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Kimura, Aya Hirata – Rural Sociology, 2012
Food safety and quality assurance systems have emerged as a key mechanism of food governance in recent years and are also popular among alternative agrofood movements, such as the organic and fair trade movements. Rural sociologists have identified many problems with existing systems, including corporate cooptation, the marginalization of small…
Descriptors: Feminism, Safety, Food Standards, Quality Control
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Sapp, Stephen G.; Arnot, Charlie; Fallon, James; Fleck, Terry; Soorholtz, David; Sutton-Vermeulen, Matt; Wilson, Jannette J. H. – Rural Sociology, 2009
Because consumer opinions to an increasing extent affect the structure and management of the U.S. food system, it is important for social scientists to accurately model consumer trust in this system so they can better understand and anticipate public responses to existing or proposed food-related regulatory policies and facilitate effective…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Structural Equation Models, Food Standards, Social Scientists
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Friedland, William H. – Rural Sociology, 2010
The remarkable growth of alternative agrifood movements--organics, fair trade, localism, Slow Food, farmers' markets, community-supported agriculture, food security, food safety, food sovereignty, anti-genetically modified organisms, animal welfare, and others--and their attraction to younger academic scholars offer a unique opportunity to explore…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Food Standards, Comparative Analysis, Researchers
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Knight, Andrew; Warland, Rex – Rural Sociology, 2005
This research employs a multi-disciplinary approach by developing a model that draws upon psychometric, cultural, and reflexive modernization perspectives of risk perception. Using data from a 1999 national telephone survey, we tested our model on three food risks ? pesticides, Salmonella, and fat. Results showed that perceptions of risks do vary…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Psychometrics, Knowledge Level, Telephone Surveys
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Tanaka, Keiko – Rural Sociology, 2005
Food safety governance is shaped by social relationships among the state, the industry, and the public in the food system in a given country. This paper examines the contestation among actors in New Zealand's red meat chain over the implementation of the Animal Product Act of 1999 (APA), which became a cornerstone in the reform of food safety…
Descriptors: Food Standards, Food, Foreign Countries, Citizen Participation