14 pages, Price dispersion across markets is common in developing countries. Using novel market and trader-level data, this paper provides estimates of the impact of mobile phones on price dispersion across grain markets in Niger. The introduction of mobile phone service between 2001 and 2006 explains a 10 to 16 percent reduction in grain price dispersion. The effect is stronger for market pairs with higher transport costs. (JEL O13, O33, Q11, Q13)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01218
Notes:
Pages 3-22 in Steven A. Wolf (ed.), Privatization of agricultural information and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, New York. 299 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01221
Notes:
Pages 51-71 in Steven A. Wolf (ed.), Privatization of agricultural information and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, New York. 299 pages.
11 pages, Food, waste, and food waste are embroiled in a wide array of political and moral debates in the United States today. These debates are staged across a range of scales and sites—from individual decisions made in front of refrigerators and compost bins to public deliberations on the U.S. Senate and House floors. They often manifest as a moral panic inspiring a range of Americans at seemingly opposed ends of the political spectrum. This article contrasts three distinct sites where food waste is moralized, with the aim of deconstructing connections between discarded food and consumer ethics. In doing so, we argue that across the contemporary American social strata, food waste reduction efforts enfold taken-for-granted ideas of moral justice, or theodicy, that foreground individual responsibility and, as a result, obfuscate broader systemic issues of food inequality perpetuated by late stage capitalism.
12pgs, COVID 19 has exacerbated and underscored structural inequalities and endemic vulnerabilities in food, economic, and social systems, compounding concerns about environmental sustainability and racial and economic justice. Convergent crises have amplified a growing chorus of voices and movements calling for new thinking and new practices to adapt to these shifts, mitigate their impact, and address their root causes through far reaching changes in social and economic life and values, including breaking with the free market paradigm. In the face of a historic choice between transition or multiple systems collapse that deepen injustice and threaten planetary survival, I make the case for expanding on liberatory tendencies in Extension programs to build capacities for response-ability to transition toward more just and sustainable futures.
Fauquet-Alekhine, Philippe (author) and Fauquet-Alekhine-Pavlovskaia, Elene (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2011-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: D00072
Notes:
Paper prepared for presentation at the European Association of Agricultural Economists 2011 Congress, Zurich, Switzerland, August 30-September 2, 2011. Via AgEcon Search. 12 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28855
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Printers Ink magazine editorial of January 26, 1922, cited in APA Special Bulletin. 1 page., Describes potentials for selling to farm women.
Iizaka, Tadahiro (author) and Suda, Fumiaki (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Japan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37108
Notes:
See C37105 for original, Pages 171-184 in Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura and Mark Shucksmith (eds.), From community to consumption: new and classical themes in rural sociological research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, U.K. 275 pages.
