USA: U.S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C1486
Notes:
ERS Foreign - 76, Development and Trade Analysis Division, Economic Research Service. 32 pages, Page 14 contains a discussion about the gap between knowledge and actual application on the farm. "It has been estimated, for example, that crop production per acre could increase one-fourth in the next five years on lands readily available, and primarily with methods now known and widely used." Cites USDA, Food and Agriculture: a Program for the 1960s, March 1962, in connection with that estimate.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 38 Document Number: B04275
Notes:
Evans, cited reference; Table of contents and introduction, Rome: F-FAC/AD, Report of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign/Action for Development Regional Change Agent's Programme, March-May, 1978. 116 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08879
Notes:
In V. Kumble (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Development and Transfer of Technology for Rainfed Agriculture and the SAT farmer, 28 August - 1 September 1979 (pp. 39-56). Patancheru,Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
Norman, David W. (author / Professor of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07263
Notes:
Evans, cited reference, East Lansing, MI: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 1980. MSU Rural Development Paper No. 5. 26 p.
Gostyla, Lynn (author), Whyte, William F. (author), and Cornell University; Cornell University
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04381
Notes:
INTERPAKS Collection, Ithaca, NY : Rural Development Committee, Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1980. 48 p. (Special Series on Agriculture Research and Extension No. 3)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07425
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: H. W. Kerr, Jr. and L. Knutson, eds., Research for small farms, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1982. (Miscellaneous publication no. 1422). p. 23-26., Discusses a concern that terminology currently used in agricultural research and extension is obsolete and clearly inadequate. Indicates that this condition reflects, in part, the lack of conceptualization and the weakness of the concepts upon which we now depend, as well as the traditional nature of the agricultural research and extension establishment. Notes that the problem is especially serious in international work and is becoming serious even within the tradition.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07382
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: H.W. Kerr, Jr. and L. Knutson (eds.), Research for small farms. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1982. (Miscellaneous publication no. 1422) p. 269-271., Briefly discusses farming systems research (FSR), identifying it as an on-farm centered, holistic, interdisciplinary approach to technology development for small farms. Emphasis is on understanding of the farmer's relationship to his technical, economic, and social environment and technologies which are compatible with it. Farmers and extension workers are full partners in the research process. Four common elements of farm level FSR program are identified: (1) the descriptive or diagnostic stage, (2) the design stage, (3) the testing stage, and (4) the extension stage. Notes that although most current FSR programs are located in developing countries, there are closely related programs underway in the U.S.
Philipp, P.F. (author / University of Hawaii), Schmehl, W.R., eds. (author / Colorado State University), and Shaner, W. W. (author / Colorado State University)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12092
Hidebrand, Peter E. (author / Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida) and Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 65 Document Number: C02455
Notes:
In: Shaner, W.W.; Philipp, P.F.; Schmehl, W.R., eds. Readings in farming systems research and development. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1982. p. 100-109 (Reprinted from Agricultural Administration, Vol. 8, 1981)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07413
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Report of an Exploratory Workshop on the Role of Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists in Interdisciplinary Teams Developing Improved Food Production Technology, Los Banos, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1982. p. 73-92, Discusses the contribution that an anthropologist can make to the design of a farming systems program. Describes the program of the Guatemalan Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology which focuses on the farmer as a decision maker. A decision model in constructed and tested and the policy implications of the results are discussed.
INTERPAKS, Considers the feasibility of using the US institutional approach to promote agricultural development in developing countries. Noting that farming systems research is concerned about understanding the whole farm in a comprehensive manner, the social and agricultural structures of the USA and developing countries are compared to establish any differences which would affect the implementation of this approach. Six comparisons are made: 1) US farmers were politically active in obtaining a mandate for research, while limited-resources farmers in developing countries are marginal to political power; 2) US farmers and researchers share common goals, while researchers in developing countries tend to be from urban and/or elite backgrounds and have little in common with the farmer; 3) many developing societies do not place an equivalent value on mental and manual energy as in the US; 4) the US farm economy was founded on a husband and wife team sharing management, labor and farm ownership in contrast to the present situation in developing countries; 5) development of US agriculture was assisted by the ability of the non-agricultural sects to absorb noncompetitive farmers; and 6) in the US there has always close cooperation between private and public sectors in developing and disseminating agricultural technology, while developing countries do not have mediating factors.
Burfisher, M. E. (author) and Horenstein, N. R. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08933
Notes:
B. L. Green shields & M. A. Bellamy (Eds.), Rural development: growth and inequity, contributed papers read at the 18th International Conference of Agricultural Economics. Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower. 161-165.
International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana, and Office of International Programs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes6 Document Number: C12531
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Proceedings of a conference on international extension at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. 59 p.
Fresco, L. (author / Agricultural University de leeuwenborch, Wageningen, The Netherlands) and Agricultural University de leeuwenborch, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 63 Document Number: C02142
Notes:
Interpaks Resource Center, Gainesville, FL : International Programs, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 1984. 37 p. (Networking Paper No. 1) Paper presented at the 4th Annual conference on Farming Systems Research at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, October 1984
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07986
Notes:
cited reference, In: C.B. Flora, ed. Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research Symposium, 1983. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1984. p. 653-659.
