Tripp, Robert (author / Overseas Development Institute, London, UK), Wijeratne, Mahinda (author / University of Ruhuna, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka), and Piyadasa, V. Hiroshini (author / University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2005-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23161
15 p., The results of a study in Sri Lanka, combined with a review of the literature, provide evidence that Farmer Field Schools (FFS) can contribute to increasing farmers' skills and lowering insecticide use in rice. However, there are questions about their capacity to reach the majority of farmers and there's little evidence that skills learned are passed to nonparticipants, or that an FFS is a likely basis for sustained group activity. The results draw attention to the problems of relying on simple formulas in agricultural programs and point to inadequacies in the assessment of donor projects.
Hal R. Taylor Collection, Reprint from Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2 pages., Audience response to two ads run in Parents' Magazine offering a free booklet.
Aslin, Heather (author), Giesecke, Terry (author), Mazur, Nicole (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006-10
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27014
Notes:
Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/06-106sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/06-106.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 06/106. 80 pages.
Byrnes, Francis C. (author / Program Officer, International Agricultural Development Service, New York)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08141
Notes:
Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, Mimeographed, 1980. 24 p. (Paper presented at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, April 1-3, 1980.)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09527
Notes:
Eugene A. Kroupa Collection, Thesis in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 220 pages.
