Source: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
RURAL SOCIOLOGY
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0185270
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jul 1, 2000
Project End Date
Jun 30, 2006
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
2229 Lincoln Way
AMES,IA 50011
Performing Department
SOCIOLOGY
Non Technical Summary
The people of Rural America need information to help them in their efforts to enhance the quality of life in rural areas, build greater harmony between agriculture and the environment, improve the global competitive position of U.S. agriculture, develop a safe and secure food system, and encourage a healthier, more well-nourished population. To conduct sociological analysis of the activities of people, organizations, and communities to enhance the quality of life for all Iowans.
Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
50%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
8026099308010%
8036099308070%
8056099308010%
7036099308010%
Knowledge Area
703 - Nutrition Education and Behavior; 805 - Community Institutions, Health, and Social Services; 803 - Sociological and Technological Change Affecting Individuals, Families, and Communities; 802 - Human Development and Family Well-Being;

Subject Of Investigation
6099 - People and communities, general/other;

Field Of Science
3080 - Sociology;
Goals / Objectives
To examine efforts by people, organizations, and communities to: 1. enhance their economic opportunities and the quality of life in rural America; 2. build greater harmony between agriculture and the environment; 3. achieve sustained, long-term improvement in the competitive position of U.S. agriculture; 4. develop a safe and secure food system; and 5. encourage a healthier, more well-nourished population.
Project Methods
Use of social surveys, laboratory experiments, ethnographies, case histories, interviews, content analysis, sociometry, focus groups, and statistical analysis of secondary data to examine how people, organizations, and communities work to improve their well-being. This investigation includes description and explanation of current social structure and culture, identification of historical trends affecting these characteristics of society, and development of applied programs to help people achieve their goals for a high quality of life in Iowa. Additional investigators are: S. Aigner, B. Allen, C. Anderson, M. Bell, T. Besser, S. Bird, R. Conger, C. Flora, J. Flora, C. Hinrichs, D. Hoyt, P. Lasley, F. Lorenz, L. Morton, S. Sapp, and B. Wells.

Progress 07/01/00 to 06/30/06

Outputs
Social and demographic trends have altered the composition of stepfamilies and stepfamily life. Overall, psychological disorders except for suicide do not significantly differ between rural and urban midlife adults. The community capitals framework was used in research on a variety of community development issues. Research on the impact of new state prisons on small town economies received much attention from the press, communities, and grassroots organizations. The annual Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll sought farmers' perceptions and opinions on a wide variety of timely topics. Persons living in nearby rural communities rated pork producers as good neighbors. The size of the gender gap in small business success is greater in urban than rural areas. Success is explained by women's ownership of businesses in less profitable industries than men, their lower levels of civic involvement and differing use of business space. Research identified key elements in participatory natural resource management, advocacy coalitions in the anti-transgenic movement, and the importance of bridging institutions in resolving natural resource management conflicts among advocacy coalitions in Ecuador. Trust in social institutions such as U.S.D.A. and the Food and Drug Admin. is essential to public acceptance of genetically modified foods. Traditional approaches of educating people about the hazards of obesity lack efficacy in persuading people to eat healthy and maintain a normal body mass. A project to examine the relationship between community social capital and community response to economic shocks completed surveys of 150 residents in each of 100 Iowa rural communities, and 600 telephone conversations with key informants. Farmer entrepreneurs have a strong commitment to their community, do not seek local assistance, have problems financing their enterprises, and may face zoning ordinance obstructions. Specific consumer preferences for goat meat by groups of differing national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds and demographics were identified along with barriers to increased goat meat production and marketing. A Web site was established that includes Iowa county level poverty and food profiles, educational materials for developing a local food insecurity program, techniques and instruments for gathering local data, and links to food insecurity sites. The social and political environment influences the housing quality in rural places, and unaddressed housing problems have a negative impact on community vitality. Between 134,000 and 194,000 Iowa children were in families with before-tax incomes that were insufficient to cover basic household and work-related expenses, apart from any government assistance they might receive. A GIS based interactive map provides community leaders who information on community based resources and human needs. Latino/a population increase was estimated, and a grant from ERS/USDA facilitated development of a methodology to study job ladders of Latino/a migrants. Age-adjusted mortality rates were found to be lower in more rural counties with a larger extractive industry base and lower levels of inequality.

Impacts
Data from the six Iowa communities on food access and food insecurity are being used by local leaders to assess local food issues. Technical reports have increased the visibility of food access and insecurity as public issues in these six communities. Local committees are looking into transportation access for elderly, gardening initiatives, and food bank services. The food insecurity project strengthened local partnerships among public and private organizations in one county through the mapping of all local safety net organizations, and also helped one Iowa county obtain a $5,000 grant. The ISU hunger website had 191,628 hits in 2005. The Iowa Self Sufficiency Wage study is being used by the United Way of Central Iowa on a program that focuses part of its fund raising around improving the well-being of residents in low income neighborhoods of Des Moines. The data serve as justification for a stronger quality jobs program, and as a model for a similar study in Des Moines by the Child and Family Policy Center. In the goat meat project producer marketing strategies were altered based on increased knowledge of the local market and through the personal interaction and crossing of cultural barriers facilitated by the research. The state of West Virginia, in conjunction with the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Benedum Foundation, is using the community capitals framework as the basis of investments in distressed rural communities, resulting in increased human, social, cultural, political and financial capital.

Publications

  • Flora, C. and Thiboumery, A. 2005. Community Capitals: Poverty Reduction and Rural Development in Dry Areas. Annals of Arid Zone 45(3-4):1-2.
  • Flora, J., Flora, C., Campana, F., Garcia Bravo, M. and Fernandez-Baca, E. 2006. Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples of Environmental Issues from Ecuador. Pp. 287-297 in R. Rhoades (ed.) Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes. Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing.
  • Flora, J. and Lundy Allen, B. 2006. Introduction: Community Development and Social Capital. Journal of the Community Development Society 37(1):1-4.
  • Lewis, H. and Wells, B. 2006. The Market for Goat Meat in Siouxland. Animal Industry Report, Iowa State University, Ames IA.
  • Lorenz, F., Melby, J., R. Conger, R. and Xia, X. 2007. The Effects of Context on the Correspondence between Observational Ratings and Questionnaire Reports of Hostile Behavior: A MTMM Approach. Journal of Family Psychology (In press).
  • Lorenz, F., Wickrama, K., Conger, R. and Elder, Jr., G. 2006. The Short-term and Decade-long Effects of Divorce on Womens Midlife Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47:111-125.
  • Miller, N. and Besser, T. 2005. Comparing Networked to Non-Networked Small U.S. Business: A Firm-Level Investigation of Strategic Network Theory. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 10(2):167-186.
  • Sapp, S., Larson, K., Sundblad, D., Edwards, C., Agnitsch, K., Stalder, K. and Powers, W. 2006. Pork Production and the Quality of Neighboring in Rural Iowa: A Report to the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Iowa State University, Ames IA.
  • Sapp, S. and Weng, C. 2006. Examination of the Health Belief Model to Predict the Dietary Quality and Body Mass of Adults. International Journal of Consumer Studies 29:234-245.
  • Wickrama, K., Lorenz, F., Conger, R. and Elder, Jr., G. 2006. Changes in Family Circumstances and the Physical Health of Married and Recently Divorced Mothers. Social Science and Medicine 63:123-136.
  • Yeh, H., Lorenz, F., Wickrama, K., Conger, R. and Elder, Jr., G. 2006. Relationships between Sexual Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction and Marital Instability at Midlife. Journal of Family Psychology 20:339-343.
  • Cui, M., Conger, R. and Lorenz, F. 2006. Predicting Change in Adolescent Adjustment from Change in Marital Problems. Developmental Psychology (In press).
  • Emery, M. and Flora, C. 2006. Spiraling-up: Mapping Community Transformation with Community Capitals Framework. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37:19-35.
  • Fey, S., Bregendahl, C. and Flora, C. 2006. The Measurement of Community Capitals through Research: A Study Conducted for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, 1. Available at http://www.ojrrp.org/issues/2006/01/index.html.
  • Flora, C. 2006. Immigrants as Assets. Rural Development News. 28(3):1-3.
  • Flora, C. 2006. Information Technology Critical as Rural and Remote Areas Transition to the New Economy. Rural Development News. 28(2):1-2.
  • Flora, C. and Butler, L. 2006. Expanding Visions of Sustainable Agriculture. Pp. 203-224 in C. Francis, R. Poincelot, and G. Bird (eds.), Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture: A New Social Contract. Binghamton. NY: Haworth Food and Agricultural Products Press.
  • Flora, C. and Flora, J. 2006. Sociology of Development. Pp. 496-506 in C. Bryant and D. Peck (eds), 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Progress 01/01/05 to 12/31/05

