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2. Communication and energy : community participation in forestry projects
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hoskins, Marilyn W. (author / Visiting professor and Title XII International Programs Chairperson for Rural Sociology, Anthropology, and Community Development, Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1981-03
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04445
- Journal Title:
- Development Communication Report
- Journal Title Details:
- 33 : 1, 2, 11-13
3. Developing a people's literature
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Capistrano, Lyn N. (author)
- Format:
- Paper abstract
- Publication Date:
- 1982
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10086
- Notes:
- This abstract is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD group" file., Abstract of a research paper presented at the 3rd annual conference of the Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Mountain State Agriculture College, La Trinidad, Benquet, Philippines, October 21-24, 1982. Page 14., Describes how community residents identified need and cooperatively developed and published a popular manual on how to construct a low-cost fuel-efficient wood stove.
4. FERN's latest unravels a terror plot in a Kansas meatpacking town
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fromartz, Sam (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09010
- Notes:
- Online from the Food and Environment Reporting Network. 2 pages., Author describes an investigative reporting effort by Ted Genoway, a Nebraska-based writer. Provides link to the story, "Terror in the heartland."
5. Facebook and a farm crisis: FFA and online agricultural advocacy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kostelich, Callie (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11118
- Journal Title:
- Open Library of Humanities
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1): 1-32
- Notes:
- 32 pages., via online journal., Following the March 2017 wildfire devastation in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, local chapters of the National FFA Organization actively engaged on social media to advocate for public response to the crisis. Twenty-three public Facebook posts from FFA chapters and affiliates demonstrate members’ engagement with agricultural issues in the United States, disrupting the generalization that young adults are disconnected from civic affairs. However, while Facebook served as an important platform for members’ ag-vocacy in the wake of the crisis, FFA chapter posts contain embedded traditional rural literacies, which are reflected in members’ collective identification with existing supporters of agricultural communities. While FFA chapters had the potential to advocate to a broad readership, the posts reveal the chapters’ way of reading the crisis and writing a response to it with an insular narrative. As a result, Facebook posts that target only limited audiences and/or appeal to readers with exclusionary collective identification result in the failure of entities, such as local FFA chapters, to capitalize on Facebook’s full potential as an advocacy tool to inform and engage large public audiences.
6. Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern united states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Furman, Carrie (author), Roncoli, Carla (author), Nelson, Donald R (author), and Hoogenboom, Gerrit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer Science & Business Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12244
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 31, iss. 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, his article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a social movement that attracts a specific type of "activist" farmer, who is linked to a strong social network that includes other farmers and consumers. Positioning farmers' practices within a social movement broadens the understanding of adaptive capacity beyond how farmers adapt to understand why they do so. By drawing upon qualitative and quantitative data and by focusing on the cosmological, organizational, and technical dimensions of the social movement, the study illuminates how social values and networks shape production and marketing strategies that enable farmers to share resources and risks. We propose a conceptual framework for understanding how technical and social strategies aimed to address the sustainability goals of the movement also increase adaptive capacity at multiple timescales. In conclusion, we outline directions for future research, including the need for longitudinal studies that focus on consumer motivation and willingness to pay, the effects of scale on consumer loyalty and producer cooperation, and the role of a social movement in climate change adaptation. Finally, we stress that farmers' ability to thrive in uncertain climate futures calls for transformative approaches to sustainable agriculture that support the development of strong social networks.
7. Meat packers accelerated spread of COVID-19, study says
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12067
- Journal Title:
- Drovers Cattlenetwork
- Journal Title Details:
- : 38
- Notes:
- Online from publisher., Brief report and analysis of research published by the National Academy of Sciences showing a strong positive relationship between meatpacking plants and local community transmission. "...the risk of excess death primarily came from large meatpacking plants operated by industry giants." Communities that shut down slaughterhouses reduced spread.
8. The shop-locally discourse in Jefferson County, Kansas
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thornburg, Gina K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- USA: Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D11564
- Journal Title:
- Great Plains Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 : 145-154
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online., Analysis of discourse revealed nostalgia for formerly vibrant commercial districts and the importance of economic vitality and social life. Researcher observed that in the current economic structure and social milieu if residents' economies are to be revitalized they will need to become more thoughtful and creative agents of change within their villages.