AgComm Teaching, Perspectives about the Programme for Integrated Rural Development in the Humid Tropics (PRODERITH)during 1979-1984. Among the points made: "Traditional knowledge is essential for agricultural research."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14427
Notes:
Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 5 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12363
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Chapter 7 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Case studies to accompany Getting Agriculture Moving. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 1967. 302 p.
Siriwardane, Rapti (author) and Winands, Sarah (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2013-06
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D02467
Notes:
Working Paper 115. Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany. 28 pages., Recent public and institutional hype about traditional knowledge may have adversely impacted marginalized communities and led to creation of "new" marginals. Need for protection within a private property regime.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08091
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John L. Woods Collection, Fourteen charts produced by Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.
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.
Kante, Assa (author), Dunkel, Florence (author), Williams, Ashley (author), Magro,Sam (author), Traore, Haoua (author), Camara, Abdoulaye (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-05
Published:
Mali
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00429
Notes:
Pages 284-291 in the proceedings of the 25th annual meeting of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 24-28, 2009.
Fusell, D. (author), Haaland, A. (author), Bhattarai, N. (author), Rayamajhi, S. (author), Bhattarai, T. (author), Kharel, P. (author), Dhungana, K. (author), and Subba, C. (author)
Format:
Booklet
Publication Date:
1975
Published:
Nepal
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08075
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, Report of research among rural residents in Nepal. , joint project of UNICEF and the National Development Service. 21 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00369
Notes:
Via online. 3 pages, "...instead of focusing on what rural India should be learning and doing, perhaps we should focus instead on what it can teach us."
Purvez, Salim Ahmed (author), Khan, Iqbal Alam (author), Khan, S.M. Zubair Ali (author), Seeley, Janet (author), and Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2003-04
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28219
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.chronicpoverty.org/pdfs/2003conferencepapers/purvez.pdf, Presented at "Staying poor: chronic poverty and development policy," a conference at Manchester, UK from April 7-9, 2003.
Onduru, Davies (author), De Jager, Andre (author), Gachimibi, Louis (author), Muchena, Fred (author), Gachini, Gituii Njeru (author), and Van Beek, Christy (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Kenya
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01263
Notes:
Pages 278-296 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36923
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6 pages., Report of a community-based communications project sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in the Philippines.
Abbott, Eric A. (author), Schmidt, Allan G. (author), and Yarbrough, J. Paul (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29076
Notes:
Pages 201-226 in Peter F. Korsching, Patricia C. Hipple and Eric A. Abbott (eds.), Having all the right connections: telecommunications and rural viability. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 348 pages.
Potash, Betty (author) and Association for Women in Development Conference
Format:
Conference document
Publication Date:
1985-04-25
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19387
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp 55-60; from "Women creating wealth : transforming economic development" Selected papers and speeches from the Association for Women in Development Conference April 25-27, 1985 Washington, D.C.
Grunfeld, Helena (author), Hak, Sokleap (author), Pin, Tara (author), and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-11-04
Published:
Cambodia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35687
Notes:
Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference 2009, Prato, Italy, November 4-6, 2009. 19 pages.
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.
Installing fiber-optic internet in sparsely populated places like western Kansas is extremely expensive, even with government subsidies. But some smaller, local broadband providers are finding ways to make it work where the big national companies have not.
In the Peruvian Amazon, western-style education destroyed local knowledge, says the author. But trained indigenous teachers are restoring confidence in traditional values.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00550
Notes:
Pages 1-15 in Bettina M. Bock and Sally Shortall (eds.) Rural gender relations: issues and case studies. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 374 pages.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37382
Notes:
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California. 4 pages., Describes a historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers - black and white -and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. 56 minutes. 1999.
10 pages, Low agricultural productivity remains one of the main factors influencing poverty and food insecurity among smallholder farmers in many developing countries. Among the key interventions assumed to influence agricultural productivity of smallholders is the provision of agricultural extension services to farmers. Access to agricultural extension however remains low in most developing countries thus slowing down agricultural productivity growth. This study therefore sought to determine the labor productivity effects of agricultural extension in northern Ghana using data from a cross-section of 300 smallholder farm households. The results of a binary probit model indicated that participation in agricultural extension increased with farming experience, farm size, access to irrigation and group membership but decreased with years of formal education and household size. Regression estimates of a labor productivity model revealed a positive and statistically significant relationship between agricultural extension and labor productivity. Also, labor productivity increased with farming experience, household income, access to irrigation, degree of specialization in production and the level of conventional inputs used per man-day of labor but decreased with participation in off-farm work. The authors recommend an increase in agricultural extension coverage to ensure that more farmers are reached with information on modern technologies to enhance their labor productivity. Furthermore, farmers need access to inputs such as seed and fertilizer to improve the productivity of labor.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10616
Notes:
12 pages., via website, Health Communication Capacity Collaborative., U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID Guatemala)and the Health Communication Capacity Collaboration(HC3)of Johns Hopkins University led this strategy in Guatemala from 2012-2016.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08087
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, RAPA Publication.1988-2. Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Bangkok, Thailand. 51 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10892
Notes:
Online from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky, Rural Blog. 3 pages., Describes the editorial approach of two award-winning local newspapers in focusing on the human toll of changing market forces in the dairy industry.
AgComm Teaching, Among the introductory observations about development development: "The experience in Africa has been rather pathetic. It is being discovered that mobilization of the masses for popular participation in decision making is easier said than done."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37383
Notes:
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California. 2 pages., Reviews a historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers - black and white -and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. 56 minutes. 1999.
Axinn, Nancy W. (author / Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05329
Notes:
Evans, Axinn, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 535-544.
