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32. How will we eat and produce in the cities of the future? From edible insects to vertical farming - a study on the perception and acceptability of new approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Specht, Kathrin (author), Zoll, Felix (author), Schumann, Henrike (author), Bela, Julia (author), Kachel, Julia (author), and Robischon, Marcel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10870
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(16)
- Notes:
- Via online. 27 pages., Global challenges such as climate change, increasing urbanization and a lack of transparency of food chains, have led to the development of innovative urban food production approaches, such as rooftop greenhouses, vertical farms, indoor farms, aquaponics as well as production sites for edible insects or micro-algae. Those approaches are still at an early stage of development and partly unknown among the public. The aim of our study was to identify the perception of sustainability, social acceptability and ethical aspects of these new approaches and products in urban food production. We conducted 19 qualitative expert interviews and applied qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed that major perceived benefits are educational effects, revaluation of city districts, efficient resource use, exploitation of new protein sources or strengthening of local economies. Major perceived conflicts concern negative side-effects, legal constraints or high investment costs. The extracted acceptance factors deal significantly with the “unknown”. A lack of understanding of the new approaches, uncertainty about their benefits, concerns about health risks, a lack of familiarity with the food products, and ethical doubts about animal welfare represent possible barriers. We conclude that adaptation of the unsuitable regulatory framework, which discourages investors, is an important first step to foster dissemination of the urban food production approaches.
33. Identification of key components for a new urban food strategy - results of a delphi study in Cologne, Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hirsch, Darya (author), Heuschkel, Zoe (author), and Terlau, Wiltrud (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10930
- Notes:
- 2018 International European Forum (163rd EAAE Seminar), February 5-9, 2018, Innsbruck, Austria. International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks. 5 pages., Urban food systems consist of many stakeholders with different perspectives, different interests and different governance tools. This study aimed at developing potential future scenarios for the food system of Cologne by analysing the system with a Delphi approach. In our research-design, the suitability of the Delphi-method was evaluated not only as a tool for future modelling and scenario design, but also as a communication tool among the group of participants on a multistakeholder platform. As a case study, the Food Policy Council of Cologne, Germany was used. Cologne can be seen as a forerunner among German cities in the development of a new urban food policy. Some of the successful steps to re-envisioning food as an urban system include joining the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the decision of the City Council to become an edible city and the establishment of a Food Policy Council. For the study it was important to capture participants’ visions of a common goal regarding the governance of the urban food system and also to identify mental ‘silos’. It was obvious that the municipality of Cologne together with the Food Policy Council made great efforts towards participatory processes to build a vision for a sustainable and regional food supply. However, many stakeholder-groups in the process still work exclusively among themselves and do not actively practice the confrontation with the viewpoints of other relevant groups. This supports the maintenance of ‘silos’ and leaves little room for face-to-face discussions. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to explore key components of food provisioning in the future for Cologne while confronting all stakeholders (municipal administration and politicians, farmers and food activists) with the perspectives of all group members. We used a multi-stakeholder Delphi approach with 19 panellists to find out essential components of the municipal regional food provisioning system in Cologne. Unique in this Delphi study is the bringing together of municipal administration, regional urban farmers and food activists. The research is still on-going, but preliminary results show that more communication among all relevant actors, especially horizontally among different city departments, in the urban food system is needed.
34. Impacts on food policy from traditional and social media framing of moral outrage and cultural stereotypes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Small, Virginia (author) and Warn, James (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06
- Published:
- United States: Springer Nature B.V. 2019
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12228
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 37, iss. 2
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Food policy increasingly attempts to accommodate a wider and more diverse range of stakeholder interests. However, the emerging influence of different communities and networks of actors with localized concerns and interests around how food should be produced and traded, can challenge attempts to achieving more open, sustainable and globally-integrated food chains. This article analyses how cultural factors internal to a developed country can disrupt the export of food to a developing country. A framing analysis is applied to examine how activists using social media to interact with the traditional news media in Australia were able to inflame public opinion and provoke outrage to disrupt the policy agenda. The paper contains a case study analysis of the media controversy in 2011 around the slaughter of beef cattle in Indonesian abattoirs and the subsequent banning of live cattle exports to Indonesia by Australia. The analysis draws on the theory of binary cultural oppositions to examine how practices in relation to the slaughter of beef cattle in Indonesia were reframed, through extensive media coverage of moral outrage into a critique of the values and cultural practices of Indonesian society.
35. Improved Process Quality through Certification Systems: An Assessment of Selected Animal Welfare Labels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Heise, Heinke (author), Pirsich, Wiebke (author), and Theuvsen, Ludwig (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Interational
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06786
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1)
36. It's only natural, but what does it mean?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bopp, Suzanne B. (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-08-27
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D04673
- Notes:
- Online via Drovers Cattle Network. 1 page.
37. Just desserts: the morality of food waste in America
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reno, Joshua (author) and Alexander, Kelly (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-06-06
- Published:
- USA: American Anthropological Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12931
- Journal Title:
- Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- V.45
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Food, waste, and food waste are embroiled in a wide array of political and moral debates in the United States today. These debates are staged across a range of scales and sites—from individual decisions made in front of refrigerators and compost bins to public deliberations on the U.S. Senate and House floors. They often manifest as a moral panic inspiring a range of Americans at seemingly opposed ends of the political spectrum. This article contrasts three distinct sites where food waste is moralized, with the aim of deconstructing connections between discarded food and consumer ethics. In doing so, we argue that across the contemporary American social strata, food waste reduction efforts enfold taken-for-granted ideas of moral justice, or theodicy, that foreground individual responsibility and, as a result, obfuscate broader systemic issues of food inequality perpetuated by late stage capitalism.
38. Labeling genetically modified food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chassy, Bruce M. (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2014-05-28
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02670
- Notes:
- Online "A Minute With" feature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
39. Labeling policies of genetically modified food: lessons from an international review of existing approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gruere, Guillaume P. (author)
- Format:
- Brief
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08692
- Notes:
- Program for Biosafety Systems (PBS) Brief. 2 pages.
40. Listened to, but not heard! The failure to represent the public in genetically modified food policies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lassen, Jesper (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10595
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(8), 923–936.
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., ‘In the mid-1990s, a mismatch was addressed between European genetically modified food policy, which focused primarily on risks and economic prospects, and public anxieties, which also included other concerns, and there was a development in European food policy toward the inclusion of what were referred to as “ethical aspects.” Using parliamentary debates in Denmark in 2002 and 2015 as a case, this article examines how three storylines of concern that were visible in public discourse at the time were represented by the decision makers in parliament. It shows that core public concerns raising fundamental questions about genetically modified foods, and in particular their perceived unnaturalness, were not considered in the parliamentary debates. It is suggested that the failure of the parliament to represent the public may undermine the legitimacy of politicians and lead to disillusionment with parliamentary government.