The communication scarcity in agriculture / Jessica Eise and Whitney Hodde
- Author
- Eise, Jessica
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 139 pages ; 21 cm
- Additional Creators
- Hodde, Whitney
- Contents
- Pink slime: when a media frenzy strikes -- Chipotle marketing: pushing polarization to the next level -- All that glitters: the power of non-expert influence -- Triple for a dozen: the rise and dominance of advocacy -- Technical difficulties: grappling with the benefits and risks of GMOs -- Emotions and agriculture -- Communicating the essence of agriculture -- The importance of perception -- Turning up the volume on science -- Working with, not against: the power of a diversity of perspectives -- Settling into common ground: the future of food and agriculture.
- Summary
- Today, the general public craves information on food and agriculture with an unprecedented passion. But the agricultural sector, unaccustomed to an interested and inquisitive society, has largely failed to respond to the public's demands for information. Instead, corporations, time-pressed journalists, bloggers, media celebrities, film-makers, authors and concerned consumers jumped in to fill the void. Food is emotional, and these players--some well-intentioned and others not--got a lot of traction playing off consumer fears of the unknown. 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781138650602 (hbk.)
1138650609 (hbk.)
9781138650619 (pbk.)
1138650617 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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