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22. Innovations in cropping and communication of knowledge - the importance of gender and changes in society in South Zimbabwe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schafer, R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Language:
- German
- Publication Date:
- 1998-04
- Published:
- Germany: Verlag Tropenlandwirt
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27159
- Journal Title:
- Tropenlandwirt
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 99, Issue 1, pp. 17-30
23. Introducing technological change : the social setting
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sofranko, Andrew J. (author / Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Illinois) and Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Illinois
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: C03484
- Notes:
- John Behrens Collection; see C03480 for original, In: Swanson, Burton E., ed. Agricultural extension : a reference manual. 2nd ed. Rome, Italy : Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, 1984. p. 56-76
24. Knowledge Sharing through Mobile Phone to Develop a Knowledge Base: A Study on Rural Women of Bangladesh
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Islam, Mahbubul (author), Ali Akanda, Eamin (author), Hasan, Nazmul (author), Roy, Partha Biplob (author), Any, Farzana Islam (author), Khatun, Tahera (author), Hague, Armanuel (author), and Zhang, Xiaojung (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12360
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Fall 2020
- Notes:
- 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.
25. Millenium development goals and combating agricultural child labour in Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ben-Chendo, G.N. (author), Lemchi, J.I. (author), Nwosu, F.O. (author), and Ehirim, N.C. (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 2014-10-31
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10170
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Marketing Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(6) : 75-81
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. They are frequently employed as farm labourers, bird scarers, food crop harvesters, processors and hawkers. More than 132 million children work in agriculture. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, followed by mining and construction. Child labour is increasing in postharvest processing, transport, marketing and a range of agroindustries. Child labour is maybe one of the most striking indicators identifying vulnerable children and as such pointing to shortcomings in several of the millennium goals as poverty eradication, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. Most working children do so after a decision in their parental household. To understand the household labour supply decisions, relation to the labour market and to public interventions is critical in designing programmes in order to achieve the MDGs. The research on child labour represents in this respect a largely untapped resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of agriculture, education programmes and poverty reduction programmes. The effect of lack of education opportunities on child labour is well documented, but existence of widespread agricultural child labour also reduces the effectiveness of investment in education. It is recommended in this paper that the legislator should enact laws that will reduce agricultural child labour through redistribution of the nation’s resources, women should be integrated in the fight to combat child labour and that alternative income sources should be provided for rural families whose children are the most vulnerable.
26. Model farmers, extension networks and the politics of agricultural knowledge transfer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Taylor, Marcus (author) and Bhasme, Suhas (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11
- Published:
- International: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10128
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 64 : 1-10
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal, Model farmers are a common feature of many developing world agricultural extension networks within which they demonstrate new cultivation techniques and technologies to local communities. The diverse political-economic and socio-cultural roles that such farmers assume, however, are rarely afforded critical scrutiny. To do so, we emphasise the ways in which model farmers facilitate not only the production and transfer of knowledge but also of materials and legitimacy. These transfers occur both horizontally to community members and vertically through linkages with extension agents, research institutions and private sector interests. We establish how these transfers have important impacts upon both efficiency and equity. To illustrate, we use examples of model farmers drawn from research on hybrid rice dissemination in Mandya district, Karnataka. Despite having the same official functions within the extension network, the model farmers we surveyed assumed strongly different roles with notable implications for the effectiveness of knowledge transfer alongside equity considerations.
27. Moonshine: from no business to big business
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roysdon, Keith (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-22
- Published:
- United States: Daily Yonder, The
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12821
- Journal Title:
- Daily Yonder, The
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 8pgs, Once illegal but highly sought-after, the hard “likker” of Appalachia is slowly trickling into the wide river of government-sanctioned booze.
28. Off the cuff on communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fuglesang, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1978
- Published:
- UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00237
- Journal Title:
- Educational Broadcasting International
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(1): 4-6
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
29. Organizational diversity: the rural system as an ideal model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donohue, George A. (author), Gross, E. (author), and University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1967
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05659
- Notes:
- P. Tichenor. 16 p.
30. Our changing rural society
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donohue, George A. (author / University of Minnesota) and University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05656
- Notes:
- P. Tichenor. 11 p.