Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09318
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Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York. 5 pages., Interview with Beverly Bell on Berta Caceres and indigenous environmental activism. Caceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for leading an indigenous campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.
Via UI Library online subscription., Owner of the Hardwick Gazette community newspaper in Vermont describes his experience in seeking a new owner through an essay contest. His quest included confirmation of the importance of community newspapers in their areas of circulation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10562
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3 pages., via blog from Janzen Ag Law - online via AgriMarketing Weekly., Since big data arrived in agriculture a few years ago, I have watched companies struggle with how to address farmers' concerns with ag data privacy, security, and control. Some companies have started with a clean sheet of paper and drafted agreements that reflect what they actually do. Others have taken a short cut by cutting and pasting agreements from other industries. The result is that contracts for ag data collection, use and sharing are inconsistent and often miss the point-to communicate the company's intentions with users.
Online from publication., This report describes a petition by 11 Southeast Alaska Native Tribes to create a "Traditional Homelands Conservation Rule." It is a new strategy in tribal nations' ongoing efforts to hold the federal government to its legal responsibility to consult with them on projects that impact them. It includes case examples of past failures to do so.
Editorial comments on the series of mergers, consolidations, and buy-up in many sectors of the agricultural marketplace. "As always, only time will tell how long-standing any of these new names end up being."
August 1 issue via online. 2 pages., Article describes sale of Cygnus Business Media's agriculture group to American Farm Bureau Federation, "the largest trade association in the U.S. agriculture industry."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12151
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Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Data, analytics and technology company DTN acquires a global farm-level data source, Farm Market ID. Both share goals of helping agribusinesses support producers.
1 page., Analysis of media coverage of wildfires, with special notation of tendency of coverage to assign highest value to the interests of private property owners in the fire region and to assign low value to publicly owned land in the region.
