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    2. An 89% solution adoption rate at a two-year follow-up: evaluating the effectiveness of an animated agricultural video approach

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bello-Bravo, Julia (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-12-01
    Published:
    International: Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12388
    Journal Title:
    Information Technology for Development
    Journal Title Details:
    Issue 3
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    15 pages., Securing the adoption of scalable agro-educational information and communication technology (ICT) solutions by farmers remains one of the international development community’s most elusive goals – in part due to two key gaps in the data: (1) limited comparisons of competing knowledge-delivery methods, and (2) few to no follow-ups on long-term knowledge retention and solution adoption. Addressing both of these gaps, this follow-up study measures farmer knowledge retention and solution adoption two years after being trained on an improved postharvest bean storage method in northern Mozambique. The results found animated-video knowledge delivery at least as effective as a traditional extension approach for knowledge retention (97.9%) and solution adoption (89%). As animated video can more cost-effectively reach the widest – even geographically isolated – populations, it readily complements extension services and international development community efforts to secure knowledge transfer and recipient buy-in for innovations. Implications and future research for adult learning are also discussed.

    3. Are consumers willing to pay for sustainability-related poultry practices? The findings are in!

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    USA: FMI Foundation, Arlington,Virginia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11434
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    5 pages., Online from FMI Foundation., This report summarizes findings of an online survey distributed to 2,000 U.S. egg/chicken consumers with demographics representing the U.S. population. Findings indicated that "price is a significant driver for the majority of consumers, that consumer response is sensitive to information provided about cage-free production practices, and that willingness-to-pay for cage-free eggs changes in the presence of other label attributes."

    4. Bayer's chairman of the board announces new transparency, R&D efforts

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2019-06-14
    Published:
    International: Henderson Communications, LLC
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10563
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    2 pages., From Bayer AG - online via AgriMarketing Weekly., Leverkusen, Germany - Bayer is raising the bar in transparency, sustainability and engagement, reflecting its heightened responsibility and potential as a new leader in agriculture. "We're making good progress on integrating the acquired agriculture business, and are now starting to implement a series of measures to drive transparency and sustainability across our business," Werner Baumann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG, said on Friday.

    5. Can healthier food demand be linked to farming systems' sustainability? the case study of the Mediterranean diet

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Campos, Susana (author) and Madureira, Lívia (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-06
    Published:
    Germany: CENTMA Research
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12703
    Journal Title:
    International Journal on Food System Dynamics
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol 10, N.3
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    16 pages, Promoting healthier diets is strategic to solve the global societal challenge of excessive and unhealthy calorie intake that causes obesity and overweight and is responsible for chronic diseases that burden healthcare systems. The relationship between food and personal health is well established and in recent years it has originated a number of dietary recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) focused on encouraging healthier diets. The environmental impact of food intake and of particular diets is a growing research area. However, neither research nor public policies, in particular, have been able so far to establish a link between promoting healthier diets and their impact on enhancing environmentally healthier farming systems and the sustainability of rural landscapes. This paper addresses this gap by presenting a multidisciplinary literature review which combines evidence from nutrition and health sciences with that from environmental, agrarian and sustainability studies on the impacts of foods and dietary patterns on the environment, ecosystems and rural landscape. This integrate d review, complemented with data analysis, highlights the Mediterranean diet as a healthier dietary pattern whose promotion could be beneficial to recover or maintain the sustainability of Mediterranean rural landscape. Hence, the second part of the paper focus on discussing the role of public policies in enabling the link between enhancing healthier diets and healthier farming systems in order to sustain rural landscapes since these play a key role in the sustainability of Mediterranean rural areas.

