Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07331
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Pages 21-53 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., This historical analysis traces predominance of emphasis on applied types of expert-based knowledge and information, as well as technological innovation packages from outside the developing countries themselves. Author identifies questions about who decides which knowledge is regarded as crucial, is produced and shared, for what purpose and in whose interest. Extensive reference list.
Authors identify challenges and potentials for using new information technologies, such as the Internet, to help jobseekers in rural labour markets find employment. Social networks and telephone helplines were found to be used most at present.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11002
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Online from the United Soybean Board via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Summary of survey results reported in "Rural broadband and the American Farmer: Connectivity challenges limit agriculture's economic impact and sustainability." Findings reflected responses from more than 2,000 U.S. primary and secondary farm operators in a combination of online and mail-in surveys.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
3 pages., Online from publisher website., Following a training course in technology stewardship, actors in the Caribbean's agri-food sector are implementing ICT approaches to provide agricultural advice and support to their local communities
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36258
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Retrieved at http://comunica.org/com_rights/, Pages 33-64 in Bruce Girard and Sean O. Siochru (eds.), Communicating in the information society, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland. 223 pages.
Hobbs, Daryl (author / Professor of Rural Sociology and the Director of Rural Department, University of Missouri) and Professor of Rural Sociology and the Director of Rural Department, University of Missouri
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1978
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 36 Document Number: B03928
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copy in ACDC files, In: Chapman, Carol A.; Infanger, Craig L.; Robbins, Lynn W.; and Debertin, David L., eds. Taking computers to the community : prospects and perspectives : Proceedings from the conference held January 12 and 13, 1978; Louisville, Kentucky. Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, 1978. p. 41-48
International: Research and Extension Division, Natural Resources and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36136
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38 pages., Findings of a series of regional studies, consultations and workshops organized by FAO in preparation for the World Congress on Communicationfor Development (Rome, October 2007).
Newsplex at the University of South Carolina., Author argues that the only things about convergence that are new are some terms and the fact that duties once the prerogative of the news editor and the photographer and techniques used in newspapers and magazines now are relegated to the news reporter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C13123
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RIRDC Research Report in human capital, communications and information systems, Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC), Barton, ACT, Australia
Houston, Renee (author) and Jackson, Michele H. (author)
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Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00445
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Pages 99-122 in Thomas L. McPhail (ed.), Development communication: reframing the role of the media. Electronic resource from Wiley InterScience. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK. 239 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26769
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Reprint of 10 pages provided as CD in John P. Brien, "Research contributions in agricultural extension and communication," a thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Queensland., Presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Pacific Telecommunications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16303
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Chapter 6 in Rafiq Dossani (ed.), Telecommunications reform in India. Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut. 258 pages., Author describes a proposal wherein the state should build 5,000 communications centers or "work centers" and link these to the rail and fiber infrastructures. Every citizen can access a telephone, the Internet, health care and education. "People stay within the traditional semirural or rural infrastructure, within their 'circle,' rather than moving away from their families to the overcrowded cities."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36194
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Retrieved 04/10/2011, 6 pages., "Forthcoming in Connected for Development: Information Kiosks and Sustainability, UNICT Task Force and Digital Partners, edited by Akhtar Badshah, Sarbuland Khan and Maria Garrido."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35770
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Discusses agricultural journalists' use of new information technologies. "The challenge is not that of attempting to use all available technology but of selecting those parts offering the highest probability of working best for us."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23639
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Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 19 pages., Examines what Fourth Generation wireless broadband technology (e.g., for blogging, live television broadcasting, Web publication) may mean to newspapers in small communities. "The small-city newspaper must realize its own historical advantages in terms of depth reporting and its position as the community touchstone."
Traces the expansion in number of media options available during the past 30 years and expresses appreciation to readers for their readership of Successful Farming magazine in that competitive environment.
"Our findings expose a clear contrast between the ambitious and future oriented ways in which adults imagine ICTwill expand their children's educational and employment opportunities, and social and special horizons, and the everyday ways in which these technologies actually emerge for children in practice."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14031
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Pages 132-140 in Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware (eds.), Information and communication technology in development: cases from India. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. 2000. 230 pages.
Doerfert, David L. (author / Texas Tech University), Telg, Ricky (author / University of Flordia), Sitton, S. (author / Oklahoma State University), Dooley, Kim E. (author / Texas A & M), Irani, Tracy (author / University of Flordia), Layfield, Dale (author / Clemson College), Akers, Cindy (author / Texas Tech University), Haygood, Jacqui (author / Texas Tech), Wingenbach, Gary J. (author / Texas A & M), Cartmell, D. Dwayne II (author / Oklahoma State University), and Miller, Jeff (author / Arkansas)
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
2004-06-24
Published:
USA: National agricultural communication summit Lake Tahoe, June 2004
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22135
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24483
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Retrieved July 5, 2006, Conference sponsored by the International Association for Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) in Nairobi, Kenya, May 21-26, 2006. Via Livelihoods Connect. 5 pages., Conference theme: "Managing agricultural information for sustainable food security and improved livelihoods in Africa."
17 pages, The positive spillover impacts of the efficiency of information and communication technology (ICT) and land accessibility as factor inputs to agricultural productivity are well documented in the literature. Furthermore, input-output efficiency as a measurement of factors contributing towards gross production is no exception in this regard. Few studies on agricultural production and ICT at the household level in South Africa show divergent empirical results. This study investigates the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) and land for farming in the context of household food production in South Africa. Household engagement in agricultural activities is proxy for agricultural production, farm land size is a proxy for land accessibility, telephone and internet use are proxies for ICT in this study. Household data of twenty-one thousand, six hundred and one (21,601) households on agricultural activities and ICTs were generated from the existing survey data of General household survey, 2015 by Statistics South Africa. Majority of the households are not engaging in agricultural activities due to no access to land for farming, but more than 80 percent of the households have access to at least one form of ICTs penetration i.e. mobile telephony. The logit regression shows that internet connection in the household have positive and significant impact on household agricultural production but land accessibility is indirectly related and significant to household food production in South Africa. Therefore land accessibility may be a barrier to agricultural activity involvement in South Africa. The study shows that the positive spillover impacts of ICT may not be possible due to lack of access to land for agriculture. Land for farming, CDMA telephony and internet are highly required for agricultural activities in order to promote food production, reduce cost of telecommunications, promoting agricultural research and development via internet accessibility.
Abdullah, Ma'n (author), Theobald, Dale E. (author), Butler, Donna (author), Kroenke, Kurt (author), Perkins, Anthony (author), Edgerton, Sara (author), and Dugan, William M. Jr. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25803
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19049
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Thesis, Master of Adult and Continuing Education, Washington State University, Pullman. Page 46 in Jasper S. Lee and Ruby D.Rankin (eds.), Summary of research in extension, 1988-89, Volume 4. College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Mississippi Stat
Online from publisher website., By embracing modern technology and engaging enthusiastic young people, the work of an NGO in Malawi is extending the reach of agricultural extension across the country.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19606
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Pages 197-210 in Karen Gwinn Wilkins, Redeveloping communication for social change: theory, practice, and power. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 216 pages.
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.
Gelb, E. (author), Maru, A. (author), Brodgen, J. (author), Dodsworth, E. (author), Samii, R. (author), Pesce, V. (author), and Global Forum on Agricultural Research.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29701
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Summary of a pre-conference ICT Adoption Workshop - AFITA, IAALD and WCCA Conference in Atsugi, Japan. 20 pages., Participant organizations: Asian Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA) , International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD ) and the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture (WCCA).
