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Browsing World Ag Info Project by Subject "Agriculture"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Building National and Regional Agricultural Market Information Systems
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-10-24)Solution Scenario Concept: Investigate and implement ways and means for linking smallholder farmers directly with up-to-date market information, supplemented with relevant technical information via multiple ICT and non-ICT ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Corruption and the Smallholder: A Review of Current Literature and Research
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Corruption is a hot topic of academic and public policy research. Specifically, corruption is often characterized as directly impacting the economies of developing countries: “Corruption undermines governance, economic ... -
Creating and Operating National Agricultural Information Exchange Points
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Create and operate a national information exchange point (NIXP). This service would collect currently existing domestic agricultural information and help in the production additional agricultural ... -
Creating and Operating WorldAgInfo System (WAgIS)
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Create and operate an Internet based multimedia agricultural database designed to support user-created content and feedback. The system, called “WorldAgInfo System” or “WAgIS,” will incorporate ... -
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. -
Creating Integrated Network of Sub-Regional Innovation Centers
(World Ag Info Project, 2007-10-24)Solution Scenario Concept: Create an integrated network of “sub-Regional Innovation Centers” which will conduct action research and experimentation on technology and social solutions to smallholder information needs with ... -
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 ... -
Delivering Non-Academic Agricultural Content to Support Agricultural Extension Activities
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Extension agents and NGO workers need access to reliable agricultural information if rural livelihoods of small-holder farmers in Africa and Asia are to improve. Information does exist, but it ... -
Developing Online and Offline Textbook Collections to Support Agricultural Curricula
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)In many agricultural universities and colleges in the developing world, students do not have adequate access to textbooks for their courses, and often have to wait in long lines at library reserve desks to borrow the few ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Enhancing Agricultural Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: To add value and competitiveness of agricultural education in primary and secondary schools so as to enhance the contribution of agricultural information and communication to the improvement of ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