Outputs
The longitudinal research on Iowa families at midlife documented the strength of convergence between husbands and wives reports of hostility toward one another and observer reports, and demonstrated that divorce has long-term effects on physical health in midlife women even after controlling for such variables as earlier health problems. A survey was completed in five Midwestern states on attitudes toward genetically modified foods. Preliminary results indicate that trust in social institutions, such as the U.S.D.A. and the Food and Drug Admin. are essential to public acceptance of these new foods. Research on strategies for persuading people to eat healthy and maintain a normal body mass discovered that traditional approaches of educating people about the hazards of obesity such as health threats lack efficacy. A project on the goat meat market identified specific consumer preferences by groups of differing national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds and demographics, and identified barriers to increased goat meat production and marketing including inadequate meat processing infrastructure. A new project is working with a local agency to develop a proposal to the Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse to examine the efficacy of motivational interviewing on long-term, sustained recovery from substance abuse among youth. Another new project examines quality of life issues facing rural America that are related to shifts in rural industries, especially agriculture and manufacturing. What are the factors that strengthen or weaken quality of life (e.g., jobs, income, health, housing) when industry shifts occur? The research on small family owned business practices, success, and work-family balance in rural Iowa communities involved the collection of survey, interview, observational, and secondary data, and presentation of results at forums in Iowa and at professional conferences. With a grant from the Northwest Area Foundation the social capital project examined impacts of social capital at the state level on poverty reduction and social capital at the community level. A report was written to guide the Foundation in its efforts to reduce poverty. The food insecurity project established a Web site that includes Iowa county level poverty and food profiles, 5 food insecurity policy briefs, educational materials for developing a local food insecurity program, techniques and instruments for gathering local data, and links to food insecurity sites. The rural entrepreneurship project found that farmer entrepreneurs have a strong commitment to their community, do not seek local assistance realizing their small communities do not have the resources, have problems financing their enterprises, and may face zoning ordinance obstructions. The 2005 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll had responses from nearly 1,300 Iowa Farmers. Information was obtained on desired directions of the new farm bill, farmland prices, conservation and the environment, economic development, methamphetamine issues, farm succession, and evaluation of extension

Impacts
The project on controversial agricultural technologies offered suggestions to relevant agencies through written reports that maintaining the integrity of regulatory procedures are important to building and keeping public confidence. In the goat meat project producer marketing strategies were altered based on increased knowledge of the local market and through the personal interaction and crossing of cultural barriers facilitated by the research. The food insecurity project strengthened local partnerships among public and private organizations in one county through the mapping of all local safety net organizations. The mapping project offered a concrete focal point for building partnerships and provides a model for programs on food insecurity. The ISU hunger website www.extension.iastate.edu/hunger had 191,628 hits in 2005, an average of 473 hits daily. The food insecurity group also helped one Iowa county obtain a $5,000 grant. A report of the results from the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll was distributed to Iowa extension offices, state and local policy and decision makers, and other interested individuals for their use in developing and evaluating policy.

Publications

  • Agnitsch, K., Besser, T., Whitham, M., and Friestad, J. 2005. A Decade of Change in Iowas Small Towns. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Agnitsch, K. 2005. A Decade of Change in Iowas Small Towns. Sociology Research Briefs. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Allen, B.L, Morton, L.W., Gutierrez-Montes, I. and Sundblad, D. 2005. Housing, Food, and Community: A Profile of Perry, Iowa. Sociology Tech. Report 1008. Iowa State University Extension.
  • Allen, B.L., Boyce, K., Flage, L., Fruechte, K.,Goeken, J., Horntvedt, J., Hvidsten, M., Jaworski, K., Kuehn, A., Matz, R., Padgitt, S., Rascon, T., Reed, L., Scheffert, D.R., Trautman, K., and Ufkes, M. 2005. Playbook for Delivery Organizations, Supervisors, and Coaches Northwest Area.
  • Besser, T., Agnitsch, K., Forster, L., and Friestad, J. 2005. A Decade of Change in Iowas (name of town, 100 reports). Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Besser, T., Agnitsch, K., and Friestad, J. 2005. Economic Shocks and the Quality of Life in Iowa Small Towns. Sociology Research Briefs. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Bird, S.R. and Sokolofski, L. 2005. Gendered Socio Spatial Practices in Public Eating and Drinking Establishments in the United States. Gender, Place and Culture, 12(2):213-230.
  • Bird, S.R. 2005. Who Owns Main St. Iowa? Sociology Policy Brief. Sociology Extension Unit, Iowa State University.
  • Bregendahl, C. and Flora, C.B. 2005. New Immigrants and Internet Use: Crossing Borders for Social and Cultural Benefit. Community Technology Review. Spring Summer.
  • Cui, M., Lorenz, F.O., Conger, R.D., Melby, J.N., and Bryant, C.M. 2005. Observer, Self and Partner Reports of Hostile Behaviors in Romantic Relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67:1169-1181.
  • Flora, C.B. 2005. Economic Restructuring and Outsourcing in the North Central Region. Rural Development News, 28:1:1-2.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. Agricultural Change and Rural Development. Rural Development News, 27:3:1-2.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. The Triple Bottom Line: A Viable Strategy for Rural Development? Rural Development News, 27:2:1-2.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. Child Poverty in the North Central Region. Rural Development News, 27:1:1-2.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. Using Social Science to Affect Community Change. Rural Development News, 26:4:1-2 . Flora, C. B., Gasteyer, S., and Sempronii, G. 2004. Participacion local en investigacion y estension para la conversacion y desarrollo de los recursos naturals: Un sumario de enfoques. Pp. 135-171 in Crianceros y Chacareros en la Patagonia. M. Bendini and C. Alemany (eds.) Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial La Colmena.
  • Flora, J.L., and C.B. Flora. 2004. Building Community in Rural Areas of the Andes. Pp. 523-542 in R. Atria and M. Siles (compilers), Social Capital and Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a New Paradigm. Santiago Chile: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and Michigan State University, January 2004.
  • Flora, C.B. and Flora, J.L. 2005. Creating Social Capital. Pp. 39-63 in J. Pretty (ed.) The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture. London and Sterling VA: Earthscan. (Reprint of 1996 article.)
  • Hagley, M., Fales, S.L., Kirschenman, F.L., Honeyman, M.S., Miranowski, J.A. and Lasley, P. 2005. Interrelationships of Animal Agriculture, the Environment, and Rural Communities. Journal of Animal Science, 83:E13-17.
  • Korsching, P.F. and Roelfs, D.J. 2005. Change Agent Innovativeness: Community Economic Development Directors Attitudes toward Telecommunications. Journal of Applied Sociology, 22:1:67-90.
  • Korsching, P., Lasley, P., and Roelfs, D. 2005. Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, 2005 Summary Report. Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Service, Pm 2012.
  • Morton, L.W. 2004. Strategic Siting of On Farm Wetlands. The ISU Kelley Swine Nutrition Farm Demonstration Project. CD video and handouts. Sociology Extension Unit, Iowa State University.
  • Korsching, P. and Jacobs, C. 2005. Farmer Entrepreneurship: Problems and Prospects of Growing a Business on the Farm. Sociology Research Briefs. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Morton, L.W. and Padgitt, S. 2005. Selecting Socio Economic Metrics for Watershed Management. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 103:83-98.
  • Morton, L.W., Bitto, E.A., Oakland, M.J., and Sand, M. 2004. Solving Food Insecurity. In Rural Iowa Perspectives on Poverty, Policy, and Place. Rural Policy Research Institute, 2:2:4-16.
  • Morton, L.W., Greder, K., Garasky, S. 2005. Patterns of Food Access and Food Insecurity among Rural Elders. In Family Focus on Aging, National Council on Family Relations Report (September), F31-32.
  • Morton, L. 2005. Governing Cities in a Changing World and Building Confidence in Government in Governing Cities: A Leadership Toolbox. Iowa League of Cities and Iowa State University Extension.
  • Morton, L.W., Bitto, E.A., Oakland, M.J., and Sand, M. 2004. Rural Food Access Patterns: Elderly Open Country and In Town Residents. SP 236 Iowa Food Security, Insecurity, and Hunger Policy Brief. Sociology Extension Unit, Iowa State University.
  • Recker, N. 2005. Economic Shocks and Feelings of Safety. Sociology Research Briefs. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Wickrama, K.A.S., Lorenz, F.O., Fang, S., Abraham, W.T., and Elder, Jr., G.H. 2005. Gendered Trajectories of Work Control and Health Outcomes in the Middle Years. Journal of Aging and Health, 17:779-806.
  • Zacharakis-Jutz, J., Morton, L.W., and Rodecap, J. 2004. Citizen-led Watershed Projects: Participatory Research Along Iowas Maquoketa River: Environmental Adult Education. Journal of Adult Learning, 13:2/3:19-23.
  • Zacharakis, J. and Flora, J.L. 2005. Riverside: A Case Study of Social Capital and Cultural Reproduction and their Relationship to Leadership Development. Adult Education Quarterly, 55:4(August):288-307.


Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04

Outputs
The gender and small business project found that the gender gap in small business success is greater in urban than rural areas. Success is explained by women's ownership of businesses in less profitable industries and women owner's lower levels of civic involvement than men. The Social and Economic Trend Analysis Office collected, analyzed, interpreted and disseminated information on social, economic, and demographic trends in Iowa. The food irradiation study found that negative information acquisition decreased symbolic adoption, but over time this negative effect was mitigated by compliance with endorsements from opinion leaders. The study of the impact of new state prisons on small town economies received much attention from the press, and from individual communities and grassroots organizations. Research on capital and sustainable development found that rural communities that invested in multiple capitals achieved more sustainable development, specifically, better rural water management, than communities that invested in only one capital, such as financial or human capital. The project on agriculture, food systems, and community health conducted survey work within Iowa, analyzed U.S. mortality data, and received two grants totaling $66,292 that funded six community surveys. An investigation into social and demographic trends that have altered the stepfamily composition and stepfamily life corrects common misconceptions about stepfamilies and provides recommendations for improving stepfamily quality of life. Research focusing on women farmers and farmland owners completed a pilot participatory research project with women land owners. Research on life stress and health among adults at midlife found that drug and alcohol use and overall psychological disorders do not significantly differ between rural and urban areas, but male rural suicides continue to increase over time whereas they are declining in urban places. The rural housing research found that social and political environments are important influences on the quality of rural housing stock. The project examining the relationship between community social capital and community response to economic shocks experienced since 1990 completed surveys of residents and telephone interviews with key informants in 100 Iowa rural communities. The Iowa Self Sufficiency Wage study calculated that in 2002, between 134,000 and 194,000 of Iowa's children were in families with insufficient incomes to cover basic household and work-related expenses while one or both parents worked full time. A GIS-based interactive map that includes information on the geographic distribution of human needs and available social services was developed for use by community leaders to expand outreach efforts to under-served households. The entrepreneurship research supplemented data from in-depth interviews with community leaders on the role of community coalitions in promoting and supporting local entrepreneurship. The Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll surveyed over 2,000 Iowa farmers to obtain information on health insurance, the future of farming, tax policy, water quality, philanthropy, and quality of life.

