Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03025
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Three-part research report for a course, Agricultural Communications 300, University of Illinois, Urbana. 12 pages., Part 1 - Communication methods used by the Extension Service in Nigeria. 13 pages. Part 2 - Factors that effective effectiveness of communication. 17 pages. Part 3 - Ways to overcome problems and recommendations in use of communication in the Extension Service. 28 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05737
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"Blog Stories on Extension." Online via the website of AgroInsight, Ghent, Belgium. 2 pages., Example of negative results from a top-down approach to Extension teaching.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05754
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Online from Rural Reporters. 3 pages., Addresses the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in strengthening the rural sector of developing countries, with emphasis on Africa.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05928
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Pages 27-38 in Allan Eaglesham, Sandra Ristow and Ralph W.F. Hardy (eds.) Biotechnology: science and society at a crossroad. NABC Report 15. National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Ithaca, New York. 292 pages., "...holding innumerable debates about the pros and cons of agricultural biotechnology will not resolve the issues raised here, as long as the problem is framed as a lack of knowledge."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06623
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Presentation at a conference, "Concentration in agriculture: how much, how serious and why worry" at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, February 4, 2003. 18 pages.
Childers, Erskine (author) and Vajrathon, Mallica (author)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
1970-06
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08003
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John L. Woods Collection. See ACDC Document D07999. Salcedo and Woods, Agriculture 199: Communication in agricultural development course. This document is in the reference section., Presentation at Second World Food Congress, The Hague, Netherlands. June 1970. 14 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08058
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John L. Woods Collection, Presentation at the World Bank about experiences in privatization of the agricultural extension service in Holland. May 1995. 15 pages.
Del Castello, Riccardo (author) and Braun, Paul Mathias (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
International: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Eschborn, Germany.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08289
Wesseler, Gesa (author) and Brinkman, Willemine (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08294
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ACDC segment includes only bibliographic information, contents page and introduction. Full text was no longer available at the url 04/16/17., Paper presented at the regional conference on "Agroforestry impacts on livelihoods in Southern Africa: putting research into practice," Aventura Warmbaths, South Africa, May 20-24, 2002. 41 pages.
Savary, Roger L. (author / International Federation of Agricultural Producers)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1967-06
Published:
International: First International Congress of Farm Writers.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: D10788
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 29-32 in J.S. Cram (ed.), Proceedings of the first International Congress of Farm Writers at Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada, June 18-21, 1967. 112 pages.
Anderson, H. Calvert (author / Inter-American Popular Information Program, American International Association), Vieira, Phil (author / Farm broadcaster, West Indies), Appiah, Ofosu (author / Radio Ghana), and Jain, G.P. (author / Sevagram, Delhi, India)
Format:
Panel report
Publication Date:
1967-06
Published:
International: First International Congress of Farm Writers.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: D10794
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Item located in Document 10786. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 78-86 in J.S. Cram (ed.), Proceedings of the first International Congress of Farm Writers at Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada, June 18-21, 1967. 112 pages.
Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
Format:
Publication
Publication Date:
1991-06-30
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
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World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
Ward, William B. (author / Cornell University), Read, Hadley (author / University of Illinois), and Colle, Royal D. (author / Cornell University)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
1971
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11136
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From the "India visit 1971" file of the international programs section of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., 24 pages., Presented at the second convention of Indian Agricultural Universities, at U.P. Agricultural University, Pantnagar, India,February 25-28, 1971
In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Review of articles by Robert Rodale, Robert E. Wagner, Dennis Keeney, and Peter E. Hildebrand in the July-September 1990 issue Journal of Production Agriculture. Authors send messages to "many former outsiders" in the "agricultural road:" inventors, consumers, lobbyists, politicians, environmentalists, input suppliers, and scientists. "...they must now share their power to transform agriculture."
International: Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11396
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10 pages., Via online from website., "Experts say the rise of artifical intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive and to exercise free will. Includes references to impacts on farmers, farming and climate.
1 page., Online from publisher., Editorial discusses the launching in early 2019 of a report about digitalisation of African agriculture and introduces related articles in this special issue of the Spore periodical.
International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11614
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3 pages., Online from publisher., Author addresses "large gap between African extension services ... and the number of farmers being reached." ... "Africa's existing mobile network (currently the second biggest mobile market in the world) could be better utilised to bridge this gap and provide mobile-based agricultural information, advice and support to smallholder farmers."
4 pages., Online from publisher., "For the first time, a landmark report on digitalisation for agriculture (D4Ag) in Africa compiles and highlights data on digital solutions that are enabling the transformation of African agriculture."
23 pages., Online via open access., How is bilateral development cooperation communicated about in the news? How does a donor agency communicate for and about development? And what are the links between one and the other? This article focuses on a 2016 expose reported on Swedish public television about alleged corruption in aid to Zambia, reflecting failure of both donor and recipient. Authors focus on the news media as mediator of the donor's communication with its tax-paying audiences and demonstrated potentials of an integrated conceptual approach to communication for and about development. Findings reveal greater media coverage of financial accountability than on doing good for Zambian citizens.
Ngoma, Hambulo (author), Mason-Wardell, Nichole M. (author), Samboko, Paul C. (author), and Hangoma, Peter (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
Zambia: Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11674
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4 pages., Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research Paper 164., Using games, researchers tested the hypothesis that innate behavioral traits such as risk and time preferences play a role in Zambia farmers' decisions about adoption of Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. "Given our findings that more risk-averse individuals are less likely to adopt CSA, a practice that is intended to be risk-reducing, a key policy implication is the need for a retooling of both public and private extension services to better demonstrate and educate farmers on the risk-reducing effect of CSA practices such as conservation agriculture. Moreover, if insurance and subsidies are to be used successfully to nudge adoption, extension will need to educate farmers on the structure of and mechanisms of payouts. This is important to build trust in the incentive systems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25321
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Pages 249-278 in Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin (eds.), Decolonizing knowledge: from development to dialogue. Clarendon Press, Oxford, England. 398 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27070
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Posted at http://www.scidev.net > indigenous knowledge, Via Science and Development Network. 3 pages., "More should be done to build bridges between formal scientific research and informal grassroots innovations."
"The recent global food crisis shows that agro-technology and markets alone cannot reduce hunger. A ground-breaking three-year study recently concluded that the agriculture sector should use the know-how of smallholder farmers better." For details about the study, see www.agassessment.org.
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29759
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Recommendations from the 2nd Agriculture Leadership Summit, New Delhi, India, September 4-5, 2009. 13 pages., Summary and recommendations, including those involving extension and communications.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29792
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Pages 229-233 in Ian Scoones and John Thompson (eds.), Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development. Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, U.K. 357 pages.
"It is obvious that the farmers need more training. But, according to them, only a few trainers with low qualification and little time are available either from commercial channels or from government organizations."
