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56212. ‘Milk actually comes from a cow’: Ontario dairy farmers' reactions and interventions with consumers' milk rifts as third-party alienation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gray, Allison (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07
- Published:
- International: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12205
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agrarian Change
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 21, Issue 3
- Notes:
- 17 pages, A significant effect of industrial capitalism on the modern Western world is the generation and perpetuation of a physical and discursive distancing between people and food – a result of what Marx termed the metabolic rift. Studies of alienated relationships often homogenize the rift experience. This paper explores how rural Ontario dairy farmers experience what John Bellamy Foster calls ‘metabolism’ and their perceptions of the alienated states of non-farmers. Results from on-farm semi-structured interviews suggest these farmers are aware of a distancing between non-farmers and food (milk) that is a different experience than that of farmers. Such perception of milk alienation involving an external group – or what I term third-party alienation – is accompanied by farmer-initiated interventions, such as on-farm educational visits and educational programmes, attempting to mend non-farmers rift experience. Third-party alienation exemplifies the ways in which metabolism can be diversely embodied – and possibly mended – within current human–food, and human–nature, relationships.
56213. ‘They convert, I also convert’: the neighborhood effects and tea farmers' intention to convert to organic farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vu Hong, Van (author), Yoon, Heo (author), and Nguyen, Khanh Doanh (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-17
- Published:
- England: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12836
- Journal Title:
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 13pgs, This study aims to analyze the influence of neighborhood effects (NE) on tea farmers' intention to convert from traditional to organic farming in the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam. It differs from previous studies in two aspects. First, we combine the theory of planned behavior and the theory of herd behavior to explain farmers' intention to convert from traditional to organic farming, focusing on the impact of the NE. Secondly, to measure NE, we use a combination of questionnaires and methods of measuring herd behavior by McCartney and Shah. Using the generalized structural equation modeling and data collected from 263 tea farmers in Thai Nguyen, we found that NE has a positive and direct significant effect on farmers' intention to convert to organic tea production in the case where neighbors both live nearby and have a close relationship with the subject. In addition, it indirectly impacts farmers' conversion intention through attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavior control. To encourage tea farmers to convert to organic farming, policymakers and extension workers should take advantage of the NE to increase farmers' confidence about the benefits and the possibility of successful organic farming.
56214. ‘We’re cut off’: rural farmers are desperate for broadband internet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cadloff, Emily Baron (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-11-13
- Published:
- USA: Modern Farmer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13021
- Notes:
- 16 pages
56215. ‘Would it sell more pork?’ pig farmers’ perceptions of real welfare, the welfare outcome component of their farm assurance scheme
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hockenhull, J. (author), Main, D.C.J. (author), and Mullan, S (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-20
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12782
- Journal Title:
- Animal
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 2864 - 2875
- Notes:
- 12pgs, In the UK, the pig industry is leading the way in the adoption of welfare outcome measures as part of their farm assurance scheme. The welfare outcome assessment (WOA), known as Real Welfare, is conducted by the farmers’ own veterinary surgeon. For the first time, this has allowed the pig industry to evaluate welfare by directly assessing the animal itself and to document the welfare of the UK pig industry as a whole. Farmer perspectives of the addition of a welfare outcome assessment to their farm assurance scheme have yet to be explored. Here, we investigate how the introduction of the Real Welfare protocol has been perceived by the farmers involved, what value it has (if any), whether any practical changes on farm have been a direct consequence of Real Welfare and ultimately whether they consider that the welfare of their pigs has been improved by the introduction of the Real Welfare protocol. Semi-structured interviews with 15 English pig farmers were conducted to explore their perceptions and experiences of the Real Welfare process. Our findings fall into three key areas: the lived experience of Real Welfare, on-farm changes resulting from Real Welfare and suggested improvements to the Real Welfare process as it currently stands. In all the three areas, the value farmers placed on the addition of WOA appeared to reflect their veterinary surgeon's attitude towards the Real Welfare protocol. If the vet was engaged in the process and actively included the farmer, for example through discussion of their findings, the farmers interviewed had a greater appreciation of the benefits of Real Welfare themselves. It is recommended that future similar schemes should work with veterinary surgeons to ensure their understanding and engagement with the process, as well as identifying and promoting how the scheme will practically benefit individual farmers rather than assuming that they will be motivated to engage for the good of the industry alone. Retailers should be encouraged to use Real Welfare as a marketing tool for pig products to enhance the perceived commercial value of this protocol to farmers.