Johnson, Sam H., III (author), Kellogg, Earl D. (author), and Johnson: Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois; Kellogg: Associate Director of International Agriculture, University of Illinois
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: C03483
Notes:
John Behrens Collection; see C03480 for original, In: Swanson, Burton E., ed. Agricultural extension : a reference manual. 2nd ed. Rome, Italy : Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, 1984. p. 40-55
Chibasa, W.M. (author), Kean, S.A. (author), and Department of Agriculture, Mulungushi House, Lusaka, Zambia
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
Zambia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07383
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Chilanga, Zambia: Adaptive Research Planning Team, Research Branch, Department of Agriculture, 1984. 12 p., Describes how the farming systems research approach was incorporated into the overall Research Branch structure of the Department of Agriculture in Zambia. Presents the various options that were considered for incorporating diagnostic farm research work and on-farm trials into the structure of the Research Branch. Describes the objectives and functions fo the unit formed to undertake adaptive research programs. Concludes with an explanation of the role these adaptive research teams play in linking the research with other organizations.
Claar, J.B. (author) and Watts, Lowell H. (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), University of Illinois, Urbana, and Office of International Programs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes6 Document Number: C12532
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 3-13 in J.B. Claar and L.H. Watts (eds.), Knowledge transfer in developing countries: status, constraints, outlook. Proceedings of a conference on international extension at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, during July 1983. 59 p.
International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), University of Illinois, Urbana, and Office of International Programs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes6 Document Number: C12538
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 45-54 in J.B. Claar and L.H. Watts (eds.), Knowledge transfer in developing countries: status, constraints, outlook. Proceedings of a conference on international extension at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, during July 1983. 59 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07985
Notes:
cited reference, In: C.B. Flora, ed. Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research Symposium, 1983. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1984. p. 689-694.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07984
Notes:
cited reference, In: C.B. Flora, ed. Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research Symposium, 1983. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1984. p. 875-886.
Anandajayasekeram, P. (author / International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Eastern African Economics Program, P.O. Box 25171, Nairobi, Kenya)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07381
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1984. Paper presented at the Farming Systems Research Symposium, Kansas State University, October 7-10, 1984. 20 p., Describes Kenya's restructuring of the research and extension network to meet the needs of the majority of small farmers. In order to improve the extension services the government of Kenya adopted the T and V approach to extension. It also became necessary to re-direct agricultural research towards definite goals, related to national needs rather than the customary disciplinary interests. To make the research process more efficient in generating appropriate recommendations for the target group of farmers, the on-farm research with farming systems perspective (OFR/FSP) has been accepted and will be integrated into the research process in Kenya. The major task is that a strong linkage mechanism is established to make sure the limited research and extension resources are utilized efficiently. Concludes with a discussion of the linkage mechanism that could be established within the existing institutional framework to improve the technology generation and dissemination process.
Butler, Robert O. (author), Compton, J. Lin (author), Johnson, Sam H., III (author), Kellogg, Earl D. (author), Pribble, Carolyn M. (author), and Swisher, Marilyn E. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07983
Notes:
cited reference, In: C.B. Flora, ed. Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research Symposium, 1983. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1984. p. 887-898.
Claar, John B. (author / Director, International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS))
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1984-01
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10094
Notes:
16 pages., This speech is from a project file maintained by the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign > "International" section > "Sierra Leone" file., Speech at the Second Conference regarding ACRE in Sierra Leone, January 11-14, 1984., Comprehensive thoughts from an emeritus state Extension director regarding "what the world has learned about knowledge transfer," with special emphasis on Extension services
Claar, John B. (author) and Johnson, Sam H. III (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07418
Notes:
private sector, INTERPAKS, In V. W. Ruttan (Ed.), Agricultural research policy and development. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization by the United Nations, 1985. (draft manuscript). 45 p., Explores the relationship between research and extension systems. Details the factors determining the utilization of research results as well as the importance of the feedback mechanisms. Presents examples of approaches to improve linkages between research and extension, such as on-farm trials, farming systems research, and use of extension technical liaison personnel. The final section discusses complementarity between research and extension and provides suggestions toward facilitating cooperation between the two organizations.
Chambers, Robert (author), Ghildyal, B.P. (author), and Chambers: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Ghildyal: ford Foundation, New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07298
Claar, John B. (author), Johnson, Sam H., III (author), and University of Illinois; University of Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 57 Document Number: C01527
Notes:
Mimeographed, 1985. 20 p., This paper focuses on the point of intersection between research and extension and the necessity to shift this point as a farming systems research (FSR) approach is adopted. The first section of the paper briefly outlines FSR and discusses how it can be used to develop more appropriate technology. The following section explores the role of extension in FSR and emphasizes critical organizational changes that must be made in order to make the transition to FSR/E. To illustrate these relationships, the case of Zambia is used to detail the importance of organizational changes. Throughout the paper it is stressed that extension and research must co-evolve if FSR/E is to be successfully implemented.
