Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultiva... more Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultivation system is the dominant practice with fewer new media tools (NMTs) drives. This creates strategic setbacks to integrating agricultural stakeholders, particularly the adopted village farmers of the NAERLS into the new media hub for the Participatory Agricultural Extension System (PAES). A mixed method was premised on for counterfactuals to facilitate novelties. As a result, the full participation of some agricultural stakeholders is not guaranteed due to the digital divide. Three-quarters (about 159 million) of the Nigerian population is under the age of 35 years implying that Nigeria has a youthful population, making the future of the country's agriculture dependent on her youths who are new media savvy without access to secure land. This implies that the agriculturalist has limited access to requisite information on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in the tech-driven global space. Hence, the need to use NMTs to mitigate the digital divide in advancing the NAERLS adopted village farmers, agricultural activities, and systems in Nigeria. Thus, the study reflected on the NMTs' technological revolutionary in the agricultural sector, the concept of the adopted village, CSA, and agricultural extension systems in Nigeria. More so, looked at the digital divide in agricultural extension, the role of NMTs4AE in creating a participatory agricultural extension system, and the creation of synergy among agricultural stakeholders based on knowledge, and practices for increasing productivity via climate-smart agriculture as purported to improve the economic status and livelihood of selected adopted villages in Nigeria.
Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultiva... more Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultivation system is the dominant practice with fewer new media tools (NMTs) drives. This creates strategic setbacks to integrating agricultural stakeholders, particularly the adopted village farmers of the NAERLS into the new media hub for the Participatory Agricultural Extension System (PAES). A mixed method was premised on for counterfactuals to facilitate novelties. As a result, the full participation of some agricultural stakeholders is not guaranteed due to the digital divide. Three-quarters (about 159 million) of the Nigerian population is under the age of 35 years implying that Nigeria has a youthful population, making the future of the country's agriculture dependent on her youths who are new media savvy without access to secure land. This implies that the agriculturalist has limited access to requisite information on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in the tech-driven global space. Hence, the need to use NMTs to mitigate the digital divide in advancing the NAERLS adopted village farmers, agricultural activities, and systems in Nigeria. Thus, the study reflected on the NMTs' technological revolutionary in the agricultural sector, the concept of the adopted village, CSA, and agricultural extension systems in Nigeria. More so, looked at the digital divide in agricultural extension, the role of NMTs4AE in creating a participatory agricultural extension system, and the creation of synergy among agricultural stakeholders based on knowledge, and practices for increasing productivity via climate-smart agriculture as purported to improve the economic status and livelihood of selected adopted villages in Nigeria.
BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, N... more BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A) IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS, FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
A human rights approach was applied to discuss water resources management and community developme... more A human rights approach was applied to discuss water resources management and community development in Zululu community in Kaduna State and the result brings a new paradigm to the understanding of the community members who resolved to re-visit the community water management system for managing the community river which has been abandoned for many years. Communicating the provision of safe drinking water should no longer be perceived as charity, but as a legal entitlement, with individuals and communities at the center. While a human rights communication framework may not instantly and automatically resolve difficult policy issues about financing, delivery or regulation of water resources management for development, it does provide both national and international standards to guide political and economic decisions over the allocation of water resources; enables individuals to be heard in decision making related to water and sanitation; and can strengthen communities' accountability for the use of water for sanitation and farming services in rural Nigeria. __________________________________________________________________________________ Key word: Water management, human rights to water, water communication.
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‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers a... more Abstract ‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
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‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers a... more Abstract ‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultiva... more Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultivation system is the dominant practice with fewer new media tools (NMTs) drives. This creates strategic setbacks to integrating agricultural stakeholders, particularly the adopted village farmers of the NAERLS into the new media hub for the Participatory Agricultural Extension System (PAES). A mixed method was premised on for counterfactuals to facilitate novelties. As a result, the full participation of some agricultural stakeholders is not guaranteed due to the digital divide. Three-quarters (about 159 million) of the Nigerian population is under the age of 35 years implying that Nigeria has a youthful population, making the future of the country's agriculture dependent on her youths who are new media savvy without access to secure land. This implies that the agriculturalist has limited access to requisite information on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in the tech-driven global space. Hence, the need to use NMTs to mitigate the digital divide in advancing the NAERLS adopted village farmers, agricultural activities, and systems in Nigeria. Thus, the study reflected on the NMTs' technological revolutionary in the agricultural sector, the concept of the adopted village, CSA, and agricultural extension systems in Nigeria. More so, looked at the digital divide in agricultural extension, the role of NMTs4AE in creating a participatory agricultural extension system, and the creation of synergy among agricultural stakeholders based on knowledge, and practices for increasing productivity via climate-smart agriculture as purported to improve the economic status and livelihood of selected adopted villages in Nigeria.
Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultiva... more Agricultural practice in Nigeria is predominantly in the rural area where the traditional cultivation system is the dominant practice with fewer new media tools (NMTs) drives. This creates strategic setbacks to integrating agricultural stakeholders, particularly the adopted village farmers of the NAERLS into the new media hub for the Participatory Agricultural Extension System (PAES). A mixed method was premised on for counterfactuals to facilitate novelties. As a result, the full participation of some agricultural stakeholders is not guaranteed due to the digital divide. Three-quarters (about 159 million) of the Nigerian population is under the age of 35 years implying that Nigeria has a youthful population, making the future of the country's agriculture dependent on her youths who are new media savvy without access to secure land. This implies that the agriculturalist has limited access to requisite information on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in the tech-driven global space. Hence, the need to use NMTs to mitigate the digital divide in advancing the NAERLS adopted village farmers, agricultural activities, and systems in Nigeria. Thus, the study reflected on the NMTs' technological revolutionary in the agricultural sector, the concept of the adopted village, CSA, and agricultural extension systems in Nigeria. More so, looked at the digital divide in agricultural extension, the role of NMTs4AE in creating a participatory agricultural extension system, and the creation of synergy among agricultural stakeholders based on knowledge, and practices for increasing productivity via climate-smart agriculture as purported to improve the economic status and livelihood of selected adopted villages in Nigeria.
BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, N... more BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A) IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS, FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
A human rights approach was applied to discuss water resources management and community developme... more A human rights approach was applied to discuss water resources management and community development in Zululu community in Kaduna State and the result brings a new paradigm to the understanding of the community members who resolved to re-visit the community water management system for managing the community river which has been abandoned for many years. Communicating the provision of safe drinking water should no longer be perceived as charity, but as a legal entitlement, with individuals and communities at the center. While a human rights communication framework may not instantly and automatically resolve difficult policy issues about financing, delivery or regulation of water resources management for development, it does provide both national and international standards to guide political and economic decisions over the allocation of water resources; enables individuals to be heard in decision making related to water and sanitation; and can strengthen communities' accountability for the use of water for sanitation and farming services in rural Nigeria. __________________________________________________________________________________ Key word: Water management, human rights to water, water communication.
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‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers a... more Abstract ‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
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‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers a... more Abstract ‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
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‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media
‘Governance’, an abstract entity has never ceased fuelling debates among policy makers and implementers around the world. In Africa, the word has more mythical representation because of its implicit attachment to elitism. Many Africans, particularly the rural folks usually experience alienation when governance and media are intertwined in the discussion of development initiatives or programmes at the local level. In Nigeria, rural people are yet to understand why many development programmes, especially the ones that would better their lives are discussed, packaged and disseminated through media from the cities- the seats of power. Often, the local citizens feel neglected in development projects, usually when they have to forego their natural habitat for community infrastructural advancement. In many cases, where development programmes are politically tainted or personalized, rural folks become more confused as to who benefit from what and at what instance because they are not properly included. Therefore, they are practically not passionately involved for the maintenance and sustenance of these infrastructures. Today, many national and international development programmes are foreign donors designed and funded. Development experts believed that many of these programmes would not sustain the environment where they are being implemented considering the different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the people that design them and those of the supposed beneficiaries if the latter are not included through ‘real dialogue’. Government officials, media people and corporate bodies need to consider the priority of the local people in development programmes when designing them- if not for anything, at least for their sustainability and that of the natural environment. Local folks must be carried along not just as objects of research but as critical factors. This paper takes a look governance issues via the understanding of the role of media for sustaining development in rural areas in Nigeria. It is expected that the submissions will help all stakeholders in development process acknowledge and strategically assign roles and responsibilities to vibrant communities through inclusive communication strategies for the sustainability of development programmes in Nigeria.
Key words: development sustainability, resilient, inclusive, governance, and media