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    2. Consciously pursued joint action: agricultural and food value chains as clubs

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fleming, Euan (author), Griffith, Garry (author), Mounter, Stuart (author), and Baker, Derek (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    Australia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11107
    Journal Title:
    International Journal on Food System Dynamics
    Journal Title Details:
    9(2) : 166-177
    Notes:
    Available online at www.centmapress.org, Authors examine ways in which club theory can help provide an alternative approach to recognizing and overcoming market failure in agricultural and food value chains.

    3. Farmers prevailing perception profiles regarding GM crops: a classification proposal

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Almeida, Carla (author) and Massarani, Luisa (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: D10598
    Journal Title:
    Public Understanding of Science
    Journal Title Details:
    27(8), 952–966
    Notes:
    15 pages., via online journal., Genetically modified organisms have been at the centre of a major public controversy, involving different interests and actors. While much attention has been devoted to consumer views on genetically modified food, there have been few attempts to understand the perceptions of genetically modified technology among farmers. By investigating perceptions of genetically modified organisms among Brazilian farmers, we intend to contribute towards filling this gap and thereby add the views of this stakeholder group to the genetically modified debate. A comparative analysis of our data and data from other studies indicate there is a complex variety of views on genetically modified organisms among farmers. Despite this diversity, we found variations in such views occur within limited parameters, concerned principally with expectations or concrete experiences regarding the advantages of genetically modified crops, perceptions of risks associated with them, and ethical questions they raise. We then propose a classification of prevailing profiles to represent the spectrum of perceptions of genetically modified organisms among farmers.

    4. Identification of key components for a new urban food strategy - results of a delphi study in Cologne, Germany

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    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
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    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.