9 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., An online survey among undergraduate and graduate university students in rural Pakistan revealed that the majority used social media for political awareness and information. Findings of the study suggested that "online political activities strongly correlate to political awareness and offline political participation. In rural areas of Pakistan, the younger generations are very active on social media to participate in online and offline political happenings."
search through journal, Although Ghana is mainly an agricultural country, the provision for agricultural information has been inadequate. There is a wide gap between the demand for agricultural information and the supply of data. This paper describes the state of agricultural information provision in Ghana, highlighting on various problems such as the unavailability and production of reliable statistical information; deficiencies in local agricultural information sources and services; and the lack of formal courses on agricultural information at the only library school in the country. Improved methods for disseminating agricultural information in Ghana are discussed. (author)
Allee, Davis J. (author), Alter, Theodore R. (author), and Thorpe, Gerald L. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06738
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 88063098, In: Luloff, A.E., ed. Proceedings of the rural people and places : a symposium on topologies, October 22-24, 1986, Grantville, Pennsylvania. University Park, Pennsylvania : Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, 1987. p. 181-189.
Allen, John C. (author), Cordes, Sam (author), Smith, Amy M. (author), Spilker, Matt (author), Hamilton, Amber (author), and The Center for Rural Community Revitalization and Development
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2002-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29239
Notes:
Posted online at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/caripubs/37/
8 pages., via online journal., Documents fragmentation of an existing information-sharing network. Authors recommend broadening diversity in stakeholder engagement to enhance the information flow for dissemination and diffusion in practice.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
Notes:
Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00153
Notes:
AgComm Teaching. Hal R. Taylor Collection., Ithaca, NY : Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca. 8 p. (Rural Sociology Publication 22)
AgComm Teaching, Among the introductory observations about development development: "The experience in Africa has been rather pathetic. It is being discovered that mobilization of the masses for popular participation in decision making is easier said than done."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08092
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, RB #401 Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 6 pages. English version.
Axinn, Nancy W. (author / Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05329
Notes:
Evans, Axinn, 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. 535-544.
18 pages., The economic challenges in Nigeria make it to suffer from food insecurity which is due to low agricultural production and productivity. Specific initiatives by the Federal Government on pro-poor rural agricultural food growth to achieve SDGs to end hunger have been established. Similar structures have also been established in all the 36 States of the Federation and, in some cases, at Local Government Area level. The government is also with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and a wide array of stakeholders. Use of pro-poor rural agricultural food growth through rural public library services to achieve the goal 1 and goal 2 targets of SDGs (end poverty and hunger) is particularly the focus of this study. This paper submits that public libraries have a great role to play in the implementation of SDGs by using emerging technology, collaborating on capacity building and going into partnership with critical stakeholders to make information available to poor rural farmers. Hence, materials from the key partners of the government on information about production forecasts, increased agricultural productivity, soil composition, markets for different crops, dairy and poultry farming, farm mechanics, land use, preservation of soil, rainfall and cultivation of different types of crops, effective extension service delivery and feedback on situation for improved research and policy implementation on agriculture should be acquired by public libraries, organized, preserved and made available to rural poor to facilitate pro-poor rural agricultural food growth for the attainment of SDGs in Nigeria.
Beam, Brooke W. (author) and Specht, Annie R. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2016-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08135
Notes:
Research paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) in San Antonio, Texas, February 7-8, 2016. 26 pages.
Online via keyword search of UI Library e-Catalog., Focus on the career of Lorena Hickok, a former newspaperwoman with the title of chief investigator for Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration during the Depression and intimate friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This article emphasizes her striking coverage during during a trip to the Midwest during late 1933, a crucial period of agrarian hardship and unrest. Her reporting was described as being given serious consideration by President Roosevelt and others in Washington, D.C.
Belbase, Subhadra (author / Programme Director, World-view International Foundation Media Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal) and Programme Director, World-view International Foundation Media Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03368
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08680
Notes:
Pages 33-50 in Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar (eds.), Agriculture and food in crisis: conflict, resistance and renewal. Monthly Review Press, New York City, New York. 348 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11276
Notes:
19 pages., Online from FAIR website., Addresses issues in media coverage in the Oregon standoff between federal authorities and a Patriot/Militia alliance of building occupiers and, more generally, anti-government protests and standoffs.
