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2. Advisory services and farm-level sustainability profiles: an exploration in nine European countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Herrera, Beatriz (author), Gerster-Bentaya, Maria (author), Tzouramani, Irene (author), Knierim, Andrea (author), and University of Hohenheim Agricultural Economics Research Institute Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Germany: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10258
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(2) : 117-137
- Notes:
- 22 pages., Via online journal., Purpose: This study explores the use of advisory services by farm managers and its linkages with the economic, environmental and social performance of farms. Design/methodology/approach: Using cluster analysis we determined groups of farms according to their sustainability performance and explored the correlations between contacts with advisory services and a set of farm-level sustainability indicators. Findings: There exist significant differences in the number of farmers’ contacts with advisory services across countries, type of farms, farmers’ degree of agricultural education, utilized agricultural area, legal type of farm ownership and economic size of the farms. We identified three groups of farms that have different sustainability performance, are different in farm characteristics and relate differently to advisory services. The number of contacts with advisory services is positively related to the adoption of innovations, the number of information sources utilized and the adoption of farm risk management measures. We find no clear linear relationship between advisory services and environmental sustainability. Theoretical implications: This study derives hypotheses to analyze causalities between indicators of farm-level sustainability and advisory services. Practical implications: Results suggest the importance of taking into account the heterogeneity of farming systems for the design, targeting and evaluation of advisory services. In addition, results confirm the importance of selection of indicators that can be used in multiple sites. Originality/value: We used a harmonized indicator of advisory services and a harmonized set of farm-level sustainability indicators in nine different EU countries that could be used to evaluate the role of advisory services in the achievement of multiple objectives in different groups of farms in multiple sites.
3. Agri-food companies in the social media: a comparison of organic and non-organic firms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jurado, Enrique Bernal (author), Uclés, Domingo Fernández (author), Moral, Adoración Mozas (author), and Viruel, Miguel Jesús Medina (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10682
- Journal Title:
- Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1): 321-334
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Organic agri-food products in Spain face major commercial problems in the home market as a result of consumers’ lack of information about this type of product and difficulties in accessing it, and the considerable price differential between organic products and their conventional equivalents. This study proposes that consideration should be given to social media as a factor for mitigating these commercial problems and improving the competitiveness of organic food companies. Specifically, the aim of this research was to examine the social media penetration and activity of olive oil sector companies and ascertain whether organic and non-organic operators present differences in this respect. To this end, a checklist was used to analyse the social media activity of 663 olive oil companies in total, comprising both organic and non-organic producers. The results reveal statistically significant differences in social media penetration and use by organic and non-organic operators, with the former being more active in these networks. Nevertheless, the social media efforts of organic operators are less effective, owing to the limited demand for their products.
4. An analytic approach to support urban agriculture policies development: case study of Barcelona
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zanasi, Cesare (author) and Di Fiore, Gianluca (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10932
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food System Dynamics
- Notes:
- Conference paper, International European Forum, Innsbruck, Austria, February 5-9, 2018. Pages 271-283 in proceedings published in this journal., The increasing impact due to urban population’s food supply causes a series of negative externalities related to food production, transformation and transportation. FAO and other institutions are trying to integrate traditional models of food supply with alternative ones like Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA). Defining the drivers that motivate the participation in different types of UPA could be useful to plan more participated and effective UPA development policies. Barcelona (Spain) hosts a number of cases representing different declinations that UPA can assume. This work aims at describing the differences in terms of motivations to enter the various typologies of Urban Agriculture (UA) in Barcelona. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews to 4 groups of users representing 3 of the most widespread models of UA initiatives in Barcelona (Allotment Gardens, Community Gardens, Pla Buits.) The results showed that participation in UA is mainly motivated by relational aspects and knowledge exchange and differences exist among the various UA models. Political reasons are mostly influencing the Community Gardeners while Pla Buits users’ mains motivations are related to socialising and Allotment gardeners are mainly motivated by environmental aspects. Differences in the participants’ demographic characteristics also emerged. Better targeted public policies contents and communication strategies for UPA development can thus be derived by the results obtained; to this end, recommendations have been provided. Further research should broaden the range of case studies and the sample size, in order to provide a more effective and comprehensive tool for tailoring UPA developing strategies to different contexts.