Impacts
The gender and small business project resulted in dialogue on the role of small businesses in rural Iowa and factors for their success. The Social and Economic Trend Analysis Office informed citizens, academics, economic leaders, and state legislators about demographic trends in Iowa. Community leaders have used the research on the impact of new state prisons on small town economies to help them understand the potential impact of such institutions on their communities. Local leaders are using data from six Iowa communities on food access and food insecurity to assess local food issues such as transportation for elderly, gardening initiatives, and food banks. Findings from research focusing on women farmers and farmland owners resulted in modification of the design, content, and delivery of a statewide series of workshops. To address the issue of adequate rural housing, state government is interested in planning a summit on Diversity and Economic Development with community housing being one of the key issues. United Way of Central Iowa is using the Iowa Self Sufficiency Wage study to focus part of its fund raising around improving the well-being of residents in Des Moines low income neighborhoods. The GIS based community resource and human needs map contributes to the ability of social service agencies and volunteer groups to secure grants for programs and identify areas in which to expand their outreach. Findings from the entrepreneurship research were used to enhance the efficacy of a national program on training and supporting entrepreneurs.

Publications

  • Social and Economic Trend Analysis. 2004. Iowa by the Numbers, CD-Rom. SETA, Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
  • Sokolofski, L. 2004. Managing Household Food and Feeding: Gender, Consumption and Citizenship among Community Supported Agriculture Members. Unpublished MS thesis, Dept. of Sociology, Iowa State University.
  • Stover, R.G., D.J.Hess, G.A.Goreham, and S.G.Sapp. 2004. Midwest Consumers Beliefs and Practices Regarding Agricultural Biotechnology. Report to the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems, USDA.
  • Wells, B. 2004. Survey of Cass County Women Farmland Owners. Sociology Extension Report, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Wells, B. and E. Neuman. 2004. Ames Food System Studies: Magic Beanstalk Survey Report. Sociology Extension Report, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Wells, B. and E. Neuman. 2004. Ames Food System Studies: Growing Harmony Survey Report. Sociology Extension Report, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Wells, B. and E. Neuman. 2004. Ames Food System Studies: Ames Farmers Markets Survey Report. Sociology Extension Report, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Morton, L. W., M. J. Oakland, E. A. Bitto, and M. Sand. 2004. Food in My Community: A Case Study of Monroe County. Iowa State University Extension, Department of Sociology, and Extension Family Nutrition Program. Technical Report Number 1005.
  • Morton, L. W., M. J. Oakland, K. Greder, S. Garasky, P. Flakoll, and T. Li. 2004. Food in My Community: A Case Study of Palo Alto County. Iowa State University Extension, Department of Sociology, and Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition, Technical Report Number 1006.
  • Morton, L. W., M. J. Oakland, K. Greder, S. Garasky, P. Flakoll, and T. Li. 2004. Food in My Community: A Case Study of Floyd County. Iowa State University Extension, Department of Sociology, and Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition, Technical Report Number 1007.
  • Mulford, C.L, M. Y. Lee, and S. G. Sapp. 2003. Victim-blaming and Society-blaming Scales for Social Problems. In L.S. Wrightsman, A. L. Batson,.and V.A. Edkins (Eds.), Measures of Legal Attitudes. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • Peter, G. and P. F. Korsching. 2004. Is Entrepreneurship a Legitimate Niche for Applied Sociologists? Social Insight: Knowledge at Work, Retrospective: Careers in Applied Sociology 9:63-67.
  • Quinn, T. and J. Flora. 2003. Organizing an Iowa Community Voices Program, and Iowa Community Voices Planning Worksheets. Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Service, Ames, IA. PM 1951a and 1951b, October, 2003. Available online at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1951A.pdf
  • Reid, N. and C.B. Flora, 2004. Advancing Knowledge and Capacity for Community-led Development in Rural America. Pp. 207-223 in W. R. Lovan, M. Murray, and R. Shaffer (eds.), Participatory Governance: Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making in Civil Society. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
  • Robison, L. J., and J. L. Flora. 2003. The Social Capital Paradigm: Bridging Across Disciplines. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85, 5:1187-1193.
  • Sapp, S. G. 2003. A Comparison of Alternative Theoretical Explanations of Consumer Food Safety Assessments. Journal of Consumer Studies 27:34-39.
  • Sapp, Stephen G. 2004. Youth Employment Survey: Final Report. Report to the Story County Youth Employment Coalition, Ames, IA.
  • Sapp, S. G. and P. F. Korsching. 2004 The Social Fabric and Innovation Diffusion: Symbolic Adoption of Food Irradiation. Rural Sociology 69:347-369.
  • Korsching, P. F. and J. C. Allen. 2004. Local Entrepreneurship: A Development Model Based on Community Interaction Field Theory. Journal of the Community Development Society 35:25-43.
  • Korsching, P. F. and J. C. Allen. 2004. Locality Based Entrepreneurship: A Strategy for Community Economic Vitality. Community Development Journal 39:385-400.
  • Korsching, P., P. Lasley, and D. Roelfs. 2004. Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, 2004 Summary Report-Part 1. Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Service, Pm 1991a, Ames, IA, September 2004.
  • Korsching, P., P. Lasley, and D. Roelfs. 2004. Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, 2004 Summary Report-Part 2. Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Service, Pm 1991b, Ames, IA, September 2004.
  • Korsching, P. and W. Wunsch. 2004. Business Associations and Rural Community Vitality: Business Association Member Report. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, March 2004.
  • Lorenz, F. O. and J. Hraba. 2004. Chronic and Changing Marital Instability and Physical Illness: Trajectories of Czech Couples. Pp. 97-121 in R. D. Conger, F. O. Lorenz, and K. A. S. Wickrama (eds.), Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Lorenz, F. O., K. A. S. Wickrama, and R. D. Conger. 2004. Modeling Continuity and Change in Family Relationships with Panel Data. Pp. 15-62 in R. D. Conger, F. O. Lorenz, and K. A. S. Wickrama (eds.), Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Lorenz, F.O., K. A. S. Wickrama, and H. Yeh. 2004. Rural Mental Health: Comparing Differences and Modeling Change. Chapter 6 in N. Glasgow, L. W. Morton, & N. Johnson (eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames, IA: ISU/Blackwell.
  • Miller, N. J. and T. L. Besser. 2005. Comparing Networked to Non-Networked Small U.S. Business: A Firm-Level Investigation of Strategic Network Theory. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.
  • Morton, L. W. 2004. Spatial Patterns of Rural Mortality. Chapter 4 in N. Glasgow, L. W. Morton, & N. Johnson (Eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. London, UK: Blackwell.
  • Morton, L.W. 2003. Rural Health Policy Pp. 330 to 344 in D. Brown and L. Swanson (Eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century.University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Morton, L. W., E. A. Bitto, M. J. Oakland, and M. Sand. 2005. Solving the Problems of Iowa Food Deserts: Food Insecurity and Perceptions of Civic Structure. Rural Sociology 70:1:94-112.
  • Bird, S. R. 2005. Masculinities in Rural Small Business Ownership: Between Community and Capitalism. In M. Bell and H. Campbell (Eds.), Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Bird, S. R. and S. G. Sapp. 2004. Understanding The Gender Gap in Small Business Success: Urban and Rural Comparisons. Gender & Society 18 (1):5-28.
  • Bird, S. R. and L. Sokolofski. 2005. Gendered Socio-Spatial Practices in Public Eating and Drinking Establishments in the United States. Gender, Place and Culture.
  • Bitto, E. A., L. W. Morton, M. J. Oakland, and M. Sand. 2004. Grocery Store Access Patterns in Rural Food Deserts. The Journal for the Study of Food and Society 6:2:35-48.
  • Conger, R. D., F. O. Lorenz, K. A. S. Wickrama. 2004. Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Conger, R. D., F. O. Lorenz, K. A. S. Wickrama. 2004. Changing Families in Changing Times. Pp. 1-14 in R. D. Conger, F. O. Lorenz, and K. A. S. Wickrama (eds.), Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Conger, R. D., F. O. Lorenz, and K. A. S. Wickrama. 2004. Studying Change in Family Relationships: Future Research Directions. Chapter 14 in R. D. Conger, F. O. Lorenz, and K. A. S. Wickrama (eds.), Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. Social Aspects of Small Water Systems. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 128:6-12. http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/pubs/flora/watersystems.htm
  • Morton, L. W., B. L. Allen, and T. Li. 2004. Rural Housing Adequacy and Civic Structure. Sociological Inquiry 74:464-491.
  • Morton, L. W., N. Glasgow, and N. E. Johnson. 2004. Reaching the Goal: Less Disparity, Better Rural Health. Chapter 23 in N. Glasgow, L. W. Morton, and N. Johnson (Eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. London, UK: Blackwell.
  • Morton, L. W., D. Worthen, and L. Weatherspoon. 2004. Rural Food Security and Health. Chapter 9 in N. Glasgow, L. W. Morton, and N. Johnson (Eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. London, UK: Blackwell.
  • Morton, L. W., E. A. Bitto, M. J. Oakland, and M. Sand. 2004. Rural Food Access Patterns: Elderly Open-Country and In-Town Residents. SP 236 Iowa Food Security, Insecurity, and Hunger policy brief.
  • Morton, L. W., M. J. Oakland, E. A. Bitto, and M. Sand. 2004. Food in My Community: A Case Study of Decatur County. Iowa State University Extension, Department of Sociology, and Extension Family Nutrition Program. Technical Report Number 1004.
  • Flora, C.B. 2004. Community Dynamics and Social Capital. Pp. 93-107 in D. Rickert and C. Francis (eds.), Agroecosystems Analysis. Madison, Wisconsin: American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Crop Science Society of America, Inc., Soil Science Society of America, Inc.
  • Flora, C.B. and J.L. Flora with S. Fey. 2004. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change, (2nd Edition). Boulder, CO: Westview.
  • Greder, K., S. Garasky, and L. W. Morton. 2000. Emergency Food Resources: Meeting Food Needs of Iowa Households. SP 252 Iowa Food Security, Insecurity, and Hunger policy brief.
  • Hinrichs, C. C. 2005. Practice and Place in Remaking the Food System. In C. C.Hinrichs and T. A. Lyson (Eds.), Remaking the North American Food System. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Hinrichs, C. C. and T. A. Lyson (Eds.). 2005. Remaking the North American Food System. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Korsching, P. F. and J. J. Wilson. 2004. Marketing Research: An Application of the Sociological Imagination. Social Insight: Knowledge at Work, Retrospective: Careers in Applied Sociology 9:58-62.
  • Flora, C.B. and J. L. Flora. 2003. Social Capital. Pp. 214-227 in D. L. Brown and L. E. Swanson (Eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Flora, C.B., S. Gasteyer, and G. Sempronii. 2004. Participacion Local en Investigacion y Estension para la Conversacion y Desarrollo de los Recursos Naturals: Un Sumario de Enfoques. Pp. 135-171 in M. Bendini and C. Alemany (Eds.), Crianceros y Chacareros en la Patagonia, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial La Colmena.
  • Flora, J. L. M. M. Dettman, S. Bastian, G. Artz, and M. Hanson. 2004. Iowa Self-sufficiency Wages, Office of Social and Economic Trend Analysis, Iowa State University, February 2004.
  • Garasky, S., L. W. Morton, and K. Greder. 2005. Food Environment Perceptions and Food Insecurity Among Rural and Urban Food Pantry Users. Family Economics & Nutrition Review.
  • Glasgow, N., L. W. Morton, and N. Johnson (Eds). 2004. Critical Issues in Rural Health. London, UK: Blackwell.
  • Glasgow, N., N. E. Johnson, and L. W. Morton. 2004. Introduction. Chapter 1 in N. Glasgow, L. W. Morton, and N. E. Johnson (Eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. London, UK: Blackwell.
  • Besser, T. L. 2005. The Commitment of Japanese and U.S. Workers: A Reassessment of the Literature. American Sociological Review. 58:873-881. Reprinted in The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management. H. Beynon and T. Nichols, eds. London, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Besser, T. L. and M. M. Hanson. 2005. The Development of Last Resort: The Impact of New State Prisons on Small Town Economies. The Journal of the Community Development Society.
  • Besser, T. L. and N. J. Miller. 2004. The Risks of Enlightened Self Interest: Small Businesses and Support for Community. Business and Society 43(4):398-425.


Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03

Outputs
Discovered methods to improve family problem solving processes and effectiveness, including procedures to facilitate better household division of labor and marital happiness. Found causal connections among adolescent sexual activity, educational attainment, adolescent pregnancy, academic achievement and contraceptive use among adolescents. Recommended improvements to the EZ/EC program. Found ways to improve access to and control of resources in international development projects. Increased understanding of community responses to increasing ethnic diversity in Iowa. Learned about the determinants of participation in the farm preservation advocacy network. Found opportunities for community development under rules of globalization of agriculture. Increased understanding of debt issues and social justice movements in rural areas. Discovered gender effects on small business success in rural and urban centers in Iowa. Learned about connections between American medicine and motherhood. Increased understanding of gender equity, the effects of economic and political transformation on the status of women, the role of women in international development and the connections between public policy and the role of women in agricultural production in Latin America. Discovered determinants of community development in persistently poor rural areas. Found methods to improve re-integrating of crops and livestock enterprises. Learned more about connections among vertical integration of the hog production industry, agricultural knowledge systems, farm-community entrepreneurial partnerships, social-economic factors in swine manure management, and links among agriculture, community, and the ecosystem. Learned about producer attitudes toward large-scale animal feeding operations and producer opinions toward genetically modified crops. Discovered opportunities for collaboration in urban and agricultural communities; integrated crop management; community structure and soil erosion prevention; agricultural extension and agribusiness. Improved citizen awareness of livestock expansion and job creation. Discovered issues confronting global challenges of sustainability; training for sustainable agriculture; sustainability of human communities in prairie grasslands; rural food security and health. Gained a better understanding of connections among civic watershed communities, retail farmer's markets, and rural enterprise incubation. Learned more about farmer attitudes toward sustainable agriculture, ecologies and geographies of nature and culture, the market and the environment, and food systems. Learned more about environmental impacts of animal agriculture. Discovered connections among family structure and nutrition, life-cycle and nutrition, and nutritional knowledge and dietary quality. Discovered the effects on dietary quality of the food stamp program. Learned more about connections among consumer food safety assessments and consumer acceptance of complex and controversial agricultural technologies.

Impacts
The people of Iowa are expected to benefit from these accomplishments in that they have led to or are expected to lead to these impacts: Improved methods to address household division of labor and marital happiness; community responses to increasing ethnic diversity in Iowa; community leadership and human resource development; policy analysis to support multiple benefits from agriculture and natural resource management; telecommunications adoption and diffusion in rural areas; nutritional knowledge and dietary quality; and understanding of the processes of consumer acceptance of complex and controversial agricultural technologies. Stronger rural-urban connections regarding land stewardship and agricultural production. Formation of multilevel advocacy coalitions for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Greater promotion of rural revitalization through multicommunity collaboration. Improved community asset building and the creation of social capital and networks of reciprocity. Greater opportunities for small business successes in rural towns and places. Increased citizen participation in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, building of community capacity, and empowerment of sustainable communities. Furthered dialogue on the economic implications of growth in Iowa prisons. Greater citizen awareness of farmer attitudes toward sustainable agriculture, ecologies and geographies of nature and culture, the market and the environment, and food systems. Increased statewide knowledge about environmental impacts of animal agriculture.

