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    162. Listened to, but not heard! The failure to represent the public in genetically modified food policies

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lassen, Jesper (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    SAGE Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10595
    Journal Title:
    Public Understanding of Science
    Journal Title Details:
    27(8), 923–936.
    Notes:
    14 pages., via online journal., ‘In the mid-1990s, a mismatch was addressed between European genetically modified food policy, which focused primarily on risks and economic prospects, and public anxieties, which also included other concerns, and there was a development in European food policy toward the inclusion of what were referred to as “ethical aspects.” Using parliamentary debates in Denmark in 2002 and 2015 as a case, this article examines how three storylines of concern that were visible in public discourse at the time were represented by the decision makers in parliament. It shows that core public concerns raising fundamental questions about genetically modified foods, and in particular their perceived unnaturalness, were not considered in the parliamentary debates. It is suggested that the failure of the parliament to represent the public may undermine the legitimacy of politicians and lead to disillusionment with parliamentary government.

    163. Local food systems: concepts, impacts, and issues

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Martinez, Steve (author), Hand, Michael (author), Da Pra, Michelle (author), Pollack, Susan (author), Ralston, Katherine (author), Smith, Travis (author), Vogel, Stephen (author), Clark, Shellye (author), Lohr, Luanne (author), Low, Sarah (author), and Newman, Constance (author)
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA: Economic Research Service, U.S Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10861
    Notes:
    Printed results of related research (Appendices A and B)retained in ACDC., Economic Research Report Number 97. Online via University of Illinois Extension. 87 pages.

    164. Local value chain models of healthy food access: a qualitative study of two approaches

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Krzyzanowski Guerra, Kathleen (author), Hanks, Andrew S. (author), Huser, Susie (author), Redfern, Tom (author), and Garner, Jennifer A. (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2021-11
    Published:
    Switzerland: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12766
    Journal Title:
    Nutrients
    Journal Title Details:
    Volume 13, Issue 11
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    25pgs, se programs in the peer-reviewed literature, the objectives were to identify factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of these two local value chain models of healthy food access and to identify the perceived impacts from the perspective of the sites implementing them. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with CFS (n = 7) and DS (n = 10) site representatives in January 2020. Template analysis was used to identify themes through a priori and inductive codes. Participants identified two primary facilitators: support from partner organizations and on-site program stewardship. Produce (and program) seasonality and mitigating food waste were the most cited challenges. Despite challenges, both CFS and DS sites perceive the models to be successful efforts for supporting the local economy, achieving organizational missions, and providing consumers with greater access to locally grown produce. These innovative programs demonstrate good feasibility, but long-term sustainability and impacts on other key stakeholders merit further investigation.

    165. Major fields of human concern

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bobbitt, Franklin (author)
    Format:
    Monograph summary
    Publication Date:
    1926
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09535
    Notes:
    Hal R. Taylor Collection, Abstract of Curriculum Investigations, Supplementary educational Monographs No. 31, University of Chicago, Illinois.

    166. Making food-systems policy for local interests and common good

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lind, Colene J. (author) and Reeves, Monica L. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-09-10
    Published:
    Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12746
    Journal Title:
    Frontiers in Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 6
    Notes:
    14pgs, The unjust distribution of poor health outcomes produced via current United States food systems indicates the need for inclusive and innovative policymaking at the local level. Public health and environmental organizers are seeking to improve food environments from the ground up with locally driven policy initiatives but since 2010 have increasingly met resistance via state-government preemption of local policymaking power. This analysis seeks to understand how political actors on both sides of preemption debates use rhetorical argumentation. In doing so, we offer insights to the meaning-making process specific to food systems. We argue that advocates for local food-system innovations are forwarding understandings of food and community that contradict the policy goals they seek. We offer suggestions for local food and environmental advocates for adjusting their arguments.

    168. Mapping and predicting patterns of Chinese adolescents' food preferences

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Sun, Shaojing (author), He, Jinbo (author), and Fan, Xitao (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11380
    Journal Title:
    Nutrients
    Journal Title Details:
    11, 2124
    Notes:
    13 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Analysis among adolescents (12-17 years old) revealed four types of food preferences: varied diet, avoiding vegetables, low appetite, and healthy diet. Urban versus rural residence was among the major predictors for food preferences.

