SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION

R. Aristide

No 261472, 21st Annual Meeting, September 8-13, 1985, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from Caribbean Food Crops Society

Abstract: This paper gives a presentation of the relationship between production activities and information at first in the general context of human activities, then in the particular relation between agricultural information and agricultural development through research and extension. The attitudes of information users and producers when they are negative arc the first constraints to the development of information and consequently production. Many efforts have been undertaken to improve or to share better the circulation information. Those of UNESCO, FAO and others are discussed. A presentation of the characteristics of agricultural information, of its importance to agricultural research, extension and development precedes some international systems such as FAO's AGLINET, AGRIS and CARIS and the Interarnerican agricultural information system AGRINTER. The feeling of the need of regional agricultural information activities is recalled before the presentation of the contribution of the INRA Centre for French Antilles and Guiana. ----- Cette communication donne une presentation de la relation entre activites de production et I'information d'abord dans le contexte genehl des activites humaines puis dans la relation particullere entre I'lnformation agricole et Ie developpemcnt agricole 11 travers la recherche et la vulgarisation. Les attitudes des usagers et des producteurs d'information, quand elles sont n€'gatives sont les premiers freins au developpement de l'information et par consequence \ la production. Beaucoup d'efforts ont itl! entrepris pour amcliorcr ou pour mieux partager la circulation de I'information. Ceux de I'UNESCO, de la FAO et autres organisrncs sont tvoques. Une rapide presentation des caracteristiques de l'information agricole, de son importance pour la recherche, la vulgarisation et Ie developpement agricoles pr€cede celie de quelques systt!mes internationaux tels que AGLINET, AGRIS ct CARIS de la FAO etle syst~me interarnericain d'information agricole AGRINTER. Le sentiment du besoin d'activitils regionales d'information agricole est rappel( avant la pr~entation de la contribution de I'INRA Centre Antilles Guyane. ----- Esta es una prcsentacidn, primerarnente, de la relacion entre las actividades de produccidn e informacion en cl eontenido general de las actividades humanas y, despues, de la relacirfn particular enlre la informaci6n de agriculttira y el desarrollo agricola a travez de la investigacidn y de Ila extension. Las atitudes de los usuarios y de los generadores de la informacion, cuando son negativas, son los prim eros impedimentos hacia el desarrollo de la inforrnacidn y por 10 tanto, hacia la produccid'n de la informacidh. Se han hccho muchos csfuerzos para rnejorar 0 para compartir la informaci6n sobre la circulacidn. La UNESCO, 13 FAO y otros organismos son mencionados, La presentacidn de las caracteristicas de la informacion agrrcola, de su importancia para la investigacion, la cxtensi6n y del desarrollo agrICola, precede aquellos sistemas internacionales de la FAO, como ser, AGLINET, AGRIS y CARIS y el Sistema Interamericano de Agricultura, AGRINTER. Antes de presentar la contribuici6n hecha por la INRA Centro de las Antillas Francesas y de la Guyana, la necesidad de tener un centro regional de informacion agricola, es primeramente mencionada.

Keywords: International Development; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 1985-09-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.261472

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