James F. Evans Collection, A multi-market model of technological change in food production is used to simulate the long-run income distributional implications of differential diffusion of currently available wheat technologies in Pakistan. The results indicate that a research agenda emphasizing technologies suited to Pakistan's favored production environments would enhance overall production without compromising inter-group equity. It is found that when commodity prices are market determined, net consuming households are the major beneficiaries of technological change. However, in the more common situation of government intervention in markets for staple foods, net producing households are the principal beneficiaries of change. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08628
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Bulletin 21, 34 pages.
Abstract from UI electronic subscription., Authors use contingent valuation to determine the economic value of improving the welfare of farm animals and find that people are willing to pay extra on their weekly food bill to ensure that laying hens, broiler chickens, dairy cows and pigs have improved welfare conditions. "The benefits of improving animal welfare are shown to exceed the costs of implementing these schemes. We conclude that improving the standards of legislation for farm animal welfare so that all farm animals experience higher standards of welfare can be economically justified."
Love, John M. (author / Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-09
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06724
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 90011273; Contains Abstract only, Ithaca, NY : Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1989. 28 p. (Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 89-32)
Gardiner, David (author), Portney, Paul R. (author), and Gardiner: assistant administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation; Portney: Vice President, Resources for the Future
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA: Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07705
Sassenrath, G.F. (author), Halloran, J.M. (author), Archer, D. (author), Raper, R.L. (author), Hendrickson, J. (author), Vadas, P. (author), and Hanson, J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37236
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06623
Notes:
Presentation at a conference, "Concentration in agriculture: how much, how serious and why worry" at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, February 4, 2003. 18 pages.
Results showed a significant welfare effect of using Bt corn variety among corn farmers. Educational level and farm income were among the significant factors that influenced the adoption of Bt corn.
Ackerman, Karen Z. (author) and Henneberry, Shida R. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07809
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, see C07805 for original, In: Walter J. Armbruster and John E. Lenz, eds. Commodity promotion policy in a global economy: proceedings of a symposium, October 22-23, 1992, Arlington, Virginia. Oak Brook, IL: Farm Foundation, 1993. p. 46-59.
Das, K.K. (author), Sarkar, D.R. (author), and Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kalyari, Haringhata, Nadia, W.B., India; Head, Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Kalyari, Haringhata, Nadia, W.B., India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1970-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04471
Klein, K.K. (author), Kramer, F. (author), and Klein: Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Lethbridge; Kramer: Research Economist, Telecommunications Canada, Hull, Quebec, Canada
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-11
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06222
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37040
Notes:
Pages 273-291 in Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.), The virtues of ignorance: complexity, sustainability and the limits of knowledge. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington. 354 pages.
12 pages, If we are to attain a sustainable future, humanity will need to make drastic changes towards a life based on sustainability in all areas, especially in the economic sector, including food production. The task of educating for sustainability needs to include food producers (farmers and livestock breeders). This article describes an educational experience carried out within the framework of a proposal presented in the “Second Call for Grants to Promote University-Company Projects” at the Technological Campus of Algeciras (Spain). It consisted of conducting in-depth interviews with farmers and livestock breeders, identifying the practices in the daily management of their farms, and having them participate in an education and training event in which they shared their knowledge. It was not an easy task because food producers have systematically been attacked by currents of opinion that blame them for causing greenhouse gas emissions. We adopted an approach based on empathy and on encouraging sustainable food production practices.
Bell, James B. (author), Purcell, Wayne D. (author), and Purcell: Professor, Agricultural Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; Bell: Extension Economist, Agricultural Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05191
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07070
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, see C07062-C07069, In: W. Rivera and S. Schram (eds.) Agricultural Extension Worldwide. New York : Croom Helm, 1989. p. 261-269
Axinn, George H. (author), Axinn, Nancy W. (author), and Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06595
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Axinn, In: Hall, Carl W. and Pimenthal, David, eds. Food and Energy Resources. Orlando, FL : Academic Press, Inc., 1984. p. 121-146.
Kotsiri, Sofia (author), Rejesus, Roderick M. (author), Larkin, Sherry (author), Lambert, Dayton M. (author), English, Burton C. (author), Larson, James A. (author), Velandia, Margarita M. (author), Roberts, Roland K. (author), Mishra, Ashok K. (author), and Paudel, Krishna P. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2013-02-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00900
Notes:
Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Orlando, Florida, February 3-5, 2013. 31 pages.
Grinnell, Gerald (author), Hamm, Larry G. (author), and Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA; Policy Analyst, Office of Energy, USDA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: C02324
Clarke, G.B. (author / Agricultural Economics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) and Agricultural Economics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05317
Notes:
cited reference, In: J.M.A. Penders, ed. Rural Extension at the Crossroads. Wageningen, The Netherlands: International Agricultural Centre, 1963. p. 124-135.
