Online from periodical. 2 pages., Report of a presentation at the West Coast Produce Expo about Amazon's new Fresh banner, with establishment of small and medium-sized grocery stores.
15 pages., Via online., Store-exit interviews with fresh food shoppers indicated that 38% were confident of country of origin of their food purchased. However, extent of knowledge varied somewhat by food category and more noticeably for specific food items within categories.
29 pages., Findings of a survey among consumers indicated that consumers recognize different kinds of functional foods, are willing to pay a premium for their purchase, and perceive possible health value. However, they appeared anxious about the health benefits these foods communicate in their labels.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D11640
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4 pages., Online from G&S Business Communications, New York City, New York. 4 pages., "A new consumer intelligence survey fielded by G&S Communications found Americans are changing their consumption behaviors and their perceptions of the food supply chain as a direct result of the coronavirus. From food safety and quality to availability and affordability, people are beginning to think differently about where their food comes from and the significance of the nation's farming infrastructure."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10692
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Six preliminary reports, 2 pages each., The PACER project was conducted in collaboration with the Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Preliminary reports intended for distribution to selected policy-makers within the Department. Titles:
"Public opinion about food prices"
"Public opinion about selling farm products abroad"
"Public opinion about farmers as users of energy"
"Public opinion about meat prices"
"Public opinions about causes of inflation"
"The audience of 'Across the Fence'"
Pilar, Ladislav (author), Kvasnickova, Lucie (author), Gresham, George (author), Polakova, Jana (author), Rojik, Stanislav (author), and Petkov, Rosen (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2018-09-30
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10283
via online journal, The amount of European farm acreage devoted to organic foods has been increasing each year over the past three decades, as farmers strive to meet consumer demand for these products. To understand what factors drive this demand, researchers have focused on the end customers' perception of organic food and their motivations to purchase it. The standard research methods are questionnaires and literature review; however, these tend to be expensive, time consuming, or involve work with secondary data. This paper compares 14 studies carried out using standard research methods with the results of a social network analysis based on 344,231 posts by 73,380 Instagram users. The result of the comparison shows that in the case of organic food, the characteristic of "healthy" is the most important one to customers, both based on questionnaire surveys and the social network analysis. Moreover, based on these two analyses, 4 key areas can be identified as factors that are important to customers buying organic food: (1) health consciousness, (2) ecological motives, (3) tasty and (4) hedonism. As the results indicate, social network analysis can be considered a method with a high potential for gaining a greater insight into customers' perceptions.
Muringai, Violet (author) and Goddard, Ellen (author)
Format:
Poster
Publication Date:
2017-07-30
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09423
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Posted presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 1 page., Results of an online survey among consumers in Canada.
Sarbaugh, L.E. (author / Editoral Assistant, Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois) and Editoral Assistant, Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1953
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00095
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AgComm Teaching, Urbana, IL : Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1953. 7 p.(EE314)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: D10735
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Address by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture at the first annual meeting of PACER, Inc., Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, November 28, 1973. 11 pages., Summarizes findings of a national survey conducted by Response Analysis, Inc., for Professional Agricultural Communications Editorial Research, Inc. (PACER).
