Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23503
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Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 7 pages., Responses in a Nebraska survey to questions inviting views about the definition of agriculture and the levels of public funds to be spent for agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23101
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2 pages., National television survey showed 50% net positive response to the restaurant industry. Farming/agriculture industry ranked third (45% net positive response), behind computer industry (47%).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10764
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3 pages
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Archived at: Posted on Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Canada, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/library/science/health/031400hth-gm-europe.html
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23201
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Public Opinion Online, Roper Center at University of Connecticut via Lexis-Nexis. 1 page., Summary of responses to a question about activity level of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in conducting research on obesity related health problems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23031
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Presented at the 2005 Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists,Thun, Switzerland, August 31-September 4, 2005. 3 pages., Author notes that coverage of agriculture is changing in the daily and weekly newspapers of Switzerland. Suggests that farmers are going to have to learn to show more solidarity with urban populations, especially as they demand that other people show solidarity with them.
Irani, Tracy (author) and Grantham, Susan (author)
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Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
2001-07-28
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11974
Journal Title Details:
10 pages
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The document is available in electronic or paper format, Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group, 2001 ACE/NETC Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 28 July- 01 August 2001
Rauch, Andrew (author), Sharp, Jeff S. (author), and Social Responsibility Initiative, Department of Human and Community Resource Development, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22213
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Topical report from the 2004 Ohio Survey of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Issues. 4 pages.
McCarthy, M. (author), O'Reilly, S. (author), O'Donovan, P. (author), and Howlett, B. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Ireland
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21764
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Pages 221-237 in George Baourakes (ed.), Marketing trends for organic food in the 21st Century. World Scientific Publishing Co., Pte. Ltd., Singapore. 338 pages.
Author reports on the complexity and inconsistencies of organic views about nature. "Even with the particular classification scheme expressed within the fish debate, the organic movement simultaneously articulated a wide variety of often contradictory views of nature-society." (p. 231)
USA: Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, a project of the University of Richmond supported by the Pew Charitable Trust, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: C21643
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A Project of the University of Richmaond Supported by Pew Charitable Trusts Washington D.C., 6 pages, In September 2004 the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology conducted its third comprehensive survey of U.S. consumer sentiment about the application of genetic engineering to agriculture. Similar comprehensive surveys were previously conducted by the Initiative in January 2001 and August 2003. The first survey sought to track consumer awareness of genetically modified (GM) crops, whereas the second survey continued that tracking effort and probed related issues such as regulation of GM foods and preferred applications.
This year the Pew Initiative built on its body of knowledge about consumer sentiment by conducting focus groups as well as fielding a survey. Four focus groups were conducted in Philadelphia and Des Moines on August 25th and 26th. Observations from those groups were then used to develop a survey that both tracked the issues addressed in prior surveys by the Pew Initiative and probed some of the sentiments detected in the focus groups. The resulting survey was then administered to 1000 American consumers who were interviewed by telephone September 22-26, 2004. The margin of error for the survey is +/- 3.1% at the 95% level of confidence. The margin of error is higher for subgroups.
The combined findings from the August 2004 focus groups and the September 2004 survey are summarized below and provide a robust picture of current U.S. consumer attitudes toward GM foods and genetic engineering, why those beliefs are held, and trends in those attitudes over the last three years. In addition to this summary, the Pew Initiative is making available a transcript of the focus groups and the survey results, prepared by the firms that jointly prepared and conducted them, the Melman Group and Public Opinion Strategies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21820
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Princeton Survey Research Associates International, Responses to a question for a sample of U.S. parents of children ages 2-17: How much, if at all, do you think children's food choices and eating habits are influenced by the ads they see on television? Results: A lot, 49%; Somewhat, 28%; Only a little, 14%; Not at all, 7%; Don't know/Refused, 1%.
"The results of a survey on rural residents' opinions of their pork producing neighbours may be surprising to some." Researchers reports that producers often think their neighbours feel more negatively abvout their operations than they really do.
Koch, Phil (author / Director of Marketing Services, Ciba-Geigy Agricultural Division, Greensboro, NC) and Director of Marketing Services, Ciba-Geigy Agricultural Division, Greensboro, NC
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03118
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James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1988. 3 p. Paper presented at the American Agricultural Editors' Association Convention; 1988 October 31; St. Louis, MO
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23852
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From The Financial Times via Rand Corporation. 3 pages., Author comments on different perspectives of Europeans and Americans regarding food, eating and other cultural factors, as related to acceptability of genetically modified foods.
Jordan, J.P. (author / Colorado State University) and Colorado State University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01097
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AgComm Teaching; See ID C01090, In: Marks, J.J. and Cooper, B., eds. Proceedings of the EXCOP Communications workshop; 1982 September 16-17; St. Louis, MO. Columbia, MO : University of Missouri, 1982. p. 30-34
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23313
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Social Weather Stations, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines. 1 page., Response to a nationwide survey question about whether respondents were aware that delivery of agricultural extension services had been turned over from the Department of Agriculture to the municipal governments.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23314
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Social Weather Stations, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines. 1 page., Response to a nationwide survey question about the extent to which respondents are satisfied or not satisfied with the way agricultural extension services have been provided in their communities.
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2003-07-11
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24427
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, 1 page., Survey commissioned b y the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggests that a majority of Americans think physicians are influenced by drug companies' gifts and that science is driven by the financial interests of business and industry.
Authors report on consumer knowledge and perceptions about seafood safety and coastal pollution. "We find that consumers view seafood as far more threatened by pollution than scientific analysis suggests."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19625
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Pages 95-112 in Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds.), Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. 277 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23527
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Banff Pork Seminar, Banff, Alberta, Canada. 2 pages., Report of a research project indicating that once neighbors were exposed to the realities of pork production in their environment they were more likely to change previously held negative perceptions of the industry.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22038
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Public Opinion Online. 1 page., Responses in a national adult Harris Poll about the prices of packaged foods. "Fair and reasonable" - 52%; "Somewhat high" - 32%; "Unreasonably high" - 12%; "Not sure" - 3%.
24 pages., Via online journal., We examined the relationship between attitudes toward urban ecological restoration and cognitive (perceived outcomes, value orientation, and objective knowledge), affective (emotional responses), and behavioral factors using residents of the Chicago Metropolitan Region. Positive and negative attitudes were both related to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration. In addition, positive attitudes were related to values while negative attitudes were related to emotions. Attitudes of high and low importance groups were connected to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration; however, attitudes of the high importance group were also related to values, emotions, and behavior. Positive and negative attitude groups differed on perceived outcomes, basic beliefs, knowledge, and behavior. Implications lie in understanding of complex attitudes toward natural resource issues and improved communication efforts to influence or educate the public.
