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2. The influence of public relations on food security among cocoa marketers in Ondo State, Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abdulganiyu Salau, Shehu (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-28
- Published:
- Poland: Poznan University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12416
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 62 No 4 (2021)
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Food insecurity is quickly becoming a key topic in national and international debates. Consequently, series of studies have been conducted on food security and its determinants. However, none of these studies have measured food security among cocoa marketers and have considered the influence of public relations (PR) on food security among cocoa marketers in Nigeria Thus, this study measured food security status and determined the influence of PR strategies on food security of marketers. A combination of purposive and random sampling techniques were employed to select 100 respondents for this study. The analytical tools include: descriptive statistics, food security index and logistic regression analysis. The result revealed that majority of the sampled respondents were males with an average household size of 8 persons. The food security index indicated that 65% and 35% of the respondents were food insecure and secure respectively. The logistic regression indicated that about 53% of the total variation in food security of the wholesale cocoa marketers was accounted for by the estimated explanatory variables. Age of the respondents, marketing margin, household size, credit access and PR strategies were the critical determinants of food security among cocoa marketers in the area. Government should provide PR tools at subsidized rate as well as train marketers on the effective use of these tools. Policies to address irregular network and high airtime tariff challenges associated with the adoption of PR strategies in the country must be supported. Policy aimed at reducing household size should be encouraged.
3. Consumers content with availability of edible items
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ahmad, Mansoor (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-06-28
- Published:
- Interational
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28412
- Journal Title:
- The News International
- Notes:
- via Food Safety News
4. Assessing the competencies and training needs of agricultural extension workers in Saudi Arabia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Al-Zahrani, K.H. (author), Aldosari, F.O. (author), Baig, M.B. (author), Shalaby, M.Y. (author), and Straquadine, G.S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Saudi Arabia: Tarbiat Modares University
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08033
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 (1): 33-46
5. Poll: Food safety worries affecting buying habits
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alonso-Zaldivar, Ricardo (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-07-18
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28420
- Journal Title:
- Houston Chronicle
- Notes:
- via Food Safety News
6. Rights-based food systems and goals of food systems reform
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Molly D. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28910
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- (2008) 25: 593-608
7. Rights-based food systems and the goals of food systems reform
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Molly D. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27689
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- DOI 10.1007/s10460-008-9151-z
- Notes:
- Accepted March 25, 2008, Online Early
8. GMO myths and truths: an evidence-based examination of the claims made for the safety and efficacy of genetically modified crops
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Antoniou, Michael (author), Robinson, Claire (author), and Fagan, John (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2012-06
- Published:
- International: Earth Open Source, London, UK.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05926
- Notes:
- Version 1.3. 125 pages.
9. March for Science: agony and ecstasy of a Malaysian agricultural biotechnology science communicator
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arujanan, Mahaletchumy (author)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-21
- Published:
- Malaysia: Genetic Literacy Project
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D08330
- Notes:
- 4 pages
10. Communication and capacity building to advance adaptation strategies in agriculture in the context of climate change in India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Balaji, Venkataraman (author), Ganapuram, Sreedhar (author), and Devakumar, C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07527
- Journal Title:
- Decision
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 (2): 147-158
11. Food riots, historical perspectives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bentley, Amy (author) and Spackman, Christy (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11628
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Chapter in 2014 edition of Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan (editors), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, Springer, Dordrecht. Online via UI e-book., Sustained, cultural exploration of foods at the core of disturbances (bread, meat, rice, or milk) arising from deprivation that stirs people to the point of collective action.
12. Learner-driven teaching for international, global problems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Berger, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10408
- Notes:
- Pages 239-244 in Irana W. Hawkins (ed.), Promoting biodiversity in food systems. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 2019. 367 pages., Two-week course, intersession, at Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
13. Educating limited resource older adults for better choices to lower risk of food insecurity
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bird, Carolyn L. (author) and McClelland, Jacquelyn W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12-23
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08269
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (2): 225-233
14. Food security - What role for Extension?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Blum, Magdalena (author)
- Format:
- Presentation
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D11569
- Notes:
- 22 pages., Presentation at the annual conference of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension (SASAE), June 3-7, 2013, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. 22 pages., Presenter concluded that new innovative capacities are needed at all levels of capacity development. Recommendations included continuous adaptation to change, linking stakeholders in the innovation system, and considering farmers' own innovative processes.
