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2. Bridging information gaps between farmers, policy-makers, researchers and development agents
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wesseler, Gesa (author) and Brinkman, Willemine (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08294
- Notes:
- ACDC segment includes only bibliographic information, contents page and introduction. Full text was no longer available at the url 04/16/17., Paper presented at the regional conference on "Agroforestry impacts on livelihoods in Southern Africa: putting research into practice," Aventura Warmbaths, South Africa, May 20-24, 2002. 41 pages.
3. KM4Dev: after-hours online forum
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cummings, Sarah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-02
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08523
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 81 : 12
4. Water use in Florida: examining perceptions of water use based on visual images
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Epstein, Joshua M. (author), Lundy, Lisa K. (author), and Lamm, Alexa J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08655
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 101(1) : 19-30
5. On food, farming and land management: towards a research agenda to reconnect urban and rural lives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dillon, Justin (author), Rickinson, Mark (author), Sanders, Dawn (author), and Teamey, Kelly (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08794
- Notes:
- Pages 187-203 in Dillon, Justin, Towards a convergence between science and environmental education: the selected works of Justin Dillon. United States: Routledge, New York City, New York, 2017. 361 pages.
6. Attention, access and the global space of interpretation: media dynamics of the IPCC AR5 launch year
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kunelius, Risto (author) and Yagodin, Dmitry (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08850
- Notes:
- Pages 59-80 in Kunelius, Risto Eide, Elisabeth Tegelberg, Matthew Yagodin, Dmitry (eds.), Media and global climate knowledge: journalism and the IPCC. United States: Palgrave Macmillan, New York City, New York. 309 pages.
7. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and environmental cooperation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Waisová, Šárka (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08902
- Notes:
- Pages 97-117 in Waisová, Šárka, Environmental cooperation as a tool for conflict transformation and resolution. United Kingdom: Lexington Books, London. 196 pages.
8. Ideology and elites' perceptions of the safety of new technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Plutzer, Eric (author), Maney, Ardith (author), and O'Connor, Robert E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1998-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09504
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Political Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 42(1) : 190-209
- Notes:
- ACDC holds pages 201-205.
9. Organization for information services in the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kern, Bob (author)
- Format:
- Correspondence
- Publication Date:
- 1990-09-10
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09595
- Notes:
- Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Letter to the Director General of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute. 3 pages., Describes three kinds of support a communications unit needs to provide for a research organization, with thoughts organized by audience.
10. Farmers feel sorry for themselves, but they have political clout
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Soth, Lauren (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 1976-04-20
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09616
- Journal Title:
- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- : 22
- Notes:
- Delmar Hatesohl Collection, "Ag Affairs" column by author.
11. Information and perceptions of the acid rain issue in the Adirondacks and central Ontario
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mendez, Ana Irene (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09745
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Cornell University. 2 pages.
12. Which vision of farming is better for the planet?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chisholm, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09757
- Notes:
- NPR: The Salt. 5 pages.
13. Towards a farmer-oriented and dialogical approach in development: Mindanao in perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ravanera, Orlando R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1981-10
- Published:
- Philippines: Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development, Laguna, Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10075
- Journal Title:
- CARD News
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(3) : 3, 7
- Notes:
- This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., "...for all their seeming importance, these continuous outpourings of government and foreign aid and the steady diffusion of developmental projects and innovations are only pallatives. Thus, the wheel of agricultural development must reel off with a farmer-oriented concept of development which gives prominent role to farmers' participation in programs which are supposedly designed for their upliftment. ... "How can farmers be mobilized to participate in their own development? Simply by the abolition of 'transmission mentality' in communication and its replacement with a more liberating type of communication that would contain more dialogue..."
14. Spanning the gap: the confluence of agricultural literacy and being agriculturally literate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chris Clemons (author), James R. Lindner (author), Bruce Murray (author), Mike P. Cook (author), Brandon Sams (author), and Gwendolyn Williams (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-04-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D10105
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 59(4) : 238-252
- Notes:
- Via online issue. Pgs. 283-252, The purpose of the study was to examine the confluence of agricultural literacy, what it means to be agriculturally literate, and if a gap between agricultural literacy and being agriculturally literate existed. Two primary research questions framed this study: 1) How do agriculture professionals define agricultural literacy? 2) What does it mean to be agriculturally literate? While the terms literacy and literate are often used synonymously they have important and different meanings. This study used the Delphi Study Technique for determining consensus. The Delphi panel consisted of engaged agricultural professionals from seven states. These professions represented a broad spectrum of agricultural careers and experience. Each panel member was recognized as a leader in his or her field. The findings indicated that participants did not discern a difference between agricultural literacy and being agriculturally literate in regards to reading, writing, and speaking about agriculture. This study supports the conclusion that the terms agriculturally literate and agricultural literacy are used interchangeably. Agricultural professional may not be aware of the inherent differences between possessing agricultural literacy and being agriculturally literate.
