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2. Agriculture and food in crisis: conflict, resistance and renewal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Magdoff, Fred (author) and Tokar, Brian (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International: Monthly Review Press, New York City, New York
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08679
- Notes:
- 348 pages.
3. All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of yolo and sacramento county, california
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fuchs‑Chesney, Jordana (author), Raj, Subhashni (author), Daruwalla, Tishtar (author), and Brinkley, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-18
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12600
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 17 pages, Little is known about how farms and markets are connected. Identifying critical gaps and central hubs in food systems is of importance in addressing a variety of concerns, such as navigating rapid shifts in marketing practices as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic and related food shortages. The constellation of growers and markets can also reinforce opportunities to shift growing and eating policies and practices with attention to addressing racial and income inequities in food system ownership and access. With this research, we compare network methods for measuring centrality and sociospatial orientations in food systems using two of America’s most high-producing agricultural counties. Though the counties are adjacent, we demonstrate that their community food systems have little overlap in contributing farms and markets. Our findings show that the community food system for Yolo County is tightly interwoven with Bay Area restaurants and farmers’ markets. The adjacent county, Sacramento, branded itself as America’s Farm-to-Fork capital in 2012 and possesses network hubs focused more on grocery stores and restaurants. In both counties, the most central actors differ and have been involved with the community food system for decades. Such findings have implications beyond the case studies, and we conclude with considerations for how our methods could be standardized in the national agricultural census.
4. Consumers voice concerns about food safety
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bunce, Emily (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D11640
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Online from G&S Business Communications, New York City, New York. 4 pages., "A new consumer intelligence survey fielded by G&S Communications found Americans are changing their consumption behaviors and their perceptions of the food supply chain as a direct result of the coronavirus. From food safety and quality to availability and affordability, people are beginning to think differently about where their food comes from and the significance of the nation's farming infrastructure."
5. Depopulation and meat shortages: answering the tough questions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11707
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Online from publisher., Examines a period of meat shortages in stores - and headlines about pork and poultry farmers having to euthanize entire barns of animals. "Helping consumers understand the supply chain disruption and impacts may seem daunting, but the key is to keep it simple and engage on the shared values of safe food and a commitment to the highest standards of animal care."
6. Identification of key components for a new urban food strategy - results of a delphi study in Cologne, Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hirsch, Darya (author), Heuschkel, Zoe (author), and Terlau, Wiltrud (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10930
- Notes:
- 2018 International European Forum (163rd EAAE Seminar), February 5-9, 2018, Innsbruck, Austria. International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks. 5 pages., Urban food systems consist of many stakeholders with different perspectives, different interests and different governance tools. This study aimed at developing potential future scenarios for the food system of Cologne by analysing the system with a Delphi approach. In our research-design, the suitability of the Delphi-method was evaluated not only as a tool for future modelling and scenario design, but also as a communication tool among the group of participants on a multistakeholder platform. As a case study, the Food Policy Council of Cologne, Germany was used. Cologne can be seen as a forerunner among German cities in the development of a new urban food policy. Some of the successful steps to re-envisioning food as an urban system include joining the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the decision of the City Council to become an edible city and the establishment of a Food Policy Council. For the study it was important to capture participants’ visions of a common goal regarding the governance of the urban food system and also to identify mental ‘silos’. It was obvious that the municipality of Cologne together with the Food Policy Council made great efforts towards participatory processes to build a vision for a sustainable and regional food supply. However, many stakeholder-groups in the process still work exclusively among themselves and do not actively practice the confrontation with the viewpoints of other relevant groups. This supports the maintenance of ‘silos’ and leaves little room for face-to-face discussions. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to explore key components of food provisioning in the future for Cologne while confronting all stakeholders (municipal administration and politicians, farmers and food activists) with the perspectives of all group members. We used a multi-stakeholder Delphi approach with 19 panellists to find out essential components of the municipal regional food provisioning system in Cologne. Unique in this Delphi study is the bringing together of municipal administration, regional urban farmers and food activists. The research is still on-going, but preliminary results show that more communication among all relevant actors, especially horizontally among different city departments, in the urban food system is needed.
7. Values, conventions, innovation and sociopolitical struggles in a local food system: Conflict between organic and conventional farmers in Sierra de Segura
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Coq-Huelva, Daniel (author), Sanz-Cañada, Javier (author), Sánchez-Escobar, Florencio (author), and Universidad de Sevilla
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10
- Published:
- Spain: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10939
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Notes:
- 9 pages, via online journal
8. When Amazon ate Whole Foods: big changes for Big Food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Philips-Connolly, Kate (author) and Connolly, Aidan J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09668
- Journal Title:
- International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(5) : 615-621