Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05754
Notes:
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.
"Theatre can reveal to development workers both villagers' problems and their capacity to analyse such programs." Also: "the main obstacle to development is not ignorance or apathy but structural limits on villagers' access to resources, information and power."
Barry, David (author / Inter-African Centre of Studies on Rural Radio)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International: African Council on Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28629
Notes:
Pages 20-23 in The New World Information and Communication Order - Implications for Africa, a report of two workshops in Nairobi, Kenya, October 9-16, 1983, and Dakar, Senegal, December 12-17, 1983. 39 pages.
Bharamappanavara, S.C. (author) and Hanisch, M. (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30724
Notes:
Paper presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
Notes:
192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes.
(p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."
Miruts, GebreEgziabher (author) and Abay, Fetien (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Ethiopia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01208
Notes:
Pages 234-247 in Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
Murwira, Kudakwashe (author), Hagmann, Jurgen (author), and Chuma, Edward (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Zimbabwe
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01211
Notes:
Pages 300-309 in Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
Hinton, Dawn (author) and Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02162
Notes:
Pages 103-120 in Blessing M. Maumbe (ed.), E-agriculture and e-government for global policy development: implications and future directions. Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 321 pages., Emphasizes ways information technologies can be used to encourage community orientation in the face of modernization.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16749
Notes:
Chapter 7 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Shifferraw, Maigenet (author) and Association for Women in Development Conference
Format:
Conference document
Publication Date:
1985-04-25
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19386
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp 51-53; from "Women creating wealth : transforming economic development" Selected papers and speeches from the Association for Women in Development Conference April 25-27, 1985 Washington, D.C.
USA: Education and Human Resources Development Division, Office of Technical Resources, Bureau for Africa, Agency for International Development, Washington D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19471
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, In "Summary of proceedings of the planning session on agricultural education and university building" Conducted at the United States Department of Agriculture, Graduate School, Washington D.C.
Gill, Dhara S. (author / Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Canada)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1987-10-05
Published:
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19526
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 133-184; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
Mazrui, Ali A. (author) and Okigbo, Charles (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22078
Notes:
Pages 15-29 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22079
Notes:
Pages 31-43 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22081
Notes:
Pages 55-64 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22083
Notes:
Pages 79-87 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22085
Notes:
Pages 105-114 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22087
Notes:
Pages 131-139 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22089
Notes:
Pages 157-164 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22969
Notes:
Pages 27-53 in Luke Uka Uche (ed.), Mass communication democracy and civil society in Africa: international perspectives. Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO, Lagos, Nigeria. 557 pages.
Juma, Dominic (author) and Kahinga, Esther (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-21
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24475
Notes:
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. 9 pages., Conference theme: "Managing agricultural information for sustainable food security and improved livelihoods in Africa."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25055
Notes:
Retrieved December 9, 2006, Presented at ICT Observatory 2003: ICTs - transforming agricultural extension, Wageningen, The Netherlands, September 23-25, 2003. 29 pages., Author uses case studies to describe some potentials being explored, such as telecentres, multi-purpose community centres and citizen post offices as well as radio, television and video.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14144
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 1 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14149
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 7 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14150
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 9 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14151
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 10 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14153
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 12 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14155
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 14 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
