Hannam, A. J. (author) and McGregor Marketing Pty Ltd (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C13117
Journal Title Details:
36 pages
Notes:
RIRDC Research Report in human capital, communications and information systems, Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC), Barton, ACT, Australia
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: D06673
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Online via Sullivan Higdon & Sink. 3 pages., News summary of a 2016 FoodThink study among U.S. consumers. Refers to upswing in consumer perception of the food industry since tracking began in 2012.
Saxowsky, D.M. (author), Krause, J.H. (author), and Gustafson, C.R. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1998-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10133
Notes:
search from AgEcon., Agricultural Economics Report 405. September 1998, 47 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF K bytes, Literature reports that small and medium firms face greater difficulty in obtaining the necessary export market information and in obtaining financing than do larger firms. Accordingly, the United States has many export promotion and enhancement services, but there is little documentation on the impacts of these services on small and medium rural and
agricultural firms. The objectives of this project were to 1) analyze the export assistance needs of small and medium rural and agricultural firms operating in the Northern Plains region at different stages of the export or internationalization process, 2) identify available export assistance and promotion services offered at the federal and state levels to meet the needs of these firms, and 3) identify factors that may increase the effectiveness of export assistance programs. The primary assistance these firms wanted from the government was help in documenting their exports. The primary reasons firms did not seek government assistance were a lack of knowledge of the service and the service is not useful. The most often used non-government information sources were trade or industry associations and banks. Accordingly, policy makers should emphasize programs that complement efforts of private organizations and that target the needs and interests of the firms. Keywords: export, rural, agriculture, export assistance, Northern Plains, government
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25053
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Retrieved December 12, 2006., Via AgriMarketing e-news. 2 pages., Commission finds that RFD-TV is acting like a commercial enterprise instead of a noncommercial entity with an educational mission, so may not use DBS set-aside capacity to air the Superior livestock auctions.
Hauser, Michael (author), Lindtner, Mara (author), Prehsler, Sarah (author), Probst, Lorenz (author), and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
2016-07-30
Published:
Austria: Science Direct
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10962
9 pages, via online journal, Farmers who engage in farmer participatory research (FPR) change their established social roles in households and communities. As such, comprehension of farmers’ role transitions is important to understand the extrinsic and intrinsic factors impeding or supporting the uptake and use of FPR by farmers. The existing FPR literature, however, does not address such role transitions. In this study, we analyzed farmers’ experiences with FPR and underlying role transitions in a commercial organic agriculture project in western Uganda. We drew on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews, group discussions, and observations involving farmers and extension workers. Our results suggest extrinsic and intrinsic factors affect farmers’ self-conception, influencing their willingness to participate in FPR. The level of alignment between the self-conception and the anticipated role determines farmers’ decision regarding participation in FPR and affects their response pattern. Farmers’ response pattern and individual set of inhibitors and facilitators lead to the experience of role insufficiency or role mastery, which is crucial for farmers’ continuation or termination of on-farm experiments. Understanding and facilitating role transitions is, therefore, essential for sustaining on-farm experiments, which complements current technical FPR training.
A version of this article appears in print on September 6, 2015, Section A, Page 1 of the New York Edition of the New York Times with the headline, "Emails reveal academic ties in a food war.", Examines lobbying activities of firms and interest groups in the debate over bioengineered foods - and involving third-party scientists "and their supposedly unbiased research." Includes examples of interactions and financial support for university scientists by commercial firms.
