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2. Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern united states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Furman, Carrie (author), Roncoli, Carla (author), Nelson, Donald R (author), and Hoogenboom, Gerrit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer Science & Business Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12244
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 31, iss. 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, his article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a social movement that attracts a specific type of "activist" farmer, who is linked to a strong social network that includes other farmers and consumers. Positioning farmers' practices within a social movement broadens the understanding of adaptive capacity beyond how farmers adapt to understand why they do so. By drawing upon qualitative and quantitative data and by focusing on the cosmological, organizational, and technical dimensions of the social movement, the study illuminates how social values and networks shape production and marketing strategies that enable farmers to share resources and risks. We propose a conceptual framework for understanding how technical and social strategies aimed to address the sustainability goals of the movement also increase adaptive capacity at multiple timescales. In conclusion, we outline directions for future research, including the need for longitudinal studies that focus on consumer motivation and willingness to pay, the effects of scale on consumer loyalty and producer cooperation, and the role of a social movement in climate change adaptation. Finally, we stress that farmers' ability to thrive in uncertain climate futures calls for transformative approaches to sustainable agriculture that support the development of strong social networks.
3. Social media hypes about agro-food issues: activism, scandals and conflicts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stevens, T.M. (author), Aarts, N. (author), Termeer, C.J.A.M. (author), and Dewulf, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11475
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 79: 23-34
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Analysis of five cases of peak social media activity in the Dutch livestock sector. Findings indicated that social media hypes revolved around activism, scandals, and conflicts - each with characteristic patterns of activity, framing, interaction and media interplay. "Our results show the need to adopt a proactive and interactive approach that transcends the view of social media as a mere communication channel to respond in crisis situations."
4. Teaching amid despair: global warming and Israeli wars on Lebanon
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Masri, Rania (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-10-16
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09764
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 1(2): 236-242
5. The ecological conscious consumer behaviour: are the activists different?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brochado, Ana (author), Teiga, Nídia (author), and Oliveira-Brochado, Fernando (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-27
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08267
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (2): 138-146