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82. There's no shortage of beef. So why are the meat cases empty?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huffstutler, Katrina (author) and Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raiser Association
- Format:
- Blog
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-26
- Published:
- United States: Texas and Southwester Cattle Raises Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11480
- Notes:
- 2 pages., via website
83. Tracing the story of food across food systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Khan, Sabiha Ahmad (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-23
- Published:
- Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12747
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 7
- Notes:
- 8pgs, This paper addresses the impulse to render systemic food systems issues into stories in light of ongoing challenges such as food scares, food fraud, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Such stories about food systems are seen as embodying the ideal of supply chain transparency currently in vogue and regarded as key to solving food system inequities by shedding light on them. Read in the context of documentary cinematic unveilings of unethical production practices, transparency initiatives of various types, particularly those dependent on the real-time, crypto-ensured storytelling of blockchain and digital twinning technology, would seem to provide a new model of indexicality, a new contract with social reality. However, such tracing systems and the questions they raise instead describe the way in which food—and the land, people and animals who are involved in its production—becomes fodder for various power plays.
84. Transition towards sustainability in agriculture and food systems: Role of information and communication technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- El Bilali, Hamid (author), Allahyari, Mohammad Sadegh (author), and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria Islamic Azad University, Iran University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy China Agricultural University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- China: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11217
- Journal Title:
- Information Processing in Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(4) : 456-464
- Notes:
- 9 pages, via online journal, Food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes necessary to move towards sustainable food systems. Digitization is one of the most important ongoing transformation processes in global agriculture and food chains. The review paper explores the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transition towards sustainability along the food chain (production, processing, distribution, consumption). A particular attention is devoted to precision agriculture as a food production model that integrates many ICTs. ICTs can contribute to agro-food sustainability transition by increasing resource productivity, reducing inefficiencies, decreasing management costs, and improving food chain coordination. The paper also explores some drawbacks of ICTs as well as the factors limiting their uptake in agriculture.
85. US consumers’ online shopping behaviors and intentions during and after the covid-19 pandemic
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jensen, Kimberly L. (author), Yenerall, Jackie (author), Chen, Xuqi (author), and Edward Yu, T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08-31
- Published:
- UK: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12869
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 53, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 19 pages, A study of 1,558 US households in June 2020 evaluated utilization of online grocery shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, influences on utilization, and plans for future online grocery shopping. Nearly 55 percent of respondents shopped online in June 2020; 20 percent were first-timers. Cragg model estimates showed influences on online shopping likelihood and frequency included demographics, employment, and prior online shopping. Illness concerns increased likelihood, while food shortage concerns increased frequency of online shopping. A multinomial probit suggested 58 percent respondents planned to continue online grocery shopping regardless of pandemic conditions.
86. Understanding the impact of covid-19 on agriculture and food supply chains: system dynamics modeling for the resilience of smallholder farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Balkan, Büsra Atamer (author), Lindqvist, Andreas Nicolaidis (author), Odoemena, Kelechi (author), Lambd, Robert (author), Tiongco, Monique Ann (author), Gupta, Stueti (author), Peterud, Arpitha (author), and Menendez III, Hector Manuel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-09
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12695
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 12, N. 3
- Notes:
- 16 pages, COVID-19 has caused severe agriculture and food supply chain disruptions, significantly affecting smallholder farmers who supply most of the world’s food, specifically their changes in vulnerability, resilience, and food loss and waste. Therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the complex causal and feedback relationships for this system by developing a dynamic hypothesis and causal loop diagrams utilizing the System Dynamics methodology. Results provide a roadmap for dialogue and a framework for case-specific model development and help to guide policy decisions for smallholder farmers’ survival during health crises.
87. Urban agriculture as an alternative source of food and water security in today’s sustainable cities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nowysz, Aleksandr (author), Mazur, Łukasz (author), Vaverková, Magdalena Daria (author), Koda, Eugeniusz; (author), and Schumacher, Britta L.; Spangler, Kaitlyn; Rissing, Andrea (author)
- Format:
- Journal Aricle
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12779
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 19, Issue 23
- Notes:
- 21pgs, The concept of a regenerative city goes far beyond a sustainable one. The regenerative approach is to think of urban green space as a productive landscape, a source of food, and a support for biodiversity. In this approach, the so-called urban wastelands have a positive significance. Urban agriculture (UA) has become a commonly discussed topic in recent years with respect to sustainable development. Therefore, the combination of urban fabric and local food production is crucial for ecological reasons. The key issues are the reduction of food miles and the demand for processed food, the production of which strains the natural environment. At the same time, UA enables regeneration and restoration. An original methodological approach was used in the study following the mixed-method research concept: literature survey, case studies, and comparative analysis of objects. A review of UA architecture (UAA) projects was carried out to supplement the knowledge acquired during the bibliometric analysis. In sum, 25 existing projects, including allotment gardens, community gardens, and urban farms in the global north, were compared in this study. As a result of the analyses carried out, the breakdown of urban agriculture was developed into the following categories: (i) architectural–urban, (ii) ecological, (iii) social, and (iv) economic, including the impact of UA on physical activity and social interaction. UA is also a factor shaping the urban landscape. In conclusion, agrarian practice in urban environments has led to the creation of a new type of space, known as UAA. Production in the context of UA exceeds private goods, such as food produced for sale or for individual use. Additional goods include public goods. The review shows that UA fulfills economic, social, and environmental functions, thus falling under the concept of sustainable development.
88. Urban-rural links for sustainable food consumption in Bangkok
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cavalleri, Sofia Anna Enrica (author), Grünbühel, Clemens M. (author), and Tanwattana, Puntita (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12752
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14, N.1
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Current food systems fail to directly link urban consumers with rural producers. City-regional strategies need to reconnect consumers with producers through sustainable local food systems. This research developed and distributed a survey questionnaire to 400 consumers in Bangkok. Findings prove that there is a statistically significant association between urban-rural relation and sustainable urban consumer behavior (Pearson’s Chi-square test for independence resulting in a significance level of p < 0.05). Sustainable consumer behavior is influenced by environmental, sociocultural, economic and health drivers, while lack of food traceability, lack of rural experience, lack of access to rural communities and negative social perception disrupt consumer-producer links. Community-based gastrotourism emerges as one of the best practices to link urban consumers with rural producers and plan sustainable food systems in mega-cities like Bangkok.
89. Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hearn, Greg (author), Collie, Natalie (author), Lyle, Peter (author), Choi, Jaz Hee-Jeong (author), and Foth, Marcus (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-10
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10912
- Journal Title:
- Futures
- Journal Title Details:
- 62(B): 202-212
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal., Urban agriculture plays an increasingly vital role in supplying food to urban populations. Changes in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are already driving widespread change in diverse food-related industries such as retail, hospitality and marketing. It is reasonable to suspect that the fields of ubiquitous technology, urban informatics and social media equally have a lot to offer the evolution of core urban food systems. We use communicative ecology theory to describe emerging innovations in urban food systems according to their technical, discursive and social components. We conclude that social media in particular accentuate fundamental social interconnections normally effaced by conventional industrialised approaches to food production and consumption.
90. Utah farm-chef-fork: building sustainable local food connections
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brain, Roslynn (author), Curtis, Kynda (author), and Hall, Kelsey (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06397
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Food Distribution Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 46(1) : 1-10