Publications

  • Robison, L.J. and J.L. Flora. 2003. The Social Capital Paradigm: Bridging Across Disciplines, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85, 5: 1187-1193.
  • Sapp, S.G. and S.R. Bird. 2003. The effects of social trust on consumer perceptions of food safety. Social Behavior and Personality, 31: 413-422.
  • Sharp, J.S., J.L. Flora and J. Killacky. 2003. The Growth Machine and Voluntary Sector: Analysis of Business Elite Involvement in Civic Organizations of a Nonmetropolitan City, The Journal of the Community Development Society 34,1 (2003): 36-56.
  • Stewart, S.D. 2003. Nonresident parenting and adolescent adjustment: The quality of nonresident father-child interaction. Journal of Family Issues, 24(2):217-244.
  • Stewart, S.D., W.D. Manning and P.J. Smock. 2003. Union formation among men in the U.S.: Does having prior children matter? Journal of Marriage and Family, 65(1):90-104.
  • Wells, B., T. Pfantz, J.L. Bryne. 2003. Russian Women Business Owners: Evidence of Entrepreneurship in a Transitional Economy. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 8 (1): 59-71.
  • Yoh, E., M.L. Damhorst, S. Sapp and R. Lazniak. 2003. Consumer adoption of the Internet: The case of apparel shopping. Psychology & Marketing, 20: 1095-1118.
  • Manning, W.D., S.D. Stewart and P.J. Smock. 2003. The complexity of fathers parenting responsibilities and involvement with nonresident children. Journal of Family Issues, 24(5):645-667.
  • Miller, N.J and T.L. Besser. 2003. Investigating Small Community Influences on U.S. Entrepreneurs Goals, Business Strategies, and Success. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Aug.: 149-161.
  • Morton, L.W. 2003. Small Town Services and Facilities: The Influence of Social Capital and Civic Structure on Perceptions of Quality. City & Community, 2:2:99-118.
  • Munoz, E.A. and S.G. Sapp. 2003. Racial/ethnic misdemeanor sentencing disparities: Further evidence for contextual discrimination. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 1(2): 27-46.
  • Richard, T.L. and C.C. Hinrichs. 2002. Management and maintenance of earthen manure structures: Implications and opportunities for water quality protection. Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 18: 727-734.
  • Hinrichs, C. C. and R. Welsh. 2003. The effects of the industrialization of U.S. livestock agriculture on promoting sustainable production practices. Agriculture and Human Values, 20: 125-141.
  • Hinrichs, C.C. 2003. The practice and politics of food system localization. Journal of Rural Studies, 19: 33-45.
  • Hraba, J., F.O. Lorenz and S. Lee. 2003. Support for the Czech reforms, economic experiences, and additional burdens. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 40: 255-280.
  • Hraba, J., F.O. Lorenz and T. Radloff. 2002. Czechs experiencing crime: Rural-urban differences in the perceived risk of crime, fear of crime, and victimization. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 39: 69-90.
  • Kim, K.J., R.D. Conger, G.H. Elder, Jr. and F,O. Lorenz. 2003. Reciprocal influences between stressful life events and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. Child Development, 74: 127- 143.
  • Korsching, P.F., S.G. SAPP and S. El-Ghamrini. 2003. Rural telephone company adoption of service innovations: A community field theory approach. Rural Sociology, 68:387-409.
  • Korsching, P.F., G. Peter and J.C. Allen. 2003. Entrepreneurship. Pp. 454-458 in Karen Christensen and David Levinson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Korsching, P.F. 2003. Review of Dairy Industry Restructuring: Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 8. By Harry K. Schwarzweller and Andrew P. Davidson (eds.). Appearing in Rural Sociology, 68(1):144-147.
  • Kroma, M.M. and C.B. Flora. 2003. Greening Pesticides: The Presentation of an Agricultural Tool Over Time. Agriculture and Human Values, 20: 21-35.
  • Lasley, P. and M. Hanson. 2003. The Changing Population of the Midwest: A Reflection on Opportunities. Pps 16-37 in The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition, edited by Norman Walzer, ME Sharpe, Armonk, New York and London, England.
  • Liu, Q.A. and T.L. Besser. 2003. Social Capital and Participation in Community Improvement Activities by the Elderly in Small Towns and Rural Communities. Rural Sociology, 68 (3):343 365.
  • Andrews, S.S., C.B. Flora, J.P. Mitchell and D.L. Karlen. 2003. Growers Perceptions and Acceptance of Soil Quality Indices. Geoderma, 114: 187-213.
  • Besser, T.L. 2003. An Elaboration of the Significance of Producer Service Businesses to Rural Communities. Rural Sociology, 68 (4):531-553.
  • Corselius, K.L., S.R. Simons, and C.B. Flora. 2003. Farmer Perspectives On Cropping Systems Diversification In Northwestern Minnesota. Agriculture and Human Values, 20 (4): 371-383.
  • Feenstra, G. W., C. Lewis, C.C. Hinrichs, G.W. Gillespie and D.L. Hilchey. 2003. Entrepreneurial outcomes and enterprise size in U.S. retail farmers markets. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 18: 46-55.
  • Flora, C.B. y Monica Bendini. 2003. Globalizacin en cadenas de valor agroalimentarias. Relaciones entre el mercado, el Estado y la sociedad civil. Captulo 13 de Bendini, M., Cavalcanti, S.; Murmis, M. y Tsakoumagkos, P. (eds.) El campo en la sociologa actual: Una perspectiva latinoamericana. Buenos Aires: Editorial La Colmena.
  • Flora, C.B. 2003. Cattle. Pp. 330-340 in Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. S. H. Katz and W. W. Weaver (eds.) New York: Charles Scribners Sons.
  • Flora, J.L. and C.B. Flora. 2003. Desarrollo comunitario en las zonas rurales de los Andes. Pp. 555-578 in Capital social y reduccin de la pobreza en Amica Latin y el Caribe: en busca de un Nuevo paradigma. R. Atria and M. Siles (eds.) Santiago, Chile: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and Michigan State University.
  • Francis, C., G. Lieblein, S. Gliessman, T.A. Breland, N. Creamer, R. Harwood, L. Salomonsson, J. Helenius, D. Rickerl, R. Salvador, M. Wiedenhoeft, S. Simmons, P. Allen, M. Altieri, C. Flora, R. Poincelot. 2003. Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 22 (3): 99-118.


Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02

Outputs
Examined strategies used by successful communities to improve their businesses and community betterment projects. Through multi-agency and community efforts, two community-led watershed councils were developed and are beginning to mobilize their watershed to improve local water quality practices. Researchers were brought together to build an integrated research agenda that links food systems, communities, and population health. Research was conducted to formalize and field test a community-based network theory of social capital. Inventoried and evaluated past programs designed to reach women landowners. Articulated gendered patterns of land ownership, nationally and in Iowa. Identified labor market characteristics of rural commuting zones. Improved understanding of the structural, individual and ideological bases of farmers' support for publicly funded agricultural research on lower-input livestock technologies. Increased cross-disciplinary dialogue between technical agricultural scientists and social agricultural scientists regarding the conceptual and practical aspects of current environmental problems in livestock agriculture. Identified challenges and opportunities of increased immigration of Latino/as to the rural Midwest. Identified key determinants of non-rationality in theoretical models of risk communication. Efforts made by those of faculty affiliated with the Governor's Strategic Planning Council resulted in a strong emphasis on increasing the diversity of Iowa's population in the reports released by the council. Census data was used to estimate residents in the most rapidly increasing minority group in Iowa. Compiled Census data to produce the 2000 county data book. Included were estimates of residents by race and Hispanic origin released by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the ethnicity of K-12 students in schools in Iowa. All of these items are used throughout the state in efforts to work with under-represented populations. Produced the 2000 county data book. Identified key elements in participatory natural resource management. Identified advocacy coalitions in the anti-transgenic movement. Identified importance of bridging institutions in resolving natural resource management conflicts among advocacy coalitions in Ecuador.

Impacts
Helped community leaders and local citizens bring about planned change. Suggested community development policies that can improve the success of small businesses in small, rural communities. Recommended policies for facilitating public evaluations of agricultural technology that respect long-term environmental, social, and economic costs. Monitored changes in agriculture and rural communities because changes in agriculture often hold important consequences beyond the farm gate. Provided concrete feedback and recommendations for enhancing organizational capacity and sustainability to a direct agricultural marketing network. Research was used by the Resource Conservation and Development District to develop specific action programs for addressing the siltation problems at Lake Red Rock. Made policy recommendations regarding how the structure of agricultural food production and distribution affects human health outcomes. Applied social science perspectives to understanding dietary behavior to help encourage a healthy, well-nourished population.

Publications

  • Allen BL. 2002. Race and Gender Inequality in Homeownership: Does Place Make a Difference? Rural Sociology 67:603-21.
  • Anderson CD, MD Schulman and PJ Wood. 2001. Globalization and Uncertainty: The Restructuring of Southern Textiles. Social Problems 48(4):478-494.
  • Anderson CD. 2000. The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. New York: Garland Publishing.
  • Besser, Terry. 2002. The Conscience of Capitalism: Business Social Responsibility to Communities. Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Gasteyer SP, CB Flora, E Fernandez-Baca, D Banerji, S Bastian, S Aleman, M Kroma and A Mears. 2002. Community Participation for Conservation and Development of Natural Resources: A Summary of Literature and Report of Research Findings. Delta Development Journal. 1(2):57-84.
  • Hinrichs C and KS Kremer. 2002. Social Inclusion in a Midwest Local Food System Project. Journal of Poverty, 6(1):65-90.
  • Hanson M and W Goudy. 2002. Iowa: 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Selected Crosstabulations by Race/Hispanic Origin. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
  • Hanson M and W Goudy. 2002. County (in Iowa) Designation: 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Selected Crosstabulations by Race/Hispanic Origin (1 for each of 99 counties). Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
  • Morton LW. 2002. Civic Watershed Communities in Democracy is the Road to Justice: Democratization in Rural Societies. Azril Bacal, Mike Bell, and Fred Hendricks (eds.). Rural Studies Series. Penn State Press.
  • Morton LW. 2002. La Comunidad Civica En Las Cuenca Hidrograficas in La Democracia es el Camino Hacia La Justicia: Democratizacion en las Sociedades Rurales. Azril Bacal, Mike Bell, and Fred Hendricks (eds.). Rural Studies Series. Penn State Press.
  • Mulford, Charles L, Motoko Y. Lee, and Stephen G. Sapp. 2003. Victim-blaming and society-blaming scales for social problems. In Measures of Legal Attitudes. Wrightsman, L.S., Batson, A. L., and Edkins, V.A., (eds.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • Hanson M and W Goudy. 2002. Incorporated Place (in Iowa) Designation (5,000+ population only): 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Selected Crosstabulations by Race/Hispanic Origin (1 for each of 77 places). Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
  • Hraba J, R Mullick, FO Lorenz and J Vecernik. 2001. Age and Czech's attitudes about the Post-Communist economic reforms. The Sociological Quarterly 42:421-435.
  • Hraba J, R Mullick, FO Lorenz and J Vercenik. 2002. Education and support for the Czech reforms. Sociology of Education 75:147-168.
  • Hraba J, FO Lorenz, R Mullick, S Lee and J Vercenik. 2001. Trends in Czech attitudes toward the market and democracy. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 29:200-220.
  • Michael Butler, L and R Carkner. 2001. Bridges to Sustainability: Links Between Agriculture, Community and the Ecosystem. In Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities, Cornelia Flora (ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.
  • Michael Butler, L and DM Maronek. 2002. Urban and Agricultural Communities: Opportunities for Common Ground. CAST Task Force Report 138. Ames, Iowa: Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. 124 pages.
  • Morton LW. 2002. Building Local Knowledge for Developing Health Policy through Key Informant Interviews. Journal of Extension 40:75-80.
  • Morton LW. 2002. Trends and Transitions in Rural Health in Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century (ed) David Brown and Louis Swanson. The Rural Studies Series. Penn State Press.
  • Sapp SG. 2002. The effects of the U.S. food stamp program on the dietary quality of parents and their children. Journal of Consumer Studies 25:272-277.
  • Sapp SG. 2002. Incomplete nutritional knowledge and attitude-behavior inconsistency. Social Behavior and Personality 30:37-44.
  • Titchener G and SG Sapp. 2002. A comparison of two approaches to understanding consumer opinions of technology. Social Behavior and Personality 30:376-382.


Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01

Outputs
Examined strategies used by successful communities to improve their businesses and community betterment projects. Through multi-agency and community efforts, two community-led watershed councils were developed and are beginning to mobilize their watershed to improve local water quality practices. Researchers were brought together to build an integrated research agenda that links food systems, communities, and population health. Research was conducted to formalize and field test a community-based network theory of social capital. Inventoried and evaluated past programs designed to reach women landowners. Articulated gendered patterns of land ownership, nationally and in Iowa. Identified labor market characteristics of rural commuting zones. Improved understanding of the structural, individual and ideological bases of farmers' support for publicly funded agricultural research on lower-input livestock technologies. Increased cross-disciplinary dialogue between technical agricultural scientists and social agricultural scientists regarding the conceptual and practical aspects of current environmental problems in livestock agriculture. Identified challenges and opportunities of increased immigration of Latino/as to the rural Midwest . Identified key determinants of non-rationality in theoretical models of risk communication. Efforts made by those of faculty affiliated with the Governor's Strategic Planning Council resulted in a strong emphasis on increasing the diversity of Iowa's population in the reports released by the council. Census data was used to estimate residents in the most rapidly increasing minority group in Iowa. Compiled Census data to produce the 2000 county data book. Included were estimates of residents by race and Hispanic origin released by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the ethnicity of K-12 students in schools in Iowa. All of these items are used throughout the state in efforts to work with under-represented populations. Produced the 2000 county data book. Identified key elements in participatory natural resource management. Identified advocacy coalitions in the anti-transgenic movement. Identified importance of bridging institutions in resolving natural resource management conflicts among advocacy coalitions in Ecuador.

Impacts
Helped community leaders and local citizens bring about planned change. Suggested community development policies that can improve the success of small businesses in small, rural communities. Recommended policies for facilitating public evaluations of agricultural technology that respect long-term environmental, social, and economic costs. Monitored changes in agriculture and rural communities because changes in agriculture often hold important consequences beyond the farm gate. Provided concrete feedback and recommendations for enhancing organizational capacity and sustainability to a direct agricultural marketing network. Research was used by the Resource Conservation and Development District to develop specific action programs for addressing the siltation problems at Lake Red Rock. Made policy recommendations regarding how the structure of agricultural food production and distribution affects human health outcomes. Applied social science perspectives to understanding dietary behavior to help encourage a healthy, well-nourished population.