    169. Market institutions: enhancing the value of rural-urban links

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chowdhury, Shyamal (author), Negassa, Asfaw (author), and Torero, Maximo (author)
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2005-10
    Published:
    International: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10927
    Notes:
    Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 195 and Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Discussion Paper 89. 44 pages., This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context. Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on rural market development or on urban market development without considering the interdependencies and synergies between the two. However, more than ever before, emerging local and global patterns such as the modern food value-chain led by supermarkets and food processors, rapid urbanization, changes in dietary composition, and enhanced information and communication technologies point to the need to pay close attention to the role of markets both in linking rural areas with intermediate cities and market towns and promotion of economic development and poverty reduction. This paper begins with a presentation of a conceptual framework of market integration and then identifies five major factors that increase the transfer costs that subsequently hinder market integration between rural and urban areas: information asymmetry, transaction costs, transport and communication costs, policy induced barriers, and social and noneconomic factors. Five specific cases in five developing countries are examined in this study to demonstrate the primary sources of transfer costs and the aspects of market institutions that are important to market integration and promotion of rural-urban linkages. While emerging institutions such as modern intermediaries linked to supermarkets and food processors can reduce information asymmetries between rural producers and urban consumers, existing institutions such as producers’ cooperatives can pool the risks, increase the bargaining power of small producers, reduce enforcement costs, and thereby reduce transaction costs. In addition, new types of partnerships between businesses and NGOs, and between public and private sectors, can improve infrastructure provision which, in turn, can reduce transport and communication costs. To the contrary, the presence of inappropriate policies or noneconomic factors such as those that involve social exclusion take on a negative role in linking urban and rural markets.

    170. Mastering obesity: MasterChef Australia and the resistance to public health nutrition

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Phillipov, Michelle (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2013-05-22
    Published:
    Australia: SAGE Journals
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09972
    Journal Title:
    Media, Culture & Society
    Journal Title Details:
    4
    Notes:
    University of Tasmania, 10 pages, At the same time as overweight and obesity have come to dominate population health priorities in most western countries, food programming takes up more time on western television screens than ever before. This has resulted both in increased televisual representations of so-called ‘unhealthy’ foods (such as butter, cream and fatty red meats), and in greater public health scrutiny of the preparation and consumption of such foods. This article explores this paradox via a case study of MasterChef Australia, the most successful iteration of the popular MasterChef franchise. At a time when the ‘obesity epidemic’ has been a particular focus of Australian public health promotion, MasterChef Australia revels in the apparently ‘excessive’ use of saturated fats, especially butter, a food routinely declared by Australian health advocacy bodies as one to be avoided. This article argues that MasterChef Australia offers an alternative to puritanical nutrition discourses – not, on the whole, by explicitly contesting them, but by presenting food in ways that such discourses are largely irrelevant. The public health concerns generated by this use of butter on MasterChef Australia offer important insight into current debates about food and health, and, in particular, into the limitations of current public health communication strategies.

    171. Measuring the perceived pressure and stakeholders' response that may impact the status of the safety of the food chain in Belgium

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Baert, Katleen (author), Van Huffel, Xavier (author), Jacxsens, Liesbeth (author), Berkvens, Dirk (author), Diricks, Herman (author), Huyghebaert, Andre (author), and Uyttendaele, Mieke (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Belgium
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05775
    Journal Title:
    Food Research International
    Journal Title Details:
    48 : 257-264

    172. Meat packers accelerated spread of COVID-19, study says

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Henderson, Greg (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2021-01
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12067
    Journal Title:
    Drovers Cattlenetwork
    Journal Title Details:
    : 38
    Notes:
    Online from publisher., Brief report and analysis of research published by the National Academy of Sciences showing a strong positive relationship between meatpacking plants and local community transmission. "...the risk of excess death primarily came from large meatpacking plants operated by industry giants." Communities that shut down slaughterhouses reduced spread.

