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2. Cultural Sensitivity: A Requirement When Developing Food Safety Interventions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ghoneim, Yomna A. (author) and Keshwani, Jenny (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-24
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12311
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 60, N. 1
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Extension materials that are sensitive to changing demographics and culture increase relevance and compliance with food safety practices. Produce safety extension materials were developed for U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) produce growers to help with compliance with a new food safety rule. We developed employee training materials based on a needs assessment and behavioral change was evaluated six months after dissemination. The original materials were not seen as culturally appropriate but after modifications, improvements in food safety practices and behavior changes were observed. These results suggest that extension educators should seek feedback from target populations about potential interventions before implementation.
3. Farming systems research and rural poverty: Relationships between context and content
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Briggs, Stephen D. (author) and University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10961
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(1995) : 161-174
- Notes:
- 13 pages, via online journal, In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in farming systems research (FSR) as a means of getting formal research and extension systems to work with and respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers. However, the results of many FSR programmes have been disappointing. This paper reviews a number of ‘successful’ FSR activities and argues that the development and use of research approaches and methods cannot be separated from the political, economic and institutional context in which they were developed and used. A closer examination of some of the new FSR methods shows that an understanding of the specific context in which these activities were developed and used is essential to understanding the potential relevance of the methods/approaches to other circumstances. A lack of an historical perspective concerning the source and advocacy of new FSR approaches and methods is one of the reasons why many FSR programmes in the past have given rise to disappointing results.
4. How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp (author), Lewandowsky, Stephan (author), Sunstein, Carl R (author), and Hertwig, Ralph (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-15
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13226
- Journal Title:
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Journal Title Details:
- V.12
- Notes:
- 8 pages, Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to capture user attention rather than to promote deliberate cognition and autonomous choice; information overload, finely tuned personalization and distorted social cues, in turn, pave the way for manipulation and the spread of false information. How can transparency and autonomy be promoted instead, thus fostering the positive potential of the web? Effective web governance informed by behavioural research is critically needed to empower individuals online. We identify technologically available yet largely untapped cues that can be harnessed to indicate the epistemic quality of online content, the factors underlying algorithmic decisions and the degree of consensus in online debates. We then map out two classes of behavioural interventions—nudging and boosting— that enlist these cues to redesign online environments for informed and autonomous choice.
5. How to be a good rural extensionist. Reflections and contributions of Argentine practitioners
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landini, Fernando (author) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research), Argentina University of La Cuenca del Plata, Argentina University of Moron, Argentina
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-04-15
- Published:
- Argentina: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10882
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 43 : 193-202
- Notes:
- 9 pages, online journal article, Quality rural extension is of utmost importance for generating food security and sustainable rural development. In this paper, Argentine rural extensionists' point of view on how to be a good practitioner is described, as well as compared to good practices proposed by scholars and international development organizations. Forty rural extensionists from the Northeastern Argentine provinces were interviewed (29men, 11 women). Interviews were recorded and transcribed, texts were categorized and contents analyzed. Scholars and extensionists, despite agreeing to most of the same principles, frame their recommendations for good extension practices in different ways. The former's recommendations tend to be supported by multiple case studies and focused on best practices on the level of extension projects or policies, while the latter's tend to draw upon their own experience and develop proposals more concerned with interpersonal interactions and with overcoming practical problems in real (and not ideal)settings. Best extension practices depend on environmental, institutional, political and cultural contexts, this implying there is no best extension practice in general. Training extensionists in interpersonal skills and in social sciences is key for reaching good extension results. Horizontal communication between farmers and extensionists, negotiation over best technologies, and helping farmers reflect on their production practices are extension strategies with great potential.
6. Interplay of mediating factors in the relationship between greenwashed labels and consumers' trust
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- El Khoury, Charbel M. (author), Sayegh, Elie E. (author), and Al Alam, Adel F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Korea: Korean Marketing Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13291
- Journal Title:
- Asian Journal of Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(2):44-53
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Background and Objective: Greenwashing as a concept has lately appeared to attract the attention of several practitioners and scholars. This study aims to examine the effects of greenwashed labels on Lebanese consumersʼ trust, while accounting for the mediating role that personal, social and environmental factors play. Materials and Methods: An online questionnaire was addressed to a sample of 227 consumers aged between 19 and 24 years old, in order to investigate their opinion towards labels that feature particular green attributes on chocolate bars. This study adopts exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling for the analysis of data. Results: A negative association exists between greenwashed labels and consumersʼ trust. The presence of personal and environmental factors as mediators between greenwashed labels and consumersʼ trust does not indicate remarkable influence. Social factors alone are seen to play the mediating role that affects the relation of the relevant variables. Conclusion: The suspicious greenwashing practices of many corporations have today raised consumersʼ concerns. In general, many Lebanese consumers currently hold unfavorable perspectives towards products that feature unverified green claims on their labels. Corporations targeting the Lebanese market should therefore diminish their greenwashing activities and design truthful labels that generate trust among consumers.
7. Prophets, profits, prove it: social forestry under pressure
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- van Noordwijk, Meine (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11699
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 394-397
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Author suggests that"social forestry seeks to manage forests through local communities for their own plus national benefits, but is still falls short of the targets set. Reconciling local concerns for livelihood opportunities with the need for accountability requires intermediaries who successfully negotiate in the bureaucratic jungle of forestry as an institution."
8. Shifting matter and meanings in japanese seafood assemblages: fish as functional food cyborgs and emblematic cultural commodities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ganseforth, Sonja (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-28
- Published:
- United States: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12561
- Journal Title:
- Green Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- Online only
- Notes:
- 17pgs, Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat from anthropogenic environmental change to their use as food for human consumption and their role in the livelihoods of fishers and coastal communities. The analysis finds a growing polarisation in the Japanese seafood sector as the cyborg fish of highly-processed food products and globally traded commodities inundate markets and dinner plates, while locally caught animals turn from basic foodstuff into folklorist stars of a vanishing rurality, a symbol of authenticity and national identity advertised as cultural commodities in romanticising campaigns to revitalise rural areas.