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22. Food movements unite! Strategies to transform our food systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Holt-Gimenez, Eric (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- International: Food First Books, Oakland, California.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07182
- Notes:
- 347 pages.
23. How does a local initiative contribute to social inclusion and promote sustainable food practices? Focus on the example of social cooking workshops
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dyen, Margot (author) and Sirieix, Lucie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04-03
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08320
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 40 (6): 685-694
24. It’s time to be honest about seafood
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Froehlich, Halley E. (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-27
- Published:
- Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10674
- Notes:
- 6 pages., via Scientific American website., Demand for seafood is increasing across the globe, and the United States is no exception. Aquaculture, or aquatic farming, is increasingly meeting this demand and now supplies just over 50 percent of all seafood globally. In fact, it has been one of the world’s fastest growing food sectors for years.
25. Mediating influences of attitude on internal and external factors influencing consumers’ intention to purchase organic foods in China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chu, Kuo Ming (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10680
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(12)
- Notes:
- 15 pages., Article #: 4690, via online journal., As with environment and sustainable development, there has been a rapid rise in the worldwide consumption of organic foods over the last years, as well as the quickly growing potential of organic markets in China, and their direct influence on consumer health awareness and social opinion. This study provides insights into Chinese consumers’ attitudes toward organic foods and evaluates purchase intention’s impact as a mediator in the relationship between external and internal factors on purchase intention. This empirical study is based on an online questionnaire using a sample of 1421 Chinese consumers. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as the main practical approach for data analysis, and six hypotheses were examined. The results show that a more positive attitude on the part of consumers toward organic foods will further reinforce their purchasing intentions, whereas, there was no significant impact of marketing price and communication on consumers’ attitudes toward organic foods. Furthermore, the results show that intention was a full or a whole mediator among the three exogenous constructs of environment awareness, health consciousness, and subjective norms. Based on the findings, marketing communication strategies should concentrate on offering more value to consumers regarding the features of nutritional value. Long-term environment friendliness, health benefits, and social status symbols should be assumed to enhance consumers’ purchase intention in the organic foods industry.
26. Motivations, goals, and benefits associated with organic grain farming by producers in Iowa, U.S
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Han, Guang (author), Arbuckle, J. Gordon (author), and Grudens-Schuck, Nancy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11-06
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12517
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 191
- Notes:
- 14 pages., CONTEXT The U.S. has the world's largest organic food market. However, low domestic production and a low adoption rate of organic grain farming limit the overall development of this sector. Multiple organic stakeholders have called for a better understanding of cognitive and motivational aspects of farmers' decision-making processes to help policymakers, agricultural scientists, and extension practitioners to work more effectively with farmers to explore and adopt organic grain production. OBJECTIVE This paper assesses farmers' adoption motivations, long-term goals, and perceived benefits to examine the congruence between initial motivations, long-term goals, and current perceived benefits. METHODS We employed a sequential mixed-method approach that first interviewed organic farmers in Iowa, U.S. Then developed and administered a statewide survey for the organic farmers. Survey data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis, paired-samples t-tests, and heteroskedasticity-robust regression models. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS We identified five highly-rated motivations for farmers to adopt organic grain: 1) profitability, 2) personal safety, 3) natural resources stewardship, 4) consumers and public health, and 5) honor and tradition. We found organic farmers' long-term goals are strongly orientated to both productivism and stewardship but less strongly oriented to civic-mindedness. This research assessed five areas of benefits associated with organic grain farming: 1) economic benefit, 2) addressed health concerns, 3) environmental natural resources, 4) values and beliefs validation, and 5) social benefit. This study found the benefits farmers experienced by adopting organic grain farming aligned with most of their original adoption motivations and long-term goals, except for serving the motivation of consumer and public health concerns.
27. Review of the sustainability of food systems and transition using the Internet of Food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Holden, Nicholas M. (author), Lange, Matthew C. (author), White, Eoin P. (author), and Oldfield, Thomas L. (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10-09
- Published:
- UK: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13074
- Journal Title:
- Science of Food
- Journal Title Details:
- V.2
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Many current food systems are unsustainable because they cause significant resource depletion and unacceptable environmental impacts. This problem is so severe, it can be argued that the food eaten today is equivalent to a fossil resource. The transition to sustainable food systems will require many changes but of particular importance will be the harnessing of internet technology, in the form of an ‘Internet of Food’, which offers the chance to use global resources more efficiently, to stimulate rural livelihoods, to develop systems for resilience and to facilitate responsible governance by means of computation, communication, education and trade without limits of knowledge and access. A brief analysis of the evidence of resource depletion and environmental impact associated with food production and an outline of the limitations of tools like life cycle assessment, which are used to quantify the impact of food products, indicates that the ability to combine data across the whole system from farm to human will be required in order to design sustainable food systems. Developing an Internet of Food, as a precompetitive platform on which business models can be built, much like the internet as we currently know it, will require agreed vocabularies and ontologies to be able to reason and compute across the vast amounts of data that are becoming available. The ability to compute over large amounts of data will change the way the food system is analysed and understood and will permit a transition to sustainable food systems.
28. Sustainability initiatives: answering beef's critics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10023
- Journal Title:
- Drovers Cattlenetwork
- Notes:
- 1 page.
29. The implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the strength of the Sustainable Agriculture Movement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wiseman, Samuel R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09438
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Law and Medicine
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 : 259-273
30. Understanding consumer resistance to the consumption of organic food. a study of ethical consumption, purchasing, and choice behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kushwah, Shiksha (author), Dhir, Amandeep (author), and Sagar, Mahim (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10533
- Journal Title:
- Food Quality and Preference
- Journal Title Details:
- 77:1-14
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., Although the demand for organic food is growing globally, the mainstream consumption of organic food is far less. The present study attempts to understand the underlying reasons for consumer resistance toward consuming organic food using the theoretical framework of innovation resistance theory (IRT). The study further examines the association between different consumer barriers and purchase decisions (purchase intentions, ethical consumption intentions, and choice behaviour) at different levels of buying involvement and environmental concerns. The collected data, consisting of 452 consumers, were analyzed by structural equation modeling approach. The results showed that value barrier shared a negative association with purchase intentions and ethical consumption intentions. Ethical consumption and purchase intention were found to have a direct influence on choice behaviour. Additionally, the relationship between ethical consumption intention and choice behaviour is mediated by purchase intention. However, no significant differences have emerged based on the level of buying involvement and environment concerns. The findings of the study provide insight into public policymakers, marketers, suppliers, and consumer associations by enhancing their current understanding of buying behaviour of the growing organic food community.
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