Agricultural Education and Extension Service, Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Refrom Division, Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20562
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Burton Swanson Collection, 5 sections, World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27817
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Historical sketches from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin. Data collected in about 1925., Included: American Cookery, American Food Journal, American Motherhood, American Needlewoman, Arkansas Homestead, Baby, Babyhood, Better Homes and Gardens, Boyce's Home Folks, Delineator, Farmer's Wife, Forecase, Good Health, Good Housekeeping, Good Stories, Holland's Magazine, Home Circle, Home Friend Magazine, Hostess, Household Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Modern Pricilla, Mother's Home Life, Nation's Health, People's Home Journal, People's Popular Monthly, Pictorial Review, Social Progress, Today's Housewife, Vogue, Woman's Digest, Woman's Home Companion, and Woman's World
Posted at: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3065880, 211 pages 1.02 MB, There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the interplay of information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of women in facilitating social, political and economic development. This research examines engagement of women with ICT in traditional poor, rural, communities of Mali, a least developed country (LDC). Mali was selected as the focus based on its broadly representative LDC challenges and the availability of locally and internationally collected data. This research applies the theoretical framework of international regime theory and development as freedom theory to help explain how ICT diffusion can be an empowerment tool for women in development. Women of Mali face low literacy rates, high birth rates, high infant and maternal mortality rates, and low incomes. This research found ICT applications facilitated positive change in health, education, politics and the economy in Mali. The relationship between international and national regimes in the process of negotiating problem solutions is particularly important to policy analysis of telecommunications and of gender equity. Policy in each of these areas permeates every sector of society. Challenges, obstacles, solutions and benefits of ICT development with gender equity in Mali can inform policymakers' understanding of ICT diffusion and its benefits to people in LDCs. This analysis was based on a literature review, a survey of existing relevant research studies, a country study and a case study of the Multipurpose Community Telecentre (MCT) model for rural ICT development. The country study includes data and reports from the UNDP, ITU, IDRC, USAID and the World Bank. It incorporates history, policy, existing research, statistical human development data over time, ethnographic data, and reports of other ICT projects in Mali. Analyzed together, these data strongly suggest positive and directional change in Mali during 1990 to 2000, a period of dynamic telecommunications and gender equity policy liberalization. The case study of the MCT in Timbuktu includes baseline communications research, on-site ethnographic research, interviews and the MCT Director's report. The Mali MCT was one of five African pilot projects initially supported by ITU, UNESCO and IDRC funds and developed with national and local community support. The MCT is a social communication center that provides ICT education and services. This research focuses on the MCT as an ICT knowledge gathering and distribution center. Influenced by international regime policies for gender equity, Mali's national machineries have implemented gender equity policy in communication access. Women participated in the design, implementation and operation of this MCT. The community open access design was found to be particularly conducive to ICT development through women's social networking. Research indicates women are keepers of indigenous knowledge systems in cultural communities. Content developed from this local knowledge base can contribute to global knowledge systems, cultural integrity and sustainability as well as to economic development. Conclusions of this study are based on findings that Malian ICT development with gender equity in the context of national and international policy engagement contributed to the positive growth in the political, educational and social sectors.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08958
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Page 17 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of bachelor's thesis, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 3 pages. No date.
India: Indian Society of Extension Education, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20505
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Burton Swanson Collection, various pages, 2 documents, from "International Conference on Extension Strategy for Miniminzing Risk in Rainfed Agriculture
Report of field tour by more than 50 agricultural publication publishers to manufacturers, jobbers, wholesalers, retailers and advertising agencies in Indiana, Michigan, New York and Ohio. "4,563 business men get new light on farm papers." Event organized by Agricultural Publishers' Association - Burridge D. Butler, president.
2 pages., Online from "Reflections - Farm and Food History" from Farms.com Ltd, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 3 pages., Author asks about what would happen if "all the farmers' wives and housekeepers in this country were to form a sort of a labour-union and then go out on strike, for something under an eighteen-hour day and a pay-envelope every Saturday night."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28855
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Printers Ink magazine editorial of January 26, 1922, cited in APA Special Bulletin. 1 page., Describes potentials for selling to farm women.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22522
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Delivered at the Agricultural Departmental Meeting, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 13, 1922. 7 pages., Provides an update about the life, activities, organizations and interests of farm women, the "sentimental side of the farm woman." Emphasizes buying activities and needs for product information. Emphasizes the value of farm papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22517
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Special Bulletin, 2 pages., Reviews an article in Printer's Ink (June 8, 1922, p. 73), "How Gossard merchandises corsets to 12,000,000 farm women."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24862
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Bulletin No. 1, page 2., "The value of farm papers from many angles has been featured. But it may be news to know that a farm paper actually saved the life of Mrs. Frank Rosebough, Bridgeport, New York. Mrs. Rosebough was reading her paper when a disgruntled hired man fired a shotgun through the window at her husband. The charge missed the latter and would have killed Mrs. Rosebough except that the farm paper which was spread before her face broke the force of the shot."
Wallace, Dan A. (author / Editor, The Farmer) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
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Speech
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1928-07-10
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36800
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Pages 11-12 in "Six viewpoints on farmers buying tendencies." Delivered at the convention of the International Advertising Association, Detroit, Michigan, July 10, 1928. 24 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36799
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Pages 6-10 in "Six viewpoints on farmers buying tendencies." Delivered at the convention of the International Advertising Association, Detroit, Michigan, July 10, 1928. 24 pages.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08952
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Page 9 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief description from pages 38-39, Annual Report, State Home Demonstration Leader, Nebraska Agriculture College Extension, Lincoln. exhibits L3 and L4. 1939.