    7. Environmental impacts and consumer preference for sustainably cultivated Japanese mustard spinach, komatsuna

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Seo, Yuna (author), Someya, Yuki (author), and Dowaki, Kiyoshi (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-01
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10521
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Journal Title Details:
    231: 364-369
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    6 pages., via online journal., Sustainable agriculture is spreading in Japan in response to growing concerns about the environmental burden of the agriculture sector, but less than 1% of the total crop area for each vegetable in Japan is grown sustainably. Environmentally friendly agricultural products are produced by using organic and low-input farming techniques; low-input farming aims to reduce chemical inputs, such as fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, by half. Here, we used komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach, Brassica rapa var. perviridis) as a model vegetable to study the environmental impact of low-input farming and ways to promote the purchase of organically and low-input farmed vegetables. We first assessed greenhouse gas emissions resulting from organic, low-input, and conventional farming of komatsuna. We also evaluated the effectiveness of providing consumers with detailed farm management and seasonality information to market organically and low-input farmed vegetables. We estimated marginal willingness-to-pay (MWTP) using choice-based conjoint analysis, based on attributes of price, fertilizer use, pesticide use, and region of origin. For seasonality, the questionnaire incorporating these attributes was conducted twice: once assuming purchasing in season, the other out of season. The greenhouse gas emissions of organic farming per area (196.7 kg CO2-eq/10 a/year) and per yield (72.3 kg CO2-eq/t/year) were less than those of low-input (322.6 kg CO2-eq/10 a/year, 120.7 kg CO2-eq/t/year) and conventional (594.0 kg CO2-eq/10 a/year, 220.7 kg CO2-eq/t/year) farming. MWTPs were highest for pesticide-free komatsuna (76.9 yen out of season, 66.2 yen in season), followed by full organic fertilizer (66.0 yen out of season, 63.4 yen in season), half organic fertilizer (35.8 yen out of season, 19.8 yen in season), and half pesticide (29.2 yen out of season, 21.0 yen in season). Consumers showed greater preference for organically and low-input farmed komatsuna out of season than in season. Consumers were more interested in pesticide information than in fertilizer and region of origin information. Our findings suggest that providing detailed cultivation and seasonality information would be a beneficial consumer communication tool to increase the market for sustainable agricultural products.

    8. Highlighting a key question for the common agricultural policy: adoption of agriculture system types

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Papadopoulos, Sotirios (author), Markopoulos, Theodoros (author), Chousou, Charoula (author), Natos, Dimitrios (author), and Mattas, Konstadinos (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-06
    Published:
    Germany: CENTMA Research
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12702
    Journal Title:
    International Journal on Food System Dynamics
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol.10, N.3
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    12 pages, One of the key questions that concerns policy makers, related to the long term planning of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is the form of agriculture that farmers intend to follow in the future. In order to highlight that question, a sample of producers from the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Greece were surveyed and analyzed in order to identify and assess the factors that influence farmers’ adoption of organic, conventional or integrated agriculture systems. The paper methodologically applies double-valued logistic regressions, one for each form of agriculture, to the selected sample. Results indicate that producers' training and high awareness of CAP policies are positively correlated with the future adoption of organic farming systems, while the adoption of integrated agriculture depends on producers’ age as well as their positive or negative opinions regarding the conventional agricultural system.

    10. Moving society to a sustainable future: the framing of sustainability in a constructive media outlet

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Atanasova, Dimitrinka (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-01-01
    Published:
    Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10649
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    13(5): 700-711
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    13 pages., via online journal., News reporting on sustainability has been criticized for (1) having a limited coverage of solutions, (2) reporting on solutions with a negative bias, (3) being dominated by sources from government and mainstream business, and (4) promoting frames that prioritize the role of the market and techno-scientific solutions, which leave unchallenged the unsustainable behavior of consumer societies and the focus on economic growth. This study was the first to examine how sustainability is reported in a constructive media outlet and found that articles (1) consistently elaborated solutions, (2) described them in optimistic ways, (3) quoted various sources, and (4) developed a frame that challenged consumerism and critiqued society’s preoccupation with growth while helping to imagine a desirable sustainable future. It is thus argued that this novel, constructive approach to journalism can help move society to a sustainable future by expanding the repertoire of culturally-resonant stories to live by.