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    1. Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together (and then let them snoop on each other)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Frost, Natasha (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017-09-25
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10032
    Journal Title:
    Atlas Obscura
    Notes:
    11 pages, Author examines how two inventions of the 1870s (barbed wire and the telephone) changed the lonely lives of frontier Americans.

    2. Collapsing livelihoods and the crisis of masculinity in rural Kenya

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Francis, Paul (author) and Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    Kenya
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37119
    Notes:
    See C37118 for original, Pages 219-244 in Ian Bannon and Maria C.Correia (eds.), The other half of gender: men's issues in development. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 311 pages.

    3. Commercialization and the balance of women's dual roles in non-income-pooling West African households

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smith, L.C. (author) and Chavas, J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C08978
    Journal Title:
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics
    Journal Title Details:
    79(2) : 589-594

    5. Farmers' markets and rural economic development

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hilchey, D. (author), Lyson, T.A. (author), and Gillespie, Jr., G.W. (author)
    Format:
    Research paper
    Publication Date:
    1995-07
    Published:
    USA: Farming Alternative Program, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: C09305
    Notes:
    Community Agricultural Development Series. 12 p.

    6. How not to electrocute the farmer: assessing attitudes towards electrification

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wolfe, Audra J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21171
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    74(2) : 515-529
    Notes:
    Assesses the attitudes of rural people towards farm electrification in the United States between 1920-1940. Hesitation of farmers to adopt electricity; impact of electricity on landscape transformation; implication of electrification for farm modernization.

    7. Japanese farmer

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Yang, W.Y. (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    1966
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12331
    Notes:
    Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 87-88 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.