International: International Training Division, Office of International Cooperation and Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C30032
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Estimated 150 pages., "Tested training experiences for participants working in rural development programs." Outline and resources for a six-week course.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 119 Document Number: C13517
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6 p., APEN (Australasia Pacific Extension Network) 2001 International Conference, Oct3-5, 2001, at University of South queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Landini, Fernando (author), Bianqui, Vanina (author), Vargas, Gilda (author), Inés Mathot y Rebolé, María (author), Martinez, Manuela (author), and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina
University of La Cuenca del Plata, Argentina
University of Morón, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
2017-10-07
Published:
Argentina: Science Direct
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10934
12 pages, via online journal, Working with farmers' groups, associations and cooperatives constitutes a fundamental element of extension work with family farmers. Despite the fact that extension practitioners face many problems in this area of their work, there is currently a lack of academic literature that systematically addresses the topic and offers concrete guidelines for practice. Thus, this paper will aim to clarify the benefits of farmers' groups, associations and networks within the context of family farming, systematise problems faced by rural extensionists when working with farmers' groups and associations, provide conceptual tools for understanding group and associative processes, and construct a set of guidelines and recommendations for facing said problems. In order to achieve these aims, the authors conducted an extensive literature review and drew upon their personal experience on the topic.
Results suggest that some of the benefits of associative work are: better access to inputs, produce and credit markets, the facilitation of learning processes, the empowerment of family farmers as social actors, and a reduction of rural extension costs. Additionally, with respects to the problems faced by extensionists, the following can be highlighted: individualist attitudes and conflicts between farmers, scarce participation and commitment, problems with leaderships and with organisations' administrative management, and the lack of extensionists' training to address these processes, among others. With regards to the factors that increase trust and cooperation are: interpersonal communication and mutual knowledge, sharing problems, values and objectives, and the existence of shared rules for the functioning of the group that include sanctions for transgressors. In this context, the extensionists' role will be that of facilitating processes of construction of group relationships, creating rules for the groups' functioning and developing the group's capacities for self-management.
Edwards, Daniel B. (author) and Pettit, John J. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1988-03
Published:
USA: WASH Technical Report No. 41 prepared by the Water and Sanitation for Health Project for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes1 Document Number: C12089
USA: WASH Technical Report No. 32 prepared by the Water and Sanitation for Health Project for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes1 Document Number: C12090
Hunter, Guy (author), Jiggins, Janice (author), and Overseas Development Institute, London, UK; Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05324
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James F. Evans Collection, 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. 449-468, This is an abridged version of one of three papers appearing in the recent AAU/ODI publication : Stimulating Local Development. It is concerned with the various kinds and methods of farmer grouping and with criteria by which a choice between different kinds of groups for different purposes and in different circumstances should be made. "Groups" includes very small informal groups running up to large major cooperatives and also includes elected committees (e.g., village development committees, Panchayats at the levels of village Block and district). (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17076
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Pages 119-133 in Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner (eds.), Communication and change: the last ten years - and the next. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 372 pages.
Evans; Reprinted from author's book: Philippine folk media in development communication, chapter three. Singapore : Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre.
Priddy, Veronica (author), Alison, Kathy (author), and Hively, Peg (author)
Format:
Manuscript
Publication Date:
1980s
Published:
USA: International Training Division, Office of International Cooperation and Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07282
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Paul Hixson Collection., Unpublished mimeograph. 2 pages., Guidelines for teaching courses in ways that build group cohesion among culturally diverse groups.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: C02671
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James F. Evans Collection. Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Rome, Italy : Development support communication branch, information division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1987. 23 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: B03659
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Contains Preface and Table of Contents only; See also B03660 for Volume II, Burton Swanson Collection, Bangkok, Thailand : Regional Office for Asia and the Far East, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1978. 205 p.
