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2. Chipotle using games, brains and off-site cooks to turn corner
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beach, Coral (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03-23
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11803
- Notes:
- Online from Food Safety News website. 3 pages.
3. Communication strategies on palm oil sustainability: agri-food chain actors use of social media Twitter
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Samoggia, Antonella (author) and Reggeri, Arianna (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10282
- Notes:
- Proceedings in System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2017. Pages 101-102., From production to consumption, palm oil is a global food chain facing various sustainability dimensions. The study focuses on Twitter social media communication strategy of world agri-food chain actors on sustainability of palm oil. The study focused on a content analysis of twitter messages of palm oil producers, agri-food manufacturers and retailers. Preliminary results show that palm oil producers aim at promoting public opinion’s positive image of palm oil. Food manufacturers and retailers instead limit their communication on reacting to consumers’ solicitations, such as questions, doubts or complaints on palm oil use.
4. Consciously pursued joint action: agricultural and food value chains as clubs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fleming, Euan (author), Griffith, Garry (author), Mounter, Stuart (author), and Baker, Derek (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11107
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(2) : 166-177
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Authors examine ways in which club theory can help provide an alternative approach to recognizing and overcoming market failure in agricultural and food value chains.
5. Consumers' and producers' perceptions of markets: service levels of the most important short food supply chains in Hungary
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Szabo, Dorottya (author) and Juhasz, Aniko (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Hungary
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10922
- Journal Title:
- Studies in Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 117 : 111-118
- Notes:
- In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in new type, direct and short supply chains (SSC) Hungary, and the markets have proved to be globalisation-resilient, keeping their market share from sales of fast-moving consumer goods. We conducted a consumer and producer survey to identify the most important expectations and experiences about markets in Hungary. We applied a service quality model (SERVQUAL) to measure the consumers’ and producers’ opinions and satisfaction of Hungarian markets. A warning result of our study is that vendors estimate their level of service above that of the consumers’ experiences which means that, in spite of the direct communication, they do not have an accurate understanding of their customers’ requirements. Our surveys also showed that there is a substantial deficiency between the services expected and experienced at markets in all dimensions (environment, service, convenience and produce) that influence the choice of retail channel. The most important dimension proved to be produce quality which should thus remain in the focus of market developments. In recent years, new trends in urban local food movements have started to emerge in Hungary which could not be detected at the time of our survey (2012). Thus we intend to extend our survey in the future to see whether these new local-alternative food movements have formed a new consumer segment for farmers’ markets in Hungary, and in what way should the market vendors modify their services to be able to ride this new trend.
6. Data collection and usage
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ward, Torrie (author / Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11029
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(7) : 22
- Notes:
- Summarizes results of a non-farmer survey documenting how each of five stages of the agricultural and food business value chain is evolving in terms of data collection and use.
7. Information communication tools used to coordinate food chains
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Storer, Christine (author / Muresk Institute, Curtin University of Technology)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10936
- Journal Title:
- Australasian Agribusiness Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 14 : Paper 2
- Notes:
- Chain coordination is growing in importance for those in the food industry to maintain access to global markets and competitive advantage. Information communication facilitates coordination and is seen as the glue that holds organisational chain relationships together. This paper describes how Australian food processors have been exchanging information to coordinate customers and suppliers in their chains along with changes over time. The most frequent information exchanged was to resolve problems. Operational issues were only discussed when exceptions arose and this was decreasing over time, as problems were resolved and processes improved. For the organisations studied, they were increasingly formalising processes to review progress and performance. A wide range of organisational departments were involved in communications with customers and suppliers, especially to resolve problems and develop new products. While the traditional telephone and face-to-face communication methods were the most popular, e-mails were replacing faxes. There were also moves to increasing use of reports, electronic data interchange and intranets for more well developed relationships with larger customers and suppliers. These changes in communication systems were the source of some increased satisfaction with information systems by improving timeliness and depth of information shared. However, there was perceived to be some room for further improvement. Introduction
8. Let us enjoy delicious space foods - it enhances health and solves the food problem on Earth
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Katayama, Naomi (author), Ueno, Hidemi (author), Aoki, Chisa (author), Furuhashi, Keiko (author), Kubo, Yuuki (author), Miyashita, Sachiko (author), Yamashita, Masamichi (author), Katou, Mikiko (author), Tokunaga, Saeko (author), and Space Agriculture Task Force (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2009-06
