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12. Every plate counts: evaluation of a food waste reduction campaign in a university dining hall
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ellison, Brenna (author), Savchenko, Olesya (author), Nikolaus, Cassandra J. (author), and Duff, Brittany R.L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10278
- Journal Title:
- Resources, Co nservation and Recycling
- Journal Title Details:
- 144 : 276-284
- Notes:
- Via UI online subscription., The foodservice industry generates food waste by disposing of unserved food in the kitchen as well as uneaten food from consumers’ plates. In all-you-care-to-eat dining settings, such as university dining halls or buffet-style restaurants, food waste can be problematic because there is little monetary incentive to take less food. In addition, university dining facilities primarily serve young consumers who tend to be more wasteful than the average adult, further increasing the likelihood of waste. Appeals to money-saving have generally been identified as the best motivator to reduce consumer food waste; however, alternative motivators are needed when the quantity of food and its associated cost are not directly linked in all-you-care-to-eat settings. The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of a food waste reduction campaign in a university dining hall. Consumer plate waste was collected, sorted, and weighed in a treatment and comparison dining hall for a semester to assess the impact of the campaign on the quantity and type of food waste. Results reveal that the campaign had a modest, though insignificant, impact on waste behavior, but there were changes in students’ beliefs related to food waste, which may be an important first step to achieving behavioral change.
13. Farmer behaviour as reasoned action: a Critical review of research with the theory of planned behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sok, Jaap (author), Rossi Borges, Joao (author), Schmid, Peter (author), and Ajzen, Icek (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-17
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12366
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 17, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 25 pages, n many countries farmers face pressure to adopt practices to promote sustainability and resilience while ensuring efficient business management to produce food and other agricultural products at reasonable cost. Given a policy context in which voluntary action is preferred over government regulation, understanding farmers’ motivation to embrace recommended practices has become a major subject for research. Increasingly, this endeavour is guided by the theory of planned behaviour, a reasoned action approach (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010). We provide a brief overview of the theory of planned behaviour and an elaboration of good practices in the assessment of the theory’s constructs. We systematically review 124 applications of the theory to farmer behaviour on a number of specific review criteria. Based on observations of improper use, we consider theoretical and methodological issues and provide recommendations for research design and data analysis.
14. Grassland farmers’ attitudes toward climate change in the North German Plain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Eggers, Markus (author), Kayser, Manfred (author), and Isselstein, Johannes (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10508
- Journal Title:
- Regional Environmental Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 15: 607–617
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal., Climate change impacts will affect grassland farming in various ways in the future. Communication and knowledge transfer are crucial to implement on-farm adaptation measures required to meet these challenges in a timely way. Therefore, we need to know how grassland farmers perceive climate change and which factors influence their attitude. We hypothesized that besides direct factors such as region, farm size, age and education, farmers’ socio-cultural background and their beliefs and attitudes are most important in their reaction to climate change. To investigate this, we conducted a survey with extensive on-farm interviews (n = 82) in four distinctive regions in the North German Plain on a gradient from sub-maritime to areas with sub-continental climate. We found that with a more continental climate and less rainfall and with increasing farm size, grassland farmers were more aware of the implications of climate change. In a second step, to categorize the influence of personal beliefs on decisions concerning farming, we applied the typology approach and distinguished four farming styles. Farmers in the four groups differed in terms of climate change awareness and adaptation preferences (P < 0.05). Yield Optimizers and Modernists were more open-minded to rational and economic facts and showed a significantly greater willingness to implement adaptation measures than Idealists and Traditionalists, who need to be addressed at a more emotional level. The results of this study may contribute to the development of better‐targeted adaptation policies that will serve specific groups of farmers more effectively.
