Review of R.E. Rhoades and R.H. Booth, "Farmer-back-to-farmer: a model for generating acceptable agricultural technology," Agricultural Administration, October 1982, pp. 127-137.
Schneider, Ivo Alberto (author / Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: C12494
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection; See B03082, Pages 88-97 in Robert H. Crawford and William B. Ward (eds.), Communication strategies for rural development. Proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT international symposium, Cali, Colombia, March 17-22, 1974. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 278 p.
Axinn, George H. (author / Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1968-08-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: C22640
Notes:
Paper presented at annual meeting of The Rural Sociological Society, Hotel Somerset, Boston, Mass., USA, Aug. 26, 1968, This paper describes a five-component system with ten major internal linkages which may be used as a model for studying information flow in any rural agricultural social system. The major components are production, supply, marketing, research and extension/education. In addition, definitions are offered of the crucial variables affecting efficiency and effectiveness of communication via the linkages. Audience, message, channel, treatment and impact are described. Based on the system model and the defined variables, simple mathematical formulas are given which illustrate the relationships in impact and efficiency, and which may be used in computer simulation of information flow, or in planning change, in any rural social system.
Peterson, Warren E. (author) and Swanson, Burton E. (author)
Format:
Manual
Publication Date:
1989-10
Published:
International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS)
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: C20747
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, 101 pagesm preparted under cooperative agreement no. DAN-4148A-00-4004 between: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)m University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Berque, Pascal (author), Toure, Ousmane (author), and Berque: GRET Exchange and Communication Department; Toure: Head, Inter-African Centre for Rural Radio Studies, Ouagadougou
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992-11
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06579
James F. Evans Collection, Rural radio. The term can conjure up broadcasts devoted to extension work, remote from the self-expression and needs of the population and closeted in a broadcasting studio to the detriment of the field -- a negative image which has been around for 10 years, ever since the sad revelation of the shortcomings of Africa's rural radio. Now that the media are diversifying and getting their freedom, it is time to do justice to rural radio, which is and will long be the African rural populations' main, if not only, source of information in their own language. A new-style rural radio is emerging. It is closer to the people, run from a network of regional and local stations, and will both involve the rural population and be open to the world at large. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07428
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: D.F. Cusack, ed. Agroclimate information for development : reviving the Green Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983. p. 313-329., Addresses the challenges of the information revolution with particular emphasis on using agroclimate information for agricultural development: 1) how to sort out and organize the information already available; 2) how to identify and collect the right kinds of information; 3) how to absorb, analyze, and interpret the information; and 4) how to put it to work for the benefit of humankind. Presents a model of process approach by which agroclimate information may be transferred to benefit agricultural development.
13 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This study examined knowledge sharing mechanisms in coffee IPs and their effect on actor linkages in four districts of Uganda.
Design/methodology/approach: Thirty one respondents from the public and private sector were interviewed using a qualitative approach. Data were analyzed using the Atlas ti qualitative software version 7.5.18 to generate themes for information sources, types and channels. Social network analysis was used to measure the actor centrality positions and influence in the IP network.
Findings: Results revealed seven main categories of actors in the Coffee IPs who shared information on coffee inputs, agronomic practices, processing and markets through three main channels. Level of cohesion was less than 10% which had negative implications on the knowledge flow, trust and collaboration among the actors. Influential positions were occupied by the processors and farmer leaders in IPs in the southern districts of Luwero and Rakai, while nursery operators were most influential in IPs of the western districts of Ntungamo and Bushenyi. Weak linkages within the social networks indicated that initiatives of the actors were fragmented, as each actor acted as an individual detached from the platform activities limiting inter-actor knowledge sharing.
Practical implications: Innovation intermediaries should focus on integrated systemic and innovative approaches to strengthen actor social linkages for knowledge sharing and better platform performance.
Theoretical implications: Actor positions and relationships in innovation networks are critical tenets for fostering knowledge exchange and performance. In an innovation platform, diverse actors are multiple sources for accessing information within a given social and institutional context.
Originality/value: The study contributes to existing debate and knowledge on institutional change in agricultural innovation systems.
Kadiyala, Suneetha (author), Morgan, Emily H. (author), Cyriac, Shruthi (author), Margolies, Amy (author), Roopnaraine, Terry (author), and Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), London, United Kingdom
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
St. Johns Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Independent consultant, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016-10-13
Published:
India: Public Library of Science
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08245
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28720
Notes:
Presented at the World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT (IAALD-AFITA-WCCA2008), Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan, August 2008. 11 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06544
Notes:
UIUC library holdings: CMX and Main Stacks 630.954C737, In: Ostman, Ronald E., ed. Communication and Indian agriculture. Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications, Inc., 1989. p. 263-270
Rees, David (author), Momanyi, Martha (author), Wekundah, Joseph (author), Ndungu, Felister (author), Odondi, Jacob (author), Oyure, A. O. (author), Andima, Dymphina (author), Mwaura, Lucy (author), and Joldersma, Rita (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2000-07
Published:
Kenya: Agricultural Research and Extension Network, Overseas Development Institute
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: C20788
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pages 8-19, Network Paper no. 106b
16 pages., via online journal., To date, little is known about how information flows within farmer groups and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural and nutrition information networks within farmer groups. Dyadic regressions are used to analyze the factors influencing link formation for the exchange of agricultural and nutrition information. In addition, we apply fixed‐effects models to identify the characteristics of central persons driving information exchange in the two networks, as well as potentially isolated persons, who are excluded from information networks within their farmer groups. Our results show that nutrition information is exchanged within farmer groups, although to a limited extent, and mostly flows through the existing agricultural information links. Thus, diffusing nutrition information through agricultural extension systems may be a viable approach. Our findings further suggest that group leaders and persons living in central locations are important drivers in the diffusion of information in both networks and may thus serve as suitable entry points for nutrition‐sensitive extension programs. However, we also identify important heterogeneities in network characteristics. In particular, nutrition information is less often exchanged between men and women, and some group members are completely isolated from nutrition information exchange within their farmer groups. We derive recommendations on taking these differences in network structure and characteristics into account when designing nutrition‐sensitive extension programs.
Jaiswal, A.K. (author), Jaiswal, N.K. (author), Ramachandraiah, G. (author), Vittal, N. (author), and National Institute of Rural Development
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05445
Notes:
Reisner, In: Jaiswal, N.K.; Vittal, N.; Jaiswal, A.K.; and Ramachandraiah, G. Development communication - process and impact : a micro study in Mahbubnagar District Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 20-39
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: B00504
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Urbana, Illinois: Extension Editorial Office, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. 9pp. (Communications Evaluation Report 7)
Swanson, Burton E. (author / Research Director, INTERPAKS, Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois) and Research Director, INTERPAKS, Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02751
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Urbana, IL : INTERPAKS, Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, [1988]. 13 p. (INTERPAKS. Technology Development and Transfer Systems in Agriculture)