- Published:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13380
- Journal Title:
- 2009 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies
- Journal Title Details:
- 58-60
- Notes:
- 3 pages, Providing foods to space crew is the important requirements to support long term manned space exploration. Foods fill not only physiological requirements to sustain life, but psychological needs for refreshment and joy during the long and hard mission to extraterrestrial planets. We designed joyful and healthy recipe with materials, which can be produced by the bio-regenerative agricultural system operated at limited resources available on Mars. The fundamental composition of our recipe is unpolished rice, soybean, sweat potato and green-yellow vegetables. These four items are known to be low Glycemic Index (GI) food materials. Supplement food materials to fulfill the nutritional requirements we chose are loach, silkworm pupa, termite, snail, fruit fly, and cassava. They are also low GI materials. Sensory tests were conducted on our candidate recipe, in terms of taste, appearance, and flavor. We succeeded to develop joyful and nutritious space recipe at the end. Since energy consumption for physical exercise activities under micro- or sub-gravity is less than the terrestrial case, choice of low-GI foods is essencial to suppress blood sugar level, and prevent the metabolic syndrome. Because of less need of agricultural resources at choosing ecological members from the lower ladder of the food chain, our space recipe could be a proposal to solve the food problem on Earth. In this sense, our space recipe contributes to welfare of all the people of nations and areas, regardless of space-faring or under-development. It would be one of early spin-off of our space agriculture study, and hence we wish to get wide support from people. We are open to accept proposals from people for this purpose based on their own unique cultural and historical background. Diversity that can be obtained by this entry may enhance the robustness of space agriculture, if properly managed.
9. Role of information and communication technologies towards sustainability transitions in agriculture and food systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nwafor, S.C. (author), Agba, S.A. (author), Ugbem-Onah, C. (author), and Uwandu, Q.C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-31
- Published:
- Nigeria: Agricultural Society of Nigeria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12760
- Journal Title:
- Nigerian Agricultural Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 53, N.2
- Notes:
- 6 pages, Food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes necessary to move towards sustainable food systems. Digitization is one of the most important ongoing transformation processes in global agriculture and food chains. The review paper explores the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transition towards sustainability along the food chain (production, processing, distribution, consumption). It also reviewed the Challenges to ICT Use in the Food Chain. From the review, it was found that ICT has enormous roles to play in boasting food production and promoting equitable distribution and marketing of food produce. ICTs can contribute to agro-food sustainability transition by increasing resource productivity, reducing inefficiencies, decreasing management costs, and improving food chain coordination. Key challenges to effective utilization of ICT in promoting food security were identified to include lack of access to ICT tools, low literacy level, and inadequate capital among others.
10. Stakeholders' mental models of soil food value chain in the Everglades
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Friedrichsen, Claire N. (author), Daroub, Samira H. (author), Monroe, Martha C. (author), Stepp, John R. (author), and Gerber, Stefan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10497
- Journal Title:
- Geoderma
- Journal Title Details:
- 343: 166-175
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via online journal., Peri-urban environments, where agriculture and urbanization interact, pose unique challenges for soil management. In Miami-Dade County, Florida USA, this interaction is especially important; a population of 2.7 million lives in an urban county with only 6% of the area zoned agriculture. Miami-Dade County is a major producer of tropical fruit and winter vegetables for the U.S., and is located within the Everglades ecosystem. Relatively little information is known about research and extension within peri-urban environments concerning soil health and management. Ethnopedological work has contributed to ethno-scientific knowledge by bridging the communication gap between scientists and locals concerning soil taxonomies, soil health, and soil fertility management. This study explores mental models of farmers and experts, examining the communication gap concerning soil health and food security. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from farmers (n = 19) and experts (n = 13). All stakeholders perceived pressures from urbanization as the main barrier to farmers' ability to continue to produce food, maintain their soil health, and contribute to national food security. The mental models of farmers reveal their ability to continue farming depends on their ability to construct and sustain a system—the soil food value chain. In this system, the farmer generates farm capital from a combination of high quality products, lower quality produce, and culls. This farm capital includes value-added products or soil amendments. However, experts did not perceive their responsibility to include maintaining a system, rather, only improving production. Experts' research and extension focused on improving product quality, increasing yield, decreasing cost of production, and minimizing the environmental impact of production. The mental models of farmers suggest research and extension related to building and maintaining the entire soil food value chain would increase the likelihood the farmers would better care for their soil and be profitable. This research contributes to the literature by recognizing the importance of examining the barriers to soil communication between stakeholders, as well as the importance to include examining soil within the larger food system.