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2. Beyond Participation – Building Farmer Confidence: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ward, Andrew (author), Minja, Eliaineny (author), Blackie, Malcolm (author), Edward-Jones, Gareth (author), and NR International University of Bangor
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12-01
- Published:
- United Kingdom: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10966
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(4) : 259-266
- Notes:
- 7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
3. Community history and rural development: why some farmers participate more readily than others
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Walters, B.B. (author), Cadelina, A (author), Cardano, A (author), Visitacion, E (author), and Rutgers University Silliman University, Philippines
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-02
- Published:
- Philippines: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10959
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 59(1999) : 193-214
- Notes:
- 22 pages, via online journal, Past explanations of why rural people respond as they do to external development interventions have emphasized the role of key limiting factors or critical characteristics (wealth, education, land tenure, etc.) which are thought to influence peoples' behavior in predictable ways. Efforts to promote tree planting and soil conservation in eight neighboring villages in the Philippines revealed that variation in participation did not reflect clear patterns based on existing household or village characteristics. Instead, specific responses to interventions reflected a complex, but interpretable interaction between existing socio-economic factors and historic trends or events. Characteristics like the degree of local knowledge, security of land tenure and community cohesion affected peoples' participation, in general, but their specific influence was neither predictable nor consistent between, and even within, individual villages. An appreciation of the specific historic context was often sufficient to explain these variations. The following historic trends and events were found to have important consequences for peoples' participation: migration and settlement history; family and group lineages; history of socio-political organization and conflict; history of physical isolation; labor history; economic–ecological history; environmental history; and past exposure to development agents. The paper concludes with a preliminary checklist of questions intended to assist researchers and development agents to discover relevant and interesting historical information about rural villages.
4. Green revolution and value orientation in rural Punjab
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arora, D.R. (author), Deb, P.C. (author), and Hariyana Agricultural University, Hissar, India; Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1973
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04961
- Journal Title:
- Society and Culture
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 (1) : 103-110
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference
5. Perception of change: Narratives and strategies of farmers in Madagascar
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stoudmann, Natasha (author), Waeber, Patrick O. (author), Randriamalala, Ihoby H. (author), Garcia, Claude (author), and Forest Management and Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Madagascar Wildlife Conservation, Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar Forêts et Sociétés, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-11
- Published:
- Madagascar: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10938
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 56(2017) : 76-86
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal
6. Plants & other home remedies, signs, & superstitions of early Illinois settlers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roberts, Elmer (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1982-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 112 Document Number: C10855
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 pages
- Notes:
- College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1982
7. Towards modernization (a study of peasantry in rural Delhi)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mulay, Sumati (author) and Ray, G.L. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1973
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04989
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference; Contains Table of Contents and Introduction only, Delhi, India : National Publishing House, 1973. 158 p.