Findings suggest it is unlikely that farm hazards will be diminished by educating farmers. They suggest that changes in behaviors insuring safer practices have questionable correspondence with the introduction of information about farm hazards. Author advises looking at societal dynamics (e.g., changing technological society) rather individual responsibility.
2 pages, via Online source, Purchasing organic food in today’s world likely means taking a trip to Whole Foods, owned by one of the richest men in all of history, Jeff Bezos. Although it is hard to imagine organic foods as something other than a luxury item targeted towards affluent demographics, the origin story of the organic foods market is vastly different. Written by Winona State University associate professor of sociology Craig B. Upright, Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota dives back into the 1970s to paint a vivid image of the subversive world of organic groceries and food co-ops before the era of Whole Foods.
Beilin, Ruth (author), Paine, Mark (author), Pryor, Rebekah (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007-07
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27021
Notes:
Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-100sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-100.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 07-100. 39 pages.
Das, K.K. (author), Haque, M.A. (author), Mane, P.M. (author), Mathiazhavan, T. (author), Rao, T.R. (author), Singh, A.K. (author), Tyagi, M.S. (author), and Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Agricultural Extension, New Delhi
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00652
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
Notes:
Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
