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12. Maintaining trust and credibility in a continuously evolving organic food system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thorsø, Martin Hvarregaard (author) and Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, TjeleDenmark
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-08
- Published:
- Springer Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10269
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(4) : 767-787
- Notes:
- 21 pages., Credibility is particularly important in organic food systems because there are only marginal visual and sensorial differences between organic and conventionally produced products, requiring consumers to trust in producers’ quality claims. In this article I explore what challenges the credibility of organic food systems and I explore how credibility of organic food systems can be maintained, using the Danish organic food system as a case study. The question is increasingly relevant as the sale of organic food is growing in Denmark as well as globally, and consumers’ expectations of organics continuously evolve. The inquiry is threefold, first I outline a conceptual framework for understanding trust and credibility in the food system, secondly I explore the developments in Danish organic food systems and thirdly discuss the challenges and opportunities for maintaining trust in the Danish organic food system. In the analysis I indicate eight key challenges: (1) unrealistic expectations, (2) blind trust and little motivation for extending their knowledge, (3) consumers assess the overall credibility of organic products, (4) ambitious ethical principles, (5) new consumer groups introduce new expectations, (6) frozen requirements in a changing world, (7) growing imports and labelling and (8) multiple versions of organics and the diversity is growing, as well as four aspects which may maintain the credibility of organics if implemented: (1) coordinate expectations, (2) communicate requested information, (3) institutional reform and (4) open communication of pros and cons of organic production.
13. Rural women's empowerment in a communication technology project: some contradictory effects
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lennie, June (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D01883
- Journal Title:
- Rural Society Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3) : 224-245
- Notes:
- via UI online subscription
14. Scientists, environmental managers and science journalists: a hierarchical model to comprehend and enhance the environmental decision-making process
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carcez da Rocha, Erika (author) and Bernardo da Rocha, Pedro Luis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11415
- Journal Title:
- Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 169-176
- Notes:
- 24 pages., Open access and online via ScienceDirect., The suggested model involves interactions and integration among knowledge (K), social practices (P), and values (V). Authors contemplated bottom-up relationships among scientists, environmental managers, science journalists, and other citizens operating within a context of top-down institutional constraints. They emphasized values and social practices, as well as knowledge, in addressing institutional change.
15. Shortfall in FSR/E: USAID's evaluation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1989-11
- Published:
- International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17290
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Interchange
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(3) : 7
16. The global forest transition as a human affair
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garcia, Claude A. (author), Sasvilaakso, Sini (author), Verburg, Rene W. (author), Gutierrez, Victoria (author), Wilson, Sarah J. (author), Krug, Cornelia B. (author), Sassen, Marieke (author), Robinson, Brian E. (author), Moersberger, Hannah (author), Naimi, Babak (author), Rhemtulia, Jeanine M. (author), Dessard, Helene (author), Gond, Valery (author), Vermeulen, Cedric (author), Trolliet, Franck (author), Oszwald, Johan (author), Quetier, Fabien (author), Pietsch, Stephan A. (author), Bastin, Jean-Francois (author), Dray, Anne (author), Araujo, Miguel (author), Ghazoul, Jaboury (author), and Waeber, Patrick O. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11697
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 417-428
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Authors note no clear evidence that global efforts against forest loss, fragmentation,and degradation of land use are working. As key reason, they point to apparent ineffectiveness in involving all stakeholders involved. "Forest transitions are social and behavioral before they are ecological. Decision makers need to integrate better representations of people's agency in their mental models. ... Games can help decision makers in all of these tasks."
17. Towards an interactive agricultural science
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- N. R”ling (author / Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen Agricultural University) and Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen Agricultural University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08888
- Journal Title:
- European Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(4) : 35-48
- Notes:
- In all, a constructivist epistemology leads to a completely different approach that includes the conventional one, but ultimately leads to very different choices. I call this approach "interactive agricultural science". Box 2 sums up its main features. Interactive agricultural science is internally consistent. Just as the conventional paradigm, it embraces a whole range of mutually related elements at various levels of abstraction, from epistemology to the practical points of departure for rewarding desired scientific work and for training students. The challenge to agricultural science is together to further construct and operationalise this paradigm. That, as I hope to have made clear, is a condition for achieving our new mission: to contribute to a change in direction which saves us from becoming Norsemen in Greenland.
18. Women break down barriers in Mali
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Van Mele, Paul (author), Wanvoeke, Jonas (author), Dacko, Rosaline Maiga (author), and Yattara, Kalifa (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-09
- Published:
- Mali: Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28330
- Journal Title:
- LEISA
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(3) : 14-15
- Notes:
- Online issue.