15. Ritual Communication and Use Value: The South Central Farm and the Political Economy of Place
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Broad, Garrett M. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International Communication Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10866
- Journal Title:
- Communication, Culture & Critique
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(1):20-40
- Notes:
- 21 pages., via online journal., This article offers a critical rhetorical ecofeminist analysis of the Meatless Monday campaign, a U.S.-based meat reduction initiative focused on public health and the environment. By examining the campaign's online discourse, the study sheds light on vegetarian advocacy defined by an apolitical small-steps strategy and identifies constraints on the campaign's significant empowerment potential. Extending past scholarship on how some vegetarian discourses resist and reproduce meat-eating culture's hegemonic norms of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and human–nonhuman relations, I develop and demonstrate what I call the critique of neoliberal backgrounding as an intersectional ecofeminist heuristic. I conclude that the campaign should address the meaningful consequences that its affirmation of neoliberalism has for its targeted areas of concern and for interconnected societal problems.
16. Constraints to the utilisation of conservation agriculture in Africa as perceived by agricultural extension service providers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Brendan (author), Nuberg, Ian (author), Llewellyn, Rick (author), and School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide CSIRO Agriculture
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10460
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 73: 331-340
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a knowledge-intensive set of practices which requires substantial access to functional agricultural extension services to enable utilisation. Despite this importance, the perspectives of those providing extension services to smallholder farmers have not been fully investigated. To address this, we qualitatively explore the perspectives of agricultural extension providers across six African countries to understand why uptake of CA has been limited, as well as the institutional changes that may be required to facilitate greater utilisation. Across the diversity of geographical, political and institutional contexts between countries, we find multiple commonalities in the constrained utilisation of CA by smallholder farmers, highlighting the difficulties non-mechanised subsistence farmers face in transitioning to market-oriented farming systems such as CA. The primary constraint relates to the economic viability of market-oriented farming where farmers remain in low input and low output systems with limited exit points. The assumed exit point used by CA programs appears to have led to a culture of financial expectancy and reflects a continuation of top-down extension approaches with inadequate modification of CA to the contextual realities of subsistence farmers. If African agricultural systems are to be sustainably intensified, we find a need for greater flexibility within extension systems in the pursuit of sustainable intensification. If extension systems are to persist with CA, it will need to be promoted through more transitional pathways that disaggregate the CA package, and with that there is a need for the provision of a mandate to, and necessary funding for, more participatory extension services.
17. Information empowers vegetable supply chain: A study of information needs and sharing strategies among farmers and vendors
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bu Zhong (author), Fan Yang (author), Yen-Lin Chen (author), and College of Communication, Pennsylvania State University Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10462
- Journal Title:
- Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 117: 81-90
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural extension systems often fail due to inadequate knowledge of farmers’ information needs and sharing strategies. This study aims to meet an urgent need of studying information needs and sharing strategies among vegetable farmers and vendors in Chengdu, China, whose results might be used in building a center of agricultural information disseminating vegetable production and marketing information. The findings disclose interesting differences between the farmers and vendors regarding their willingness to join such a center, information needs, sharing strategies and preferred information sources. Ample evidences justify the construction of the proposed center of agricultural information, which should not only empower the vegetable farmers and vendors but also enhance the efficiency of the existing vegetable supply chain and food security. Cross-discipline research involving both agriculture and communication scholars, like this, should shed more insights on working out strategies to cope with agricultural challenges.
18. A cross-cutting analysis of agricultural research, extension, and education (AG REE) in aid-assisted LAC countries. Volume one: technical report
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Special Report
- Publication Date:
- 1992-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes3 Document Number: D09177
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume one: Technical Report
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection. see document D09178, Agricultural and rural development technical services project, 193 pages.
