6 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Author analyzed case studies of corruption reported in 24/7 "convergent" media and concluded: "As the mainstream media is failing in exposing the enormous corruption in the government, there is a need to use the 'convergence' and 'blogging' to expose the corruption from the people side."
Bembridge, T.J. (author), Sebotja, I. (author), and Bembridge: Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Fort Hare; Sebotja: District manager, AGRICOR, Bophuthatswana
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
South Africa: Pretoria, South Africa : The South African Society for Agricultural Extension
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06651
James F. Evans Collection; See C06647 for original, A systems approach was used in comparing the three projects in terms of physical characteristics, the human potential, technology and institutional support. The importance of farmer development, participation, and motivation for sustained development is highlighted and suggestions are made for further investment in human capital (original).
14 Pages, iZindaba Zokudla (IZ) is a multistakeholder engagement project that aims to create opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system in Johannesburg. IZ implements the Farmers’ Lab, a social lab used as a transitional mechanism in a larger transition to sustainability. To move the South African urban food system to an ecologically sound, economically productive, and socially equitable system, significant stakeholder integration is needed, and the iZindaba Zokudla Farmers’ Lab provides that. This reflective essay presents a history of the project (2013 until now) detailing the project’s creation of an ecosystem based on social labs that facilitate innovation in the food system. Emergent entrepreneurs and others use the social labs and their activities, as well as stakeholder engagement in their enterprise development, and these Labs have created opportunities for applied and other research in the university. This has brought innovation and change to agroecological practice in Johannesburg. This reflective essay article situates IZ within the broader evolutionary change in South Africa and considers how conversations about food lead to the creation of sustainable food systems.
Macandrews, Colin (author), Nasikun (author), and Institute for Rural and Regional Studies, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Institute for Rural and Regional Studies, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05333
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 787-800.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14427
Notes:
Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 5 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
Litsios, Socrates (author / Programme Area Leader, Primary Health Care, Division of Strengthening of Health Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) and Programme Area Leader, Primary Health Care, Division of Strengthening of Health Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05323
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 35-47., A radical rethinking of how to bring about rural development has been in process over recent years. Many essential elements of what could be called a new approach to development have been identified. The major thesis of this paper is that the nature of this new approach demands a correspondingly new approach to planning for development. Without a new planning system, the changes underlying the new development philosophy are not likely to be implemented. The purpose of this paper is to outline the basic feature of such a planning system, and to indicate how this system is inextricably linked with the hoped for developmental changes. (original).
Kadiyala, Suneetha (author), Morgan, Emily H. (author), Cyriac, Shruthi (author), Margolies, Amy (author), Roopnaraine, Terry (author), and Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), London, United Kingdom
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
St. Johns Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Independent consultant, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016-10-13
Published:
India: Public Library of Science
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08245
Phase 1; Country paper presented on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Government of India at the Commonwealth Regional Seminar on Adult Education and National Development; 1974 March; New Delhi, India
Bhargava, Ashok (author), Pandey, Shashi R. (author), and Pandey: Graduate Student, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Bhargava: Professor and Chairman, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: C00765
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, In: Development communications in the third world: proceedings of a midwest regional symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 15, 1983. Urbana, Illinois: College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1983. p. 58-66. (International Agriculture Publications General Series No. 2).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14431
Notes:
Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 9 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
Buccola, J.T. (author), Orden, D. (author), and University of Minnesota, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics.; University of Minnesota, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00632
Honeybone, David (author) and Marter, Alan (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1975
Published:
Zambia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05337
Notes:
carried out as part of the Zambia World Bank Education Project 900-ZA, Lusaka, Zambia: Rural Development Studies Bureau, University of Zambia, December 1975. 111 p.
Pechrova, Marie (author) and Kolarova, Alena (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-09-18
Published:
Czech Republic
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00923
Notes:
Paper presented at the 131st EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) seminar, "Innovations for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012. 12 pages.
The OCIAC Update series is maintained in the Agricultural Communications Program records > "International" section > "OCIAC" file., Reviews the work of Robert E. Rhoades in articulating how the contributions of the agricultural anthropologist fit in with the contributions of other disciplines in the usual agricultural development project. Compares the anthropologist's contributions with those of the agricultural communicator.
Rhoades, Robert E. (author) and International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
Format:
unknown
Publication Date:
1984-12
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 74 Document Number: C03693
Notes:
Mason E. Miller Collection, Lima, Peru : International Potato Center, 1984. 84 p., Discusses the value of and need for agricultural anthropologists in development projects.