    174. Mediating influences of attitude on internal and external factors influencing consumers’ intention to purchase organic foods in China

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chu, Kuo Ming (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    MDPI
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10680
    Journal Title:
    Sustainability
    Journal Title Details:
    10(12)
    Notes:
    15 pages., Article #: 4690, via online journal., As with environment and sustainable development, there has been a rapid rise in the worldwide consumption of organic foods over the last years, as well as the quickly growing potential of organic markets in China, and their direct influence on consumer health awareness and social opinion. This study provides insights into Chinese consumers’ attitudes toward organic foods and evaluates purchase intention’s impact as a mediator in the relationship between external and internal factors on purchase intention. This empirical study is based on an online questionnaire using a sample of 1421 Chinese consumers. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as the main practical approach for data analysis, and six hypotheses were examined. The results show that a more positive attitude on the part of consumers toward organic foods will further reinforce their purchasing intentions, whereas, there was no significant impact of marketing price and communication on consumers’ attitudes toward organic foods. Furthermore, the results show that intention was a full or a whole mediator among the three exogenous constructs of environment awareness, health consciousness, and subjective norms. Based on the findings, marketing communication strategies should concentrate on offering more value to consumers regarding the features of nutritional value. Long-term environment friendliness, health benefits, and social status symbols should be assumed to enhance consumers’ purchase intention in the organic foods industry.

    176. Millennials and the world of work: the impact of obesity on health and productivity

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Barkin, Shari L. (author), Heerman, William J. (author), Warren, Michael D. (author), and Rennhoff, Christina (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: D11577
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Business and Psychology
    Journal Title Details:
    25(2) : 239-245
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    8 pages., Special issue. Online via open access., Using evidence in existing literature, authors created an economic model to predict the impact of obesity on the aggregate lifetime earnings for the Millennium Generation and the consequences for employers and employees. They proposed a common health framework to business strategies to contain costs and maximize Millennial workers' health and productivity.

    177. Monitoring and analysing food and agricultural policies in Africa – Synthesis report 2013

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division (author)
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Ghana: Food and Agriculture Oranization of the United Nations
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12449
    Journal Title Details:
    2013 Report
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    173 pages., The synthesis report by FAO’s Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) team, is the first ever attempt to systematically analyze agriculture and food security policies in several African countries, using common methodology over years. The report found that in the period between 2005 and 2010, the policy environment and performance of domestic markets depressed producer prices in the ten African countries analyzed, though the trend is improving. Most governments resorted to m arket and trade policies to protect consumers and keep food prices down in the reference period whilst budgetary transfers, were mainly been used to support producers. The report concludes that producer prices would improve significantly if inefficiencies in domestic value chains were eliminated through better targeted policies. These inefficiencies however seem to be increasing in all ten countries surveyed. The current MAFAP partner countries are: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mala wi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.

    179. Motivations, goals, and benefits associated with organic grain farming by producers in Iowa, U.S

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Han, Guang (author), Arbuckle, J. Gordon (author), and Grudens-Schuck, Nancy (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-11-06
    Published:
    United States: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12517
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Systems
    Journal Title Details:
    191
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    14 pages., CONTEXT The U.S. has the world's largest organic food market. However, low domestic production and a low adoption rate of organic grain farming limit the overall development of this sector. Multiple organic stakeholders have called for a better understanding of cognitive and motivational aspects of farmers' decision-making processes to help policymakers, agricultural scientists, and extension practitioners to work more effectively with farmers to explore and adopt organic grain production. OBJECTIVE This paper assesses farmers' adoption motivations, long-term goals, and perceived benefits to examine the congruence between initial motivations, long-term goals, and current perceived benefits. METHODS We employed a sequential mixed-method approach that first interviewed organic farmers in Iowa, U.S. Then developed and administered a statewide survey for the organic farmers. Survey data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis, paired-samples t-tests, and heteroskedasticity-robust regression models. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS We identified five highly-rated motivations for farmers to adopt organic grain: 1) profitability, 2) personal safety, 3) natural resources stewardship, 4) consumers and public health, and 5) honor and tradition. We found organic farmers' long-term goals are strongly orientated to both productivism and stewardship but less strongly oriented to civic-mindedness. This research assessed five areas of benefits associated with organic grain farming: 1) economic benefit, 2) addressed health concerns, 3) environmental natural resources, 4) values and beliefs validation, and 5) social benefit. This study found the benefits farmers experienced by adopting organic grain farming aligned with most of their original adoption motivations and long-term goals, except for serving the motivation of consumer and public health concerns.