Low, Allan (author / CIMMYT, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
UK: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C06486
A farm-household economics approach is used to illuminate Mellor's labour constraint/rapid urbanization problem in the Southern African context. It is viewed as a rational decision by rural households to combine the benefits of indigenous land-use arrangements with the advantages of non-farm wage employment. The implications of this analysis for the design of technology consistent with the objectives and constraints of farm households are then discussed in relation to some general experiences in Southern Africa. (original)
Godwin, Deborah D. (author), Marlowe, Julia (author), and Department of Housing and Consumer Economics and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Department of Housing and Consumer Economics and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05437
Forster, D. Lynn (author), Napier, T.L. (author), and Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01263
Notes:
See also C01261, C01264, In: Halcrow, H.G., Heady, E.O., and Cotner, M.L., eds. Soil conservation policies, institutions, and incentives. Ankeny, Iowa : Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. p. 137-150
Goreham, Gary A. (author), Leistritz, F. Larry (author), Rathge, Richard W. (author), and Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05135
AGRICOLA IND 89001627, We compared the socioeconomic characteristics of a generalizable sample of displaced farm households in North Dakota with a random sample of producers who were currently operating their farming enterprises. We hypothesized that the displaced farmers would differ significantly from their currently operating counterparts in (1) the structural conditions of their operations and (2) their personal characteristics. Our hypotheses were guided by the changing structure of the agriculture literature and the adoption-diffusion literature. We obtained our data from lists of farmers who were displaced between 1981 and 1985 for financial reasons (N = 169) and from a panel of active farmers (N = 759) initially surveyed in 1985. We found that farmers displaced between 1981 and 1985 did not operate enterprises significantly different from those currently in business. Our analysis of the personal characteristics of operators revealed statistically significant differences, but these differences had limited explanatory power. We concluded that researchers should shift their attention to macrolevel variables to characterize displaced farmers.
12 pages, via Online Journal, Current, prevalent models of the food system, including complex-adaptive systems theories and commodity-as-relation thinking, have usefully analyzed the food system in terms of its elements and relationships, confronting persistent questions about a system’s identity and leverage points for change. Here, inspired by Heldke’s (Monist 101:247–260, 2018) analysis, we argue for another approach to the “system-ness” of food that carries those key questions forward. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, we propose a model of the food system defined by the relational process of feeding itself; that is, the food system is made of feeding and only feeding, and system structures are produced by the coupling of that process to its various contexts. We argue that this approach moves us away from understandings of the food system that take structures and relations as given, and sees them instead as contingent, thereby helping to identify leverage points for food system change. The new approach we describe also prompts us as critical agrifood scholars to be constantly reflexive about how our analyses are shaped by our own assumptions and subjectivities.
D'Souza, Clare (author), Taghian, Mehdi (author), and Associate Professor Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Marketing, Plenty Road, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia
Senior Lecturer Department of Marketing, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2017-03-12
Published:
USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08048
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06633
Notes:
Aggregated statistical summary of responses from IFAJ guilds in 17 of 30 member countries. Individual countries not identified. Report also includes narrative responses to the 10 survey questions. 13 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 23 Document Number: B02436
Notes:
#911, Harold Swanson Collection, Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Journalism, 1956. 36 p. (Bulletin 25)
search through journal, Scientific research in Africa should be aimed at optimizing human and material resources. Scientific education is of fundamental importance in promoting the growth of productivity. While African technological growth is desirable, it must be considered in the light of the relevant cultural and economic backgrounds. Technological transfer should be approached with caution, and only appropriate or adaptable techniques should be imported. Capital-intensive industries of the West are not suitable for third world countries with much labour and little capital (original)
9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., A choice experiment was used to evaluate the U.S. public's willingness to pay for egg attributes including housing system, color, size, and certifying agency. A significant difference in willingness to pay for hen housing systems was found using video information treatments describing hen housing systems. Participants were indifferent between hen housing systems when they viewed video treatments describing hen housing systems. However, they clearly preferred the cage-free system when they viewed no video treatments. "Results point towards potential public misunderstanding of the costs and benefits associated with the "cage-free" egg label designation."
Specht, Kathrin (author), Zoll, Felix (author), Schumann, Henrike (author), Bela, Julia (author), Kachel, Julia (author), and Robischon, Marcel (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10870
Via online. 27 pages., Global challenges such as climate change, increasing urbanization and a lack of transparency of food chains, have led to the development of innovative urban food production approaches, such as rooftop greenhouses, vertical farms, indoor farms, aquaponics as well as production sites for edible insects or micro-algae. Those approaches are still at an early stage of development and partly unknown among the public. The aim of our study was to identify the perception of sustainability, social acceptability and ethical aspects of these new approaches and products in urban food production. We conducted 19 qualitative expert interviews and applied qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed that major perceived benefits are educational effects, revaluation of city districts, efficient resource use, exploitation of new protein sources or strengthening of local economies. Major perceived conflicts concern negative side-effects, legal constraints or high investment costs. The extracted acceptance factors deal significantly with the “unknown”. A lack of understanding of the new approaches, uncertainty about their benefits, concerns about health risks, a lack of familiarity with the food products, and ethical doubts about animal welfare represent possible barriers. We conclude that adaptation of the unsuitable regulatory framework, which discourages investors, is an important first step to foster dissemination of the urban food production approaches.
