Online by open access via DOI., "A raft of new gag laws in the United States are mking it harder for investigative journlists to expose food industry scandals."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11817
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Via website of Corporate Crime Reporter. 2 pages., An Idaho federal court held that the law violated the First Amendment by "suppressing speech "on topics of immense public importance including the safety of the food supply, and the safety of farm workers and animals."
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Article about legal actions involving two television reporters who were fired from a Florida station for refusing to broadcast "what they knew and documented to be false and distorted information about Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (BGH) - a genetically engineered product that has been linked to the proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancer cells in humans." Includes their scripts, as well as the censored version.
Online via UI electronic subscription., Examines "a case of cross-border, data-driven investigative journalism that is creating an alternative public sphere for the discussion of issue of food and agriculture in the European Union..."
Online by open access., Reports on increasing push by the agriculture industry in various states to restrict free speech and access to information in terms of farm protection laws (also known as "ag-gag" laws).
23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.
International: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12089
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Online from IFPRI website. 4 pages., Question/Answer interview with two representatives of IFPRI. Responses address IFPRI policy toward Open Data, linkages between Open Data and food security, challenges in sharing data and knowledge on food security with organizations around the world, and messaging suggestions to help developing countries make informed decisions.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25270
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via organization web site. 5 pages., Notes that since February 1,"reporting from rural and remote areas of the country has become even more dangerous. Reporters are risking their lives, without having proper security and insurance for their lives. Dozens of journalists have been picked up by the security forces and interrogated. Some were held for only a few hours, but 10 remained in custody in mid-April."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25306
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Pages 68-101 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Nabhan, Gary Paul (author), Joaquin, Angelo Jr. (author), Laney, Nancy (author), and Dahl, Kevin (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25307
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Pages 186-208 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25308
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Pages 209-229 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25310
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Pages 244-256 in Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky (eds.), Valuing local knowledge: indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.
Retrieved January 28, 2007, 25 pages., Gaunle refers to something associated with a village. Deurali is a public place in the village, where people congregate. This newspaper is published by a non-governmental organization, Rural Development Palpa. It "is used as a platform for local leaders and villagers to express what is important to them rather than being a channel for the government or political elite to push their agenda."
"Reporter Ben Sutherly tried to find out information on a manure lagoon he suspected of evading regulation, but the USDA denied his Freedom of Information request."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: C25472
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Retrieved March 7, 2007, Issue report prepared by a multi-disciplinary team from six universities, the Wallace Center and the Farm Foundation. 4 pages.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-01-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25549
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1 page., Political issue involves press credentials for a broadcaster who covers legislative affairs for several rural television stations of Colorado.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-11-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25551
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves access to records about biotechnology research including safety protocols, compliance documents and corporate contracts.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2000-01-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25552
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1page., "Pork producers can force the Department of Agriculture to invoke a privacy exception to the federal Freedom of Information Act on their behalf."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25581
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Pages 39-52 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages., Examines some theoretical issues on questions politics and power as they relate to the concept of Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS).
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2000-04-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25627
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves an effort by an Associated Press reporter to get public records about an agriculture loan to a seafood firm.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-01-30
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25628
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1 page., Political issue threatens press credentials for a broadcaster who covers legislative affairs for several rural television stations of Colorado.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25759
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346 pages., Experiences of Dr. Jo Ann Burkholder and associates in trying to alert the scientific and general public to dangers posed by a toxic dinoflagellate, Pfiesteria. Confinement swine operations involved in polluting water systems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25896
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Report of a session, "Biasing scientific information," at the 5th World Congress of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, on April 16-20, 2007. 2 pages.
