International: Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11396
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10 pages., Via online from website., "Experts say the rise of artifical intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive and to exercise free will. Includes references to impacts on farmers, farming and climate.
Available online at www.centmapress.org, Findings of a word association task revealed that most participants associated cows, rural areas, and traditional production systems with the cue dairy farms. While purchasing their products, they paid the most attention to attributes such as health and hygiene, indicating that they pay the most attention to product quality and not production quality. Yet more than half indicated that modern production systems contradict their norms and values. Authors concluded that the current modernization efforts in Colombia do not fit to the specific culture of the country.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02241
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Pages 195-208 in Jane M. Perkins and Nancy Blyler (eds.), Narrative and professional communication, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut. 224 pages., Author recommends telling and living stories oriented toward sustainability "oriented, that is, toward communal interdependence, where people, animals, and the land share a place..." "Rot belt" refers to the agricultural equivalent of the "Rust Belt."
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
