WorldAgInfo Workshop 1: Knowledge Systems
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The objective of this workshop hosted by the World Ag Info Project at Cornell University in Ithaca New York (September 30 - October 2 in 2007) was to identify near-term and medium-term opportunities for strengthening the content of agricultural education/curriculum and information systems to meet the needs of smallholder farmers in areas of the developing world where agriculture lags behind needs. Traditionally called extension, teaching and research, more recently these systems are recognized as complex, interactive activities of knowledge and technology use, generation and exchange among farmers, extension workers, teachers and researchers.
A major workshop objective was to identify the opportunity to give voice and access to smallholders and their information support systems, using new social networking tools for agricultural content development and creating a new agricultural education, information and training matrix.
The 40 attending participants were agricultural scientists with experience in South Asia and Africa, representatives of NGOs specializing in agricultural issues, agricultural ministry representatives, agriculture graduate students from Asian and African countries, agriculture faculty from African and Asian colleges/universities, private sector agriculture representatives, representatives of international agriculture organizations, accreditation specialists.
The materials provided here represent a portion of the outputs from that workshops. Additional materials including presentations and an archive of the project web site can be found on the Internet Archive here.
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Generating Market-Based Systems for Integrated Soil Fertility Management
(World Ag Info Project, 2007)Solution Scenario Concept: Small farmers in Africa will have to use more commercial fertilizer if they are to increase their production and incomes. One hypothesis holds that the demand for fertilizer by these small, ...
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