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The 21st Century Agricultural Education and Information Systems or "WorldAgInfo" Project was an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and led by Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University from May to December 2007. The WorldAgInfo Design Team was charged by the Gates Foundation with exploring the landscape of agricultural education and information systems in Asia and Africa, and what role new collaborative information technologies might play in positively transforming those.
Project activities included consultations with staff of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; site visits to South Asia and Africa by members of the project's Design Team; two international workshops convened in Ithaca, New York, and Livingstone, Zambia, to bring together policy makers, scholars, instructional technology and curriculum specialists, and private sector representatives; literature reviews on topics relevant to smallholder agriculture in Africa and South Asia; and smallholder interviews conducted on site in India, Sri Lanka, Mali and Zambia by agriculture undergraduate and graduate students. The materials provided here represent a portion of those outputs. Additional materials and an archive of the project web site can be found on the Internet Archive here.
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WorldAgInfo Workshops
Materials related to workshops conducted by the World Ag Info Project
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WorldAgInfo Project Final Report
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WorldAgInfo Site Visits
WorldAgInfo site visit reports
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Building Pathways out of Rural Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Information Systems (WorldAgInfo Final Report, complete)
(World Ag Info Project, 2008-02)This report summarizes the results of activities undertaken as part of the 21st Century Agricultural Education and Information Systems Project (WorldAgInfo), May to December 2007, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates ... -
Market and Technology Led Curriculum Enhancement at Agricultural Education Institutions in Africa and South Asia
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Fund partnerships between selected US and overseas universities to support the transformation of existing undergraduate curriculum in Africa and S. Asia through 1) the development of a series of curricular modules to address ... -
Developing the capacity of extension officers and their organizations to train, work with and support women farmers
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Extension systems’ widespread neglect of women farmers can be reversed through changes in attitudes of extension personnel and the structures and processes within agricultural institutions to ... -
Communicating agricultural information via cell phones (World Ag Cell Phone)
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Communicate agricultural information via cell phones. Content would be collected from a variety of agricultural information sources and then distributed through local cell phone networks. Some ... -
Expanding African Access to Global Scientific Literature in Agriculture, Environment and Health
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Since 1999, several free or low-cost electronic scientific journal delivery programs have been implemented to close the serious information gap in food, agriculture, health and medicine. They make available to teaching and ... -
Building Online Delivery Systems and Repositories for Agricultural University/Extension Publications and Journals
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Most newly published material is in electronic format in much of N. America and Europe. Even when a print version is available, the original is electronic. This is common even for small publishers, ... -
Establishing reliable high speed Internet access at agricultural universities in Africa: the Ubuntu-Net model
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Inadequate access to Internet bandwidth prevents universities and technical training institutions from gaining access to existing high quality online content. Many universities and training ... -
Using Radio to Deliver K-12 Agricultural Education
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Use radio and audio file technology to provide agricultural instruction and enhance access to agricultural information for rural farmers through delivering the content to their children in ... -
Creating Integrated information, extension, credit and marketing cooperatives
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Provide reliable technical, price, and other information to farmers through a cooperative association owned by farmers and operated in farmers’ interests. -
Enhancing Real Time Information Delivery to Small-holder Farmers in Africa and South Asia through Community Knowledge Workers
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: During the site visits to Asia and Africa regions, the WorldAgInfo project Design Team members observed that the information delivered by the government run extension system does not reach ...
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