Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00591
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Via blog site. 9 pages., Author describes a proposed clearinghouse for data from state, county and municipal governments in North Carolina to serve nine rural newspapers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26254
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From the Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, via Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 2 pages., Describes career of Al Smith, long-time host and producer of the public affairs television show, "Comment on Kentucky." He previously headed a chain of rural weekly newspapers in Kentucky.
Brown, Charles (author) and Lehtola, Carol (author)
Format:
Guide
Publication Date:
2003-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05937
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CIR 1438, one of a series of Florida AgSafe, a program of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville. 9 pages., Guidelines for creating a community-based safety workshop.
Ray, Nandita (author) and Vasundhara, D.P. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00560
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Pages 85-102 in Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala (eds.) Speaking out: women's economic empowerment in South Asia. Intermediate Technology Publications, London, UK. On behalf of Aga Khan Foundation Canada and United Nations Development Fund for Women. 238 pages.
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.
Via online issue. 3 pages., Report on Wendell Berry's remarks for the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speaker suggests appreciating the word "economy" for its original meaning of "household management. ... I mean, not economics, but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth; the arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth's many ecosystems and human neighborhoods. This is the economy that the most public and influential economists never talk about, the economy that is the primary vocation and responsibility of every one of us."
UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.
Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1930
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26022
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23 pages., Series of public service advertisements for local banks to use to help develop farms and farming in their communities. Individual ads involve use of pasture lands, dairy feeding, soil building and weed control.
New programme, "Shamba Shape-Up," explores typical problems encountered by smallholder families on the outskirts of Kenya's towns and cities, then brings in a crack team of experts to sort them out.
Lawrence, Layle D. (author / West Virginia University)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2000-03-29
Published:
Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20243
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, In section H of the "2000 conference proceedings: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 16th Annual Conference, March 29th-April 1st, 2000, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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
Notes:
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
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 36 Document Number: B03928
Notes:
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
11 pages., Online via journal by open access., Outlined a transdisciplinary research approach to issues of justice and equity in a real-life social conflict concerning the allocation of water for irrigation farming.
Brownson, Ross C. (author), Hagood, Laura (author), Lovegreen, Sarah L. (author), Britton, Betty (author), Caito, Nicole M. (author), Elliott, Michael B. (author), Emery, Jennifer (author), Haire-Joshu, Debra (author), Hicks, Dawn (author), Johnson, Brenda (author), McGill, Janet B. (author), Morton, Sandra (author), Rhodes, Gary (author), Thurman, Tammy (author), and Tune, Debra (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27687
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00683
Notes:
Pages 38-45 in Sunday Odedele (ed.), Public relations and communication management in Africa. Public Relations for Africa, Lagos, Nigeria. 184 pages. Via online.
