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2. Are social embeddedness associated with food risk perception under media coverage?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhen, Yan (author), Huang, Zu-hui (author), Wang, Yu (author), and Zhou, Jie-hong (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10827
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(8): 1804–1819
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., raceability system has received wide attention in solving food safety issues, via which food information could be tracked back to producer/farmers. Consumers need to obtain this information from producers or social networks, trust in the information, and consequently assess perceived risks, especially when food scandals are exposed to the media. In this study, we introduce the social embeddedness theory to understand how consumers' social activities affect their risk perceptions on traceable food. Specifically, we investigate how risk perceptions are predicted by the interpersonal relationships, organizational level and social-level relationships. Results show that the interpersonal relationships were associated with lower levels of risk perceptions, while organizational and social relationships impacted consumer's risk perceptions at middle and higher levels, respectively. Results also show that the “ripple effect” extended to effect of risk events with negative information, however, did not exist for the group exposed to positive information. Potential food safety implications have been proposed to identify for effective risk mitigation under media coverages.
3. Building success of food hubs through understanding of the cooperative experience
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schmit, Todd M. (author) and Severson, Roberta M. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Published:
- USA: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10189
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(1) : 1-9
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Article # 1RIB4, Via online journal., Food hubs represent a business model through which farmers can collectively market product to access new supply chains and buyers can efficiently access locally sourced foods. Many farmer marketing cooperatives fit within the food hub definition and have existed for decades. Accordingly, much can be learned from them to support food hub business planning efforts. We developed and synthesized case studies of three successful cooperatives in order to match key food hub operational challenges with recommended best management practices. Such information is useful for Extension education efforts supporting the development of economically viable food hub businesses.
4. Consumers' and producers' perceptions of markets: service levels of the most important short food supply chains in Hungary
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Szabo, Dorottya (author) and Juhasz, Aniko (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Hungary
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10922
- Journal Title:
- Studies in Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 117 : 111-118
- Notes:
- In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in new type, direct and short supply chains (SSC) Hungary, and the markets have proved to be globalisation-resilient, keeping their market share from sales of fast-moving consumer goods. We conducted a consumer and producer survey to identify the most important expectations and experiences about markets in Hungary. We applied a service quality model (SERVQUAL) to measure the consumers’ and producers’ opinions and satisfaction of Hungarian markets. A warning result of our study is that vendors estimate their level of service above that of the consumers’ experiences which means that, in spite of the direct communication, they do not have an accurate understanding of their customers’ requirements. Our surveys also showed that there is a substantial deficiency between the services expected and experienced at markets in all dimensions (environment, service, convenience and produce) that influence the choice of retail channel. The most important dimension proved to be produce quality which should thus remain in the focus of market developments. In recent years, new trends in urban local food movements have started to emerge in Hungary which could not be detected at the time of our survey (2012). Thus we intend to extend our survey in the future to see whether these new local-alternative food movements have formed a new consumer segment for farmers’ markets in Hungary, and in what way should the market vendors modify their services to be able to ride this new trend.
5. Depolarizing food and agriculture: an economic approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barkley, Andrew (author) and Barkkley, Paul W. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- USA: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D07071
- Notes:
- 196 pages., "In an information-based economy...the only source of prosperity is providing consumers with what they desire." Authors conclude that the flow of information from consumers to producers may be more important than providing consumers with knowledge about agriculture.
6. Farmers prevailing perception profiles regarding GM crops: a classification proposal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Almeida, Carla (author) and Massarani, Luisa (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10598
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(8), 952–966
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Genetically modified organisms have been at the centre of a major public controversy, involving different interests and actors. While much attention has been devoted to consumer views on genetically modified food, there have been few attempts to understand the perceptions of genetically modified technology among farmers. By investigating perceptions of genetically modified organisms among Brazilian farmers, we intend to contribute towards filling this gap and thereby add the views of this stakeholder group to the genetically modified debate. A comparative analysis of our data and data from other studies indicate there is a complex variety of views on genetically modified organisms among farmers. Despite this diversity, we found variations in such views occur within limited parameters, concerned principally with expectations or concrete experiences regarding the advantages of genetically modified crops, perceptions of risks associated with them, and ethical questions they raise. We then propose a classification of prevailing profiles to represent the spectrum of perceptions of genetically modified organisms among farmers.
7. Money won't buy trust
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Evans, Jim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06586
- Journal Title:
- Furrow
- Journal Title Details:
- 120(2) : 20
- Notes:
- Question/answer feature about relations and communications between consumers and farmers in the U.S.
8. Public perceptions of agricultural worker safety: results from the "What's behind your food?" survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kampa, Diana (author), Ryan, Andrew (author), Rasmussen, Ruth (author), and Alexander, Bruce H. (author)
- Format:
- Poster
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09326
- Notes:
- Poster presented at the NORA Symposium. 1 page.
9. Strap in: environmental pressure is accelerating
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Blog posting
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06-18
- Published:
- USA: The Center for Good Integrity. Gladstone, Missouri.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10561
- Notes:
- 3 pages., Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri., Features research results indicating that public conversation about the environment is growing and so is the scrutiny applied to consumption of natural resources. Information source urges producers to engage more actively.
10. Sustainability: Building trust with consumers is needed
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karst, Tom (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11903
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online from publication. 5 pages., Summary of a survey among U.S. consumers, performed by Aimpoint Research for The Packer. Findings suggested that the lack of a concrete definition of sustainability points to the need to earn consumers' trust regarding the food industry.