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2. Promises not kept: the betrayal of social change in the Third World
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Isbister, John (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- International: Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, Connecticut
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11008
- Notes:
- 265 pages., 5th edition., Documents neglect of agricultural and rural interests.
3. Centralizing context and culture in the co-construction of health: localizing and vocalizing health meanings in rural India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Basu, Ambar (author) and Dutta, Mohan J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: D06436
- Journal Title:
- Health Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(2) : 187-196
4. Beyond Participation – Building Farmer Confidence: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ward, Andrew (author), Minja, Eliaineny (author), Blackie, Malcolm (author), Edward-Jones, Gareth (author), and NR International University of Bangor
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12-01
- Published:
- United Kingdom: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10966
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(4) : 259-266
- Notes:
- 7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
5. Landowners' perspectives on the rural future and the role of forests across Europe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Elands, Birgit H.M. (author) and Praestholm, Soren (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27197
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 72-85
6. Design of agriculture environment monitoring system based on wireless sensor network
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhu, Bi Hua (author), Zhu, Ying Li (author), and School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China School of Communication and Electronics, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China
- Format:
- conference papers
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- International: Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08175
- Journal Title:
- Advanced Materials Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 588-589: 1095-1098
- Notes:
- 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mechanics Engineering, ICAME 2012; ; 3 August 2012 through 5 August 2012; Code 94269
7. Imagining postscience: Heidegger and development communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- George, Siby K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-07-24
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08563
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 (4): 548-564
8. Maintaining trust and credibility in a continuously evolving organic food system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thorsø, Martin Hvarregaard (author) and Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, TjeleDenmark
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-08
- Published:
- Springer Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10269
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(4) : 767-787
- Notes:
- 21 pages., Credibility is particularly important in organic food systems because there are only marginal visual and sensorial differences between organic and conventionally produced products, requiring consumers to trust in producers’ quality claims. In this article I explore what challenges the credibility of organic food systems and I explore how credibility of organic food systems can be maintained, using the Danish organic food system as a case study. The question is increasingly relevant as the sale of organic food is growing in Denmark as well as globally, and consumers’ expectations of organics continuously evolve. The inquiry is threefold, first I outline a conceptual framework for understanding trust and credibility in the food system, secondly I explore the developments in Danish organic food systems and thirdly discuss the challenges and opportunities for maintaining trust in the Danish organic food system. In the analysis I indicate eight key challenges: (1) unrealistic expectations, (2) blind trust and little motivation for extending their knowledge, (3) consumers assess the overall credibility of organic products, (4) ambitious ethical principles, (5) new consumer groups introduce new expectations, (6) frozen requirements in a changing world, (7) growing imports and labelling and (8) multiple versions of organics and the diversity is growing, as well as four aspects which may maintain the credibility of organics if implemented: (1) coordinate expectations, (2) communicate requested information, (3) institutional reform and (4) open communication of pros and cons of organic production.
9. Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume two: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roggema, Rob (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08821
- Notes:
- Pages 601-1274.
10. Amazonian indigenous green: media and the ecologically noble savage
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Murphy, Patrick D. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08813
- Notes:
- Pages 117-143 in Patrick D. Murphy, The media commons: globalization and environmental discourses. United States: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. 192 pages.
11. Earth discourses: theorizing the environment for global media studies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Murphy, Patrick D. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08809
- Notes:
- Pages 17-40 in Patrick D. Murphy, The media commons: globalization and environmental discourses. United States: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. 192 pages.
12. Public images of dairy farms among urban dwellers in Bogota, Colombia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wellbrock, Wiebke (author), Burkart, Stefan (author), Encisco Valencia, Karen (author), and Knierim, Andrea (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Colombia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11089
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(5) : 473-485
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Findings of a word association task revealed that most participants associated cows, rural areas, and traditional production systems with the cue dairy farms. While purchasing their products, they paid the most attention to attributes such as health and hygiene, indicating that they pay the most attention to product quality and not production quality. Yet more than half indicated that modern production systems contradict their norms and values. Authors concluded that the current modernization efforts in Colombia do not fit to the specific culture of the country.
