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312. Transforming Traditional Agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schultz, Theodore W. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1964
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D04644
- Notes:
- Studies in Comparative Economics 3, Preface and Table of Contents Only, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
313. Transforming landscapes and mindscapes through regenerative agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gordon, Ethan (author), Davila, Frederico (author), and Riedy, Chris (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-02
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13381
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 39 : 809-826
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Agriculture occupies 38% of the planet’s terrestrial surface, using 70% of freshwater resources. Its modern practice is dominated by an industrial–productivist discourse, which has contributed to the simplification and degradation of human and ecological systems. As such, agricultural transformation is essential for creating more sustainable food systems. This paper focuses on discursive change. A prominent discursive alternative to industrial–productivist agriculture is regenerative agriculture. Regenerative discourses are emergent, radically evolving and diverse. It is unclear whether they have the potential to generate the changes required to shift industrial–productivist agriculture. This paper presents a literature-based discourse analysis to illustrate key thematic characteristics of regenerative agricultural discourses. The analysis finds that such discourses: situate agricultural work within nested, complex living systems; position farms as relational, characterised by co-evolution between humans and other landscape biota; perceive the innate potential of living systems as place-sourced; maintain a transformative openness to alternative thinking and practice; believe that multiple regenerative cultures are necessary for deeply regenerative agriculture; and depart from industrialism to varying degrees. The paper concludes by reviewing three transformative opportunities for regenerative discourses—discourse coalitions, translocal organising and collective learning.
314. Transforming to a regenerative U.S agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Day, Cathy (author) and Cramer, Sarah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-11
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13382
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 : 585-601
- Notes:
- 17 pages, U.S. agriculture is both a major source of global food and a key contributor to multiple interconnected crises. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and severe impacts on soil and water quality are among the challenges caused by U.S. industrial agriculture. Regenerative methods of farming are necessary to confront all these challenges simultaneously, in addition to addressing the increasing challenges to farm labor conditions. Transforming U.S. agriculture to a regenerative system will require a focus on creating traction for the values, beliefs, worldviews, and paradigms that effectively support such transformation while decreasing the friction that works against them. With a focus on creating traction for transformation, we review the factors and processes that tend to promote and maintain ecological improvements on farms. Starting from a case study that points to some of the sources of friction and traction in the current U.S. agricultural system, we use the framework of three spheres of transformation to focus discussion on how processes that form beliefs and values shape and can reshape farming. We develop a series of points of entry for engaging the systemic changes that will offer farmers traction for transformation. We review literature on agricultural networks, polycentric governance, social learning, agricultural education, and farmer characteristics that lend themselves to ecologically mindful change, thereby identifying interventions that tend to provide traction for change. These approaches, and the supports that allow rural communities and the people that work in them to survive and thrive, are necessary to create the traction needed for farms to undergo a shift to regenerative agricultural practices. We link these changes to the promise of the twentieth century New Deal agricultural programs and the potential of the Green New Deal.
315. U.S. Agricultural Communicators' Congress
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Du Pont Agricultural Chemical Department
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 32-69; Folder: MS.12.63 Document Number: D02617
- Notes:
- 21p, John Harvey Collection
316. US-China Agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 1981-11
- Published:
- USA: CTPS-USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: S-W; Folder: V1.12.U.359 Document Number: D01757
- Journal Title Details:
- 1
- Notes:
- 28p, two copies, Volume One Number One Collection; John Harvey Collection
317. USAgriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Newspaper
- Publication Date:
- 1993-04-06
- Published:
- USA: Intertec Publishing Corporation
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: OS RS.12; Folder: RS.12.U.154 Document Number: D03628
- Journal Title:
- 110
- Journal Title Details:
- 2
- Notes:
- Last Issue; 16 pages, John Harvey Collection; Rare Serial Collection
318. Uncritical and unbalanced coverage of synthetic biology in the Nordic press
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ancillotti, Mirko (author), Holmberg, Niklas (author), Lindfelt, Mikael (author), and Eriksson, Stefan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10594
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(2), 235–250.
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., Synthetic biology will probably have a high impact on a variety of fields, such as healthcare, environment, biofuels, agriculture, and so on. A driving theme in European research policy is the importance of maintaining public legitimacy and support. Media can influence public attitudes and are therefore an important object of study. Through qualitative content analysis, this study investigates the press coverage of synthetic biology in the major Nordic countries between 2009 and 2014. The press coverage was found to be event-driven and there were striking similarities between countries when it comes to framing, language use, and treated themes. Reporters showed a marked dependence on their sources, mainly scientists and stakeholders, who thus drives the media agenda. The media portrayal was very positive, with an optimistic look at future benefits and very little discussion of possible risks.
319. Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chesney, Thomas (author), Evans, Keith (author), Gold, Stefan (author), and Trautrims, Alexander (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Published:
- Spain: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10298
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal Title Details:
- 214 : 696-704
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case, we find that labour exploitation flourishes in communities of like-minded companies that do not care about mainstream norms. We confirm which socio-economic aspects of labour demand/supply lead to slavery, while challenging the assumption that markets which are dominated by few employers are more prone to exploiting workers. We find that, regarding isolation and connectedness of employers, cluster effects and intense inter-employer communication are particularly effective drivers of underpayment if the cluster is homogenous in terms of wage level and if it is isolated from law-abiding employers. This means that employers tend to confirm and reinforce each other in their illegal behaviour, thus creating enclaves in which non-standard norms prevail and worker exploitation is regarded as legitimate. On the other hand, we see that breaking the isolation of employees among each other only increases pay levels if there are law-abiding employers, pointing to the potentially beneficial role social business and entrepreneurs, state-owned companies, or public entrepreneurs could play for transforming labour conditions of entire markets.
320. Up Front
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 1999 (1st Quarter)
- Published:
- USA: Gold Harvest Seeds, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Si-W V1.14; Folder: V1.14.U.214 Document Number: D03471
- Journal Title:
- 1
- Journal Title Details:
- 1
- Notes:
- 15 pgs, Volume One Number One Collection, James F. Evans Collection