"Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit ...einigen Jahren im Fokus einer lebhaften wissenschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Debatte und führen vielerorts - insbesondere im Globalen Süden - zu Protesten. Mit über 40 Essays von »Agrarbewegung« bis »Water Grabbing« präsentiert das kritische Handbuch zentrale Themen der Debatte und macht sie einer breiten Leser_innenschaft zugänglich." (Verlag)
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"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p...hotography, and picture elicitation) to explore the agricultural practice of women subsistence farmers and their families. The paper discusses the potential of these methods for enhancing community engagement, reducing the power imbalance between researchers and participants, and promoting dialogue and reflection to better understand the needs and practices of subsistence farmers." (Abstract)
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" ... FAO’s Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension (OEK) organized an Expert Consultation on Communication for Development: Meeting Today’s Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges, that was held at FAO headquarters from 14 to 16 September, 2011. The main purpose was to identif...y challenges and strategic actions to maximize ComDev contribution to the agriculture and rural development sector, while positioning it in the work of the Organization. The Expert Consultation was organized by the FAO ComDev team in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). The event brought together 32 international ComDev experts and representatives from development agencies, donors, NGOs, communication networks, rural institutions and the academic community. Participants identified key challenges and strategic areas for ComDev support to agriculture and rural development (e.g. food security, innovation systems, climate change adaptation) such as capacity development for rural institutions and projects, interface with other approaches such as knowledge management, convergence between mass and community media, need for regulatory frameworks, and access to funding. Special attention was given to the need for documenting ComDev impact in the field and for mainstreaming ComDev into agricultural policies and programs." (Executive summary)
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"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe...lling radio programming. It is important to stress that this toolkit does not assume that radio is the most appropriate solution for disseminating agricultural information. Rather, given the fact that radio continues to be the most readily accessible communication tool in much of sub-Saharan Africa, this toolkit aims to enable practitioners to develop a more systematic approach to using interactive radio as one medium through which they share information with farmers." (Introduction)
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"The book examines the history and evolution of communication for development, as well as prospects for the future. Introductory comments are extended into two chapters which are conceptual and general. The first expands the description of the roles communication has been required to play in develop...ment programmes. The second, admitting that the majority of development projects fail, looks for explanations. Parts Two and Three review in substantial detail the place of communication in agriculture and in nutrition. As well as presenting a detailed history of attempts to affect agricultural practice and nutritional practice through information programmes, they are an argument for a particular approach to communication for development. They do not assume that information is valuable; they start with an examination of evidence for the possibility of using information to affect particular agricultural or nutritional behaviours. The way in which non-conventional (non-media based) programmes have tried to provide such information is described. Comparison across programmes stimulates the presentation of a list of problems with designing and implementing information programmes in conventional ways. This then serves as a framework for analysing the potential and realized contributions of media-based programmes. At their best, it is argued, media-based programmes do help resolve the problem of organizing, maintaining and paying for the necessary corps of field staff. Implications are drawn for practice, and prescriptions drawn up for doing information for development well.Critical elements are: financial and managerial feasibility; responsiveness; message development; integration with other institutions; support in the process of change; patience; political attractiveness. Implications for media-based and face-to-face programmes are drawn." (https://www.cabdirect.org)
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