5. An angry cow is not a good eating experience: How U.S. and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Khazaal. Natalia (author) and Almiron, Nuria (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11917
- Journal Title:
- Journalism Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(3) : 374-391
- Notes:
- Via UI Library subscription., Study aimed to provide tools to improve the quality of journalism regarding ethical issues that concern our relationship with nonhuman animals. Explored the role of news media (two years of coverage by the New York Times newspaper, U.S., and El Pais, Spain) in constructing perceptions of nonhumans used for food and their treatment. Results showed that both newspapers played a major role in concealing the nonhumans' cruel treatment, but a distinction can be drawn between the crude speciesism of El Pais and the camouflaged, more deceptive style of the New York Times.
6. Análisis de los supuestos epistemológicos que han configurado la comunicación ambiental y la oportunidad de reconfigurar esta disciplina (Analysis of the epistemological assumptions that shaped environmental communication and the opportunity for discipline reconstruction)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Moreno, Oscar Julián Cuesta (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Language:
- Spanish with English / Portuguese abstracts
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Ecuador: Ciespal
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08302
- Journal Title:
- Chasqui
- Journal Title Details:
- 131:123-138
7. Attitudes of meat retailers to animal welfare in Spain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miranda-de la Lama, Genaro C. (author), Sepulveda, Wilmer S. (author), Villarroel, Morris (author), and Maria, Gustavo A. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-05-13
- Published:
- Spain: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10177
- Journal Title:
- Meat Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 95(2013) : 569-575
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal, This study analyzes retailer attitude towards animal welfare in Spain, and how this attitude has changed over recent years (2006–2011). Retailers were concerned about animal welfare issues but a declining trend is observed recently, probably due to the financial crisis. The concern about animal welfare was affected by sex, with women retailers expressing a more positive attitude towards animal welfare issues than men. Retailers, based on their experience, perceive a low level of willingness to pay more for welfare friendly products (WFP) on behalf of their customers. This fact is reflected in the sales of the WFP, which declined from 2006 to 2011. The main reason for consumers to buy WFP, according to retailer perception, is organoleptic quality, with improved welfare being second. The results obtained provide a pessimistic picture in relation to the current market positioning of WFP, which is probably a consequence of market contraction.
8. Breaking the walls of social exclusion of women rural by means of ICTs: The case of 'digital divides' in Galician
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Novo-Corti, Isabel (author), Varela-Candamio, Laura (author), and García-Álvarez, María Teresa (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-01
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07399
- Journal Title:
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Journal Title Details:
- 30 : 497-507
9. Cargill releases its latest survey on what consumers want
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-07
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: D10835
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages.
10. Consumer attitudes towards production diseases in intensive production systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clark, Beth (author), Panzone, Luca A. (author), Stewart, Gavin B. (author), Kyriazakis, Ilias (author), Niemi, Jarkko K. (author), Latvala, Terhi (author), Tranter, Richard (author), Jones, Philip (author), and Frewer, Lynn J. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-10
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10240
- Journal Title:
- PLoS ONE
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(1)
- Notes:
- Many members of the public and important stakeholders operating at the upper end of the food chain, may be unfamiliar with how food is produced, including within modern animal production systems. The intensification of production is becoming increasingly common in modern farming. However, intensive systems are particularly susceptible to production diseases, with potentially negative consequences for farm animal welfare (FAW). Previous research has demonstrated that the public are concerned about FAW, yet there has been little research into attitudes towards production diseases, and their approval of interventions to reduce these. This research explores the public’s attitudes towards, and preferences for, FAW interventions in five European countries (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain and the UK). An online survey was conducted for broilers (n = 789), layers (n = 790) and pigs (n = 751). Data were analysed by means of Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA, exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. The results suggest that the public have concerns regarding intensive production systems, in relation to FAW, naturalness and the use of antibiotics. The most preferred interventions were the most “proactive” interventions, namely improved housing and hygiene measures. The least preferred interventions were medicine-based, which raised humane animal care and food safety concerns amongst respondents. The results highlighted the influence of the identified concerns, perceived risks and benefits on attitudes and subsequent behavioural intention, and the importance of supply chain stakeholders addressing these concerns in the subsequent communications with the public.
11. 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.)
12. Eating meat and climate change: the media blind spot—a study of Spanish and Italian press coverage
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Almiron, Núria (author) and Zoppeddu, Milena (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-09-19
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08437
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (3): 307-325
13. Eco-efficiency among dairy farmers: the importance of socio-economic characteristics and farmer attitudes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Urdiales, Maria Perez (author), Lansink, Alfons Oude (author), and Wall, Alan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Spain: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10186
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Resource Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 64(4): 559-574
- Notes:
- pgs. 559–574, Via online journal, The aim of this paper is to assess the eco-efficiency of dairy farms in Spain. To do so, we use data from a survey carried out in 2010 for the specific purpose of analysing the environmental performance of 50 dairy farms in the Spanish region of Asturias. The survey contains information on nutrients balances and greenhouse gas emissions which is used to calculate environmental pressure indicators. Eco-efficiency is measured using data envelopment analysis. We analyse the influence of farmers’ socio-economic characteristics and attitudes in explaining these eco-efficiency scores using truncated regression and bootstrapping procedures. On average, the dairy farms are found to be highly eco-inefficient. Among our results, farmers that are younger, that plan to continue in operation in the foreseeable future and that participate more in training schemes are found to be more eco-efficient. Self-reported positive environmental habits are also reflected in actual eco-efficient performance. We quantify these potential gains in eco-efficiency through a simulation analysis based on the estimated model’s coefficients.
14. Factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in water allocation trading. A case study in southern Spain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Giannoccaro, Giacomo (author), Castillo, Manuela (author), and Berbel, Julio (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08758
- Journal Title:
- Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(1)
- Notes:
- 13 pages.
15. Food for change: the politics and values of social movements
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pratt, Jeff C. (author) and Luetchford, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- International: PlutoPress, London, England.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07176
- Notes:
- 222 pages.
16. GM foods in Spanish newspapers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramon, Daniel (author), Dorcey, Eavan (author), Gil, Jose V. (author), and Serrano, Antonio (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-07
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05889
- Journal Title:
- Trends in Biotechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(7) : 285-286
17. How grammatical choice shapes media representations of climate (un)certainty
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bailey, Adriana (author), Giangola, Lorine (author), and Boykoff, Maxwell T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07357
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(2) : 197-215
18. Is mobile phone use associated with spacial dimensions? A comparative study on mobile phone use in five European countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fortunati, Leopoldina (author), Manganelli, Anna Maria (author), and de Luca, Federico (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06314
- Journal Title:
- Information, Communication and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(9) : 1057-1075
19. Learning from farmers' experiences with participatory monitoring and evaluation of regenerative agriculture based on visual soil assessment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Soto, Raquel Lujan (author), de Vente, Joris (author), and Padilla, Mamen Cuellar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-27
- Published:
- UK: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13481
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 88 : 192-204
- Notes:
- 13 pages, Participatory action research involving farmers and researchers is crucial to enhance the adoption of farming innovations and ensure the long term sustainability of agroecosystem restoration. However, the factors for successful participatory research for agroecosystem restoration are not always clear and have been rarely evaluated from the perspective of the subjects from whom change is expected. Despite the increasing call for agroecosystem Living Labs, farmers are still seldom involved in structured and shared co-monitoring and co-evaluation of farming innovations as part of participatory monitoring programs. Therefore, we developed a participatory monitoring and evaluation project to evaluate the impacts of regenerative agriculture between farmers and researchers in the Mediterranean drylands of Spain. Here we present and evaluate the project outcomes by reporting farmers’ monitoring results using a co-developed visual soil assessment (VSA) manual, and by documenting farmers’ evaluation of the VSA and other key aspects of the participatory monitoring and evaluation in the third year since the beginning of the project. Farmers’ VSA results pointed out regenerative agriculture as a promising solution to restore degraded agroecosystems in Mediterranean drylands with insights that are complementary to the scientific monitoring. Farmers’ evaluation of the participatory monitoring process revealed the need to enhance farmers’ support for implementation of VSA tools in initial stages, and to include farmers in the design of VSA tools to adjust them to farmers’ priorities, possibilities and needs. Farmers highlighted the importance of the participatory monitoring and evaluation process to enhance knowledge exchange, learning, and capacity building regarding soil quality management to adapt and adopt regenerative agriculture. Our results confirm that including farmers in the design, decision-making and evaluation of research projects for agroecosystem restoration is imperative to enhance efficient, sound and inclusive transitions towards long term sustainable agroecosystems.
20. 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.