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62. A conceptual framework for studying the links between agricultural research and technology transfer in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Engel, Paul (author), Kaimowitz, David (author), Snyder, Monteze (author), and Research fellow, ISNAR; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Assistant Professor of Extension, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04781
- Notes:
- In: Kaimowitz, David. ed. Making the link : agricultural research and technology transfer in developing countries. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1990. p. 227-269
63. Objectivity as trained judgment: how environmental reporters pioneered journalism for a "post-truth" era
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fahy, Declan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11416
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(7) : 855-861
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Online via UIUC Library electronic subscription., The author of this commentary argued that environmental journalism offers a conceptual model and guide to action for all journalists in the "post-truth" and "post-fact" era. "Since the specialism was formed in the 1960s, environmental journalists have reported on politically partisan issues where facts are contested, expertise is challenged, and uncertainty is heightened. To deal with these and other challenges, environmental journalism ... has reassessed and reconfigured the foundational journalistic concept of objectivity. The specialism has come to view objectivity as the implementation of a transparent method, as the pluralistic search for consensus, and, most importantly, as trained judgment."
64. Evaluation of rural health care programs employing unobserved variable models : impact on infant mortality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Farmer, Frank L. (author), Miller, Michael K. (author), and Voth, Donald E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Bozeman, MT : Rural Sociological Society.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05867
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 49 (1) : 127-142.
- Notes:
- AGE 84925163, The study evaluates 145 health care programs that were implemented in the 1970s to serve nonmetropolitan populations in the United States. The evaluation employs multiple indicator unobserved variable models to disaggregate the effects of the socio-environmental milieu; i.e., education, income, racial composition, poverty, housing conditions, crowding, occupation structure, and rural health care programs on physician availability and two health status indicators--neonatal mortality and post-neonatal mortality. The results show that rural health care programs did not increase the availability of physicians in the targeted areas. However, implementation of the programs contributed significantly to lowering the neonatal mortality rate.
65. Designing inter-regional engagement to inform cohesive policy making
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fears, Robin (author), Holzeis, Claudia Canales (author), and ter Meulen, Volker (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-03
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13083
- Journal Title:
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- V.6, N.107
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The scientific advice needed to inform national and regional policies addressing the key challenges we face today must take account of disparate requirements. The complex nature of the problems addressed in this article—which encompass food and nutrition security, global health and climate change—and the multitude of their interconnections, calls for an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach that spans aspects related to the use of natural resources; the adoption of new technologies all the way to issues related to food demand and human behaviour. The scale is also important: national policies need to respond to a set of heterogeneous local conditions and requirements and should be particularly mindful of the effect on vulnerable groups of the population. At the same time, the global interconnectedness of food systems and shared natural resources also necessitates coordinated action at regional and global levels. The InterAcademy Partnership sought to develop an innovative model for integrating and analysing multidisciplinary scientific evidence to inform governments and regional policy bodies for policymaking on food and nutrition security. This approach relies on IAP’s membership of over 130 science academies grouped in four regional networks for Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Our article reviews the model, in particular with regards to interdisciplinarity, exploring examples relating to yield gap, plant breeding and food processing, and reflects on lessons learned during the project discussions and when engaging with policy-makers and other stakeholders. We propose that the framework developed can be applied to integrated assessment of other societal challenges where the scientific community can play a significant role in informing policy choices.
66. Value of information on crop response function to soil salinity in a farm-level optimization model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feinerman, Eli (author / Department of Agricultural Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994-05
- Published:
- UK: Elsevier Science Publishers, London
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07720
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (3) : 233-243
- Notes:
- search through journal, The study investigates the value of additional information on the response function to soil salinity of a given crop (potatoes), with regard to a stochastic long-run optimization model for utilization of saline water in a single-farm framework. The analysis provides a conceptual and methodological framework for investigating the expected value of sample information (EVSI), as well as an efficient tool for empirical application. Although a few approximations have been used, the results provide an estimate of EVSI and indicate the need for additional information (original)
67. Reconsideration of the agriculture transfer model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feller, Irwin (author / Director, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, Pennsylvania State University.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Indianapolis, IN : Technology Transfer Society.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06848
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Technology Transfer
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (2) : 47-56
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92034694, The cooperative extension system in American agriculture is widely viewed as the paradigmatic public sector technology transfer system. Empirical evidence supports the view that research and extension are complementary inputs in increasing agricultural productivity. Cooperative extension, however, does not perceive itself as a technology transfer system; but as an informal education system. Many participants at the federal, land grant university, or county levels in cooperative extension would not recognize their work within a technology transfer framework. Moreover, many would object to such a characterization of their work. The differences in perspective is accounted for, in part, by the fact that agricultural extension is part of the larger system of cooperative extension. This system, which encompasses agriculture, home economics, 4-H and community and rural development, requires a more encompassing framework than technology transfer to provide an integrated rationale for its program elements. Within the technology transfer framework, the roles of the different components of the system across the states are both highly variable and changing. Based on site interviews in nine states, analysis is presented of the current and prospective roles of extension specialists and county agents. (original)
68. Modelos de desarrollo rural y comunicacion [Rural development models and communication]
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fernandez M., Francisco (author) and Amtmann, C.A. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 1981
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16946
- Notes:
- Pages 161-185 in C.A. Amtmann and Francisco Fernandez M. (eds.), Comunicacion y desarrollo rural. Publicacion del Instituto de Ciencias Historicas y Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile a traves de su "Programa Centro de Sociologia del Desarrollo Rural." 194 pages.
69. Effective communication : reaching rural women in the Third World
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fewster, Jean W. (author), Kuhonta, Cleofe M. (author), and Fewster: Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Reform Division, The Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy; Kuhonta: Communication specialist, Rome, Italy
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05312
- Journal Title:
- Canadian Home Economics Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 35 (2) : 76-79.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA FNI 85008260, Extract: Communicating more effectively with rural women in developing countries can help accelerate the acceptance of change. These women are and have been deprived of the information they need for problem-solving and for evaluating options before making decisions. They need information that responds to their multiple roles as parents, partners, and food producers. They need networks to link them with other women. A model of the communication process is presented, showing the variables that interact and influence communication. Attention is directed to the need to identify and differentiate audience groups, to provide information that is situationally relevant and easy to comprehend, and to use an appropriate combination of interpersonal, group and mass communication. Integrating a communication component into programs and projects is recommended. (author).
70. Toward developing a coefficient of communication convergence
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Flor, Alexander G. (author / Instructor in Development Communication, University of the Philippines at Los Banos)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984-10
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06063
- Journal Title:
- Devcom Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 (4) : 47-58
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection