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2. 2018 food and health survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA: International Food Information Council Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09672
- Notes:
- 63 pages.
3. Are social embeddedness associated with food risk perception under media coverage?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhen, Yan (author), Huang, Zu-hui (author), Wang, Yu (author), and Zhou, Jie-hong (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10827
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(8): 1804–1819
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., raceability system has received wide attention in solving food safety issues, via which food information could be tracked back to producer/farmers. Consumers need to obtain this information from producers or social networks, trust in the information, and consequently assess perceived risks, especially when food scandals are exposed to the media. In this study, we introduce the social embeddedness theory to understand how consumers' social activities affect their risk perceptions on traceable food. Specifically, we investigate how risk perceptions are predicted by the interpersonal relationships, organizational level and social-level relationships. Results show that the interpersonal relationships were associated with lower levels of risk perceptions, while organizational and social relationships impacted consumer's risk perceptions at middle and higher levels, respectively. Results also show that the “ripple effect” extended to effect of risk events with negative information, however, did not exist for the group exposed to positive information. Potential food safety implications have been proposed to identify for effective risk mitigation under media coverages.
4. Consumers' and producers' perceptions of markets: service levels of the most important short food supply chains in Hungary
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Szabo, Dorottya (author) and Juhasz, Aniko (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Hungary
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10922
- Journal Title:
- Studies in Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 117 : 111-118
- Notes:
- In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in new type, direct and short supply chains (SSC) Hungary, and the markets have proved to be globalisation-resilient, keeping their market share from sales of fast-moving consumer goods. We conducted a consumer and producer survey to identify the most important expectations and experiences about markets in Hungary. We applied a service quality model (SERVQUAL) to measure the consumers’ and producers’ opinions and satisfaction of Hungarian markets. A warning result of our study is that vendors estimate their level of service above that of the consumers’ experiences which means that, in spite of the direct communication, they do not have an accurate understanding of their customers’ requirements. Our surveys also showed that there is a substantial deficiency between the services expected and experienced at markets in all dimensions (environment, service, convenience and produce) that influence the choice of retail channel. The most important dimension proved to be produce quality which should thus remain in the focus of market developments. In recent years, new trends in urban local food movements have started to emerge in Hungary which could not be detected at the time of our survey (2012). Thus we intend to extend our survey in the future to see whether these new local-alternative food movements have formed a new consumer segment for farmers’ markets in Hungary, and in what way should the market vendors modify their services to be able to ride this new trend.
5. Do household attitudes about food defense and food safety change following highly visible national food recalls?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stinson, Thomas F. (author), Ghosh, Koel (author), Kinsey, Jean (author), and Degeneffe, Dennis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07524
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 90 (5): 1272-1278
6. Genetically engineered crops and foods: back to the basics of technology diffusion
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weick, C. Wagner (author) and Walchli, S.B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-08
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07634
- Journal Title:
- Technology in Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 24 (3): 265-283
7. Price Fairness of Processed Tomato Agro-Food Chain: The Italian Consumers’ Perception Perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Samoggia, Antonella (author), Grillini, Giulia (author), and Del Prete, Marherita (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-30
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12509
- Journal Title:
- Foods
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (5)
- Notes:
- 20 pages, Food consumers are increasingly searching for emotions and values when purchasing and consuming food. They search for products that ensure social and environmental sustainability, in addition to more common extrinsic product attributes, such as price, packaging, origin, and brand. In particular, there is increasing interest in product price fairness. The current study aims at exploring consumers’ perception and understanding of price fairness, focusing on the processed tomato products agro-food chain. The study interviewed 832 people. Data were collected through an online questionnaire with the support of Qualtrics software, and data elaboration was carried out with Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The elaboration includes an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to identify existing latent factors in the consumers’ perception of enabling agro-food system elements influencing farmers’ reception of fair prices. Then, factor mean values were cross-analysed with socio-economic characteristics and processed tomato consumption habits with Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Results support the idea that consumers are limitedly aware of the processed tomato agro-food chain dynamics and consider farmers as the most unfairly remunerated partner. Women and frequently purchasing consumers of processed tomato products believe farmers should be treated more fairly. There is a difference between what consumers perceive as fair price distribution and actual price distribution among processed tomato chain actors. Further studies may focus on how fairness attribute impacts on consumer purchasing behaviour.
8. Short food supply chains from a social media marketing perspective: a consumer-oriented study in Spain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Elghannam, Ahmed (author) and Mesias, Francisco (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Published:
- Bononia University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11092
- Journal Title:
- New medit: Mediterranean journal of economics, agriculture and environment
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1): 79-90
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., The increasing use of internet, especially the proliferation of social networks has offered companies of all sectors the opportunity to keep in contact with their consumers; getting their feedbacks and complains on a daily basis and even to create short online chains enabling consumers to buy their products. This trend is found to be rather limited in the case of food products. The main objective of this article is to deal with consumer’s perceptions towards the potential use of social media to create online short supply chains for food. Projective techniques (Sentence completion tasks) have been used in this study. As, they allow researchers to uncover motivations, emotions and beliefs that drive consumer’s perception and behavior which may not be detected by straightforward questioning. The findings of this study have allowed to obtain insight into those aspects that consumers regard as opportunities or barriers of such potential short food chains. The main aspect is to put food enterprises in the picture about what is going on in consumer’s mind. This might open new possibilities for food businesses to develop a new short food chain.
9. What people say about food and farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Butz, Earl L. (author)
- Format:
- Speech
- Publication Date:
- 1973-11-28
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: D10735
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Address by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture at the first annual meeting of PACER, Inc., Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, November 28, 1973. 11 pages., Summarizes findings of a national survey conducted by Response Analysis, Inc., for Professional Agricultural Communications Editorial Research, Inc. (PACER).