15. Human rights, animal wrongs? Exploring attitudes toward animal use and possibilities for change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Knight, Sarah (author), Bard, Kim (author), Vrij, Aldert (author), and Brandon, Doug (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D06991
- Journal Title:
- Society and Animals
- Journal Title Details:
- 18 : 251-272
16. Is farming a belief in northern ghana? exploring the dual-system theory for commerce, culture, religion and technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tanko, Mohammed (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier Sci Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12268
- Journal Title:
- Technology in Society
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 63
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Rice production encountered several challenges, especially among rural farmers in Northern Ghana. The current debate encompasses the belief of cultural norms and religious values as the right theory for the sustainability of agriculture. The belief in abstracts is prioritised to the adoption of improved rice. This paper examined the value attached to traditional rice varieties as a result of societal beliefs, and theoretically underpinned by the Dual-system hypothesis. The finding from three ethnic and religious groups through a survey indicates heterogeneity in the results but also demonstrates the factual importance of culture and religion. This paper, therefore, proposes a new way of categorising farming; as a business and a belief and that policy stream aim at small scale, rural farmers with belief peculiarities needs to adopt cultural and religious strategies to promote adoption.
17. Marketplace meaning guide
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Guide
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Published:
- USA: Meyocks
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13029
- Notes:
- 34 pages
18. Pictorial cigarette pack warnings increase some risk appraisals but not risk beliefs: a meta-analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Noar, Seth M. (author), Rohde, Jacob A. (author), Barker, Joshua O. (author), and Hall, Marissa G. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D11567
- Journal Title:
- Human Communication Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 46
- Notes:
- 1 page., Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association. Special issue article., Authors meta-analyzed 57 studies, conducted in 13 countries with a cumulative N of 42,854. Findings suggested that while pictorial warnings increased affective and some cognitive risk appraisals, they did not increase beliefs about disease risk.
19. Public Attitudes Toward Ecological Restoration in the Chicago Metropolitan Region
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bright, Alan D. (author), Barro, Susan C. (author), and Burtz, Randall T. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-11-30
- Published:
- USA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10346
- Journal Title:
- Society & Natural Resources
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(9):763-785
- Notes:
- 24 pages., Via online journal., We examined the relationship between attitudes toward urban ecological restoration and cognitive (perceived outcomes, value orientation, and objective knowledge), affective (emotional responses), and behavioral factors using residents of the Chicago Metropolitan Region. Positive and negative attitudes were both related to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration. In addition, positive attitudes were related to values while negative attitudes were related to emotions. Attitudes of high and low importance groups were connected to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration; however, attitudes of the high importance group were also related to values, emotions, and behavior. Positive and negative attitude groups differed on perceived outcomes, basic beliefs, knowledge, and behavior. Implications lie in understanding of complex attitudes toward natural resource issues and improved communication efforts to influence or educate the public.
20. Quantifying rice farmers’ pest management decisions: beliefs and subjective norms in stem borer control
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Heong, K.L. (author) and Escalada, M.M. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11478
- Journal Title:
- Crop Protection
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(5)
- Notes:
- 8 pages., via online journal., The paper introduces the pest belief model and Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action to analyze farmers’ decisions in stem borer management. Farmers spent an average of $39/ha (median $18) on insecticides believing that if they had not controlled an average loss of 1004 kg/ha or $402 (median 592, $237) would occur. Farmers’ estimates of the worst attack averaged 19 white heads/m2 (median10) with the associated average loss of 1038 kg/ha or $415 (median 592, $270), implying that farmers’ decisions were guided by the worst attacks. Perceived benefits from insecticides were directly related with farmers’ insecticide use and perceived severity. Perceived susceptibility was also high, with 59% of farmers believing that a loss of 450 kg/ha would be “extremely or very likely”. Farmers believed insecticides could destroy natural enemies but placed only moderate importance to conserving them. Health was believed to be very important but farmers had mixed beliefs that spraying could bring about poor health. This study also provides evidence suggesting high peer pressure on farmers’ spray decisions directly influencing perceived benefits from sprays, insecticide spending and spray frequency.
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