Bonnen, James T. (author / Michigan State University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06626
Notes:
Bonnen; Paper presented to the Conference on Rural Data Needs : the Role of Public Universities; 1989 March 29-31; Lexington, KY, East Lansing, MI : Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 1989. 23 p. (Staff paper no. 89-62)
Breazeale, Don (author) and Khezerloo, Behrooz (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2005-05-25
Published:
Iran
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24584
Journal Title Details:
21
Notes:
Reviewed 9 August 2006, 9 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
13 pages, via online journal, In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in farming systems research (FSR) as a means of getting formal research and extension systems to work with and respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers. However, the results of many FSR programmes have been disappointing. This paper reviews a number of ‘successful’ FSR activities and argues that the development and use of research approaches and methods cannot be separated from the political, economic and institutional context in which they were developed and used. A closer examination of some of the new FSR methods shows that an understanding of the specific context in which these activities were developed and used is essential to understanding the potential relevance of the methods/approaches to other circumstances. A lack of an historical perspective concerning the source and advocacy of new FSR approaches and methods is one of the reasons why many FSR programmes in the past have given rise to disappointing results.
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: 201 Document Number: D11769
Notes:
Online from BroadbandNow, a registered trademark of Centerfield BBN LLC. 3 pages., Whereas the FCC reports that broadband is unavailable to 21.3 million Americans, BroadbandNow Research analyzed FCC Form 477 data and estimated that 42 million Americans do not have the ability to purchase broadband internet. This is an additional 6.5 percent of Americans beyond FCC estimates.
Busch, Lawrence (author), Lacy, William B. (author), and Lacy: Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Busch: Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06114
Notes:
Jim F. Evans Collection; see c06599 for book; Paper presented at the Third Annual National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology at the crossroads : biological social & institutional concerns. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 153-168
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08944
Notes:
Page 2 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief description of an agricultural extension study at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. N.D. 8 pages.
Childers, Erskine (author) and Vajrathon, Mallica (author)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
1970-06
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08003
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection. See ACDC Document D07999. Salcedo and Woods, Agriculture 199: Communication in agricultural development course. This document is in the reference section., Presentation at Second World Food Congress, The Hague, Netherlands. June 1970. 14 pages.
Clark, Cameron (author / FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Far East, Bangkok, Thailand) and FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Far East, Bangkok, Thailand
Format:
unknown
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: B03362
Crile, L. (author), Reist, H.N. (author), and Tait, E.B. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1955
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08632
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. U.S. Federal Extension Service, Washington, D.C. Extension Service Circular 496. 32 pages.
Australia: Rural Press Limited, North Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06387
Notes:
The pictorial world of rural Australia. "This book is about the sights of rural Australia: it presents a chronicle of what goes on from the start to end of a typical day beyond the boundaries of the cities where most Australians now live."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06820
Notes:
Pages 118-133 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
11 pages, via online journal article, This study of Japan's electoral geography focuses on the outcomes of the 2014 General Election for the House of Representatives. It reflects on the political power of segmented policy communities involved in international free trade and domestic agricultural policy reform and the way they interact with each other. The capability of these policy communities to negotiate behind-the-scenes trade-offs, in order to facilitate reform without disrupting the status quo, is identified as a major determinant of the power structure in contemporary Japan. Also, as low-information and low-participation elections tend to result in a high rate of re-election of incumbents, the depoliticisation of the citizenry is in the interest of these policy communities. Therefore, specific policies and the differentiation among political parties played only a minor role during the 2014 electoral campaign. The paper demonstrates that the strong force of the agricultural policy community to resist transformational change is still deeply rooted in the proportional overrepresentation of agricultural interests built into the electoral system. It concludes that within the context of an increasing deficit of legitimacy and an aggravating depoliticisation trend, commitments to fundamental polity reform are integral to voters' perceptions of the fairness of Japan's democratic institutions. Significant structural reforms that embody federalist and direct democracy principles are discussed as an alternative to the unitary state model in order to seriously tackle issues of proportional misrepresentation and adequately accommodate rural interests.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., Summarizes findings of a case study about effectiveness of news and information posted regularly on chalkboards located in several Philippine villages. The enterprise involved local volunteer staffing.
