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2. 2019 is the year for blockchain for traceability, but will it have legs?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Banker, Steve (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11805
- Journal Title:
- Forbes
- Notes:
- Online from publisher website. 5 pages., Describes a new Food Trust Consortium , run by IBM, using blockchain technologies to improve food traceability.
3. A conversation about food systems change in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malan, Naudé (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-14
- Published:
- International: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12053
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10, No. 1 2020
- Notes:
- 14 Pages, iZindaba Zokudla (IZ) is a multistakeholder engagement project that aims to create opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system in Johannesburg. IZ implements the Farmers’ Lab, a social lab used as a transitional mechanism in a larger transition to sustainability. To move the South African urban food system to an ecologically sound, economically productive, and socially equitable system, significant stakeholder integration is needed, and the iZindaba Zokudla Farmers’ Lab provides that. This reflective essay presents a history of the project (2013 until now) detailing the project’s creation of an ecosystem based on social labs that facilitate innovation in the food system. Emergent entrepreneurs and others use the social labs and their activities, as well as stakeholder engagement in their enterprise development, and these Labs have created opportunities for applied and other research in the university. This has brought innovation and change to agroecological practice in Johannesburg. This reflective essay article situates IZ within the broader evolutionary change in South Africa and considers how conversations about food lead to the creation of sustainable food systems.
4. Agricultural value chain development in nepal: understanding mechanisms for poverty reduction
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kafle, Kashi (author), Songsermsawas, Tisorn (author), and Winters, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-12
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12452
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 18pgs, This analysis investigates the potential mechanisms and the practical significance of agricultural value chain development in a geographically challenging rural area of a developing country. Using data from a carefully designed primary survey administered in a hill and mountainous region in Western Nepal, we show that linking small-scale producers to regional and local traders can help increase income. Analysis of impact pathways shows that the positive impact on household income emerges through higher agricultural income, driven by higher sale volume at lower prices. Focusing on high value commodities in rural areas, where arable land is not always fully exploited or utilized, appears to lead to acreage expansion and some crop switching, contributing to higher supply albeit at lower prices. The positive impact on household income is practically significant; it helps improve household food security and asset accumulation. These findings are robust to alternative specifications. Targeted value chain interventions that strengthen and stabilize small-scale producers’ access to markets can contribute to rural poverty reduction via increase in agricultural income.
5. Agroecology and the emergence of a post covid-19 agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Altieri, Miguel A. (author) and Ines Nicholls, Clara (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11869
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(3) : 525-526 September 2020
- Notes:
- 2 pages, For years agroecologists have warned that industrial agri-culture became too narrow ecologically, highly dependent on outside inputs, and extremely vulnerable to insect pests, diseases, climate change and now as demonstrated by the COVID19 pandemic prone to a complete shut down by unforeseen crisis.Like never before, COVID19 has revealed how closely linked human, animal and ecological health are. As a power-ful systemic approach, agroecology reveals that the way we practice agriculture can provide opportunities for improv-ing environmental and human health, but if done wrongly, agriculture can cause major risks to health.
6. All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of yolo and sacramento county, california
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fuchs‑Chesney, Jordana (author), Raj, Subhashni (author), Daruwalla, Tishtar (author), and Brinkley, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-18
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12600
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 17 pages, Little is known about how farms and markets are connected. Identifying critical gaps and central hubs in food systems is of importance in addressing a variety of concerns, such as navigating rapid shifts in marketing practices as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic and related food shortages. The constellation of growers and markets can also reinforce opportunities to shift growing and eating policies and practices with attention to addressing racial and income inequities in food system ownership and access. With this research, we compare network methods for measuring centrality and sociospatial orientations in food systems using two of America’s most high-producing agricultural counties. Though the counties are adjacent, we demonstrate that their community food systems have little overlap in contributing farms and markets. Our findings show that the community food system for Yolo County is tightly interwoven with Bay Area restaurants and farmers’ markets. The adjacent county, Sacramento, branded itself as America’s Farm-to-Fork capital in 2012 and possesses network hubs focused more on grocery stores and restaurants. In both counties, the most central actors differ and have been involved with the community food system for decades. Such findings have implications beyond the case studies, and we conclude with considerations for how our methods could be standardized in the national agricultural census.
7. Assessing the effectiveness of Nigerian agricultural promotion policy thrusts in achieving a sustainable food system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ike, Chinweoke Uzoamaka (author), Tranter, Richard (author), and Gadanakis, Yiorgos (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03-29
- Published:
- UK: Agricultural Economics Society, The
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13166
- Notes:
- 14 pages, To diversify the Nigerian economy and reduce dependency on food import, the Agricultural promotion policy (APP) was developed and implemented in 2016. This policy aims to move Nigerian agriculture to a commercial sector to ensure the creation of sustainable jobs and wealth. However, little is known about the effects of the policy on biodiversity, dietary diversity, and employment and income of the small-scale farmers who form the greater proportion of the food producers. The study aims to assess the effectiveness of APP in achieving social justice particularly for small-scale farmers, environmental sustainability and economic viability through sustainable agriculture. To assess the effectiveness of APP, focus groups discussions were held in six local governments in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria. APP food security thrusts of strategic national food reserve, proper use of agrochemicals and tractors, focus on forest food harvest and government support for large scale and specialised farms are very effective for securing food price stability. Moreover, food crop fortification is very effective in providing income support for households as it is the focus on forest food harvest, and access to credit and labour subsidies for small farmers. Encouraging organic farming is very effective in securing access to and availability of diversity of food, biodiversity and employment. Food diversity, soil fertility, biodiversity and employment also benefited from the provision of credit and labour subsidies. The outcome of this discussion is important for shaping the Nigerian food system. Though the APP thrusts are geared towards achieving sustainable development, Nigerian policy authorities should focus more on encouraging organic farming, credit and labour subsidies for the smallholder farmers, creating balance diet awareness, and forest preservation and food harvest to achieve food security, environmental sustainability and employment.
8. Booker's boondoggle
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Opinion
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13141
- Notes:
- 1 page
9. Building communities through food: strengthening communications, families, and social capital
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Purnell, David F. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA: Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D11095
- Notes:
- 137 pages., Examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. Author argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on their similarities, thus creating a stronger sense of community via the sharing of a meal.
10. C.O.NXT survey shows pandemic has not shaken consumer interest in food sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12179
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Update. 2 pages., Communications firm reports findings of an online survey of 750 consumers across the U.S.