19. A cross-cutting analysis of agricultural research, extension, and education (AG REE) in aid-assisted LAC countries. Volume two: Annexes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Special Report
- Publication Date:
- 1992-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes3 Document Number: D09178
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume two: Annexes
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection. see document D09177, Agricultural and rural development technical services project
20. From haunting hunger to...increasing food security in latin america and the caribbean
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Special Report
- Publication Date:
- 2009-01-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Presentations at Professional Meetings File Document Number: D01577
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, USAID/lac/rsd/bbeg, 39 pages.
21. Alternative media in suburban plantation culture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Caldwell, John T. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- USA: University of California Los Angeles
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09969
- Journal Title:
- Media, Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 5
- Notes:
- 21 pages, This article reconsiders the concept of `alternative media', and describes a set of alternative media projects produced over six years in and around migrant farm worker camps in southern California. The media projects described here (small-format videos within marginalized labor communities), challenge assumptions about `alternative media' on three levels - as a theoretical concept, as media practice and as a political project. The article argues the need to attend to the complex spatial and institutional contexts that inflect and complicate any local alternative media project. This examination of how the lived spaces of the migrant camps are both avowed and effaced by local residents and contractors underscores the tortured logic of the region. The study reveals not just how the landed status quo organizes workers lives as parts of its `scenic' landscape. It also describes how indigenous `Mixteco' labor organizers simultaneously work to exploit and resist the same conditions. Occupying semi-public contact-zones and no-man's lands (legally ambiguous spaces), provides migrants with a material beach-head from which to claim other rights that have more legal teeth (including fair labor, health and safety, and civil rights laws). Compared to the conventional video forms the producers/researchers set out to produce, these practices suggested that migrants' unauthorized occupation of space is a consequential form of `alternative media' in its own right; a transnational community response to policies of globalization and `free-trade'.
22. new egg co-operative has hatched in the western U.S., a
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Campbell, Lindsay (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-17
- Published:
- United States: Modern Farmer Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12889
- Journal Title:
- Modern Farmer
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 12pgs, ProEgg members are hopeful their model can plug up holes in the supply chain contributing to egg scarcity and sticker shock.
23. Transitioning to sustainable agriculture requires growing and sustaining an ecologically skilled workforce
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlisle, Liz (author), Montenegro de Wit, Maywa (author), DeLonge, Marcia S. (author), Iles, Alastair (author), Calo, Adam (author), Getz, Christy (author), Ory, Joanna (author), Munden-Dixon, Katherine (author), Galt, Ryan (author), Melone, Brett (author), Knox, Reggie (author), and Press, Daniel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-01
- Published:
- Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12960
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- V.12, N.96
- Notes:
- 8 pages, In the face of rapidly advancing climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, it is clear that global agriculture must swiftly and decisively shift toward sustainability. Fortunately, farmers and researchers have developed a thoroughly studied pathway to this transition: agroecological farming systems that mimic natural ecosystems, creating tightly coupled cycles of energy, water, and nutrients. A critical and underappreciated feature of agroecological systems is that they replace fossil fuel- and chemical -intensive management with knowledge-intensive management. Hence, the greatest sustainability challenge for agriculture may well be that of replacing non-renewable resources with ecologically-skilled people, and doing so in ways that create and support desirable rural livelihoods. Yet over the past century, US agriculture has been trending in the opposite direction, rapidly replacing knowledgeable people with non-renewable resources and eroding rural economies in the process. Below, we suggest how US policy could pivot to enable and support the ecologically skilled workforce needed to achieve food security in the face of climate change.
24. Feeding the world with data
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlson, Kris (author)
- Format:
- Blog
- Publication Date:
- 2015-09
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12119
- Notes:
- Online from ThomsonReuters. 4 pages., Emphasizes the critical role that data and innovation can play in global food security.