Copps, Michael J. (author) and Federal Communications Commission
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2009-05-22
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29237
Notes:
Posted online at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/Query.do?numberFld=&numberFld2=&docket=&dateFld=&docTitleDesc=Bringing+Broadband+to+Rural+America
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08091
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, Fourteen charts produced by Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and the Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.
McKay, G.R. (author / University of Minnesota, Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics.) and University of Minnesota, Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00611
Fliegel, Frederick C. (author), Kivlin, Joseph E. (author), Roy, Prodipto (author), Sen, Lalit K. (author), and Michigan State University; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India; Michigan State University; National Institute of Community Development, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1968
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: B03076
Notes:
Mason E. Miller Collection, Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Community Development, 1968. 56 p. (Research Report 15, Project on the Diffusion of Innovations in Rural Societies)
20 pages., Via online newsletter article., This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of
communication strategy development. The wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide creates challenges for rural communities, service providers and local governments. Local organisations – both in government and civil society – are confronted with rules and procedures that are unprecedented. The new roles require significant changes in attitudes, skills, and especially a new level of accountability. While communication strategies are only a part of the transformation, they are strategic tools that merit attention. This is an account of two cases where the authors have been involved in developing communication strategies aimed specifically at helping stakeholders make this transition. The first is the case of the Communication and Information Strategy for the National Agricultural Advisory Services Programme (NAADS) of Uganda. The second is the formulation of a plan to communicate the National Water Policy (NWP) and Rural Water Transition Plan in Mozambique. The paper concludes with some design principles for other strategies and with a review of the importance of communication research and planning.
22 pages, via online journal, Past explanations of why rural people respond as they do to external development interventions have emphasized the role of key limiting factors or critical characteristics (wealth, education, land tenure, etc.) which are thought to influence peoples' behavior in predictable ways. Efforts to promote tree planting and soil conservation in eight neighboring villages in the Philippines revealed that variation in participation did not reflect clear patterns based on existing household or village characteristics. Instead, specific responses to interventions reflected a complex, but interpretable interaction between existing socio-economic factors and historic trends or events. Characteristics like the degree of local knowledge, security of land tenure and community cohesion affected peoples' participation, in general, but their specific influence was neither predictable nor consistent between, and even within, individual villages. An appreciation of the specific historic context was often sufficient to explain these variations. The following historic trends and events were found to have important consequences for peoples' participation: migration and settlement history; family and group lineages; history of socio-political organization and conflict; history of physical isolation; labor history; economic–ecological history; environmental history; and past exposure to development agents. The paper concludes with a preliminary checklist of questions intended to assist researchers and development agents to discover relevant and interesting historical information about rural villages.
Landini, Fernando (author), Bianqui, Vanina (author), Vargas, Gilda (author), Inés Mathot y Rebolé, María (author), Martinez, Manuela (author), and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina
University of La Cuenca del Plata, Argentina
University of Morón, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
2017-10-07
Published:
Argentina: Science Direct
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10934
12 pages, via online journal, Working with farmers' groups, associations and cooperatives constitutes a fundamental element of extension work with family farmers. Despite the fact that extension practitioners face many problems in this area of their work, there is currently a lack of academic literature that systematically addresses the topic and offers concrete guidelines for practice. Thus, this paper will aim to clarify the benefits of farmers' groups, associations and networks within the context of family farming, systematise problems faced by rural extensionists when working with farmers' groups and associations, provide conceptual tools for understanding group and associative processes, and construct a set of guidelines and recommendations for facing said problems. In order to achieve these aims, the authors conducted an extensive literature review and drew upon their personal experience on the topic.
Results suggest that some of the benefits of associative work are: better access to inputs, produce and credit markets, the facilitation of learning processes, the empowerment of family farmers as social actors, and a reduction of rural extension costs. Additionally, with respects to the problems faced by extensionists, the following can be highlighted: individualist attitudes and conflicts between farmers, scarce participation and commitment, problems with leaderships and with organisations' administrative management, and the lack of extensionists' training to address these processes, among others. With regards to the factors that increase trust and cooperation are: interpersonal communication and mutual knowledge, sharing problems, values and objectives, and the existence of shared rules for the functioning of the group that include sanctions for transgressors. In this context, the extensionists' role will be that of facilitating processes of construction of group relationships, creating rules for the groups' functioning and developing the group's capacities for self-management.
