 in Hays, Robert G. and Evans, James F., eds. (1983) The Agricultural Communicator Today and Tomorrow : four professional views. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Office of Agricultural Communications. Speech presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, April 8 1981)
USA: U.S. International Cooperation Administration, Washington, D.C., and the National Project in Agricultural Communications (NPAC), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 193 Document Number: D07247