25. Research priorities for advancing adoption of cover crops in agriculture-intensive regions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlson, Sarah (author) and Stockwell, Ryan (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D02410
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- : 1-5
26. Feeding the cities -- case studies from Australia, Brazil, USA and Canada exploring the role of urban agriculture and rural family farms in community food security
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Christensen, Peta (author) and Neil, Ben (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2006-03-06
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24265
- Notes:
- 12 p. Paper presented at the Australasia Pacific Extension Network in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, March 6-8, 2006
27. Commentary: social justice and sustainable agriculture: moving beyond theory
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clancy, Katherine (author / Department of Nutrition and Foodservice Management, Syracuse University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08578
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 77-83
28. Citizens, consumers and farm animal welfare: A meta-analysis of willingness-to-pay studies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clark, Beth (author), Stewart, Gavin B. (author), Panzone, Luca A. (author), Kyriazakis, Ilias (author), and Frewer, Lynn J. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: D10194
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 68: 112-127
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal, The sustainable intensification of animal production systems is increasing as a consequence of increased demand for foods originating from animals. Production diseases are particularly endemic in intensive production systems, and can negatively impact upon farm animal welfare. There is an increasing need to develop policies regarding animal production diseases, sustainable intensification, and animal welfare which incorporate consumer priorities as well as technical assessments of farm animal welfare. Consumers and/or citizens may have concerns about intensive production systems, and whether animal production disease represent a barrier to consumer acceptance of their increased use. There is a considerable body of research focused on consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for improved animal welfare. It is not clear how this relates specifically to a preference for reduced animal production disease incidence in animal production systems. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to establish the publics’ WTP for farm animal welfare, with a focus on production diseases which arise in intensive systems. Systematic review methodology combined with data synthesis was applied to integrate existing knowledge regarding consumer WTP for animal welfare, and reduced incidence of animal production diseases. Multiple databases were searched to identify relevant studies. A screening process, using a set of pre-determined inclusion criteria, identified 54 studies, with the strength of evidence and uncertainty for each study being assessed. A random effects meta-analysis was used to explore heterogeneity in relation to a number of factors, with a cumulative meta-analysis conducted to establish changes in WTP over time. The results indicated a small, positive WTP (0.63 standard deviations) for farm animal welfare varying in relation to a number of factors including animal type and region. Socio-demographic characteristics explained the most variation in the data. An evidence gap was highlighted in relation to reduced WTP for specific production diseases associated with the intensification of production, with only 4 of the 54 studies identified being related to this. A combination of market and government based policy solutions appears to be the best solution for improving farm animal welfare standards in the future, enabling the diverse public preferences to be taken into consideration.
29. Saving food: Food preservation as alternative food activism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Click, Melissa A. (author) and Ridberg, Ronit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09-16
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09771
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(3) : 301-317
30. How 75,000 Abandoned Cabbages Inspired A Huge Online Forum For Farmers In Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cole, Diane (author) and National Public Radio (NPR)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-01
- Published:
- United States: NPR
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11042
- Notes:
- 6 pages, via website
31. Values, conventions, innovation and sociopolitical struggles in a local food system: Conflict between organic and conventional farmers in Sierra de Segura
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Coq-Huelva, Daniel (author), Sanz-Cañada, Javier (author), Sánchez-Escobar, Florencio (author), and Universidad de Sevilla
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10
- Published:
- Spain: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10939
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Notes:
- 9 pages, via online journal
32. Increasing student awareness and understanding of food security by integrating a service-learning project into an undergraduate hydroponic food production course
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Currey, Christopher J. (author), vanderZanden, Ann Marie (author), Mitchell, Joshua J. (author), and Iowa State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08
- Published:
- United States: American Society for Horticultural Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10329
- Journal Title:
- HortTechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(4) : 543-547
- Notes:
- 5 pages., Via online journal., Food security is a growing global concern. To meet the needs of an ever-growing population, food production practices will need to evolve to maximize food quantity and quality. Controlled-environment food production has increased significantly in the United States over the past 5 years, and a component of that production includes hydroponic food crops. In an effort to better prepare a workforce with knowledge of hydroponic crop production, a new course was added to an existing greenhouse curriculum. A service-learning project was integrated in the course that allowed students to experience both growing crops hydroponically and volunteering at a local food bank with a free meal program. Self-assessment showed a significant increase in student confidence in understanding food security by the end of the course. There was also a significant knowledge gained in defining terminology, factors, and the impact of food security in a community. The three guided reflections students completed during the course identified four common themes relative to the course content and service-learning project including the following: community benefits, value of volunteering, local and global effects of food insecurity, and personal growth.
