Arnot, Charlie (author / Center for Food Integrity)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2020
Published:
International: Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11706
Notes:
4 pages., Online from publisher website., Perspectives about how consumers will perceive technology in food and agriculture going forward. "...will they view innovation as positive and something they should embrace and support? Or, will innovation be perceived as another looming threat that should be avoided at all costs? The answer to those questions rests with those who bring the technology to market."
8 pages, Public perception about the reality of climate change has remained polarized and propagation of fake information on social media can be a potential cause. Homophily in communication, the tendency of people to communicate with others having similar beliefs, is understood to lead to the formation of echo chambers which reinforce individual beliefs and fuel further increase in polarization. Quite surprisingly, in an empirical analysis of the effect of homophily in communication on the level of polarization using evidence from Twitter conversations on the climate change topic during 2007–2017, we find that evolution of homophily over time negatively affects the evolution of polarization in the long run. Among various information about climate change to which people are exposed to, they are more likely to be influenced by information that have higher credibility. Therefore, we study a model of polarization of beliefs in social networks that accounts for credibility of propagating information in addition to homophily in communication. We find that polarization can not increase with increase in homophily in communication unless information propagating fake beliefs has minimal credibility. We therefore infer from the empirical results that anti-climate change tweets are largely not credible.
21 pages., Credibility is particularly important in organic food systems because there are only marginal visual and sensorial differences between organic and conventionally produced products, requiring consumers to trust in producers’ quality claims. In this article I explore what challenges the credibility of organic food systems and I explore how credibility of organic food systems can be maintained, using the Danish organic food system as a case study. The question is increasingly relevant as the sale of organic food is growing in Denmark as well as globally, and consumers’ expectations of organics continuously evolve. The inquiry is threefold, first I outline a conceptual framework for understanding trust and credibility in the food system, secondly I explore the developments in Danish organic food systems and thirdly discuss the challenges and opportunities for maintaining trust in the Danish organic food system. In the analysis I indicate eight key challenges: (1) unrealistic expectations, (2) blind trust and little motivation for extending their knowledge, (3) consumers assess the overall credibility of organic products, (4) ambitious ethical principles, (5) new consumer groups introduce new expectations, (6) frozen requirements in a changing world, (7) growing imports and labelling and (8) multiple versions of organics and the diversity is growing, as well as four aspects which may maintain the credibility of organics if implemented: (1) coordinate expectations, (2) communicate requested information, (3) institutional reform and (4) open communication of pros and cons of organic production.
West, Gale E. (author) and Ouattara, Lassina (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2014-05
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02721
Notes:
Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2014 AAEA/CAES joint annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 29-30, 2014. 22 pages.
Richards, Timothy J. (author) and Tiwari, Ashutosh (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2014-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02728
Notes:
Paper presented at the 2014 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association joint AAEA/EAAE/CAES symposium: Social networks, social media and the economics of food, Montreal,Canada, May 29-30, 2014. 31 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D02055
Notes:
1 page., A list of questions to determine if the information on a web site is reliable, in terms of: Currency (C), Relevance/Coverage (R), Authority (A), Accuracy (A)and Purpose/Positioning (P).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29320
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Posted at http://www.aejmc.org, Paper presented at the 2009 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-8, 2009.
Bruce, Gordana (author), Critchley, Christine (author), Dempsey, Deborah (author), Gilding, Michael (author), Hardie, Elizabeth (author), Walshe, Jarrod (author), and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27386
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2006-07-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24425
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., CSPI says authors in several leading medical and science journals fail to disclose financial conflicts of interest and journals fail to enforce disclosure policies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24153
Notes:
Reuters via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Person who helped wipe out smallpox around the world suggests that governments fighting bird flu should not use the military or police to enforce public health. It is "much easier to halt epidemics by winning the trust of community leaders and making use of gossipy schoolchildren."
National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2006-05-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24453
Notes:
Retrieved July 1, 2006, 14 pages., PowerPoint presentation summarizes results of a 12-state Midwest farmer survey commissioned by NAFB and conducted by Ag Media Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Irani, Tracy (author), Friedel, Curtis R. (author), Meyers, Courtney A. (author), Mamontova, N. N. (author), and Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE).
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2006-05-14
Published:
Russia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24182
Notes:
Retrieved June 16, 2006, Pages 233-243 in proceedings of the AIAEE conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida, May 14-17, 2006.
Reviewed 3/27/2006 at http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/bulletin/print.php?id=448, University agronomist provides context regarding a micronutrient marketer's sales campaign that includes reference to favorable yield results in University of Illinois trials. Reports a lack of complete information provided in promotion efforts.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23635
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CBC News via AgBioView via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Questions accuracy of results of a recent research report by a Russian brain researcher indicating that genetically modified feed caused death of animals.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26970
Notes:
Pages 19-34 in Jon Entine (ed.), Let them eat precaution: how politics is undermining the genetic revolution in agriculture, AEI Press, Washington, D.C. 203 pages., Cites results of research among worldwide opinion leaders representing the food industry and national governments.
