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    1. Understanding consumer belief of locavorism on food fonsumption at farmers’ markets: implications for extension professionals

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lee, Youngdeok (author), Sneed, Christopher (author), and Childs, Michelle L. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2024-01-01
    Published:
    USA: Clemson University Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13297
    Journal Title:
    The Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    62(1): Article 1
    Notes:
    6 pages, Using an intercept method at two local farmers’ markets (n= 192), this study found the notion that local foods taste better and are more nutritious (i.e., lionization) and the notion that buying locally supports and contributes to the local economy and community (i.e., communization), positively influences consumers’ attitude towards shopping at their local farmers’ market. This positive attitude subsequently influences consumer purchase behavior. Extension professionals can utilize these data-driven results to aid in effective farmers’ market promotion by communicating micro-benefits (e.g., nutrition, taste) and macro-benefits (e.g., economic impact) to potential and current farmers’ market consumers.

    2. Eaters, powerless by design

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pollans, Margot J. (author)
    Format:
    Abstract
    Publication Date:
    2022-02-07
    Published:
    USA: University of Michigan Law School
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13368
    Journal Title:
    Michigan Law Review
    Journal Title Details:
    120(4) : 643-690
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    1 page, abstract only, Food law, including traditional food safety regulation, antihunger programs, and food system worker protections, has received increased attention in recent years as a distinct field of study. Bringing together these disparate areas of law under a single lens provides an opportunity to understand the role of law in shaping what we eat (what food is produced and where it is distributed), how much we eat, and how we think about food. The food system is rife with problems— endemic hunger, worker exploitation, massive environmental externalities, and diet-related disease. Looked at in a piecemeal fashion, elements of food law appear responsive to these problems. Looked at as a whole, however, food law appears instead to entrench the existing structures of power that generate these problems. This Article offers a novel conceptual critique of the food system. It argues that food law is built on two contradictory myths: the myth of the helpless consumer who needs government protections from food producers and the myth of the responsible consumer who needs no government protection and can take on the food system’s many problems herself. The first myth is self-actualizing, as the laws that it justifies disempower food consumers and producers. The second myth is self-defeating, as the legal structures that assume consumer responsibility impede meaningful consumer choice. Food law, as it is shaped by these myths, constructs powerlessness by homogenizing— or erasing diversity within—the food system, paralyzing consumers through information control, and polarizing various food system constituents who might otherwise collaborate on reform. Ultimately, food law is designed to thwart food sovereignty. By revealing how the structures of food law itself obstruct reform, this Article also identifies a path forward toward true food sovereignty.

    4. Role of food industry in promoting healthy and sustainable diets

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Miller, Kevin B. (author), Eckberg, James O. (author), Decker, Eric A. (author), and Marinangeli, Christopher P. F. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-08-21
    Published:
    Switzerland: MDPI
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13514
    Journal Title:
    Nutrients
    Journal Title Details:
    13(8) : 2740
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    10 pages, Sustainable food systems are often defined by greenhouse gases, land use, effects on biodiversity, and water use. However, this approach does not recognize the reason food is produced—the provision of nutrients. Recently, the relationship between diets and sustainability has been recognized. Most accepted models of ‘sustainable diets’ focus on four domains: public health, the environment, food affordability, and cultural relevance. Aligned with the FAO’s perspective, truly sustainable diets comprise foods that are affordable, nutritious, developed with ingredients produced in an environmentally friendly manner, and consumer preferred. Identifying solutions to address all four domains simultaneously remains a challenge. Furthermore, the recent pandemic exposed the fragility of the food supply when food accessibility and affordability became primary concerns. There have been increasing calls for more nutrient-dense and sustainable foods, but scant recognition of the consumer’s role in adopting and integrating these foods into their diet. Dietary recommendations promoting sustainable themes often overlook how and why people eat what they do. Taste, cost, and health motivate consumer food purchase and the food system must address those considerations. Sustainable foods are perceived to be expensive, thus marginalizing acceptance by the people, which is needed for broad adoption into diets for impactful change. Transformational change is needed in food systems and supply chains to address the complex issues related to sustainability, taste, and cost. An emerging movement called regenerative agriculture (a holistic, nature-based approach to farming) provides a pathway to delivering sustainable foods at an affordable cost to consumers. A broad coalition among academia, government, and the food industry can help to ensure that the food supply concurrently prioritizes sustainability and nutrient density in the framework of consumer-preferred foods. The coalition can also help to ensure sustainable diets are broadly adopted by consumers. This commentary will focus on the challenges and opportunities for the food industry and partners to deliver a sustainable supply of nutrient-dense foods while meeting consumer expectations.