13. The moral complexity of agriculture: a challenge for corporate social responsibility
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- de Olde, Evelien M. (author) and Valentinov, Vladislav (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12251
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 32, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid increase in food production but also to environmental and societal concerns over issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, soil quality and biodiversity loss. Many of these concerns, for example those related to animal welfare or labor conditions, are stuck in controversies and apparently deadlocked debates. As a result we observe a paradox in which a wide range of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, originally seeking to reconnect agriculture and society, frequently provoke debate, conlfict, and protests. In order to make sense of this pattern, the present paper contends that Western agriculture is marked by moral complexity, i.e., the tendency of multiple legitimate moral standpoints to proliferate without the realistic prospect of a consensus. This contention is buttressed by a conceptual framework that draws inspiration the contemporary business ethics and systems-theoretic scholarship. From the systems-theoretic point of view, the evolution of moral complexity is traced back to the processes of agricultural modernization, specialization, and diferentiation, each of which suppresses the responsiveness of the economic and legal institutions to the full range of societal and environmental concerns about agriculture. From the business ethics point of view, moral complexity is shown to prevent the transformation of the ethical responsibilities into the legal and economic responsibilities despite the ongoing institutionalization of CSR. Navigating moral complexity is shown to require moral judgments which are necessarily personal and contestable. These judgments are implicated in those CSR initiatives that require dealing with trade-ofs among the different sustainability issues.
14. How natural wine became a symbol of virtuous consumption
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Monroe, Rachel (author) and The New Yorker
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-18
- Published:
- United States: Condé Nast
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: D11362
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online magazine
15. Modernization of agriculture and use of information and communication technologies by farmers in coastal Yogyakarta
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Subejo, Daya Untari (author), Untari, Dyah Woro (author), Wati, Ratih Ineke (author), and Mewasdenta, Gagar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12245
- Journal Title:
- Indonesian Journal of Geography
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 51 No. 2,
- Notes:
- 15 pages, In the development process, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which also commonly referred to as electronic media or cyber media have been acknowledged as a new instrument that could facilitate the need of new information and innovation for rural people or farmers. However, several studies reported that extension and communication based electronic media in developing countries encounter more problems rather than in developed countries. This research aims to investigate the ownership, access, utilization or functions of ICTs for obtaining information supporting the daily life of farmers and for promoting various farming activities in the coastal area of Kulon Progo Regency Yogyakarta. The research method of the study was a descriptive method that has been conducted by a mixed method. The study found that in line with modernization in agriculture, farmers have been using conventional and new electronic media including television, radio and mobile phone with function for getting new information. Conventional electronic media are still dominant while the use of new electronic media has been gradually increasing. Information gathered from ICTs includes social, cultural, economic, health and environmental issues. The use of new electronic media particularly the internet via smartphone has newly started to be utilized among farmers in the coastal farming area who intensively engaged in horticulture crops cultivation mainly for getting and exchange the market information. Information on technological innovation is still dominant among farmers. Better infrastructure and mobility access, improvement of telecommunication network and development of content and format of information provided by new media will be prospective in the future.
16. Do icts boost agricultural productivity?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhu, Qiubo (author), Bai, Junfei (author), Peng, Chao (author), and Zhu, Chen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11
- Published:
- China: China Economist
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12263
- Journal Title:
- China Economist
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.15, No.6
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Based on panel data from the Rural Fixed Point Survey of the Ministry of Agriculture over the period 2004-2016 and supplementary survey data on information and communications technology (ICT) applications in the countryside, this paper employs the difference in differences (DID) method to analyze the effects of ICT applications on rural households’ agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) with mobile phone signal, internet and 3G mobile network connections as indicators, and decomposes and evaluates the constituent factors. Our findings reveal a positive effect of ICTs on rural households’ TFP, which primarily stemmed from rising agricultural technical efficiency. However, ICTs exerted no significant effect on agricultural technical progress during this paper’s data period due to limited rural human capital. These findings are consistent with robustness test results based on counterfactual and matching methods.
17. There's a lot the Postal Service can do to be present in the 21st century': CounterSpin interview with Lisa Graves on the fight for the Postal Service
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jackson, Janine (author)
- Format:
- online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-13
- Published:
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13332
- Notes:
- 5 pages