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    38. "High Plains Journal" and "The Waterways Journal" unite under common ownership

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Martin, Holly (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09961
    Journal Title:
    AAEA ByLine
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    AAEA: The Agricultural Communicators Network. 3 pages.

    47. Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities

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    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rotz, Sarah (author), Gravely, Evan (author), Mosby, Ian (author), Duncan, Emily (author), Finnis, Elizabeth (author), Horgan, Mervyn (author), LeBlanc, Joseph (author), Martin, Ralph (author), Tait Neufeld, Hannah (author), Nixon, Andrew (author), Pant, Laxmi (author), Shalla, Vivian (author), and Fraser, Evan (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2019-02-13
    Published:
    Canada: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10251
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
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    11 pages., Via online article, A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature and field data to outline some key trends being observed at the nexus of agricultural production, technology, and labour in North America, with a particular focus on the Canadian context. Using the data, we highlight three key tensions observed: rising land costs and automation; the development of a high-skill/low-skilled bifurcated labour market; and issues around the control of digital data. With these tensions in mind, we use a social justice lens to consider the potential implications of digital agricultural technologies for farm labour and rural communities, which directs our attention to racial exploitation in agricultural labour specifically. In exploring these tensions, we argue that policy and research must further examine how to shift the trajectory of digitalization in ways that support food production as well as marginalized agricultural labourers, while pointing to key areas for future research—which is lacking to date. We emphasize that the current enthusiasm for digital agriculture should not blind us to the specific ways that new technologies intensify exploitation and deepen both labour and spatial marginalization.

    48. Practical agricultural communication: Incorporating scientific and indigenous knowledge for climate mitigation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Sereenonchai, Sukanya (author) and Arunrat, Noppol (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2018-03-26
    Published:
    Thailand: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10255
    Journal Title:
    Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
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    8 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural communication to mitigate climate change enables information dissemination of both scientific knowledge (SCK) and indigenous knowledge (IDK) for practical farming. This research analyzed knowledge utilization and conducted community-based participatory communication to propose a practical agricultural communication framework for climate mitigation. Based on a qualitative method of data collection in Phichit province, the key findings showed that SCK and IDK can be mutually utilized to enhance the good relationship among the people and for the people with nature. The participatory communication processes consisted of planning, interventions, and monitoring and empowerment. The successful farmers employing the farming practices of not burning rice straw, rice straw composting, and alternative wetting and drying technique were the main senders. The messages were related to their farming practices focusing on a practical and understandable message and graphic explanations. Vinyl was selected as a communication material for signage in the most noticeable areas in their communities. This research highlights that participatory communication with group dynamics and communication promotion mechanisms at both local and national levels should be enhanced.

    49. Occupational safety and visual communication: User-centred design of safety training material for migrant farmworkers in Italy

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Vigoroso, Lucia (author), Caffaro, Federica (author), and Cavallo, Eugenio (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2018-11-10
    Published:
    Italy: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10257
    Journal Title:
    Safety Science
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    11 pages., Via online journal., Visual communication allows the transmission of ideas and information more easily than written communication. Therefore, visual communication is used in different sectors (education, health, machinery, marketing, politics, environmental studies, musicology, science) to overcome language barriers and to effectively convey useful information. Nevertheless, the use of visual material to improve the comprehensibility of safety training in the workplace has been under-investigated, which is particularly true in the agricultural sector, despite its hazardousness and the high number of migrant farmworkers who might benefit from training provided by means of visual communication due to their often scarce knowledge of the local language. Combining graphic composition rules with a user-centred design (UCD) approach, this study aimed to develop visual safety training material based on migrant farmworkers’ needs to increase migrant trainees’ satisfaction in the training process. Focus groups were conducted with both trainers and migrant farmworkers to identify critical issues in existing safety training material and to discuss and evaluate different prototypes of the visual material developed by the authors. Significantly higher satisfaction was reported by migrants trained with the new material compared to a control group in a final training session (U = 152.50, z = −2.165, p = 0.030). Implications for the improvement of safety training for migrant farmworkers are discussed.

    50. USDA calls scientist gag order a “misunderstanding”

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Maron, Dina Fine (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2017-01-25
    Published:
    Springer Nature
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10671
    Notes:
    4 pages., via Scientific American website., Hours after the news broke that the U.S. Department of Agriculture e-mailed its scientists ordering them not to speak to the press, and informing them that there would be an immediate halt on press releases, the USDA insisted it isn’t really suppressing its researchers’ communications with the public—because they can still publish peer-reviewed journal articles or give media interviews if the agency approves them.