This CD-ROM contains publications from the FAO Communication for Development Group. It covers a wide range of searchable topics related to communication for development in many countries. As a compiled source of knowledge and experience, this CD-ROM can be a useful tool of communication itself. It can help policy makers, planners, educators, extension workers and others effectively use communication to inform and educate people about new ideas and technical innovations in agriculture as well as how to take action and direct their own courses of change.

Publications include:

• Communication, a key to human development (English, French, Spanish)
• Guidelines on Communication for rural development - A brief for development planners and project formulators (English, French, Spanish)
• The Internet and Rural and Agricultural development - an integrated approach (English, French, Spanish)
• The first mile of connectivity - advancing telecommunications for rural development through a participatory approach (English)
• Knowledge and information for food security in Africa: from traditional media to the internet (English)
• Social communication in nutrition: a methodology for intervention (English, French)
• Pan African Rinderpest Campaign guide (English, French)
• Training for agriculture and rural development (English)
• Pioneering a new approach to communication in rural areas: a Peruvian experience with video for training at grassroot level (English, French)
• The paradigm of communication in development: from knowledge transfer to community participation - lessons from the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh (English)
• Communication strategies for rural development: a case study on the use of campaigns in Lesotho (English)
• Le diapo-langage - nouveau regard sur la diapositive (French)
• Farmer-first approach to communication: a case study from the Philippines (English)
• Understanding farmer's communication network: an experience in the Philippines (English)
• Communication for rural development in Mexico - in good times and in bad (English, French, Spanish)
• Approche participative, communication et gestion des ressources forestières en Afrique sahélienne: Bilan et perspectives (French)
• République centrafricaine: politique nationale de communication pour le développement (French)
• Development of rural radio in Africa - Declaration and plan of action - Ouagadougou, june 1996 (English, French)
• International workshop on the development of rural radio in Africa: Ouagadougou, 10-14 June 1996 (English, French)
• Guinée-Bissau: Stratégie nationale de communication pour le développement (French)
• Mali: Politique nationale de communication pour le développement (French)

NOTE - the CD-ROM is mainly distributed to institutions.

Click here for access to the CD-ROM online.

English, French and Spanish

FAO website on April 13 2007.