Fusell, D. (author), Haaland, A. (author), Bhattarai, N. (author), Rayamajhi, S. (author), Bhattarai, T. (author), Kharel, P. (author), Dhungana, K. (author), and Subba, C. (author)
Format:
Booklet
Publication Date:
1975
Published:
Nepal
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08075
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, Report of research among rural residents in Nepal. , joint project of UNICEF and the National Development Service. 21 pages.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08942
Notes:
Page 10 in Grace Gallup and Lucinda Crile, Bibliography on Extension Research, November 1943-1948. Library List No. 48. USDA Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. U.S. Brief description of a study by the U.S. Extension Service. 1944. 11 pages.
6 pages., via website,Ryerson Review of Journalism., Between the hours of about 4 p.m. to midnight, Ashleigh Weeden goes dark. Not for the usual reasons, though. In Weeden’s southwestern Ontario town, the internet connection becomes—for all practical purposes—nonexistent during those hours. The PhD student at the University of Guelph lives in Ariss, Ontario, a “dispersed rural community” sandwiched between urban centres like Guelph and Kitchener. Despite paying about $250 monthly for internet access, she finds herself shut out of the internet. “…[S]ometimes [internet speed] goes one, maybe half a megabyte down,” she says. “I can’t grade, I can’t do anything, there’s no point, I might as well give up until about midnight.”
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08921
Notes:
Page 11 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - January to June 1950, Extension Service Circular 470, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1950. Summary of findings from analytic studies of four phases of extension work in Colorado, Colorado Agriculture College Extension, Fort Collins. 1950. 12 pages., Includes analysis of changes in older youth activities by agricultural and home Extension workers during that period.
Green, Lyndsay (author), Simailak, David (author), and Green: Communication Specialist and former Policy Analyst, Federal Department of Communications, Canada; Simailak: Director, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1981-12
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04484
6 pages., via online journal., History and value of newsreels as information sources for theater goers, including those in rural areas. Author identifies the Moving Image Research Collections located at the University of South Carolina. They were contributed by 20th Century Fox in the early 1980s.
14 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Authors tested label effectiveness involving "supermarket shoppers on a rural American Indian reservation." Results showed added value and willingness to pay through tailoring the label to the local community.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12979
Notes:
Part IV: Journalistic Recovery Post-Trump: Lessons Learned -- "Stop Overlooking Us": missed intersections of Trump, media, and rural America, This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news - both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it - related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism. By relying on conceptualizations of media memory and "othering" through news coverage that enhances socio-conservative positions on issues such as immigration, the book positions this moment in a time of contestation. Contributors ranging from scholars, professionals, and media critics operate in unison to analyze today's interconnected challenges to traditional practices within media spheres posed by Trump news. The outcomes should resonate with citizens who rely on journalism for civic engagement and who are active in social change
Citation, abstract, and conclusions (2 pages) printed for ACDC filing and storage., This study identified five underlying frames (mostly in print media but with attention to a television soap opera based on the MST's activities) and examined the images of the movement that the frames presented. "Though the coverage often presents the MST in a favorable light, it does not necessarily encourage the goal of mobilization that the movement seeks to promote."
Case study of an internationally-finded campesino radio station and cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with - and transform - donor-funded content aimed at the local community.
Hendricks, J. Thom, ed. (author / Reference Department, North Dakota State Library, Bismarck, ND)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06698
Notes:
Paper presented at the 80th Annual Conference of the National Rural Education Association; 1988 September 24-28; Bismarck, ND, Bismarck, ND : North Dakota State Library, 1988. 24 p.