Hirsch, Darya (author), Heuschkel, Zoe (author), and Terlau, Wiltrud (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10930
Notes:
2018 International European Forum (163rd EAAE Seminar), February 5-9, 2018, Innsbruck, Austria. International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks. 5 pages., Urban food systems consist of many stakeholders with different perspectives, different interests and different governance tools. This study aimed at developing potential future scenarios for the food system of Cologne by analysing the system with a Delphi approach. In our research-design, the suitability of the Delphi-method was evaluated not only as a tool for future modelling and scenario design, but also as a communication tool among the group of participants on a multistakeholder platform. As a case study, the Food Policy Council of Cologne, Germany was used. Cologne can be seen as a forerunner among German cities in the development of a new urban food policy. Some of the successful steps to re-envisioning food as an urban system include joining the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the decision of the City Council to become an edible city and the establishment of a Food Policy Council. For the study it was important to capture participants’ visions of a common goal regarding the governance of the urban food system and also to identify mental ‘silos’. It was obvious that the municipality of Cologne together with the Food Policy Council made great efforts towards participatory processes to build a vision for a sustainable and regional food supply. However, many stakeholder-groups in the process still work exclusively among themselves and do not actively practice the confrontation with the viewpoints of other relevant groups. This supports the maintenance of ‘silos’ and leaves little room for face-to-face discussions. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to explore key components of food provisioning in the future for Cologne while confronting all stakeholders (municipal administration and politicians, farmers and food activists) with the perspectives of all group members. We used a multi-stakeholder Delphi approach with 19 panellists to find out essential components of the municipal regional food provisioning system in Cologne. Unique in this Delphi study is the bringing together of municipal administration, regional urban farmers and food activists. The research is still on-going, but preliminary results show that more communication among all relevant actors, especially horizontally among different city departments, in the urban food system is needed.
14 pages, We explored ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected those who work in the agriculture industry in Hawai'i. Although economic hardship seems to be the obvious consequence, changes to the logistical and daily routines in the home also emerged as major impacts, and psychological effects may be even more distressing. Those who work in agriculture are an essential component of the agricultural and human ecologies to which land-grant universities are connected. Our findings provide valuable insights as to how Extension professionals across the United States may assist agricultural producers and farm families in their own communities at this time.
17pgs, In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code Business Patterns for the period from 1997 to 2007. Our results indicate that two of the smaller broadband programs (the Pilot loan program and the broadband grants program) likely had no effect on local payroll per workers. On the other hand, the largest program in terms of funding and coverage (the current broadband loan program) likely had a positive impact. Our estimate implies that a $1 per capita increase in a particular zip code's one-time receipt of the current program broadband loan results in a $0.92 increase in payroll per worker annually. Our calculated point estimates of the benefit: cost ratios for this broadband program range from 1.98 to 2.99, depending on assumptions about the time frame over which benefits accrue. However, the confidence intervals are wide enough to include the possibility that the costs outweigh the benefits.
30 pages., via online journal., Information communication technology (ICT) and environmental innovation (EI) are
relevant waves of the ongoing technological revolution. We study the
complementarity in innovation adoption to test the research hypothesis that the higher
the diffusion and intensity of usage of ICT and EI, the higher a firm’s productivity
performance might be. However, it is not certain that the use of different innovations
stemming from different innovation paths generates higher productivity. To test our
hypothesis, we use original survey data concerning manufacturing firms in Northeast
Italy including detailed information on both ICT and EI. Empirical evidence shows
that there are still wide margins to improve the integration between EI and ICT in
order to exploit their potential benefits on productivity. The awareness of specific
synergies seems to mainly characterise the heavy polluting firms that are subject to
more stringent environmental constraints, while some trade-offs tend to emerge for
the remaining firms.
9 pages, via online journal, Grain marketing arrangements in modern Russia are far from what they were in the 1990s. Given that grain marketing is crucial for farm revenues and an adequate functioning of the agri-food system, this paper examines why different grain marketing contracts co-exist and how well they fit the local agri-food context. Semi-structured interviews with farmers, grain buyers and regional authorities were conducted in the region of Tyumen in 2013-2014. The analysis, grounded in new institutional economics, found that the traders’ contracts, compared to those offered by grain elevators, are often better suited to account for uncertainty as a salient property of marketing transactions, but discourage quality improvements and differentiation of grain. Furthermore, both contract types encourage strategic behaviour on the part of grain buyers. The paper also discusses the case in a broader theoretical and international context and offers a number of policy implications, such as those related to independent grain quality assessments and extension.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01218
Notes:
Pages 3-22 in Steven A. Wolf (ed.), Privatization of agricultural information and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, New York. 299 pages.