33. In-service training needs of agriculture teachers for preparing them to be effective in the 21st century
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davis, R. J. (author) and Jayaratne, K. S. U. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-12-31
- Published:
- Canada: PKP Publishing Services
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13257
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- V.56, N.4
- Notes:
- 12 pages, The purpose of this descriptive survey research study conducted with agriculture teachers in North Carolina was to determine their in-service training needs in order to be effective for preparing students with the 21st century skills necessary for students to be successful. This study reaffirms the need for continuation of leadership education as an important skill and integration of reading, writing, and math concepts into all agricultural education curricula for preparing students to be successful in the 21st century. The role of agriculture in global food security; application of problem-based learning; planning and delivering lessons to utilize higher order thinking skills; teaching leadership skills; and development of teamwork and student collaboration were identified as the five most important in-service training needs for preparing agriculture teachers to be effective educators. Findings of this study are limited to North Carolina agriculture teachers. This limitation of applying findings for other states should be addressed by conducting a study with a diverse sample of agriculture teachers across the nation.
34. A comparative analysis of media reporting of perceived risks and benefits of genetically modified crops and foods in Kenyan and international newspapers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- DeRosier, Christopher (author), Sulemana, Iddisah (author), James, Harvey S. Jr. (author), Valdivia, Corinne (author), Folk, William (author), and Smith, Randall D. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10599
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(5), 563–581
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., We empirically examine the reporting on biotechnology in Kenyan and international newspapers between 2010 and early 2014. We identify news articles that reported on biotechnology and analyze their use of words to determine whether there is a balance in the reporting of perceived risks and benefits. We also consider how the sources used in news articles and how the publication of the Séralini study of rats fed genetically modified maize affect the balance of reporting of perceived risks and benefits. We find that in Kenyan news reporting, more articles mention perceived benefits than risks, but when risks are mentioned, new articles contain more references to risks than to benefits. We also find that sources affect the reporting of perceived risks and benefits and that the Séralini study increased the likelihood that perceived risks are reported in Kenyan news reporting, but not in international newspapers.
35. What makes a social system resilient? Two fishing communities in Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Deswardi, Rio (author), Glaser, Marion (author), and Ferse, Sebastian (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Indonesia: Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07335
- Notes:
- Pages 243-272 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages.
36. Climate services and communication for development: the role of early career researchers in advancing the debate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donkor, Felix Kwabena (author), Howarth, Candice (author), Ebhuoma, Eromose (author), Daly, Meaghan (author), Vaughan, Catherine (author), Pretorius, Lulu (author), Mambo, Julia (author), MacLeod, Dave (author), Kythreotis, Andrew (author), Jones, Lindsey (author), Grainger, Sam (author), Golding, Nicola (author), and Anderson, Julio Araujo (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10677
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(5): 561-566
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., Climate services entail providing timely and tailored climate information to end-users in order to facilitate and improve decision-making processes. Climate services are instrumental in socio-economic development and benefit substantially from interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly when including Early Career Researchers (ECRs). This commentary critically discusses deliberations from an interdisciplinary workshop involving ECRs from the United Kingdom and South Africa in 2017, to discuss issues in climate adaptation and climate services development in water resources, food security and agriculture. Outcomes from the discussions revolved around key issues somewhat marginalized within the broader climate service discourse. This commentary discusses what constitutes “effective” communication, framings (user framings, mental models, narratives, co-production) and ethical dimensions in developing climate services that can best serve end-users. It also reflects on how ECRs can help tackle these important thematic areas and advance the discourse on climate services.
