McKay, Floyd J. (author / Department of Journalism, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06327
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1992. 28 p. Paper presented at the 1992 Convention of the International Communications Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Deb, P.C. (author / Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India) and Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1968
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05021
Discusses Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) in terms of skirting regulations and taxes that traditional telephone companies must comply with and pay. Users do not have to pay into the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service in rural areas.
Raghubanshi, C.S. (author), Swarup, R. (author), Yadava, R.P. (author), and Agro-Economic Research Centre, H.P. University, Simla, India; Agro-Economic Research Centre, H.P. University, Simla, India; Agricultural Economics, H.P. University, Simla, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1975-07
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05053
Examines five cases of rural areas that deployed information and communication technology programs. "There is little evidence that telecommunications lead to economic growth or that businesses in the communities are using ICT extensively." Instead, "the physical deployment of the hardware is not sufficient to achieve success."
Discusses the career and contributions of Dorothea Lange in documenting, through her photography, the plight of impoverished agricultural workers in the West during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
10 pages, Goat farming is a major livelihood activity for most smallholder farmers in Botswana. To ensure sustainable livelihoods for these farmers, a shift from the prevalent traditional and subsistence system to a more market-oriented one is considered necessary. Market participation is widely viewed as an effective means of addressing poverty which is particularly rampant in most rural areas of Botswana and other developing countries. Little evidence is however available on the link between market participation and household welfare, especially among livestock and, in particular, small stock farmers. This paper evaluates the effect of market participation on household welfare among smallholder goat farmers. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model, the results show a positive and significant effect of market participation on household income for both participant and non-participant farmers. This effect was found to be more pronounced among the non-participants had they decided to sell. The results suggest that goat farmers should be encouraged to engage in market participation other than their traditional ways of keeping goats. This implies that existing policies and programs that increase market participation and encourage market-oriented farming should be revised in order to provide efficient and sustainable support. Furthermore, the study recommends that information on goat markets should reach rural areas where most farmers reside and are unable to access technology.
Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library (author)
Format:
Manual
Publication Date:
1992-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06830
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 92027846, Beltsville, MD : Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library. 1992. (Rural Information Center Publication Series, No. 17) 28 p.
Martin, Kenneth E. (author / Rural Economic Development Specialist, Office of the Associate Vice-President for Research and Technology Transfer, Penn State University, State College, PA)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
USA: Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07772
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23816
Notes:
Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, "If you want to practice journalism with a difference, mimic the military. Embed journalists everywhere. Embed them where people live, work, play, and pray. Embed them in neighborhoods, urban areas, rural areas, corporations, nonprofits, hospitalsl, families, retirement communities, conservative centers and liberal lodges." Author describes benefits.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36217
Notes:
Section 4 in Don Richardson and Lynnita Paisley (eds.), The first mile of connectivity, Communication for Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Via online. 11 pages.
Tran, Phuong (author), Ng, Felicia (author), Chia, Cathy (author), Chib, Arul (author), and International Association for Media and Communication Research, London, UK.
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-07-18
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36276
Notes:
Retrieved 03/22/2011, Via online. Pages 9-10 in Book of Abstracts: Participatory Communication Research Section of the IAMCR Conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.
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.