Publications

  • Flora CB. 2000. Measuring the Social Dimensions of Managing Natural Resources. In: Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management: Emerging Issues and Practical Applications edited by David C. Fulton, Kristen C. Nelson, Dorothy H. Anderson, and David W. Lime. University of Minnesota and USGS-Biological Resources Division, Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Cooperative Park Studies Program. http://www.cnr.umn.edu/CPSP/Research/HumanDimensions.pdf
  • Flora CB, JL Flora, F Campana, and E Fernandez-Baca. 2000. The Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Theoretical Frame for SANREM to Address Policy Change and Learning. Pp. 47-51 in Cultivating Community Capital for Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Experiences from the SANREM CRSP. Kathleen Cason (ed.). Watkinsville, GA: SANREM CRSP.
  • Flora CB, JL Flora, F Campana, MG Bravo and E Fernandez-Baca. 2000. Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples from Ecuador. Pp. 53-62 in Cultivating Community Capital for Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Experiences from the SANREM CRSP. Kathleen Cason (ed.). Watkinsville, GA: SANREM CRSP.
  • Flora CB. 2001. Community Social Capacity. Rural and Community Prosperity Congressional Briefing. Washington, DC: Consortium of Social Science Associations. Pp. 7-10.
  • Flora CB. 2001. Leadership Development: Investing in a Critical Community Asset. Rural Development News. Vol. 25, No. 1.
  • Flora CB. 2000. Poverty Reduction and Rural Development. Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 4.
  • Flora CB. 2000. Extension and Place: Reducing Transaction Costs for Better Communities. Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 3.
  • Flora CB. Spring 2000. A Vision for Rural America. Word and World: Theology for Christian Ministry, Vol. 20, No. 2: 170-178.
  • Flora CB. 2000. Market, State and Civil Society: Creating Advocacy Action Coalitions for Rural Development. Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 2.
  • Flora CB. 2001. National Research Council's Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
  • Gasteyer SP and CB Flora. 2001. A Common Source: Comparing Community Water Quality Protection Initiatives. In: Rising Tide: Community Development Tools, Models, and Processes. Rural and Small Town Programme Press. Pp. 10-25.
  • Goudy, Willis, Sandra Charvat Burke, and Margaret Hanson. 2000. Iowa's Counties: Selected Population Trends, Vital Statistics, and Socioeconomic Data. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 540 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. 2001. Majority and Minority Residents in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-11. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. 2001. Black or African American Residents of Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-7. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Goudy, WIllis and Margaret Hanson. 2001. Population Change, Natural Change, and Net Migration in Iowa's Counties, 1990 to 2000. CS2001-6. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. 2001. Population 18 or Older and 17 or Younger in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-5. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. 2001. Population in Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-3. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 8 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. 2001. Population in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-2. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis. 2001. Population Counts for Iowa and Other States: 1900-2000 Censuses. CS2001-1. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Margie Hanson. 2001. Summary of Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1850-2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis. 2001. Iowa's Changing Population: A Brief Review of Trends. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 9 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. 2001. Population in Iowa's Townships, 1990 and 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 28 pages.
  • Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. 2001. Population 18 Years of Age or Older and 17 Years or Younger, Iowa's Incorporated Places, 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 16 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Housing Units and Tenure in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-20. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 4 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret. 2001. Selected Age Data in Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret. 2001. Housing Unites and Tenure in Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret. 2001. Residents by Race and Hispanic Origin in Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret. 2001. Family Type and Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years of Age in Iowa's Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 9 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Persons in Households and in Group Quarters in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS20001-18. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Households and Families in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-17. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 4 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Family Type in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-15. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 8 pages.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Trends in Births, Deaths, and Migration in Rural/Urban Categories of Iowa's Counties, 1980-2000. CS2001-13. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 11 pages.
  • Besser, Terry and Nancy Miller. 2001. Small Business Community Values and their Relationship to Management Strategies. The Journal of Socio-Economics 30(6): 221-241.
  • Besser, Terry and Vernon Ryan. 2000. The Impact of Labor Market Involvement on Participation in Community. The Journal of the Community Development Society 31(1):72-88.
  • Bird, Sharon R., Stephen G. Sapp, Motoko Y. Lee. 2001. Small business success in rural communities: Expanding the sex gap. Rural Sociology 66:507-530.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. Sex and Age in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-16. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 7 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy, and Margaret Hanson. 2001. 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, Iowa: Incorporated Place Designation (1 for each of 949 places). www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages each.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. Residents by Race and Hispanic Origin in Iowa's Counties, 2000. CS2001-12. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. Selected Age Data for Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-14. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 8 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. White Residents in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-10. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Residents in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-9. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. American Indian or Alaska Native Residents in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-8. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. 2001. Hispanic/Latino Residents by Specific Origin in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-19. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat. 2001. Population of Hispanics/Latinos in Iowa's Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS20001-4. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy, and Margaret Hanson. 2001. 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, Iowa: County Designation (1 for each of 99 counties). www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages each.
  • Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy, and Margaret Hanson. 2001. 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, State of Iowa. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages.
  • Fliegel, Frederick C. with Peter F. Korsching. 2001. Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology: The Record and Prospects for the Future. Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press.
  • Flora, Jan L. 200. Creating local and national capacity for the integration of conservation and development projects. Pp. 193-206. In: Robert E. Rhoades and Jody Stallings, Eds. Integrated Conservation and Development in Tropical America: Experiences and Lessons in Linking communities, Projects and Policies. Athens, GA: SANREM CRSP and CARE-SUBIR.
  • Flora, C.B. 2001. Access and Control of Resources: Lessons from the SANREM CRSP, Agriculture and Human Values 18(1):41-48.
  • Flora CB, JL Flora and RJ Tapp. 2000. Meat, Meth, and Mexicans: Community Responses to Increasing Ethnic Diversity. Journal of the Community Development Society 31:277-299.
  • Flora CB, F Larrea, M Ordonez, S Chancay, S Baez, F Guerrero. 2001. Production Strategy Typology for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. In: Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Eco-Development in an Andean Region by Robert Rhoades (editor). Kendall/Hunt Publishing: Dubuque, IA. Pp. 193-213.
  • Aigner, SM, CB Flora and JM Hernandez. 2001. The Premise and Promise of Citizenship and Civil Society for Renewing Democracies and Empowering Sustainable Communities. Sociological Inquiry. Vol. 71, No. 4: 493-507.
  • Anderson, Cynthia D. and Michael Bell. 2000. The Social Economy of Rural Society: An Introduction. Journal of Rural Studies 16:269-272.
  • Flora JL, MG Bravo, CB Flora, SA Bonilla. 2001. Community Sustainability in an Ecuadorian Landscape: The Role of Economic, Human, Environmental and Social Capital. In: Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Eco-Development in an Andean Region by Robert Rhoades (editor). Kendall/Hunt Publishing: Dubuque, IA. Pp. 291-313.
  • Flora CB. 2001. The Creation of Social Incentives for the Conservation of Biodiversity. Ch. 12 in Integrated Conservation and Development in Tropical America: Experiences and Lessons in Linking Communities, Projects, and Policies by RE Rhoades and J Stallings (Eds.). SANREM and CARE: Athens, GA. Pp. 135-144.
  • Flora CB. 2001. Agricultural Knowledge Systems: Issues of Accountability. Ch. 6 in Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture, edited by Steve Wolf and David Zilberman. Kluwer Academic Press: Norwell, MA. Pp. 111-124.
  • Flora CB. 2001. Shifting Agroecosystems and Communities. In: Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities, edited by C. Flora. CRC Press: Boca Raton: 5-14.
  • Flora CB, G McIssac, S Gasteyer and M Kroma. 2001. Farm-Community Entrepreneurial Partnerships in the Midwest. In: Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities edited by Cornelia Flora. CRC Press: Boca Raton. Pp. 115-130.
  • Flora CB, F Larrea, M Ordonez, S Chancay, SB Fernando Guerrero. 2001. Tipologia de estrategias productivas para la agricultura sustentable y el manejo de recursos naturales. In: Teniendo Puentes Entre Los Paisajes Humanos Y Naturales: La Investigacion Participativa y el Desarrollo Ecological en una Frontera Agricola Andina. Robert E. Rhoades (ed). Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala: 225-250.
  • Flora JL, MG Bravo, CB Flora and SA Bonilla. 2001 Sostenibilidad comunitaria en un paisaje ecuatoriano: el rol del capital economico, humano, ambiental y social. In: Teniendo Puentes Entre Los Paisajes Humanos Y Naturales: La Investigacion Participativa y el Desarrollo Ecological en una Frontera Agricola Andina. Robert E. Rhoades (ed). Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala: 341-368.
  • Hanson, Margaret, and Willis Goudy. 2001. Iowa's incorporated places: Summary File 1-2000 data files (six parts) (1 set for each of 949 places). www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret, and Willis Goudy. 2001. Iowa's counties: Summary File 1-2000 data files (six parts) (1 set for each of 99 counties). www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret, and Willis Goudy. 2001. Iowa's counties: Summary File 1-2000 data files (six parts) (1 set for each of 949 places). www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hanson, Margaret and Willis Goudy. 2001. Population Change, Natural Change, and Net Migration in Iowa's Incorporated Places. www.soc.iastate.edu/census. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 16 pages.
  • Morton LW and Domenico Parisi. 2001. Locality and Society: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Places in the New Millennium. Community Interest Group papers for 2001 Rural Sociological Society annual meeting. CD ROM.
  • Morton, L. W. 2001. Resident-led Watershed Management. Iowa State University, University Extension. PM1869.
  • Morton, L. W. 2000. Purposeful Partnerships in the Community Interest. Iowa State University, University Extension. PM1844.
  • Ordonez M and CB Flora. 2001. Production Strategies and Gender. In: Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Eco-Development in an Andean Region by Robert Rhoades (editor). Kendall/Hunt Publishing: Dubuque, IA Pp. 215-230.
  • Ordonez, M. and C.B. Butler Flora. 2001. Estrategias productivas y genero. In: Teniendo Puentes Entre Los Paisajes Humanos Y Naturales: La Investigacion Participativa y el Desarrollo Ecological en una Frontera Agricola Andina. Robert E. Rhoades (ed). Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala: 251-270.
  • Sharp, Julie T. and C. Clare Hinrichs. 2001. Farmer Support for Publicly Funded Sustainable Agriculture Research: The Case of Hoop Structures for Swine. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 16(2):81-88.
  • Hinrichs, Clare. 2001. The Experiences and Views of Iowa Farmers' Market Vendors: Summary of Research Findings. Iowa State University, Department of Sociology. April. 4 pp. (available at: ; also reprinted in Iowa Cafe: Resource and Workshop Manual on Community Agriculture and Food Enterprises).
  • Hinrichs, Clare. 2001. Observations and Concerns of Iowa Farmers' Market Managers: Summary of Research Findings. Iowa State University, Department of Sociology. April. 2 pp. (available at: ; also reprinted in Iowa Cafe: Resource and Workshop Manual on Community Agriculture and Food Enterprises).
  • Hinrichs, Clare and Tom Richard. 2000. Socio-technical and Environmental Dimensions of Swine Manure Management Decisions. Final research report prepared for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State Univerity. November.
  • Hraba, Joseph, Federick O. Lorenz, Enhau Ma, and Zdenka Pechacova. 2001. Age and distress in the Czech Republic. Research on Aging 23:552-585.
  • Johnson, Lee Michael, Joseph Hraba, and Federick O. Lorenz. 2000. Criminal victimization and depression in the Czech Republic. Czech Sociological Review 8:195-210.
  • Korsching, Peter F., Sami El-Ghamrini and Gregory Peter. 2001. Rural telephone companies: Offering technology innovations to enhance the economic development of communities. Technology in Society 23:79-91.
  • Korsching, Peter F., Eric O. Hoiberg, Gordon L. Bultena and Steven C. Padgitt. 2001. Soil erosion as a community issue: Public perceptions of off-site impacts. Society and Natural Resources 14:67-76.
  • Korsching, Peter F. 2001. New Technologies for rural America: Boon or bane? Technology in Society 23:73-77. Korsching, Peter F. 2001. Review of Return of the Wolf: Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast, by John Elder (ed.). Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000. Appearing in Society and Natural Resources 14:
  • Korsching, Peter F., Gregory Peter and J. David Hunger. 2001. Founder motivation and community context interaction in entrepreneurship for small city smart growth. Pp. 347-358. In: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community; edited by Ronald Shaffer and William Ryan. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Extension.
  • Kremer, Kathy S., Michael Carolan, Stephen Gasteyer, Gregory Peter, Noor Tirmizi, Pingsheng Tong and Peter F. Korsching. 2001. Evolution of an agricultural innovation: Adoption and discontinuance, or rejection of the N-Trak Soil Nitrogen Test. Technology in Society 23:93-108.
  • Kroma M and CB Flora. 2001. An Assessment of SARE-funded Farmer Research on Sustainable Agriculture in the North Central U.S. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. 16(2):73-80.
  • Lieblen G, C Francis, W Barth-Eide, H Torjusen, S Solberg, L Salomonsson, V Lund, G Ekblad, P Persson, J Helenius, M Loiva, L Sepannen, H Kahiluoto, J Porter, H Olsen, N Sriskandarajah, M Mikk and C Flora. 2000. Future Education in Ecological Agriculture and Food Systems: A Student-Faculty Evaluation and Planning Process. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 16(4):49-69.
  • Lorenz, Frederick O, Joseph Hraba, and Zdenka Pechacova. 2001. Effects of spouse support and hostility on trajectories of Czech couples' marital satisfaction and instability. Journal of Marriage and the Family 63:1068-1082.
  • Lorenz, Frederick O., K. A. S. Wickrama, and Rand D. Conger. 2002. Chapter 2: Estimating continuity and change in Family Relations. In: RD Conger, FO Lorenz, and KAS. Wickrama (Eds.), Continuity and change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods and Empirical Findings. HIllsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
  • Lorenz, Frederick O and J Hraba. 2002. Chronic and changing marital instability and physical illness: Trajectories of Czech couples. In RD Conger, FO Lorenz and KAS. Wickrama (Eds.), Continuity and change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods and Empirical Findings. HIllsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
  • Luther V and CB Flora. 2000. Capacity Building and Leadership in Yuma, Colorado. In: Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach. Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge, eds. Westport, CN: Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Morton LW. 2001. The Contributions of Business and Civil Society Sectors to Rural Capacity to Solve Local Health Issues. Journal of Rural Health 17:3:41-73.
  • Morton LW. 2001. Health Care Restructuring: Market Theory vs Civil Society Auburn House. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Conn.
  • Tweeten, L.G. and C.B. Flora. 2001. Vertical Coordination of Agriculture in Farming-Dependent Areas. Ames, IA: Council for Agricultural Sciences and Technology Task Force Report No. 137.
  • Wells, Betty and Shelly Gradwell. 2001. Gender and Resource Management: Community Supported Agriculture as Caring-Practice. Agriculture and Human Values 18(1):107-119.
  • Wells, Betty. 2002. Rural women organizing to confront local/global economic issues. Context, strategy, ground. Pp. 142-155 Nancy Naples and Manisha Desai (eds.), Global Politics/Local Struggles: Transnational Feminism, Community Activism and the State. Routledge


Progress 01/01/00 to 12/31/00

Outputs
Identified specific steps successful communities use to improve their businesses and community betterment projects. Identified labor market characteristics of rural commuting zones. Improved understanding of the structural, individual and ideological bases of farmers' support for publicly funded agricultural research on lower-input livestock technologies. Increased cross-disciplinary dialogue between technical agricultural scientists and social agricultural scientists regarding the conceptual and practical aspects of current environmental problems in livestock agriculture. Provided concrete feedback and recommendations for enhancing organizational capacity and sustainability to a direct agricultural marketing network. Research was used by the Resource Conservation and Development District to develop specific action programs for addressing the siltation problems at Lake Red Rock. Through multi-agency and community efforts, two community-led watershed councils were developed and are beginning to mobilize their watershed to improve local water quality practices. Researchers were brought together to build an integrated research agenda that links food systems, communities, and population health. Research was conducted to formalize and field test a community-based network theory of social capital. Inventoried and evaluated past programs designed to reach women landowners. Articulated gendered patterns of land ownership, nationally and in Iowa. Identified challenges and opportunities of increased immigration of Latino/as to the rural Midwest. Identified key determinants of non-rationality in theoretical models of risk communication. Efforts made by those of faculty affiliated with the Governor's Strategic Planning Council resulted in a strong emphasis on increasing the diversity of Iowa's population in the reports released by the council. Census data was used to estimate residents in the most rapidly increasing minority group in Iowa. The results have been noted in two-page reports that have been used throughout the state. Compiled Census data to produce the 1999 county data book. Included were estimates of residents by race and Hispanic origin released by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the ethnicity of K-12 students in schools in Iowa. All of these items are used throughout the state in efforts to work with under-represented populations. Produced the 1999 county data book. Identified ten key elements in participatory natural resource management. Identified advocacy coalitions in the anti-transgenic movement. Identified importance of bridging institutions in resolving natural resource management conflicts among advocacy coalitions in Ecuador. Found that most forest service personnel engaged in community development activities view do not view it as part of their job obligations nor do they understand the basic concepts of community building. Found that the major divisions in rural communities with high rates of diverse ethnic group immigration is with the Anglo community and not between the Anglo community and the ethnic groups.