    5. ‘I will know it when I taste it’: trust, food materialities and social media in Chinese alternative food networks

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Martindale, Leigh (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-06
    Published:
    United States: Springer Nature
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12225
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Journal Title Details:
    v. 38, iss. 2
    Notes:
    15 pages, Trust is often an assumed outcome of participation in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as they directly connect producers with consumers. It is based on this potential for trust “between producers and consumers” that AFNs have emerged as a significant field of food studies analysis as it also suggests a capacity for AFNs to foster associated embedded qualities, like ‘morality’, ‘social justice’, ‘ecology’ and ‘equity’. These positive benefits of AFNs, however, cannot be taken for granted as trust is not necessarily an outcome of AFN participation. Using Chinese case studies of AFNs, which are characterised by a distinct form of trust pressure—consumers who are particularly cynical about small scale farmers, food safety and the organic credentials of producers—this paper highlights how the dynamics of trust are in constant flux between producers and consumers. I suggest that it is the careful construction of the aesthetic and multi-sensory qualities of food, which is often celebrated via social media, that human centred relations in Chinese AFNs are mediated. This leads to two key conclusions: first, that the key variable for establishing trust is satisfying the consumer’s desire for safe (i.e. "fresh") food; and second, the materiality of the food and the perception of foods materiality (especially through social media), must both be actively constructed by the farmer to fit the consumer’s ideal of freshness.

    6. Consumers’ and Farmers’ Perceptions in Europe Regarding the Use of Composted Bedding Material from Cattle

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Klopčič, Marija (author), Erjavec, Karmen (author), Waldrop, Megan (author), Roosen, Jutta (author), Engel, Petra (author), Galama, Paul (author), and Kuipers, Abele (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-04-29
    Published:
    Switzerland: MDPI
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12508
    Journal Title:
    Sustainability
    Journal Title Details:
    13 (9)
    Notes:
    10 pages, By-products like sawdust and straw are applied in compost bedded-pack barns (CBP) for cattle. These materials, which are gradually mixed with excreta and undergo a composting process, serve as a lying bed for the cattle. This study aims to assess the perception of consumers and farmers regarding the use of CBP during the grazing season of cattle for raising other animals or for growing food crops. This was examined by combining surveys with consumers from eight European countries and cattle farmers, focus groups with consumers, and in-depth interviews with individual farmers who implemented alternative uses of compost. The results showed that farmers preferred the compost bedded-pack system to the cubicle system in terms of sustainability and market aspects, although the cost of the bedding material required for CBP was seen as a significant negative aspect. Around half of all consumers indicated that the compost can be used for non-edible products and 26% indicated the compost can be used for raising other animals. Furthermore, 5% of consumers felt that compost should not be used for any other purpose. There were statistically significant differences between countries; therefore, regional specificities should be taken into account when marketing products from compost in CBP barns.

    7. Awareness of sustainable consumption and its implications for the selection of food products

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gorynska-Goldmann, Elzbieta (author), Adamczyk, Grazyna (author), and Gazdecki, Michal (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016
    Published:
    Poland
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10925
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
    Journal Title Details:
    3(41) : 301-308
    Notes:
    The aim of this paper is to present the concept of sustainable consumption, its aspects, awareness and implications for choices concerning food products. Particular attention was paid to consumer choices based on the perception of foodstuff packaging and the perception of the importance of labelling information. Empirical studies have shown that Polish consumers are increasingly more aware of the need for action on sustainable consumption, although it is not always re- fl ected in tangible activities in this area. Still for the majority of Poles it is synonymous with ecoconsumption, and engaging consumers in the concepts of sustainability is manifested e.g. in waste sorting, waste reduction, selection of organic, local products, in ecological packaging, for which they are ready to pay higher prices or search for information on sustainable products. Unfortunately, at present the scale of these activities and attitudes is still limited, thus the primary objective of the environmental, social and economic policies is to provide systematic and intensive consumer education and promote sustainable development.

    8. Behind a veil of secrecy: animal abuse, factory farms, and Ag-Gag legislation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fiber-Ostrow, Pamela (author) and Lovell, Jarret S. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11527
    Journal Title:
    Contemporary Justice Review
    Journal Title Details:
    19(2) : 230-249
    Notes:
    21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This paper exposes the failure of government institutions to protect animals on factory farms while simultaneously silencing what is currently the only available mechanism for Americans to learn about abuse on factory farms. It also explores the Constitutional implications of Ag-Gag laws.

    9. From haunting hunger to...increasing food security in latin america and the caribbean

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
    Format:
    Special Report
    Publication Date:
    2009-01-01
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Presentations at Professional Meetings File Document Number: D01577
    Notes:
    Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, USAID/lac/rsd/bbeg, 39 pages.

    11. Learning sustainable development with a farm enterprise and its community

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Allaire, Framk (author), Stinner, Benjamin (author), and Stinner, Deborah (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 120 Document Number: C13688
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
    Journal Title Details:
    19(1): 65-67
    Notes:
    3 p.

    12. Fertilizer pricing

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    1984-08-13
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1; Folder: IFDC File Document Number: D01438
    Notes:
    Conference paper with slides, Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Fertilizer marketing management training program,International fertilizer development center (IFDC). Muscle Shoals, Alabama 16 pages with 32 visuals.

    13. Consumer Identification

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    1982-08-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1; Folder: IFDC File Document Number: D01432
    Notes:
    Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Prepared for the fertilizer marketing course for africa. University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria,9 pages.