Agricultural information sessions at IFLA 2007

From 19-23 August, the world library communiuty meets in South Africa for the 73rd World Library and Information Conference.

The IFLA session on Agricultural Libraries focuses on the "Impact of globalisation on small farmers worldwide: implications on information transfer." Papers presented include:

• Globalisation and small-scale farming in Africa: What role for information centres? - L.O. AINA (University of Botswana, Botswana)
• Indigenous knowledge in Agriculture: A case study of the challenges of sharing knowledge of past generations in a globalised context in Uganda - DIANA AKULLO (NARO, Uganda)
• Impact of globalization on the Information Needs of Farmers in Ghana: A Case Study of Small-Scale Poultry Farmers - JUSTIN CHISENGA (FAO Regional Office for Africa, Ghana), CLEMENT ENTSUA-MENSAH And JOEL SAM (INSTI, Ghana)
  
• Impact of globalization on rural communities worldwide: implications on information transfer - D.E. REDDY (Texas A&M University, USA)
  
• Impact of globalization and emerging information and communication technologies on agricultural knowledge transfer to small farmers in India - I.V. MALHAN and SHIVARAMA RAO (University of Jammu, India).
  

Agricultural information is also a focus of some other presentations, notably:

• Building Science Information Fluency In African Universities: How Libraries And Researchers Are Benefiting From Improved Access To Science Scholarship
  
• The United States Department of Agriculture and Albert R. Mann Library’s Economics, Statistics and Market Information System

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