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2. Cattlemen's best tool
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-24
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11182
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Journal Title Details:
- : 4
- Notes:
- Via online November-December issue. "The Front Gate" section., Cites a new information campaign of the Beef Quality Assurance program as an effective way to counter much of the misinformation about new plant-based and cell-cultured products that challenge the stewardship of the cattle industry.
3. G&S Communications' study shows human rights, worker equity grow more influential in consumer purchasing decisions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09-18
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10894
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Summary of findings in a recent "Sense and Sustainability" study among 1,330 U.S. adults.
4. How will we eat and produce in the cities of the future? From edible insects to vertical farming - a study on the perception and acceptability of new approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Specht, Kathrin (author), Zoll, Felix (author), Schumann, Henrike (author), Bela, Julia (author), Kachel, Julia (author), and Robischon, Marcel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10870
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(16)
- Notes:
- Via online. 27 pages., Global challenges such as climate change, increasing urbanization and a lack of transparency of food chains, have led to the development of innovative urban food production approaches, such as rooftop greenhouses, vertical farms, indoor farms, aquaponics as well as production sites for edible insects or micro-algae. Those approaches are still at an early stage of development and partly unknown among the public. The aim of our study was to identify the perception of sustainability, social acceptability and ethical aspects of these new approaches and products in urban food production. We conducted 19 qualitative expert interviews and applied qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed that major perceived benefits are educational effects, revaluation of city districts, efficient resource use, exploitation of new protein sources or strengthening of local economies. Major perceived conflicts concern negative side-effects, legal constraints or high investment costs. The extracted acceptance factors deal significantly with the “unknown”. A lack of understanding of the new approaches, uncertainty about their benefits, concerns about health risks, a lack of familiarity with the food products, and ethical doubts about animal welfare represent possible barriers. We conclude that adaptation of the unsuitable regulatory framework, which discourages investors, is an important first step to foster dissemination of the urban food production approaches.
5. Organic profitability around the world
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reganold, John (author)
- Format:
- Presentation
- Publication Date:
- 2016-02-25
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07437
- Notes:
- Presentation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Outlook Forum, Arlington, Virginia, February 25, 2016. 17 pages.
6. Public perspectives on corporate social responsibility and environmental stewardship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Loch, Ron (author) and Buhay, Mary C. (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06810
- Notes:
- Sense and Sustainability Study based on an online national survey among U.S. adults by Harris Poll for G&S Business Communications, New York City, New York. 19-page PowerPoint presentation.
7. Social responsibility programs can pay dividends in better labor relations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karst, Tom (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12127
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online via the publication. 3 pages., Findings of a poll by The Packer indicated that "properly administered social responsibility programs do exactly that, or at least can be a significant factor in helping accomplish that goal." They can help ensure that workers are treated well according to health and safety standards and compensated fairly. Such programs also provide to the wider company a greater sense of purpose that workers' jobs contribute to something greater than profits.
8. The moral complexity of agriculture: a challenge for corporate social responsibility
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- de Olde, Evelien M. (author) and Valentinov, Vladislav (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12251
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 32, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid increase in food production but also to environmental and societal concerns over issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, soil quality and biodiversity loss. Many of these concerns, for example those related to animal welfare or labor conditions, are stuck in controversies and apparently deadlocked debates. As a result we observe a paradox in which a wide range of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, originally seeking to reconnect agriculture and society, frequently provoke debate, conlfict, and protests. In order to make sense of this pattern, the present paper contends that Western agriculture is marked by moral complexity, i.e., the tendency of multiple legitimate moral standpoints to proliferate without the realistic prospect of a consensus. This contention is buttressed by a conceptual framework that draws inspiration the contemporary business ethics and systems-theoretic scholarship. From the systems-theoretic point of view, the evolution of moral complexity is traced back to the processes of agricultural modernization, specialization, and diferentiation, each of which suppresses the responsiveness of the economic and legal institutions to the full range of societal and environmental concerns about agriculture. From the business ethics point of view, moral complexity is shown to prevent the transformation of the ethical responsibilities into the legal and economic responsibilities despite the ongoing institutionalization of CSR. Navigating moral complexity is shown to require moral judgments which are necessarily personal and contestable. These judgments are implicated in those CSR initiatives that require dealing with trade-ofs among the different sustainability issues.
9. The next economy will be a cooperative economy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reetz, Allan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11
- Published:
- USA: Cooperative Communicators Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11072
- Journal Title:
- CCA Connect
- Notes:
- Summary of the 2019 Co-op IMPACT Conference in Washington, D.C. Participants included co-op developers, financiers, community and city leaders, innovators, economists, and policy makers.