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2. Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hackenesch, Christine (author), Koch, Svea (author), and Ziaja, Sebastian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-23
- Published:
- United States of America: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12447
- Journal Title:
- Development Policy Review
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 40 (2)
- Notes:
- 37 pages., Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example that global development problems can occur anywhere, rebutting the assumption of a world divided into developed and developing countries. Recent scholarship has coined the term “global development” to capture this changing geography of development problems. Purpose Our article contributes to these debates by proposing a novel empirical approach to localize global development problems in country contexts worldwide. Methods and approach Our approach rests on a universal understanding of “development.” We identify countries that are particularly relevant for global problem-solving and consider not only the problem dimension but also countries’ capacities to address these problems. Findings Our results show that countries with the most severe combinations of problems are as diverse as Afghanistan, Nigeria and the United States. Two thirds of countries with above-average contributions to global problems are authoritarian regimes. We also find that middle-income countries have hardly anything in common apart from their income level. Policy implications Our analysis shows that traditional development concepts of a binary world order and of foreign aid as financial transfer to remedy imbalances are not enough to address constellations of global problems and capacity that have long evolved beyond rich and poor.
3. Farmers’ Perception and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Central Mali
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Amadou, Traore (author), Falconnier, Gatien (author), and Mammoutou, Kouressy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-01
- Published:
- United States: American Meteorological Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12474
- Journal Title:
- Weather, Climate, and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14 (1)
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Adaptation of the agricultural sector to climate change is crucial to avoid food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers’ perception of climate change is a crucial element in adaptation process. The aim of this study was (i) to compare farmers’ perception of climate change with actual weather data recorded in central Mali, (ii) to identify changes in agricultural practices implemented by farmers to adapt to climate change, and (iii) to investigate the link between farmers’ perception of climate change and implementation of adaptation practices. Focus group discussions and individual surveys were conducted to identify climate-related changes perceived by farmers and agricultural adaptation strategies they consider relevant to cope with these changes. A majority (>50%) of farmers perceived an increase in temperature, decrease in rainfall, shortening of growing season, early cessation of rainfall, and increase in the frequency of dry spells at the beginning of the growing season. In line with farmers’ perception, analysis of climate data indicated (i) an increase in mean annual temperature and minimum growing season temperature and (ii) a decrease in total rainfall. Farmers’ perception of early cessation of rainfall and more-frequent drought periods were not detected by climate data analysis. To cope with the decrease in rainfall and late start of the growing season, farmers used drought-tolerant cultivars and implemented water-saving technologies. Despite a perceived warming, no specific adaptation to heat stress was mentioned by farmers. We found evidence of a link between farmers’ perception of climate change and the implementation of some adaptation options. Our study highlights the need for a dialogue between farmers and researchers to develop new strategies to compensate for the expected negative impacts of heat stress on agricultural productivity.
4. From farm to kitchen: the environmental impacts of U.S food waste
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jaglo, Kirsten (author), Kenny, Shannon (author), and Stephenson Jenny (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-01
- Published:
- USA: Environmental Protection Agency, U. S. Government, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12980
- Notes:
- 6 pages in folder (Credits, Executive Summary, and Table of Contents). 113 pages total available online.
5. The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert: "no way to fight climate change without adhering to the principles of environmental justice"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kolbert, Elizabeth (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-29
- Published:
- USA: Nieman Reports
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13125
- Notes:
- 5 pages
6. Using the ‘good farmer’ concept to explore agricultural attitudes to the provision of public goods. A case study of participants in an English agri-environment scheme
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cusworth, George (author) and Dodsworth, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05-11
- Published:
- England: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12809
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 11pgs, Across the European Union, the receipt of agricultural subsidisation is increasingly being predicated on the delivery of public goods. In the English context, in particular, these changes can be seen in the redirection of money to the new Environmental Land Management scheme. Such shifts reflect the changed expectations that society is placing on agriculture—from something that provides one good (food) to something that supplies many (food, access to green spaces, healthy rural environment, flood resilience, reduced greenhouse gas emissions). Whilst the reasons behind the changes are well documented, understanding how these shifts are being experienced by the managers expected to deliver on these new expectations is less well understood. Bourdieu’s social theory and the good farmer concept are used to attend to this blind spot, and to provide timely insight as the country progresses along its public goods subsidy transition. Evidence from 65 interviews with 40 different interviewees (25 of whom gave a repeat interview) show a general willingness towards the transition to a public goods model of subsidisation. The optimisation and efficiency that has historically characterised the productivist identity is colouring the way managers are approaching the delivery of public goods. Ideas of land sparing and land sharing (and the farming preference for the former over the latter) are used to help understand these new social and attitudinal realities.
