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2. Do plant clinics improve household food security? evidence from rwanda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tambo, Justice A. (author), Uzayisenga, Bellancile (author), Mugambi, Idah (author), and Bundi, Mary (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-08
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12368
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 20 pages, One of the main drivers of food insecurity is pests, which are estimated to cause around 40% of crop losses worldwide. We examine the food security effects of plant clinics, a novel agricultural extension model that aims to reduce crop losses due to pests through the provision of demand-driven plant health diagnostic and advisory services to smallholder farmers. The study is based on survey data from maize-growing households in Rwanda, where 66 plant clinics have been established. Using switching regression and matching techniques as well as various food security metrics, including the food insecurity experience scale, we find evidence that participation in plant clinics is significantly associated with a reduction in household food insecurity. For instance, among the participating households, plant clinics contribute to a decrease in the period of food shortage by one month and a reduction in the severity of food insecurity by 22 percentage points. We also show that these effects are more pronounced for female-headed households. Overall, our findings suggest that plant clinics can play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 2 of zero hunger.
3. FreshDirect's Scott Crawford talks merchandising produce online
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nickle, Ashley (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D12135
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online from publisher. 3 pages., The chief merchandising office of a New-York-City-based online grocer, FreshDirect, describes methods used for successful online food shopping experiences for prospects and continuing customers. He observes that more than 30 percent of the grocer's customers shop exclusively from their "re-shop" baskets. However, he explains ways used to give customers reasons to branch out from their normal baskets.
4. Insects or not insects? Dilemmas or attraction for young generations: a case in Italy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cavallo, Carla (author) and Materia, Valentina C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11111
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3) : 226-239
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Authors address the production of proteins from insects as the next big challenge for Western countries. Results from a sampling of millennials suggested that acceptance is "far to be obtained, although the most powerful driver to insect consumption can be the invisibility of the insect shape."
5. Sensory-liking expectations and perceptions of processed and unprocessed insect products
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sogari, Giovanni (author), Menozzi, Davide (author), and Mora, Cristina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11079
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(4) : 314-320
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Results among Italian consumers indicated that texture and appearance of the insect were perceived as stronger barriers than the taste attribute.
6. The power of promoting healthy brands: familiarity in health product decision making
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bui, My (author), Hamilton, Mitchell (author), and Kemp, Elyria (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D11511
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Promotion Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : 739-759
- Notes:
- 22 pages., Via online., Researchers used quota convenience sampling to investigate consumer decision making and brand commitment for food brands promoted as "healthy." Findings indicated that familiarity can help increase purchase intentions and brand commitment for healthy brands with low credibility. However, to go beyond a transactional exchange to one that is relation in nature, familiarity, credibility, and quality are all crucial for fostering brand commitment.
7. Willingness-to-pay for natural, organic, and conventional foods: the effects of information and meaningful labels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McFadden, Jonathan R. (author) and Huffman, Wallace E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11448
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 68 : 214-232
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Authors tested food label and information treatment effects on subjects' willingness-to-pay for organic, "natural," and conventional foods. They found large information effects, including asymmetric cross-market effects for natural and organic foods. Organic premiums increased in response to subjects' seeing the "natural" foods industry's perspective on its products.
8. ‘I will know it when I taste it’: trust, food materialities and social media in Chinese alternative food networks
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Martindale, Leigh (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Published:
- United States: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12225
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 38, iss. 2
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Trust is often an assumed outcome of participation in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as they directly connect producers with consumers. It is based on this potential for trust “between producers and consumers” that AFNs have emerged as a significant field of food studies analysis as it also suggests a capacity for AFNs to foster associated embedded qualities, like ‘morality’, ‘social justice’, ‘ecology’ and ‘equity’. These positive benefits of AFNs, however, cannot be taken for granted as trust is not necessarily an outcome of AFN participation. Using Chinese case studies of AFNs, which are characterised by a distinct form of trust pressure—consumers who are particularly cynical about small scale farmers, food safety and the organic credentials of producers—this paper highlights how the dynamics of trust are in constant flux between producers and consumers. I suggest that it is the careful construction of the aesthetic and multi-sensory qualities of food, which is often celebrated via social media, that human centred relations in Chinese AFNs are mediated. This leads to two key conclusions: first, that the key variable for establishing trust is satisfying the consumer’s desire for safe (i.e. "fresh") food; and second, the materiality of the food and the perception of foods materiality (especially through social media), must both be actively constructed by the farmer to fit the consumer’s ideal of freshness.