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    1. A new path forward for food brands losing trust

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2020
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11291
    Notes:
    3 pages., Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri, USA., Summary of findings from a new study focused on "The 25 most trusted brands in America" from Morning Consult. Results showed reductions in food-related food marketers in the list, among older to younger consumer segments.

    2. Between words: a generational discussion about farming knowledge sources

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    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.

    3. How long do floods throughout the millennium remain in the collective memory?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fanta, Vaclav (author), Salek, Miroslav (author), and Sklenicka, Petr (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-03-07
    Published:
    UK: Nature Portfolio
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13225
    Journal Title:
    Nature Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    V.9, N.1105
    Notes:
    9 pages, Is there some kind of historical memory and folk wisdom that ensures that a community remembers about very extreme phenomena, such as catastrophic floods, and learns to establish new settlements in safer locations? We tested a unique set of empirical data on 1293 settlements founded in the course of nine centuries, during which time seven extreme floods occurred. For a period of one generation after each flood, new settlements appeared in safer places. However, respect for floods waned in the second generation and new settlements were established closer to the river. We conclude that flood memory depends on living witnesses, and fades away already within two generations. Historical memory is not sufficient to protect human settlements from the consequences of rare catastrophic floods.

    4. Identifying and interpreting market information when making business decisions

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Stamenkovic, Sasa (author) and Stamatovic, Milan (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11311
    Journal Title:
    Ekonomika
    Journal Title Details:
    64(3) : 103-121
    Notes:
    Presents "some of the challenges arising from the growing amounts of information available and exhausting the managements when defining the direction of future development of a company."

    6. Mobile technology and home broadband 2019

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Anderson, Monica (author)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11298
    Notes:
    7 pages., Online from Internet and Technology, Pew Research Center., "37% of Americans go online mostly using a smartphone, and these devices are increasingly cited as a reason for not having a high-speed internet connection at home."