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    2. Are agriculture and nutrition policies and practice coherent? Stakeholder evidence from Afghanistan

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Poole, Nigel (author), Echavez, Chona (author), and Rowland, Dominic (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-12
    Published:
    Springer Netherlands
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10241
    Journal Title:
    Food Security
    Journal Title Details:
    10(6) : 1577–1601
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    Online ISSN: 1876-4525 Print ISSN: 1876-4517, Via online journal., Despite recent improvements in the national average, stunting levels in Afghanistan exceed 70% in some Provinces. Agriculture serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of the population and has the potential to be a strong driver of a reduction in under-nutrition. This article reports research conducted through interviews with stakeholders in agriculture and nutrition in the capital, Kabul, and four provinces of Afghanistan, to gain a better understanding of the institutional and political factors surrounding policy making and the nutrition-sensitivity of agriculture. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 46 stakeholders from central government and four provinces, including staff from international organizations, NGOs and universities. We found evidence of interdisciplinary communication at the central level and within Provinces, but little evidence of vertical coordination in policy formulation and implementation between the centre and Provinces. Policy formulation and decision making were largely sectoral, top-down, and poorly contextualised. The weaknesses identified in policy formulation, focus, knowledge management, and human and financial resources inhibit the orientation of national agricultural development strategies towards nutrition-sensitivity. Integrating agriculture and nutrition policies requires explicit leadership from the centre. However, effectiveness of a food-based approach to reducing nutrition insecurity will depend on decentralising policy ownership to the regions and provinces through stronger subnational governance. Security and humanitarian considerations point to the need to manage and integrate in a deliberate way the acute humanitarian care and long-term development needs, of which malnutrition is just one element.

    4. Factors influencing consumers’ choice of street-foods and fast-foods in China

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Yazie, Biruk (author), Atinkut, Haimanot B. (author), Tingwu, Yan (author), Gebisa, Bekele (author), Qin, Shengze (author), Assefa, Kidane (author), Melese, Taye (author), Tadesse, Solomon (author), and Mirie, Tadie (author)
    Format:
    Research paper
    Publication Date:
    2018-11-30
    Published:
    Academic Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10169
    Journal Title:
    African Journal of Marketing Management
    Journal Title Details:
    10(4) : 28-39
    Notes:
    12 pages., ISSN 2141-2421, Via online journal., The overarching aim of this paper is to examine empirical findings on the arena of consumers’ behavior and attitude towards intake of street-foods (SFs) and fast foods (FFs) status as well as associated risks of consumption in China. Presently, consuming SFs and FFs have become a popular trend and is counted as the manifestation of modernity in most fast growing countries, for instance, China. The SFs and FFs are believed to be a panacea to the major socio-economic problems for countries having a large population. Over one-quarter of the century FFs and SFs become rapidly expanded in China through the quick service provision of already prepared foods with reasonable prices and source of employment for swarming open country and city inhabitants end to end to its supply. FFs and SFs are the most preferred by consumers because of safety issue, reasonable price, ready-made nature, easily accessible, portability, and so on. Concurrently, the nutritional and health concerns in China revealed that the government is very committed to quarantine and certifies FFs and SFs of food safety and public health, particularly after melamine was detected in milk in the year 2008. This later stimulated the Chinese regime to put into practice food safety law (FSL) in 2009 next to food hygiene law (FHL). FFs and SFs consumers in China are very conscious of food quality and give credit for safety than purchasing prices. Broadly speaking, most examined the papers indulged that FF and SF choice rely on ‘safety first’ by consumers in China. To sustain vendors stock and satisfy consumers’ demand for SF and FF, avoiding health risks, change in the existing perception and trust building is a priority issue.

    6. Introducing the freelancer's all-new rates calculator

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Cioppa, Deanna (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2018-12-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10054
    Notes:
    1 page., Via AAEA Byline newsletter. From the website, "Freelancer by Contenting.", Announces a calculator which provides an estimate for freelance rates on written assignments across multiple publications, verticals, and formats. Article provides live link to the calculator.

    10. Understanding motivations for gardening using a qualitative general inductive approach

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    McFarland, Amy (author), Waliczek, Tina M. (author), Etheredge, Coleman (author), Lillard Sommerfield, Aime J. (author), and Grand Valley State University Texas State University Mississippi State University
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-06
    Published:
    United States: American Society for Horticultural Science
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10336
    Journal Title:
    HortTechnology
    Journal Title Details:
    28(3) : 289-295
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    7 pages., Via online journal., Although some benefits of gardening have been documented, motivations regarding participation in gardening are often considered based on anecdote. The purpose of this study was to use qualitative analysis to explore reasons gardeners from different genders and generations participate in gardening. The questions developed for this study were intentionally exploratory and left open-ended to gather a large variety of responses. Surveys were collected from 177 individuals between the ages of 7 and 94 years old. Responses were categorized into themes identified through the literature review, the pilot study, and through exploration of the data. Responses could fit into as many categories as were mentioned by the respondents and were categorized by three independent coders. Interrater reliability was assessed using a two-way mixed, absolute agreement, average measures intraclass correlation (ICC) and determined the degree to which coders provided consistency in their ratings across participants. Themes developed through this survey included “social interaction,” “aesthetics,” “food availability/health/nutrition,” “economics,” “therapeutic,” “environmental benefits,” “nostalgia,” and “personal productivity.” Themes of personal productivity and nostalgia are those which have not occurred in previous research. Statistically significant differences were found in comparisons among males and females with more males gardening for food/health/nutrition and for reasons regarding nostalgia. More females reported gardening for personal productivity when compared with males. No significant difference was identified in comparisons of gardeners from various age groups indicating that gardeners across generations have similar intentions and receive similar benefits.