Impacts
Investigated the five community capitals (e.g., financial, physical, environmental, human, and social) to help community leaders and local citizens bring about planned change. Examined the benefits of human practice and technology that respect long-term environmental, social, and economic costs. Monitored changes in agriculture and rural communities because changes in agriculture often hold important consequences beyond the farm gate. Examined consumer responses to new agricultural technologies. Investigated how the structure of agricultural food production and distribution affects human health outcomes. We applied social science perspectives to understanding dietary behavior to help encourage a healthy, well-nourished population.

Publications

  • Allen BL. 2000. Focus Group Tool Kit: Involving Community Volunteers. Extension to Communities, Scott County, Iowa State University.
  • Allen BL. 2000. Tools for Building Collaborative Skills: Preparing County Extension Educational Directors in Community Development Work. Extension to Communities CEED professional skill workshop, Ames, IA.
  • Allen BL. 2000. Leadership Partners for a Stronger Iowa. Extension to Communities, Iowa State University. Publication 6 EDC 205a.
  • Anderson CD and Bell MM. 2000. The Social Economy of Rural Life: An Introduction. Journal of Rural Studies. 16:269-272.
  • Flora JL and Flora CB. 1999. Race, Gender and Class in Rural America. Pp. 369-383 in JA Belkhir and BM Barnett, with A Karpathakis, Eds. Introduction to Sociology: A Race, Gender and Class Perspective. Race, Gender and Class Book Series. New Orleans: Southern University.
  • Flora CB, Flora JL and Tapp RJ. 2001. Meat, Meth, And Mexicans: Community Responses to Increasing Ethnic Diversity. Journal of the Community Development Society. (Forthcoming)
  • Flora CB. 2000. A Vision for the Northern Great Plains. The Great Plains Sociologist 12(1):79-91.
  • Gasteyer S and Flora CB. 2000. Measuring PPM with Tennis Shoes: Science and Locally Meaningful Indicators of Environmental Quality. Society and Natural Resources 13:589-597.
  • Flora CB and Luther V. 2000. An Introduction to Building Community Capacity. Pp. 1-3 in Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach. Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge (eds.) Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
  • Flora CB. 2000. Sustainability in agriculture and rural communities. Pp.191- 207 in Nachhaltigkeit in de Landwirschaft: Landwirtschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Okologie, Okonomie und Sozialwissenschaften. (Sustainability in Agriculture: Tensions between Ecology, Economics and Social Sciences) M Hardtlein, M Kaltschmitt, I Lewandowski and HN Wurl (eds.) Berlin, Germany: Erich Schmidt Verland.
  • Gasteyer S and Flora CB. 2000. Modernizing the Savage: Colonization and Perceptions of Landscape and Lifescape. Sociologia Ruralis 2000. 40(1):128-149.
  • Goudy W, Burke SC and Hanson M. 1999. Iowa's Counties: Selected Population Trends, Vital Statistics, and Socioeconomic Data. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 580 pages.
  • Hanson M, Goudy W, Miller R and Whetston S. 1999. Agriculture in Iowa: Trends from 1935 to 1997. CS99-4, Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames.
  • Hinrichs CC. 2000. Embeddedness and local food systems: Notes on two types of direct agricultural market. Journal of Rural Studies 16(3):295-303.
  • Hraba J, Lorenz FO, Ma E and Pechacova J. 2001. Age and distress in the Czech Republic. Research on Aging. (Forthcoming)
  • Hraba J, Lorenz FO and Pechacova J. 2000. Czech families ten years after the Velvet Revolution. Journal of Contemporary Sociology 29:643-681.
  • Horton HD, Allen BL, Herring C and Thomas M. 2000. Lost in the Storm: The Sociology of the Black Working Class, 1850-1990. American Sociological Review 65(February):128-37.
  • Luther V and Flora CB. 2000. Capacity Building and Leadership in Yuma, Colorado, in Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach. Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge, eds. Westport, CN: Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Morton LW. 1999. Indicators of Effective Civil Society: Associations and Groups. ARNOVA Research Abstracts. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Indianapolis, Indiana, K9.3.
  • Morton LW, Bills N and Kay D. 2000. Boosting Local Economies Through Health Care. Community and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University (Winter) Vol. 7 No. 1.
  • Morton LW. 2000. Linking Agriculture, Food Systems, Communities, and Population Health NRI Conference manual. September 22-23, 2000. NRI Competitive Grants Program No. 00-35401-9465.
  • Morton LW. 2001. Health Care Restructuring: Market Theory vs Civil Society. Auburn House, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
  • Morton LW. 2000. Civic Watershed Communities. In Democracy is the Road to Justice: Democratization in Rural Societies. Rural Studies Series. Penn State Press.
  • Morton LW. 2000. Comunidades Civicas en las Cuencas Hidrograficas. In La Democracia es el camino a la Justicia. International Rural Sociological Association.
  • Flora CB. 1999. Agricultural Biotechnology: Social Implications and Integration of Landscape and Lifescape. Pp. 55-67 in World Food Security and Sustainability: The Impacts of Biotechnology and Industrial Consolidation. DP Weeks, JB Segelken and RWF Hardy (eds.) NABC Report 11 Ithaca, NY: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council.
  • Peter G, Bell MM, Jarnagin S and Bauer D. 2000. Coming Back Across the Fence: Masculinity and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Sociology 65(2):215-233.
  • Anderson CD. 2000. The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. Garland Publishing, New York.
  • Bell MM and Lowe P. 2000. Regulated Freedoms: The Market and the State, Agriculture and the Environment. Journal of Rural Studies. 16:285-294.
  • Campbell H and Bell MM. 2000. The Question of Rural Masculinities. Rural Sociology. 65(4). (Forthcoming)
  • Flora CB. 1999. Sustainability of Human Communities in Prairie Grasslands. Great Plains Research. 9(2):397-419.
  • Flora CB and Francis CA. 2000. Farming Systems Extension in the U.S.A. In, A History of Farming Systems Research. New York: CAB International, 2000:139-144.
  • Lasley P, Padgitt S and Hanson M. 2000. Implications of the Telecommunication Age on Farmers and Extension. Technology in Society. (Forthcoming)
  • Lieblen G, Francis C, Barth-eide W, Torjusen H, Solberg S, Salomonsson L, Lund V, Ekblad G, Persson P, Helenius J, Loiva M, Sepannen L, Kahiluoto H, Porter J, Olsen H, Sriskandarajah N, Mikk M and Flora C. 2000. Future Education in Ecological Agriculture and Food Systems. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 16:49-69.
  • Lorenz FO, Hraba J and Pechacova J. 2001. Effects of spouse support and hostility on trajectories of Czech couples' marital satisfaction and instability. Journal of Marriage and the Family. (Forthcoming)
  • Lorenz FO, Edler GH Jr, Wichrama WAS, Bao WN and Conger RD. 2000. After the fall: Trajectories of emotional health among farm, non-farm, and displaced couples. Rural Sociology 65:50-71.
  • Petrzelka P and Bell MM. 2000. Rationality and Solidarity: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco. Human Organization 59(3):343-352.
  • Rule L, Flora CB and Hodge S. 2000. In North American Agroforestry: An Integrated Science and Practice. Edited by HE Garrett, WJ Rietveld and RF Fisher. Social Dimensions of Agroforestry. Pp. 361-386 Madison: American Society of Agronomy.
  • Sapp S. 2001. Non-Rationality in Belief Sets: Implications for the Theory of Rational Expectations. Social Behavior and Personality. (Forthcoming)
  • Bird S, Sapp S and Lee MY. 2001. Small business success in Rural Communities: Explaining the Sex Gap. Rural Sociology. (Forthcoming)
  • Sapp S. 2000. Consumer Risk Perceptions. In, Fox S, Interdisciplinary Food Safety Research. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
  • Schulman MD and Anderson CD. 1999. The Dark Side of the Force: A Case Study of Restructuring and Social Capital. Rural Sociology 64(3):351-172.
  • Warner ME, Hinrichs CC, Schneyer J and Joyce L. 1999. Organizing communities to sustain rural landscapes: Lessons from New York. Journal of the Community Development Society 30(2):178-195.