56216. ‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fraser, Alistair (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-17
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12812
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 91, Pages 200 - 207
- Notes:
- 8pgs, This paper presents a critical examination of smart farming. I follow other critical analyses in recognizing the centrality of innovation processes in generating smart farming products, services, arrangements, and problematic outcomes. I subsequently use insights from critical human geography scholarship on the significance of understanding topological transformations to move beyond interpretations that identify only a narrow range of smart farming problems, such as a lack of coordination or limited uptake by farmers. Instead, I examine a broader set of challenges produced by smart farming developments. The overriding concern, I argue, is that smart farming unfolds via the production of numerous ‘misconfigured innovations.’ Using insights from literature on responsible research and innovation I then probe the stakes of looking beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming and discuss how new technologies might come to play a role in producing emancipatory smart farming. I pay attention to research on the ‘internet of people,’ which paints a stark new picture of social life generally, and in particular how rural life might be computed and calculated according to new conceptualizations of sociality and spatiality.
56217. “All O’ We Is One”?: Migration, Citizenship, and Black Nativism in the Postcolonial Era
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Laura Barrio-Vilar (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Callaloo
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(1) : 89-111
56218. “Hey friend, buy green”: Social media use to influence eco-purchasing involvement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrum, Kristie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-18
- Published:
- UK: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08333
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 1-13
56219. “How can you put a price on the environment?” Farmer perspectives on stewardship and payment for ecosystem services
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- White, A.C. (author), Faulkner, D.S. (author), Mendex, V.E. (author), and Niles, M.T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-01
- Published:
- United States: Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12529
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 41
- Notes:
- 14 pages, As agricultural conservation priorities evolve to address new complex social-ecological problems and emerging social priorities, new conservation incentive program participation and success can be enhanced by incorporating local stakeholder preferences into program design. Our research explores how farmers incorporate ecosystem services into management decisions, their willingness to participate in payment for ecosystem services programs, and factors beyond compensation level that would influence participation. We conducted three focus groups with 24 participants between January of 2019 and May of 2019 in Vermont. Our study revealed that a strong, intrinsic stewardship ethic motivates farmers to enhance ecosystem service provisioning from their farms, though financial pressures often limit decision-making. These results suggest that programs with sufficient levels of payment may attract participation, at least among some types of farmers, to enhance ecosystem services from farms in Vermont. However, farmers may be deterred from participating by perceived unfairness and distrust of the government based on previous experiences with regulations and conservation incentive structures. Farmers also expressed distrust of information about ecosystem services supply that conflicts with their perceptions of agroecosystem functioning, unless delivered by trusted individuals from the extension system. The delivery of context-specific information on how management changes impact ecosystem service performance from trusted sources could enhance farmers’ decisions, and would aptly complement payments. Additionally, farmers expressed a desire to see a program that both achieves additionality and rewards farms who have been stewards, goals that are potentially at odds. Our findings offer important insights for policy makers and program administrators who need to understand factors that will influence farmers’ willingness to participate in payment for ecosystem service programs and other conservation practice adoption initiatives, in Vermont and elsewhere.
56220. “I drink it anyway and I know I shouldn't”: understanding green consumers' positive evaluations of norm-violating non-green products and misleading green advertising
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Atkinson, Lucy (author) and Kim, Yoojung (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06-27
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08503
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (1): 37-57