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Browsing World Ag Info Project by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Enhancing innovation capacity and market access of smallholder potato and sweetpotato farmers and vegetable growers in East and Southern Africa
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: The purpose of the project is to improve the market access by smallholder potato and sweetpotato farmers and vegetable growers by fostering market-chain innovation to improve competitiveness of ... -
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, ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Five Skill Sets to Develop the Capacity of Women Farmers to Demand and Use Extension Information
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Women smallholders in developing countries produce an estimated 70 percent of food from semi-subsistence farms, own 1% of land and receive 5-7 percent of extension services. Including women as a ... -
Preparing Universities in Africa and Asia for the New Agriculture
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)This project has four interconnected components: the first is helping universities and consortia of universities in Africa and South Asia prepare a landscape analysis of the magnitude and country-specific challenges and ... -
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 ... -
Community Radio 2.0
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Extend the Web 2.0 paradigm to the use of Community Radio for the acquisition and dissemination of agricultural related information and education. The basic concept is to provide user generated ... -
Developing, Sharing and Delivering Smallholder RadioAgInfo Content
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Programming partnerships will be developed with existing community radio systems. Agricultural personnel from nearby agricultural institutions (e.g. higher education, governmental agencies, ... -
Report on the WorldAgInfo Visit to South Asia (India and Sri Lanka)
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-06)Cornell University, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, hosted a Design Team charged with assessing agriculture information, education and knowledge systems in South Asia and Africa in order to provide ... -
Supermarkets and Beyond: Literature Review on Farmer to Market Linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-07-28)This paper reviews recent literature on selected issues that need to be considered in designing policies and programs to improve farmer-to-market linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Since the “supermarket revolution” ... -
Report on the WorldAgInfo Visit to Africa (Mali and Zambia)
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-08)This report is designed to explore the major themes and issues that arose during the site visits to Mali and Zambia in August of 2007. This paper is broken into three sections, the first two being descriptions of the major ... -
Agricultural Extension in Africa and Asia
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-08-15)Without question, agricultural extension is now back on the development agenda. The acknowledged failure of the T&V extension model in Asia and Africa in the late eighties and early nineties has stimulated debate on extension ... -
Curriculum Enhancement and Reform to Meet the Needs of Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries: Survey of Literature
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-09-26)An agriculture-focused development agenda requires building and strengthening three core institutions— education, research and extension. These are the three nodes of what is referred as the “Agriculture Knowledge and ... -
Major Agricultural Information Initiatives: With Emphasis on Developing Country Services
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-09-26)The purpose of this background paper on major agricultural information systems is not only to provide an overview of the wide variety of online agriculture-related content delivery services, but an understanding of the ... -
Soil Health and Soil Quality: A Review
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Integrated Farmer-Research-Extension Systems for R&D Relevant to Small Farmers
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-10)Solution Scenario Concept: Traditional top-down information delivery methods typically bypass poor women farmers in Africa who require novel approaches to extension if the are to engage successfully with markets and benefit ... -
The Private Sector and Smallholder Agriculture: Best Practices with Relevance to Mali, Zambia, India and Sri Lanka
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-10)This paper’s purpose is to assist WorldAgInfo Design Team members with a better understanding of how agricultural market practices and systems work most effectively for the poor, especially smallholders, with relevance or ... -
Building African Support for Agricultural Biotechnology
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-10-23)Solution Scenario Concept: In Asia smallholders are rapidly expanding the cultivation of GM (Genetically Modified) crops while smallholders in 50 of the 51 countries in Africa are not currently growing GM crops. The ...