25 pages., via online journal, Rural internet use, although still limited, is growing, raising the question of how rural people are using social media politically. As a vehicle of communication that permits the rapid transmission of information, images and text across space and connections between dispersed networks of individuals, does technological advance in rural areas presage significant political transformations? This article investigates this question in the light of a poor result for the Cambodian People’s Party in the 2013 elections, and the subsequent banning of the main opposition party, before the 2018 elections. Expanding internet use in rural areas has linked relatively quiescent rural Cambodians for the first time to networks of information about militant urban movements of the poor. Rural Cambodians are responding to this opportunity through strategies of quiet encroachment in cyberspace. This has had real effects on the nature of the relationship between the dominant party and the rural population and suggests the declining utility of the election-winning strategy used by the party since 1993. However, the extent of this virtual information revolution is limited, since neither the urban nor rural poor are mapping out new online political strategies, agendas or identities that can push Cambodia’s sclerotic politics in new directions.
15 pages, Background
In traditional food systems, especially those of rural populations around the world, wild food plants remain crucial. These resources need to be urgently documented to lay the foundations for sustainable livelihoods and food security.
Methods
In the present field study, we gathered information about wild food plants and mushrooms consumed by four ethnic groups (Turis, Khushis, Hazaras, and Christians) living in Kurram District, NW Pakistan, by conducting semi-structured interviews and holding group discussions.
Results
A total of 57 wild edible plants and mushrooms were reported, with the documented taxa belonging to 50 genera and 34 families. Turis reported the highest number of wild food plants (41), followed by Hazaras (37), Khushis (35), and then Christians, who reported only 11 plants. The most dominant families were Rosaceae, followed by Polygonaceae, Brassicaceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae, Moraceae, and Plantaginaceae. The comparative analysis we conducted with the pre-existing Pakistani ethnobotanical studies revealed that 23 wild edible plants have not been previously reported as food items in the area under study, which included Fragaria nubicola, Lepidium draba, Pinus wallichiana, Podophyllum emodi, Prunus jacquemontii, Sambucus nigra, Sideroxylon mascatense, and Thymus linearis. Four wild edible mushrooms are also reported for the area for the first time: Calvatia gigantea, Morchella esculenta, Pisolithus albus, and Tulostoma squamosum. The cross-cultural analysis of wild edible plants and their uses revealed remarkable similarity between Khushis and Hazaras. The overlapping pattern of wild edible plant use among these two groups, as well as Turis, confirms the existence of cross-cultural interactions among these communities, which have shared the same environmental and socio-cultural space for several decades. Food heritage and some unique dishes are linked to wild edible plants in the area, such as Zamda, prepared by Turis, and Saba, famous among Khushis and Hazaras.
Conclusion
This study suggests that some wild edible plants could be cultivated to protect a few threatened species from overexploitation, while the overall wild food plant heritage should be promoted and revitalized; for example, within educational platforms aimed at improving the wellbeing of local communities and the global ecological transition we must deal with.
21 pages., The study has an aim to figure out the role of mobile communication in developing Knowledge base among rural women through knowledge sharing. Using a structured questionnaire quantitative data have been collected by survey method and qualitative data through FGDs. Data has been collected on the way of sharing knowledge, areas of expertise, sharing knowledge types, with whom sharing knowledge etc. Rural women are being interested in knowledge sharing through mobile phone because mobile phones are cheap, easier, and available medium for communication to them. Among the rural women who have completed at least secondary education, are sharing both their tacit (mostly) and explicit (moderately) knowledge. On the other hand women who are not literate they are sharing only their indigenous experiences. Both types of women have realized that they are positively being changed in their living attitude because of using mobile and now their knowledge base is somewhat better than ever before. The findings also revealed that they are getting benefit by enriching their knowledge base in different areas and its implementation in their livelihood. Moreover it is apparently clear that they will play important role in developing knowledge base society in rural area through sharing their knowledge in near future.
Jaccard, C.R. (author) and Sabrosky, L.K. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1949
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08604
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report. Kansas State College Agricultural Extension, Manhattan. 20 pages.
Jackson, Janine (author / Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and Vallas, Rebecca (author / Center for American Progress)
Format:
Interview
Publication Date:
2017
Published:
USA: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: D11274
Notes:
Online from FAIR website. June 9 episode of CounterSpin. 7 pages., Interview inviting analysis of a series in the Washington Post newspaper. Focused on receivers of disability benefits in rural America. It identified inaccuracies and "deeply offensive allegation" in reporting.