37. Feeding the world one farmer at a time
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- DuPont Crop Protection (author) and Exponent PR (author)
- Format:
- Online document
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- United States: Public Relations Society of America
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10301
- Notes:
- 3 pages., Via Silver Anvil Awards., Doubling the world’s food supply in the next 35 years is no small challenge, but that’s what will be required to feed the estimated global population of 9 billion people. That goal will be achieved by increasing production one farmer at a time. Crop production continues to get more complicated with challenges from weather, weed competition, disease, insects and more – and every growing season is unique. Exponent Public Relations brought targeted, relevant, up-to-the-minute solutions to farmers and their consultants by identifying and sharing expertise of local DuPont Crop Protection experts.
38. Can a nature reserve help feed a family?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dudley, Nigel (author) and Stolton, Sue (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08786
- Notes:
- Pages 71-89 in Gordon, Iain J. Prins, Herbert H.T. Squire, Geoff R. (eds.), Food production and nature conservation: conflicts and solutions. United Kingdom: Routledge, London. 348 pages.
39. Routine influences on aquaculture news selection: A Q method study with new England journalists
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Duffy, Kevin P. (author), Rickard, Laura N. (author), Grosswiler, Paul (author), and University of Maine
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-01
- Published:
- United States: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11063
- Journal Title:
- Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(5) : 602-632
- Notes:
- 30 pages, via online journal, Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results revealed four distinct reporting perspectives—“state structuralist,” “neighborhood preservationist,” “industrial futurist,” and “local proceduralist”—stemming from the news value and objectivity routines journalists used in news selection. Findings suggest implications for public understanding of, and positionality toward, natural resource use and development.
40. The role of information and communication technology in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Esfahani, Latifeh Pour Mohammad Badher (author), Asadiyeh, Zahra Shojaei (author), and Faculty of Engineering, University of Shahrekord, Shahrekord, Iran School of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
- Format:
- conference papers
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- International: IEEE - Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08177
- Notes:
- Article number 5454875, pp. 3528-3531, 1st International Conference on Information Science and Engineering, ICISE2009; Nanjing; China; 26 December 2009 through 28 December 2009; Category numberE3887; Code 80401
41. Food tyrants: fight for your basic right to health food in a toxic world
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Faires, Nicole (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International: Skyhorse Publishing, New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07327
- Notes:
- 242 pages.
42. 'Food pharmacies' in clinics: When the diagnosis is chronic hunger
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Farmer, Blake (author) and National Public Radio (NPR)
- Format:
- Article/Audio Story
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-28
- Published:
- United States: NPR
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11124
- Notes:
- 4 pages, via website
43. Designing inter-regional engagement to inform cohesive policy making
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fears, Robin (author), Holzeis, Claudia Canales (author), and ter Meulen, Volker (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-03
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13083
- Journal Title:
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- V.6, N.107
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The scientific advice needed to inform national and regional policies addressing the key challenges we face today must take account of disparate requirements. The complex nature of the problems addressed in this article—which encompass food and nutrition security, global health and climate change—and the multitude of their interconnections, calls for an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach that spans aspects related to the use of natural resources; the adoption of new technologies all the way to issues related to food demand and human behaviour. The scale is also important: national policies need to respond to a set of heterogeneous local conditions and requirements and should be particularly mindful of the effect on vulnerable groups of the population. At the same time, the global interconnectedness of food systems and shared natural resources also necessitates coordinated action at regional and global levels. The InterAcademy Partnership sought to develop an innovative model for integrating and analysing multidisciplinary scientific evidence to inform governments and regional policy bodies for policymaking on food and nutrition security. This approach relies on IAP’s membership of over 130 science academies grouped in four regional networks for Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Our article reviews the model, in particular with regards to interdisciplinarity, exploring examples relating to yield gap, plant breeding and food processing, and reflects on lessons learned during the project discussions and when engaging with policy-makers and other stakeholders. We propose that the framework developed can be applied to integrated assessment of other societal challenges where the scientific community can play a significant role in informing policy choices.
