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| Dear Readers/Contents | 2-3
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| Changing information flows - Editorial | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| Information, and access to it, is one of the most valuable resources in agricultural development. The demand for information is as great today as ever. However, support for agricultural extension is d... |  |
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| Recent and future challenges in agricultural extension | 6-8
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| John Farrington |
| Over the last 50 years, many changes have been seen in agricultural extension. This introductiuon describes the history and development of extension provision, and also looks to the future. | |
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| The ICT agenda: global action plans and local solutions | 9-10
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| Katherine Morrow, Pat Mooney |
| The challenge for those working at grasstroots level is to understand the choices offered to them by investment in ICTs and to make informed decisions. ICTs are becoming more widespread in rural areas... | |
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| UNFFE: exploring new alliances in agricultural extension | 11-12
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| Uganda National Farmers' Federation |
| The Uganda National Farmers Federation has grown to become the main representative of farmers interests in Uganda. Services to members include providing agricultural advice and information, providing ... | |
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| Ground up: facilitating networking and sharing in sub-Saharan Africa | 13-15
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| Parkie Mbozi |
| Participatory Ecological Land-Use Management (PELUM) Association is a network of 138 civil society organisations working in nine countries in eastern and southern Africa. `Ground Up` is the magazine l... | |
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| Farmer to Farmer: Participatory radio for Dekhon farmers in Tadjikistan | 16-17
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| Armorer Wason |
| Farmers in Tadjikistan face enormous challenges since independence. Most of the rural population rely on household plots of land for their domestic consumption. Despite considerable constraints, a rad... | |
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| Accessing the Internet in the South: tools and techniques | 18-19
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- Search the Web by Email
- Web Access by Email
- Translation of Email by Email
- Reading and Converting PDF Files | |
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| Linking farmers worldwide through radio | 20-21
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| Nancy Bennet |
| Radio has long been used as a community tool, providing information, news and a place to air views. This article describes how an initiative to connect distant communties in Canada by radio was adapte... | |
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| Communicating innovation: the In the field project | 22-24
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| Monica Janowski, Kaz Janowski |
| The `In the field` series broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2001 and 2002 is an example of a fruitful partnership between researchers, broadcasters and funders in communicating innovations to a wi... | |
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| Radio browsing the Internet: an option for rural communities | 25
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| UNESCO |
| In Sri Lanka, the Kothmale community radio station serves a population of around 200,000. They decided to try to combine community radio with the Internet. Broadcasters would browse the internet and d... | |
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| Using the Internet for advocacy: the ETC perspective | 26-27
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| Katherine Morrow, Pat Mooney |
| In a recent interview, Pat Mooney shared his views on information technology and the way the Internet can be used to disseminate research and conduct advocacy campaigns. As such, it describes how one ... | |
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| Information villages: connecting rural communities in India | 28-30
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| Katherine Morrow, Pat Mooney |
| The Information Villages project connects 10 villages in Pondicherry, India, through the use of modern ICTs. The project was started in 1998 by the Swaminathan Research Foundation and has gained inter... | |
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| Sources | 31
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| Websites | 32-33
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| Books | 34-35
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| The story of a tattered newsletter | 36
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| Ann Waters-Bayer |
| This article describes the experience of bumping into a well worn and well-read issue of LEISA Magazine in Ethiopia. This highlights how for many people in rural areas, the printed word is still the o... | |
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