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1 Brussels Rural Development Briefings A series of meetings on ACP-EU development issues Briefing session n 14 ACP Rural Development: why media matters? Brussels, 12 th October 2009 Selected online resources

2 Resources available online (English and French) En italique les documents disponibles en français CTA, Media and agriculture. Linking towns and villages, Spore n. 140, April CTA, Médias et agriculture. Rapprocher la ville du village, Spore n. 140, avril International Women s Media Foundation (IWMF), A Study of Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in the Agricultural Sector in Three African Countries: Mali, Uganda and Zambia, European Commission, African Union Commission, Forum «Media and Development». Proceedings, September 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso DEV_Rapport_final_Proceedings_DEF.pdf Joint roadmap for the action of the African Union Commission and the European Commission Commission européenne, Commission de l Union Africaine, Forum «MEDIA & Développement». Rapport final, septembre 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso DEV_Rapport_final_Proceedings_DEF.pdf Feuille de route conjointe pour l'action de la Commission de l'union Africaine et de la Commission européenne Commission européenne, Commission de l Union Africaine, L'action de la Commission européenne dans le domaine «Media et Développement», Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Media matters. Perspectives on Advancing Governance & development from the Global Forum for media development, Executive Summary Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie - Action en faveur des radios locales en Afrique,

3 IFPRI, Global media and the development story: an introduction, World Bank, Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development. Recent Trends in Empirical Research, World Bank Working Paper n. 120, _ /Rendered/PDF/405430Communic PUBLIC1.pdf FAO and World Bank, World Congress of Communication for Development. Lessons, challenges and the Way Forward, G. Berger, Media Legislation in Africa.A Comparative Legal Survey, UNESCO, medialegislationinafrica_web.pdf BBC World Service Trust, African Media Development Initiative, Research Summary report, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners, A comparative overview of media laws and practice in Lesotho, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, UNESCO, Media Development and Poverty eradication, Gillwald (ed.), Towards an African e-index: Household and individual ICT access and usage across 10 African countries., LINK Centre, Wits University, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), The Economic Impact of Telecommunications on Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction: A study of rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tanzania, United Nations Commission for Africa, Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa, _cr_report.pdf Feustel, Germain, Matus, Reuchlin and Ridley, Free Press and Good Governance in Southern Africa: Media Assistance and Free Press Advocacy in Member States of the Southern African Development Community, CTA, FAO, SADC, Report of the sensitization workshop on rural radio for policy and decision makers in East and South Africa, April, 2005, Lilongwe, Malawi ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0483e/a0483e00.pdf 3

4 Foreign Policy Centre, An African Al-Jazeera? Mass Media and the African Renaissance, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners. Volume 3, Panos, Telephones and livelihoods How telephones improve life for rural people in developing countries, Panos Brief, Sanef/ETC, The 2005 South African national journalism skills audit phase 2, Panos, Information and communication technologies and large-scale poverty reduction; lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Panos, Situation des medias en République Démocratique du Congo, Journaliste en Danger, Rapport 2004: L état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale FAO, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development and the Food Security Challenge, 2003 ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/006/y5061e/y5061e00.pdf Afrobarometer, Freedom of Speech, Media Exposure, and the Defense of a Free Press in Africa Afrobarometer Briefing Paper, No. 7, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Gender and Media Baseline Study: Monitoring the Media in Southern Africa, Gender-and-Media-Baseline-Study-Monitoring-the-Media-in-Southern-Africa.html FES, GRET, Media status report: Kenya, FAO, Information and Communication Technologies for rural development and food security: Lessons from field experiences in developing countries, Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department - University of Reading, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Sustainable Livelihoods: Preliminary Study,

5 FAO, Knowledge and information for food security in Africa: From traditional media to the Internet, Mbayo, The beleaguered press of Sierra Leone,

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