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    2. Building an online platform for African farmer organisations

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Addison, Chris (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016-02
    Published:
    International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08520
    Journal Title:
    ICT Update
    Journal Title Details:
    81 : 7

    3. Communication, information sharing, and advisory services to raise awareness for fall armyworm detection and area-wide management by farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Toepfer, Stefan (author), Kuhlmann, Ulrich (author), Kansiime, Monica (author), Onyango Owino, David (author), Tamsin, Davis (author), Cameron, Katherine (author), and Day, Roger (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-04
    Published:
    Germany: Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10360
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection
    Journal Title Details:
    126(2) : 103–106
    Notes:
    4 pages., Via online journal., This is an opinion paper to the perspective paper “The spread of the Fall Army Worm Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa—what should be done next?” from the “Section Plant Protection in the Tropics and Subtropics” at the 61st German Congress of Plant Protection, held at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, on 11 September 2018. It highlights the best approaches in communication, information sharing, and advisory services to raise awareness for fall armyworm detection and area-wide management by farmers.

    4. Development of a knowledge management system integrated with local communication channels and knowledge management initiatives for Kenyan rural farming communities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wirastuti, Dewi (author), Luckin, Rose (author), Sheriff, Ray E. (author), Walker, Kevin (author), Underwood, Josh (author), and Dunckley, Lynne (author)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    2008-01-01
    Published:
    IEEE
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 101 Document Number: D10883
    Notes:
    8 pages., Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education., via online journal., This paper presents an innovative application of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies to support informal and collaborative learning in Kenyan rural farming communities. Such an approach is achieved by the development of a knowledge management system (KMS) integrated with existing local community communication channels, together with experimental knowledge management (KM) initiatives employing the VeSeL (Village e-Science for Life) distributed resource kits (DRKs). The initiatives support illiterate and semi-literate farming community groups, in learning new agriculture practices, and also enable the use of advanced digital technology to improve their agricultural practices and literacy levels. Results of a recent field trip to Kenya are presented and an application sketch is developed. The process of applying wireless and Internet technologies for the education of local farming communities, using irrigation and water management as the application, concludes the paper.

    5. Empowering farmers in India using the Kisan Blog

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pattanaik, Debashis (author) and Sarkar, Runa (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    India
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29017
    Notes:
    Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 20-25 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.

    7. Farmer knowledge as formal knowledge: a case study of farmer-led research in Ontario, Canada

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Nelson, Erin (author), Hargreaves, Sarah (author), and Muldoon, Dillon (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2023-08-22
    Published:
    USA: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12954
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
    Journal Title Details:
    V.12, N.4
    Notes:
    24 pages, Farmer-led research (FLR) is a process of inquiry wherein farmers use scientific methods to address their own on-farm curiosities and challenges in ways that are compatible with the scale and man­agement style of their operations. With its flexible, adaptable, participatory, grassroots-oriented nature, FLR has typically been employed by farmers interested in ecological farming techniques and technol­ogies, and evidence shows that it contributes to the adoption and improvement of ecological manage­ment practices across a range of contexts. Engage­ment in FLR initiatives has also been linked to pos­itive social outcomes, including community-building, farmer empowerment, and enhanced capacity for leadership and collective action. In this paper, we present a case study of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s (EFAO) Farmer-Led Research Program (FLRP), which is currently one of relatively few FLR initiatives in North America. We draw on data from a participatory, mixed-methods research project. Our results high­light how the FLRP is enabling farmers to feel more knowledgeable, confident, motivated, and inspired to adopt and/or improve ecological prac­tices on their farms, in part by supporting them in building robust social networks that align with their farming values and priorities.

    8. Farmer-led documentation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ruter, Dorine (author) and Piepenstock, Anne (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Bolivia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29018
    Notes:
    Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 26-29 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.

    9. Globalization amid the cornfields: teaching sustainable practices in the American Midwest

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Salvo, Michael (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA: ERIC
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10238
    Journal Title:
    The Writing Instructor
    Notes:
    13 pages., The original website no longer has a copy of the article. Access is available through ERIC database. ERIC Number: EJ890607, Via online source., This article discusses three sites that disrupt accustomed expectations and roles for technical communication. These sites include an agricultural processing site that is requesting tax abatements in exchange for decreased emissions so that it can remain competitive in the global market. The second is also an agricultural manufacturing site that remains globally competitive by increasing efficiencies and expanding the range of products made at the site. Finally, the essay discusses a manufacturing facility that takes finished products-automobiles-and remanufactures them for a niche market of users. Each of these Midwestern sites is globally competitive and challenges expectations for high technology work. Taken together, they gesture toward new definitions of work, in new postindustrial context, and offer insight for defining technical communication in the postindustrial age. The remaining challenge, for scholars and teachers, is to articulate emerging literacy practices supporting postindustrial manufacturing, and to participate in the knowledge management that supports innovation. Here, each site takes something that would have previously been considered either finished product or waste and rearticulates it as an ingredient in a new product. At the least, technical communicators will need to learn to document such organization's innovation and change. At best, such change invites technical communicators, acting as knowledge managers, to articulate opportunities for innovation. Research, a traditional strength of technical writing preparation, allows organizations to better prepare and understand change, turning disruption into opportunity. Postindustrial business practices are no longer the work of futurists, but the reality and structure of the workplace today. Each work site described in this article presents opportunities for basic research into emerging workplaces in need of the expertise of technical and professional writers; each is an example and potential model for knowledge work.