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2. Effects of information on smallholder irrigation farmers’ willingness to pay for groundwater protection
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alhassan, Mustapha (author), Gustafson, Christopher R. (author), and Schoengold, Karina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-14
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12445
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 13 pages, In Ghana, groundwater, accessed through wells and boreholes, is generally unregulated and may be contaminated with pollutants including excess nitrates from agricultural chemical fertilizers. Yet, studies estimating how clean groundwater is valued are not available in Ghana. In addition, some research suggests that the pre-experiment information provided to survey respondents affects their valuation of an identical outcome. This paper estimates smallholder farmers’ preferences for groundwater protection using pre-experiment information focused on one of two outcomes: environment or health. The double-bounded contingent valuation (DBCV) approach is used to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) to protect groundwater quality. The estimation accounts for shift and anchoring effects, which are common issues with the DBCV method. The mean WTP from the health (environmental) information subsample is about US$19 (US$17) per acre, and the values are significantly different between the information conditions. The findings shed light on the importance of using precise information in eliciting WTP in a developing country setting.
3. Factors influencing consumers’ choice of street-foods and fast-foods in China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Yazie, Biruk (author), Atinkut, Haimanot B. (author), Tingwu, Yan (author), Gebisa, Bekele (author), Qin, Shengze (author), Assefa, Kidane (author), Melese, Taye (author), Tadesse, Solomon (author), and Mirie, Tadie (author)
- Format:
- Research paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-30
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10169
- Journal Title:
- African Journal of Marketing Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(4) : 28-39
- Notes:
- 12 pages., ISSN 2141-2421, Via online journal., The overarching aim of this paper is to examine empirical findings on the arena of consumers’ behavior and attitude towards intake of street-foods (SFs) and fast foods (FFs) status as well as associated risks of consumption in China. Presently, consuming SFs and FFs have become a popular trend and is counted as the manifestation of modernity in most fast growing countries, for instance, China. The SFs and FFs are believed to be a panacea to the major socio-economic problems for countries having a large population. Over one-quarter of the century FFs and SFs become rapidly expanded in China through the quick service provision of already prepared foods with reasonable prices and source of employment for swarming open country and city inhabitants end to end to its supply. FFs and SFs are the most preferred by consumers because of safety issue, reasonable price, ready-made nature, easily accessible, portability, and so on. Concurrently, the nutritional and health concerns in China revealed that the government is very committed to quarantine and certifies FFs and SFs of food safety and public health, particularly after melamine was detected in milk in the year 2008. This later stimulated the Chinese regime to put into practice food safety law (FSL) in 2009 next to food hygiene law (FHL). FFs and SFs consumers in China are very conscious of food quality and give credit for safety than purchasing prices. Broadly speaking, most examined the papers indulged that FF and SF choice rely on ‘safety first’ by consumers in China. To sustain vendors stock and satisfy consumers’ demand for SF and FF, avoiding health risks, change in the existing perception and trust building is a priority issue.
4. Industry self-regulation of food advertisement to children: compliance versus effectiveness of the EU Pledge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landwehr, Stefanie C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- Europe
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11476
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 91 : 101833
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers analyzed the effectiveness of the European Union Pledge, a self-regulation initiative of leading food companies at the European level, in restricting television advertising of food and drink products high in fat, sugar or salt to children. Results indicated that effectiveness was limited by the focus on children's program and the relatively lenient nutritional criteria agreed to by signatory companies.
5. Millennials and the world of work: the impact of obesity on health and productivity
- 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
- Notes:
- 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.
6. Pandemic and protest in a meatpacking town
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Andrei, Mary Anne (author) and Honig, Esther (author)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08
- Published:
- USA: Food and Environmental Reporting Network (FERN), New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11807
- Notes:
- Online from FERN website. 2 pages., "When Covid-19 spread rapidly through slaughterhouses, most workers stayed quiet. But their kids did not." Brief case report from Crete, Nebraska, site of a Smithfield Foods pork processing plant.
7. Reporting pesticide assessment results to farmworker families: Development, implementation, and evaluation of a risk communication strategy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rao, P.R.M. (author), Quandt, S.A. (author), Doran, A.M. (author), Hoppin, J.A. (author), Snively, B.M. (author), and Arcury, T.A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26393
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Journal Title Details:
- 112(5): 636-642
- Notes:
- 7 p.
8. Rural household preferences for cleaner energy sources in Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Imran, Muhammad (author), Ozcatalbas, Orhan (author), and Bakhsh, Khuda (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Pakistan: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10536
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal., Dependence of rural population on traditional fuel sources namely biomass has increased because of easy accessibility and affordability. The use of biomass fuels results in many environmental and health-related hazards. Rural households have little awareness about the ill effects of using biomass energy sources. This study investigated the patterns of rural household energy use and identified the role of information on the effects of biomasses on human health, in addition to other factors influencing households’ choices of energy sources. For this purpose, primary data from 196 households were collected from four districts of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Results showed that use of clean energy sources was limited to basic appliances and 90% of the respondents depended on biomass fuels. Estimates of the multivariate probit model showed that awareness about adverse impacts of biomass fuels as energy sources were significantly related with the choice of energy sources. Further, household head’s education level, household income, landholding, children under the age of 5 years and higher number of adult females were significantly related with the cleaner energy source choices. Distance to market increased the probability of the use of biomass energy sources. The study concluded that awareness campaigns regarding the benefits of using clean energy sources should be launched through print and electronic media while targeting rural women.
9. Zoonoses: an occupational hazard for livestock workers and a public health concern for rural communities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- LeJeune, J. (author) and Kersting, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09466
- Journal Title:
- Journal of agricultural safety and health
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(3) : 161-179