44. Scaling out agroecology from the school garden: the importance of culture, food, and place
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ferguson, Bruce G. (author), Morales, Helda (author), Chung, Kimberly (author), Nigh, Ron (author), and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social Michigan State University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-26
- Published:
- Mexico: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10984
- Journal Title:
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 43(7) : 724-743
- Notes:
- 21 pages, 21 pages, We explore potential and limitations for agroecological scaling through formal education, using the LabVida school gardens program in Chiapas, Mexico as a case study. Through LabVida training, educators gained an appreciation of agroecology and learned to apply agroecological practices, although their understanding of agroecological principles and scientific process remained limited. The greatest program impact was on educators’ eating habits, and their perception of the value of local knowledge and its relevance to school work. The case study demonstrates the potential of garden and food-system work to leverage institutional resources in ways that can improve educational outcomes, including agroecological literacy. Increased awareness of agroecology and the value of local knowledge may intersect with other drivers of scaling, including markets, organizational fabric, and policy.
45. Unlocking the potential of smallholder dairy farm: Evidence from the central highland of Ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feyissa, Abraham Abera (author), Senbeta, Feyera (author), Tolera, Adugna (author), and Guta, Dawit Diriba (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-01
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12799
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 11
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Sustainable livestock farming practices have the potential to improve productivity and high income, reduce greenhouse gases, and improve household food security. Despite previous efforts to disseminate these technologies, the rate of adoption has remained very low in Ethiopia. In this study, we investigate the determinants of adoption and the impact of improved dairy farming practices (IDFP), which include improved breed, improved feed, and improved feeding conditions, on household food security in the central highland of Ethiopia.
46. Achieving food security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through innovation: Potential role of agricultural extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fiaz, Sajid (author), Noor, Mehmood Ali (author), and Aldosri, Fahad Owis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09
- Published:
- Saudi Arabia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07679
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
- Notes:
- In Press, Corrected Proof
47. Food security: communications toolkit
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (author)
- Format:
- Handbook
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08113
- Notes:
- National Agricultural Library, 192 pages
48. 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.
49. It’s time to be honest about seafood
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Froehlich, Halley E. (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-27
- Published:
- Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10674
- Notes:
- 6 pages., via Scientific American website., Demand for seafood is increasing across the globe, and the United States is no exception. Aquaculture, or aquatic farming, is increasingly meeting this demand and now supplies just over 50 percent of all seafood globally. In fact, it has been one of the world’s fastest growing food sectors for years.
50. A sentiment and content analysis of twitter content regarding the use of antibiotics in livestock
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garrett M. Steede (author), Courtney Meyers (author), Nan Li (author), Erica Irlbeck (author), Sherice Gearhart (author), and Texas Tech University; University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D10103
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(4)
- Notes:
- Article 4; pgs. 1-16, On January 1, 2017, the final rule of the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) was put into place requiring antibiotics approved for both humans and animals to be discontinued for growth promotion. This change was brought on by the role growth promoters in livestock production play in the development of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance increases the costs associated with human health care by increasing the length of stays in the hospital and requiring more intensive medical care for patients. The purpose of this study was to explore sentiment and characteristics of social media content and the characteristics of the key influencers whose opinions had the greatest amount of reach on social media in regard to antibiotic use in livestock and antibiotic resistance. Nuvi, a social media monitoring program, provided sentiment for each tweet and coded 64.8% of the content (n = 129) as negative compared to 38.2% (n = 76) humans coded as negative. The contrast between human coders and Nuvi indicates there could be discrepancies between how Nuvi codes content and the way a human might interpret the content. No key influencer discussed antibiotic use in livestock positively. Findings suggest agricultural communicators should not rely completely on the output from sentiment analysis programs to evaluate how the public discusses issues related to agriculture, particularly controversial issues. Further, agricultural communications practitioners should prioritize monitoring the content shared by key influencers in an effort to better understand the content being shared by the most influential users. Recommendations for future research are provided.
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