15. Communicating stakeholder priorities in the great barrier reef region
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Larson, Silva (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009-07-01
- Published:
- USA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10147
- Journal Title:
- Society and Natural Resources
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(7) : 650-664
- Notes:
- 15 pages., Via online journal., Preliminary results of a survey investigating individual well-being of residents in the Great Barrier Reef region of Australia are presented. The well-being factors were grouped into domains of: society, representing family and community issues; ecology, representing natural environment; and economy, dealing with economic issues and provision of services. The relative perceived importance of factors was quantified, allowing for a creation of individual well-being functions. In the society domain, family relations and health were identified as the most important contributors to well-being. Water quality was the ecology domain factor that received highest scores, and health services and income were the most important contributors to the economic domain. The methodological approach used in this study has a potential to integrate ecological, social, and economic values of local people into decision-making processes. The profiles of well-being thus generated would present policymakers with information beyond that available from standard data sources.
16. 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.
17. How do human values influence the beef preferences of consumer segments regarding animal welfare and environmentally friendly production?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sonoda, Yuta (author), Oishi, Kazato (author), Chomei, Yosuke (author), and Hirooka, Hiroyuki (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10179
- Journal Title:
- Meat Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 146: 75-86
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal, Animal welfare and environmental impacts have been emphasized in the sustainable production of livestock. Labels are useful tools for clearly providing such attribute information to consumers. The aim of this study was to evaluate how human values influence consumer segments for beef with information on animal welfare and environmentally friendly production. Using a choice experiment, we examined whether animal welfare and environmentally friendly labels, country of origin and price impact consumer choice. As results, five heterogeneous consumer classes were identified using a latent class model: label conscious, domestic beef preferring, price conscious, animal welfare preferring and not interested in production method. Almost 90% of consumers were interested in and willing to pay for beef with animal welfare or environmentally friendly label. The classes with significant preferences for such labeled beef were affected by “openness to change”, “self-enhancement” and “security”. Improving consumer attitudes and strengthening consumer perception towards labeled beef by marketers and policy makers will be required.
18. Mexican consumers' perceptions and attitudes towards farm animal welfare and willingness to pay for welfare friendly meat products
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miranda-de la Lama, G.C. (author), Estévez-Moreno, L.X. (author), Sepúlveda, W.S. (author), Estrada-Chavero, M.C. (author), Rayas-Amor, A.A. (author), Villarroel, M. (author), and María, G.A. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: D10180
- Journal Title:
- Meat Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 125 : 106–113
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Via online journal., Increasing concerns about farm animal welfare have led to an increase in the availability of welfare-friendly-products (WFP), but little is known about how much more consumers are willing-to-pay (WTP) for WFP or about their buying trends in Latin America. In this study, a survey was given to 843 meat consumers in the city of Toluca, Mexico. The results show that consumers were interested in farm animal welfare issues and their ethical, sociological and economic implications, as in Europe. The people surveyed also conveyed a high level of empathy with animal feelings and emotions, however they clearly demanded more information and regulations related to farm animal welfare. The majority of respondents expressed that they were WTP more for properly certified WFP, but mostly based on the benefits in terms of product quality and human health. If the demand for WFP begins to increase in Mexico, the supply chain should consider a certification system to guarantee product origin based on current conditions.
19. Measuring the consumer benefits of improving farm animal welfare to inform welfare labeling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kehlbacher, A. (author), Bennett, R. (author), and Balcombe, K. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-12
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: D10196
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(6) : 627-633
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Policy makers in the European Union are envisioning the introduction of a community farm animal welfare label which would allow consumers to align their consumption habits with their farm animal welfare preferences. For welfare labeling to be viable the market for livestock products produced to higher welfare standards has to be sufficiently segmented with consumers having sufficiently distinct and behaviourally consistent preferences. The present study investigates consumers’ preferences for meat produced to different welfare standards using a hypothetical welfare score. Data is obtained from a contingent valuation study carried out in Britain. The ordered prohbit model was estimated using Bayesian inference to obtain mean willingness to pay. We find decreasing marginal WTP as animal welfare levels increase and that people’s preferences for different levels of farm animal welfare are sufficiently differentiated making the introduction of a la belling scheme in the form of a certified rating system appear feasible.
20. Factors influencing the information needs and information access channels of farmers: an empirical study in Guangdong, China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Yongshan Chen (author) and Yonghe Lu (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-08
- Published:
- China: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10228
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Information Science
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Via online journal., Information plays an important role in meeting the quantitative and qualitative goals of agriculture in the 21st century. As an emerging economy in a developing continent, China has already made many interventions to use information technology to support agricultural development. However, information service in some rural areas is still severely limited. The overall impact of the changing information environment on the farmers’ information needs and access channels has not been fully studied. Thus, this study systematically investigates the characteristics of the information needs and channels of farmers in Guangdong, China. We have collected 4006 questionnaire samples and used correlation analysis to explore the relationships between farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. The results indicate that individual characteristic factors, social factors and family factors have different degrees of influence on farmers’ information needs and access channel preferences. These findings can provide a reference for information construction in the rural areas of Guangdong Province and thus promote its economic development. This study can also provide useful insights for policymakers and researchers from other developing countries to formulate implementation plans to promote agricultural development.