7. The intersection of food justice and religious values in secular spaces: insights from a nonprofit urban farm in Columbus, Ohio
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ryan-Simkins, Kelsey (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-08
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12056
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Notes:
- 15 pages, via Online journal, Critical food scholars have argued that activists’ political ideologies and environmental values are important influences on their food justice projects. However, this body of work has given little attention to religion and spirituality even though religious studies scholars maintain that religious values affect environmental and social action. Bringing together these perspectives considers the way religious values and meaning making intersect with actions toward food justice outside of traditionally religious spaces. This paper draws on qualitative research, including a dozen interviews and 11 months of participant observation, at Franklinton Farms, a nonprofit urban farm in Columbus, Ohio. I demonstrate that Franklinton Farms team members reference diverse religious values and practices when explaining the meaning and significance of their farming. In addition, I argue that they renegotiate their religious values in light of the injustices they see in the food system. By examining religion and spirituality within a secular food space, this paper sheds light on an underexplored influence on whether and how alternative food spaces realize food justice.
8. Catastrophe and Environmental Restoration: Analyzing the Frames and Sources of Oyster Restoration News Stories
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Hannah O. (author), Jacobson, Susan K. (author), and Israel, Glenn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12031
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 104, Issue 4
- Notes:
- 22 Pages, Online Public Access, Restoration of oyster habitats is a critical solution to halt the decline of one of the world’s most threatened resources. News coverage about environmental topics, like oyster restoration, is important to local communities that are directly impacted. However, little research has assessed how restoration topics are framed by journalists, nor how environmental disasters may affect framing of news stories for the public. This study employed a longitudinal framing analysis, using the quantity of coverage and social responsibility theories, to examine how coverage of the restoration of oyster ecosystems shifted before, during, and after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The frames and sources of 763 newspaper articles were assessed, including 18 local newspapers from five U.S. Gulf Coast states and three high-circulation national newspapers. Logistic regression analyses revealed that the occurrence of an environmental catastrophe shifted media focus from environmental frames before the spill to community and economic frames during and after the spill. Stories were dominated by environmental frames (49%) and primarily relied on quotes from resource managers (50%) over all other groups. Local resource users were quoted less than 5% of the time in local articles. Findings provide a foundation for natural resource managers and communication specialists to understand how information about natural resources changes during disasters and reveals the perspectives that are most and least commonly used to frame and define stories about coastal resources and important gaps in coverage.
9. Consumer attitudes about farmers and sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Survey report
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- USA: American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11898
- Notes:
- Accompanying news release obtained online at https://agrimarketing.com/ss.php?id=333510, Via online. 11 pages., Summary report of a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults. Conducted by Morning Consult. Survey data accompanied by a news release from AFBF entitled, "Poll shows Americans' unwavering trust in farmers and approval of sustainability practices." 2 pages. Dated November13, 2020, and provided online via Agri Marketing Weekly.
10. Freedom of the press, inequality, and environmental policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Martinez-Zarzoso, Inma (author) and Phillips, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-04
- Published:
- UK: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13453
- Journal Title:
- Environment and Development Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(6) : 537-560
- Notes:
- 24 pages, This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of environmental standards by studying the role of income inequality and freedom of the press. Given that evidence of the environmental Kuznets curve has only been found for some countries, it is thus crucial to investigate whether other factors besides income per capita levels may be affecting countries' decisions to pass environmentally-friendly legislation. We investigate the effects that inequality and freedom of the press have on environmental stringency for a sample of OECD and BRIICS countries and a global sample of 82 countries using data over the period 1994–2015. We hypothesize that the more unequal a society is, and the greater the oppression of the press is, the less stringent environmental policies are. The results partially confirm our hypothesis. In particular, lack of press freedom is negatively correlated with environmental stringency, whereas inequality shows a non-linear effect only for non-high-income countries.