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    1. A consumer behaviour approach to analyse handmade and locally made agrifood products in western Honduras

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Salazar-Ordonez, Melania (author), Cordon-Pedregosa, Rosa (author), and Rodriguez-Entrena, Macario (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    Honduras: AgEcon
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10584
    Journal Title:
    Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales
    Journal Title Details:
    18(2) : 5-27
    Notes:
    23 pages., via database., Results of this study indicate that the consumption of handmade and locally made agrifood products increases for consumers who read nutrition labels and health claim information and for those with higher income and are younger. Authors offer suggestions for improving communications.

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

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    Collection:
    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
    Notes:
    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.