The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-65061-9 (ISBN)
This critical and timely book explains how changing demographics, cultural shifts, technological advances and agriculture’s silence all combined to create the perfect storm – a great chasm between those who know, and those who don’t know, agriculture. The ramifications of a poorly-informed consumer base are now becoming clear in our policy debates and consumer-driven business decisions. There is a lot of common ground between the agricultural sector and their consumer base, but each group largely fails to appreciate it, and the consequences of such a divide grow increasingly dire.
Drawing on a wide-range of expertise, from leading agricultural researchers to major agribusiness leaders to consumer advocates, Eise and Hodde lay out exactly why communication is so urgently critical to our modern-day agricultural system. They outline the major themes affecting agricultural communication – perception, emotion, technology, science - and what we can do now to improve the debate and safeguard our future food supply for generations to come.This book is suitable for those who study agriculture, environmental economics and mass media and communication.
Jessica Eise is the Director of Communications in the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University, where she also teaches. She has a master’s in Journalism and International Relations from New York University. Eise worked internationally in communications for five years before a stint in Washington, DC, in policy communications. Whitney Hodde is a Research Assistant in the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University. She has a master’s in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. She was raised on a farm in Iowa and worked in Washington, DC, for seven years as an environmental finance expert in the non-profit world.
Foreword: Dr. Robert Paarlberg
Foreword: Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy
Preface: Today’s Communication Environment
Introduction: The Scarcity of Communication
Part One: The Reality
Chapter One: Pink Slime: When a media frenzy strikes
Chapter Two: Chipotle Marketing: Pushing polarization to the next level
Chapter Three: All That Glitters: The power of non-expert influence
Chapter Four: Triple for a Dozen: The rise and dominance of advocacy
Chapter Five: Technical Difficulties: Grappling with the benefits and risks of GMOs
Part Two: The Nuances
Chapter Six: Emotions and Agriculture
Pop-Out: Food and Health: A Consumer’s Perspective
Chapter Seven: Communicating the Essence of Agriculture
Pop-Out: Kids, Cows and Grass: A Farmer Blogger’s Perspective
Chapter Eight: The Importance of Perception
Pop-Out: For Better Communication, A Cultural Reorientation: A Policymaker’s Perspective
Chapter Nine: Turning Up the Volume on Science
Pop-Out: The Cost of Not Spending: An Academic’s Perspective
Part Three: A Reorientation
Chapter Ten: Working With, Not Against: The power of a diversity of perspectives
Chapter Eleven: Settling into Common Ground: The future of food and agriculture
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 181 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-65061-7 / 1138650617 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-65061-9 / 9781138650619 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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