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12. Qualitative stakeholder analysis for the development of sustainable monitoring systems for farm animal welfare
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bracke, M. B. M. (author), De Greef, K. H. (author), and Hopster, H. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-01-01
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 2 Document Number: D10174
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1) : 27-56
- Notes:
- 20 pages., via online journal, Continued concern for animal welfare may be alleviated when welfare would be monitored on farms. Monitoring can be characterized as an information system where various stakeholders periodically exchange relevant information. Stakeholders include producers, consumers, retailers, the government, scientists, and others. Valuating animal welfare in the animal-product market chain is regarded as a key challenge to further improve the welfare of farm animals and information on the welfare of animals must, therefore, be assessed objectively, for instance, through monitoring. Interviews with Dutch stakeholder representatives were conducted to identify their perceptions about the monitoring of animal welfare. Stakeholder perceptions were characterized in relation to the specific perspectives of each stakeholder. While producers tend to perceive welfare from a production point of view, consumers will use visual images derived from traditional farming and from the animals’ natural environments. Scientists’ perceptions of animal welfare are affected by the need to measure welfare with quantifiable parameters. Retailers and governments (policy makers) have views of welfare that are derived from their relationships with producers, consumers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and scientists. All interviewed stakeholder representatives stated that animal welfare is important. They varied in the extent to which they weighted economic considerations relative to concern for the animals’ welfare. Many stakeholders emphasized the importance of communication in making a monitoring system work. Overall, the perspectives for the development of a sustainable monitoring system that substantially improves farm animal welfare were assessed as being poor in the short term. However, a reliable system could be initiated under certain conditions, such as integrated chains and with influential and motivated stakeholders. A scheme is described with attention points for the development of sustainable monitoring systems for farm animal welfare in the long term.
13. The Beijing smog: between media frames and public perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lian, Ma (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-10
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07194
- Journal Title:
- China Media Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 6-15
14. The cultural imaginary of ethical meat: A study of producer perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Johnston, Josee (author), Weiler, Anelyse (author), and Baumann, Shyon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-05
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12564
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 89
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Because of concerns about human health, the environment, and animal welfare, meat is a highly contentious food. Accordingly, a broad range of alternative, small-scale practices for raising livestock and producing non-industrial meat are in the spotlight. While scholars have examined consumer perspectives on “ethical” meat, less is known about producers' perceptions of how small-scale meat production fits into the broader food system, and how their perceptions relate to broader sustainability debates surrounding meat. We explore producer perspectives on small-scale “ethical” meat production and its role in a sustainable food system. We do so through interviews and site visits with 74 people working within alternative meat production in four Canadian provinces, a sample that includes farmers, ranchers, butchers, and meat-focussed chefs. We find that, in the face of practical challenges linked to small-scale production, producers are passionately committed to the project of small-scale animal rearing that they regard as humane and sustainable. Despite these similarities, producers have radically different ideas about the purpose and potential of ethical meat. We observed major differences among producers' cultural imagination of meat, exemplifying varied ideas for fitting meat into a sustainable food system. Our findings underscore the importance of charting not only producers’ practices, but also their cultural orientations.
15. The machine or the garden: semiotics and the American yard
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hirschman, Elizabeth C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06903
- Journal Title:
- Semiotica
- Journal Title Details:
- 2015(207) : 369-393
16. The values and motivations behind sustainable fashion consumption
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lundblad, Louise (author) and Davies, Iain A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07203
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Consumer Behaviour
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(2) : 149-162
17. To work alone or with peers: Examining smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions influencing collective actions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Silvert, Colby (author), Diaz, John (author), Warner, Laura (author), and Ochieng, Willis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-01
- Published:
- International: OJS / PKP
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12524
- Journal Title:
- Developments in Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 2(2)
- Notes:
- 14 pages, This study examines how smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions may influence their engagement in peer mobilization and collective action. Forty smallholder coffee farmers were interviewed in the Central Highlands region of Peru using a closed-ended instrument. The sample of smallholder farmers was achieved using purposive and snowball sampling methods. Quantitative data on farmers’ attitudes and aspirations regarding working with peers, autonomy, and external support as well as knowledge, skills, and behaviors pertinent to collective actions were collected and analyzed using descriptive and correlational procedures. Key findings indicate farmers perceive a need for external support, feel there are benefits of collective actions, and aspire to work with their peers. Based on the findings, it is recommended that practitioners and farmer group leaders focus training efforts on building smallholders’ knowledge and skills in mobilization, encourage peer association/collective action as a source of external support, and target knowledgeable, skilled and confident farmers to lead collective actions. This study has implications to bolster support for farmer-to-farmer extension and technical assistance systems and inform the identification of leader farmers.
18. Tobacco knowledge among adults in Zhejiang province, China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Xu, Yue (author), Xu, ShuiYang (author), Wu, QingQing (author), and Guo, YuJie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07589
- Journal Title:
- PLoS ONE
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (3): 1-7
- Notes:
- Open access freely available online
19. Unfolding the knowledge and power dynamics of the ‘farmers–rural extensionists’ interface in North-Eastern Argentina
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landini, Fernando (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09-26
- Published:
- Argentina: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10943
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(5) : 399-415
- Notes:
- 16 pages, via online journal article, Purpose: In this paper, the knowledge dynamics of the farmer–rural extensionist’ interface were explored from extensionists’ perspective with the aim of understanding the matchmaking processes between supply and demand of extension services at the micro-level. Design/methodology/approach: Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with extensionists whom work in the North-Eastern, Argentine provinces. Findings: Two different, general types of knowledge dynamics were identified: one moderately diffusionist, based on a hierarchical relationship and the prioritisation of experts’ knowledge, and the other constructivist, based on horizontal processes of co-construction. Interestingly, some extensionists support beliefs pertaining to both approaches. They also highlight the importance of unceremonious trainings, interpersonal trust and making recommendations that take into account farmers’ rationale. Practical implications: Results show the persistence of diffusionist rural extension and that extensionists have different, even contradictory, extension approaches, which renders inappropriate any attempt to generalise their perspectives. Theoretical implications: This study suggests that farmers’ demand is the result of a constructive, interactive process, and thus is not prior to the interaction between the demand side (farmers) and the supply side (extensionists). Consequently, the knowledge and power dynamics that take place within the farmer–extensionist interface should be considered the nucleus of demand construction and the matchmaking process. Originality/value: This paper addresses the dynamic matchmaking process between supply and demand of extension services at the micro-level, suggesting it is a constructive process and showing the core role played by power dynamics.
20. Using photo interviews to explore children's food preferences
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alm, Siril (author) and Olsen, Svein Ottar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-23
- Published:
- Norway: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08181
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (3): 274-282