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2. Reaching out? Governing weather and climate services (WCS) for farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vedeld, Trond (author), Hofstad, Hege (author), Mathur, Mihir (author), Büker, Patrick (author), and Stordal, Frode (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11503
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 104: 208-216
- Notes:
- 9 pages., via online journal., High-quality weather and climate services (WCS) can be critical for communicating knowledge about current and future weather and climate risks for adaptation and disaster risk management in the agricultural sector. This paper investigates the structure and performance of weather and climate services for farmers from a governance perspective. Empirically the paper compares the institutional design and operations of agro-meteorological services in Maharashtra/India and Norway through a ‘most different case study’ approach. The two cases were selected to represent great diversity in location, scale and institutional design. A governance approach based on semi-direct interviews and policy and institutional analysis was combined with local survey data of farmers’ perceptions and use of the services. Despite the fact that the context for the two agromet advisory services was very different from a climate-weather, eco-agriculture and socio-institutional angle, the analysis reveals great similarities in the services structures and critical governance challenges. In both countries the agromet services communicated knowledge that was largely perceived not to be well tailored to farmers’ needs for decisions in specific crops- and farm operations, spatially too coarse to address local issues, and, often unreliable or inaccurate in terms of the quality of data. Farmers did, however, respond positively to specific and locally relevant information on e.g., warnings about high rainfall and spread of pests. Observing such similarities across very diverse contexts enhances the generalization potential, precisely because they evolved under very different circumstances. Similar observations find support in the wider WCS literature. Based on the empirical findings, we propose a more deliberate approach to institutional design of WCS in order to enhance governance performance and co-creation of the services at local, district and national scales. It is suggested that greater participation of farmers and agricultural extension agents in the co-creation of these services is a necessary means of improving the services, supported by the WCS literature. However, we insist that greater participation is only likely to materialize if the deficiencies in institutional design and knowledge quality and relevance are addressed to greater extent than done today. The comparison between the two services shows that Norway can learn from India that a more ambitious scope and multiple forms of communication, including the use of social media/WhatsApp groups, can facilitate greater awareness and interest among farmers in multi-purpose agromet services for multi-way communication. India can learn from Norway that a more integrated and decentralized institutional design can strengthen the network attributes of the services, foster co-creation, and improve participation of both poor and large-scale farmers and extension agents.
3. Preference for local food as a matter of helping behaviour: Insights from Norway
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Skallerud, Kåre (author) and Wien, Anders H. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-02
- Published:
- Norway: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10250
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- (67) : 79-88
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Consumption of local food is a fast-growing trend supported by local food advocates and governments. This trend has also captured the interest of researchers. The present study draws from the foundational principles of the theoretical perspective of helping behaviour with a view to enhancing the understanding of why people buy local food. This article tests a conceptual framework with proposed relationships between helping behaviour constructs and local food-buying behaviour within a Norwegian context. Local food consumers in Troms County are surveyed, and the results indicate that empathic concern and social concern influence their attitude towards, and preference for, local food. Local patriotism influences the preference for local food even if such consumers evaluate it as being of lower quality and less desirable than other food products. This study is among the first to examine local food-buying behaviour through the lens of prosocial helping behaviour theory. The recommendations for local food producers and local food advocates regarding appealing to consumers’ prosocial helping behaviour propose communication strategies emphasizing the difficulties that local food producers face, portraying local food producers as people deserving of help against national competition and imports, and depicting them as being as loyal to the local community as the local food consumers are.
4. Storytelling through experiencescape: creating unique stories and extraordinary experiences in farm tourism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mei, Xiang Y (author), S Ha˚gensen, Ann-Margret (author), and Kristiansen, Heidi S (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-28
- Published:
- Norway: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10230
- Journal Title:
- Tourism and Hospitality Research
- Notes:
- Via online journal., Creating unique stories through storytelling as a way to stage extraordinary experiences has become increasingly important in the tourism industry, particularly in experience-based activities such as farm tourism. However, limited resources and the lack of knowledge of the experiencescape suggest that many farm tourism operators struggle to integrate the experiencescape as part of storytelling. The research method chosen was an explorative study with the use of semi-structured in-depth interviews with key farm tourism operators in the Inland region in Norway. How stories and concepts are created is dependent on the resources available, the perception of authenticity, the history of the farm as well as the environment. Storytelling can be facilitated through tangible elements in the experiencescape such as the physical environment as well as intangible elements including the interaction and dynamics between the host and guest. The farmer or the person telling the story also need to possess certain skills, engagement, and interest in order to be committed to deliver the story or the concept. Essentially, the farmer becomes a part of the product and the experience.
5. Using photo interviews to explore children's food preferences
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alm, Siril (author) and Olsen, Svein Ottar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-23
- Published:
- Norway: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08181
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (3): 274-282
6. Disaster, risk or opportunity? A ten-country comparison of themes in coverage of the IPCC AR5
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Painter, James (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08852
- Notes:
- Pages 109-128 in Kunelius, Risto Eide, Elisabeth Tegelberg, Matthew Yagodin, Dmitry (eds.), Media and global climate knowledge: journalism and the IPCC. United States: Palgrave Macmillan, New York City, New York. 309 pages.
7. Driving agribusiness with technology innovations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tamanidis, Theodore (author), Viachopoulou, Maro (author), and Papathanasiou, Jason (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International: Hershey: Business Science Reference
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10101
- Notes:
- 384 pages., Book in University of Illinois online collection. 9781522521082 (electronic bk.) 1522521089 (electronic bk.)
8. Organic- and animal welfare-labelled eggs: competing for the same consumers?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gerini, Francesca (author), Alfnes, Frode (author), and Schjøll, Alexander (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03-22
- Published:
- Norway: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08329
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 67 (2): 471-490
9. Making personalised nutrition the easy choice: creating policies to break down the barriers and reap the benefits
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stewart-Knox, B.J. (author), Markovina, J. (author), Rankin, A. (author), Bunting, B.P. (author), Kuznesof, S. (author), Fischer, A.R.H. (author), Van der Lans, L.A. (author), Poinhos, R. (author), de Almeida, M.D.V. (author), Panzone, L. (author), Gibney, M. (author), and Frewer, L.J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11461
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 63 : 134-144
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Via UI online subscription, Researchers examined the degree to which factors which determine uptake of personalised nutrition vary between EU countries to better target policies to encourage uptake, and optimise the health benefits of personalised nutrition technology.
10. Who cares about fish welfare? A Norwegian study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ellingsen, K. (author), Grimsrud, K. (author), Nielsen, H.M. (author), Olesen, I. (author), Honkanen, P. (author), and Navrud, S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01
- Published:
- Norway
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06175
- Journal Title:
- British Food Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 117(1) : 257-273
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