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2. Animal welfare versus food quality: Factors influencing organic consumers' preferences for alternatives to piglet castration without anesthesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Heid, Astrid (author) and Hamm, Ulrich (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-10
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10176
- Journal Title:
- Meat Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 95(2) : 203-211
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., Surgical piglet castration without pain relief has been banned in organic farming in the EU since the beginning of 2012. Alternative methods therefore need to be implemented that improve animal welfare and solve the underlying problem of boar taint. This paper explores German organic consumers' preferences for piglet castration without pain relief and three alternative methods. In an innovative approach using a multi-criteria decision making procedure, qualitative data from focus group discussions were compared with quantitative results from Vickrey auctions. Overall, participants preferred all alternatives to castration without pain relief. Different aspects influenced willingness-to-pay for the methods. Animal welfare was important for the evaluation of castration without pain relief and castration with anesthesia. Food safety played a major role for willingness-to-pay for immunocastration, while taste and, to some extent, animal welfare were dominant factors for fattening of boars. These differences should be considered when communicating the alternatives.
3. Awareness and attitudes towards biotechnology innovations among farmers and rural population in the European Union
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hall, Clare (author), Toma, Luiza (author), Costa Madureira, Livia Maria (author), Barnes, Andrew (author), and Renwick, Alan (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2012-09-18
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00922
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the 131st EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) seminar, "Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas," Prague, Czech Republic, September 18-19, 2012. 17 pages.
4. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wójcik, Marcin (author), Jeziorska-Biel, Pamela (author), and Czapiewski, Konrad (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-09
- Published:
- Poland: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10245
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 67: 130-141
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Via online journal., This article is concerned with the shaping of agricultural knowledge among farmers, in the context of the rapid changes Polish agriculture has been subject to since the time of the country's EU accession. The theoretical underpinnings of this work have been described in terms of the significant notional categories, i.e. knowledge, knowledge-cultures and sources of knowledge. The research made use of the joint interviews method. Interviews were run with representatives of different generations in 10 farming families in central Poland. The main research objective was to determine sources of farming knowledge among farmers. The use of joint interviews allowed for the identification of sources of knowledge of different kinds. These reflect a division into farmers' closer and more distant surroundings, i.e. to the family and neighbours on the one hand, and to institutions and media on the other. Knowledge acquisition among farmers is in fact found to be a complex process, reflecting socialisation in a multi-generation environment of family and neighbours, on the one hand, and the impact of the institutional and legal system, on the other. In a general sense, this corresponds to the well-known division of sources of knowledge into the tacit and the explicit, with the acquisition of tacit (i.e. informal) knowledge not meeting with any more major obstacles thanks to proximity in a sense that may be cultural (i.e. the agriculture itself), family-related (and in fact multi-generation) and spatial (physical proximity in a given locality). Microsocial conditioning thus plays a major role in the shaping of this source of knowledge. However, the most important factor distinguishing contemporary cultures as regards knowledge on farming is the capacity to adapt to conditions set by the institutions supporting the latter's development. Formal knowledge flowing into farming families from their institutional surroundings requires growing adaptability and preparation if a succession of innovations are to be taken on board. The multi-source nature of knowledge and the achievement of some kind of balance in this respect actually poses a major challenge for the future functioning of family farms as cultural microsystems.
5. Beyond connectivity: the internet of food architecture between ethics and EU citizenry
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Leone, Luca (author) and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-06
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10265
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(3) : 423-438
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Via online journal., This contribution deals with the ethical challenges arising from the IoT landscape with reference to a specific context, i.e. the realm of agri-food. In this sector, innumerable web-connected tools, platforms and sensors are constantly interacting with consumers/users/citizens, by reshaping and redefining the core elements and functions of machine–human being relationships. By sketching out the main pillars which ethics of the Internet of Food (IoF) is founded on, my argument posits that the civic hybridization of knowledge production mediated by IoT technologies may create breeding ground for the move towards an ‘ethical in-design’ approach to the IoF-driven smart systems.
6. Bursting the "Brussels bubble": the movement towards transparency on European farm subsidies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mann, Alana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11891
- Journal Title:
- Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(2/3) : 47-54
- Notes:
- Online via UI electronic subscription., Examines "a case of cross-border, data-driven investigative journalism that is creating an alternative public sphere for the discussion of issue of food and agriculture in the European Union..."
7. Consumer preferences for pig welfare – can the market accommodate more than one level of welfare pork?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Denver, Sigrid (author), Sandøe, Peter (author), and Christensen, Tove (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-07
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10175
- Journal Title:
- Meat Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 129:140-146
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal, The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the market potential of pork labelled to indicate medium and high levels of animal welfare. The paper asks, in particular, whether there is a risk that Danish consumers will abandon high level welfare pork if less expensive products with a medium level of animal welfare became avail-able. The study was based on an online questionnaire with a choice experiment involving 396 Danish respondents. The results indicated that the Danish market could accommodate more than one pork product with a welfare label but the price differential separating medium and high level animal welfare pork will have to be quite narrow. In addition, full willingness-to-pay of consumers who want to buy high level welfare pork cannot be relied upon to incentivise new consumers to buy medium welfare pork. Further, raising brand awareness in the shopping situation and improving consumer's understanding of brand attributes for high level welfare brands were found to be vital.
8. Does self-regulation work? The case of television food advertisement to children in Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landwehr, Stefanie C. (author) and Hartmann, Monika (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09669
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31-August 2. 20 pages.
9. European agriculture after brexit: does anyone benefit from the divorce?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Choi, Hyung Sik (author), Jansson, Torbjörn (author), Matthews, Alan (author), and Keshwani, Jenny (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-30
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12371
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 22 pages, The UK exited the EU on 31 January 2020, with a transition period agreed as part of the Withdrawal Agreement. During this transition period the UK and the EU will decide on their future trading relationship. No matter what form this relationship takes, there will be disturbances to agri-food markets. This study analyses four different scenarios with increasing barriers to trade, ranging from a very close relationship similar to the European Economic Area to a distant relationship in which the UK and EU trade on Most Favoured Nation terms, using the EU focused global agricultural sector model CAPRI. In the UK, food prices will increase in all scenarios, making consumers in the UK the biggest losers. Only in a free trade agreement scenario does the UK show an unambiguous positive net welfare gain in just the agri-food sector. In the case of the European Economic Area scenario, which assumes continued access to the single market, the net welfare impact would depend on the size of the UK’s continued contribution to the EU. In the EU, declining food prices would benefit consumers but the sum of the loss in farmers’ incomes and the UK’s EU CAP contribution would be much greater than the consumer’s gain. These impacts in agricultural markets under different future trade arrangements will also be influenced by the UK’s agricultural policy changes in direct payments as well as by possible further UK trade liberalisation after the end of the transition period.
10. Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ceccoli, Stephen (author) and Hixon, William (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11886
- Journal Title:
- International Political Science Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(3) : 301-319
- Notes:
- Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used data from Eurobarometer surveys to examine factors that condition citizens' attitudes toward genetically modified foods in 15 European Union member states. Strongest findings confirmed the importance of public understanding of science as a basis for support for this emerging technology.
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