Online from publication. 3 pages., "Retailers care about sustainability because consumers care, but for many the pursuit of sustainability tends to be more of an afterthought than top priority. Sustainability is valued highly by growers, retailers and consumers, but there is not always common understanding of what it means."
Reviewer of a book by Marc Landy, Environmental Impact Statement Glossary, comments on the varied and complex dimensions of meaning related to environmental issues.
USA: Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27088
Notes:
Communications Research Report. 27 pages., Focus group report prepared for the National Association of Conservation Districts, Natural Resources Conservation Service and the National Association of State Conservation Agencies. Executive summary on file in print formj and available online at www.ssi.nrcs.usda.gov/publications/2_Tech_Reports/T016a_focusexec.html.
INTERPAKS, Presents and discusses holistic models for the viable transfer of technology involving linkages with the resource base and the societal patterns. notes examples of such transfers, both appropriate and inappropriate. Aspects of holistic systems discusses include the efficiencies of the systems, technological linkages, and growth strategies. Tacitly postulates that in view of the shortage of energy and/or its increasing cost, that the technologies of developed countries will approach those of developing countries. Further states that countries will be grouped into ecoregions having the greatest ties of trade, culture, and technology with their neighbors.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36211
Notes:
Section 3 in Don Richardson and Lynnita Paisley (eds.), The first mile of connectivity, Communication for Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Via online. 15 pages.
Authors emphasize the growing need for standardized terminology when explaining soil, plant and livestock management practices to an increasingly diverse array of producers.
Alison, Kathleen (author), Bentz, Robert P. (author), and Woods, John L. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1987-07
Published:
Egypt
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08027
Notes:
john L. Woods Collection, Draft report to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the U. S. Agency for International Development. 100 pages. File also contains a related trip report, several charts, a survey questionnaire and other items.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12359
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 1047-1058 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 2. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23348
Notes:
Alternet, a project of the Independent Media Institute. 6 pages., Describes some potentials and risks of nanotechnology, as developed within the food sector. Includes discussion of consumer trust and public concerns.
Online journal. 2 pages., Author comments on meanings of these terms: sustainable agriculture, factory farm, family farm, local food, and organic and natural.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22525
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Delivered to the Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 1922. Annual report, pp. 8-12., Examines the relationship between state farm papers and national farm papers/magazines.
Kirschenmann, Frederick (author / Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture) and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-04-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23919
Notes:
Written for a conference considering Wendell Berry's Unsettling of America 25 years later, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2002. 15 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19790
Notes:
Pages 3-12 in Burton E. Swanson, Robert P. Bentz and Andrew J. Sofranko (eds.), Improving agricultural extension: a reference manual. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 220 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26052
Notes:
Pages 151-168 in Ulrike Grote, Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau (eds.), New frontiers in environmental and social marketing. Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, New York. 241 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21771
Notes:
Pages 3-36 in Sandra Braman (ed), Biotechnology and communication: the meta-technologies of information. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 287 pages.
Survey and auction results reveal a lack of understanding of the label's meaning as well as a disconnect between the label's function (involving production methods) and consumers' motivations for buying organic (e.g., support for a local sustainable food system).
"From the Editor" column online from this periodical. 2 pages., Addresses the question of why "communication" is so difficult to pin down. Suggests that it boils down to learning the fundamentals of grammar and writing - striving for perfection with the understanding that you will fall well short of it. And continuing to learn, including being involved with CCA.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
1970-07-28
Published:
Denmark: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization International Labour Organisation
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19395
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp 143-153; from "World conference on agricultural education and training : report of the conference" Copenhagen, Denmark 28 July - 8 August 1970; Volume 1, Proceedings of the Conference
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25587
Notes:
Pages 161-178 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20154
Notes:
Pages 4-10 in Stuart U. Rich (ed.,) Public relations in an era of public involvement: challenge for the timber industry. University of Oregon Press, Eugene, Oregon. 104 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35799
Notes:
Pages 355-362 in L. John Martin and Ray Eldon Hiebert (eds.), Current issues in international communication. Longman, White Plains, New York. 390 pages.
Online via keyword search of UI Library e-catalog., Analysis of the concepts of "communication" and "development" in relationship to each other within the role of "development communication" in support of rural and economic development.
Sebok, Andras (author), Berczeli, Attila (author), Molnar, Adrienn (author), Van Lembergen, Katrien (author), and Gellynck, Xavier (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2011-02
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00086
Notes:
Pages 261-269 in Proceedings in System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2011 from the 5th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, organized by the International Center for Food Chain and Network Research, University of Bonn, Germany. Symposium in Innsbruck-Igls, Austria, February 14-18, 2011.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11201
Notes:
Online via ProPublica website. 2 pages., Examines issues of bogus labels and related issues in the arena of food distribution, marketing, and communications.
Griffith, William S. (author / Professor of Adult Education, Department of Administrative, Adult and Higher Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C07357
Notes:
See C07353 for original, In: Donald J. Blackburn (ed.) Extension Handbook: Processes and Practices, 2nd edition, 1994. Toronto, Canada: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc. p. 27-35
Burnett, Claron (author), Kroupa, Eugene A. (author), Meiller, Larry R. (author), and Peters, James (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1970-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10659
Notes:
Eugene A. Kroupa Collection, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Agricultural College Editors, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 13 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00546
Notes:
Pages 205-219 in Srinivas R. Melkote and Sandhya Rao (eds.) Critical issues in communication: looking inward for answers. Essays in honor of K.E. Eapen. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. 491 pages.
Marcucci, John L. (author / Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX) and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1990-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06440
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Contains Table of Contents and Introduction only, Morrilton, AR : Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1990. 39 p. (Multipurpose Tree Species network Research Series, Paper Number 6)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C37024
Notes:
4 pages., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces he will ask the White House Rural Council and Congress to reduce the number of federal government definitions of rural America.
Ebsco via UI subscription., Author discusses use of terms such as "farm fresh" in milk advertising and the part such techniques play in a long-term debasement of language.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07829
Notes:
USDA 388-74, Address by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz before the Mid-Winter convention of the Oklahoma Press Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 15, 1974, 10:00 a.m., CDT.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Format:
Glossary
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26269
Notes:
Via e-Agriculture.org. Home page of searchable site. 1 page., Alphabetical listing of agricultural terms, as related to electronic technologies for communicating.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 195 Document Number: D07982
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection, Report RB #340. Development Training and Communication Planning, UNDP Asia and Pacific Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. 7 pages. Also, article of same title by author in AAACE, 60(2) : 7-12. April-June 1977. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Blitstein, Jonathan L. (author), Evans, W. Douglas (author), and Driscoll, David L. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01362
Notes:
Pages 25-41 in W. Douglas Evans and Gerard Hastings (eds.), Public health branding: applying marketing for social change. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 304 pages.
Hooker, Neal H. (author), Ernst, Stan (author), Heilig, Julia (author), and Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25713
Notes:
Posted at http://aede.osu.edu/resources/docs/pdf/104B27F2-1508-4C42-A95DC32539B3BF26.pdf, First Report: AEDE-FR-0006. 2 pages.
Author argued that the emergence of transnational crises and threats such as the avian flu epidemic and climate change call for new ways of analysing news. "...the concept of global journalism is under theoretical development and still in need of a more stringent definition."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30498
Notes:
Via Food Systems Insider. 1 page., About a petition from the Corn Refiners Association to the FDA requesting the option to use "corn sugar" as an alternative name for "high fructose corn syrup."
