Online via keyword search of UI e-catalog., Authors exmined the "forgotten history" of a scientific literature involving relationship between the media and farmers from the 1960s to date. "Farmers were once greatly valued in the media. There was a tacit agreement between members of the farming, government, and journalistic elite on the portrayal of the modern farmer figure. And yet this unity began to dissolve in the 1980s. Farmers were challenged in the public eye: awareness was raised about union struggles, doubt was cast on the cost of agricultural activities financed by society, new environmental concerns arose, promoted by journalists, and a series of health-related crises flourished in the 1990s."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01237
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Office of Rural Development, Bureau for Science and Technology, Agency for International Development, 86 pages, This report hypothesizes that there is a large, untapped potential for farmer organizations to play a catalyst role in helping LDC small farmers to improve their access to and use of essential agri-support factors.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01222
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Paper was presented by the Offices of Education, Rural Development, and Agriculture, Bureau for Science and Technology, Agency for International Development.81 pages, There is great potential for the development of small farmer agriculture in the LDCs of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The key to unleashing this development potential lies in improving the small farmer's access to the production and market resources essential for increased farmer productivity and income-earning capability.
