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2. Farmers markets and single-use plastic: why environmentally conscious consumers don’t bring reusable bags
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hardy, Scott (author) and Bartolotta, Jill (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-10
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12407
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, Iss. 4
- Notes:
- 10 pages, This study looks at the role of Extension in helping local officials reduce plastic bag use at farmers markets in three Lake County, OH communities. We distributed free reusable bags to shoppers and conducted an education and outreach program. We then took observations to determine if the free reusable bags were being used. We also invited shoppers to take a voluntary survey about their environmental attitudes, why or why not they use the reusable bags, and how best to reduce plastic bag use moving forward. Results from the study suggest that supplying free reusable bags at farmer markets is not an effective strategy for Extension professionals attempting to reduce plastic bag use. Instead, we recommend working with local officials to develop financial incentives and disincentives tied to the type of bag option shoppers use, implement plastic bag bans at markets, and conduct locally-focused education and outreach. Although shoppers’ environmental literacy and desire for sustainability is high, it is shown that behavior change is unlikely to occur without financial or policy incentives.
3. Science - especially climate research - needs a "sunshine" law
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thacker, Paul D. (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12108
- Notes:
- Online from Radio Free. 3 pages., Author reports on helping the U.S. Senate draft and pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act a decade ago. It requires companies to report monies and gifts they give physicians, which are known to influence what doctors prescribe or promote. "We need a 'sunshine law' for science that would expose all sorts of conflicts of interest and industry manipulation that skew research on food, synthetical chemicals, pesticides, air pollution, genetic technology, and the climate."
4. Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ding, Yihong (author), Balcombe, Kelvin (author), and Robinson, Elizabeth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03-11
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12350
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 27, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 15 pages, This paper studies Chinese grape growers’ time discounting and its implications for the adoption of technology that can reduce the negative effects of increasing precipitation. Using primary data collected in Xinjiang Province, we undertook a contingent valuation of rain covers that protect fruit from rain and estimated a discounted utility model using these data. Using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, we find that local grape growers discount the future very heavily, with a discount rate of 0.17 per year, which is almost four times higher than the Chinese market interest rate. Farmers also tend to underestimate the benefits of adopting covers, with their purchase decisions appearing to largely depend on their past actual losses rather than future anticipated losses. These findings have broader implications for policies promoting proactive adaptation in response to likely increased rainfall in the region. Targeting farmers who give lower weight to events far off in the future and understanding that many farmers may tend only to make adoption decisions that have strong short-term benefits could improve the efficacy of climate policies that target agricultural technologies.