Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 13, issue 4, 2024

What role can food banks play in addressing the root causes of food insecurity?

Anna Marchessault

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Perspectives on the past and future of communities

John Ikerd

Socio-economic impact of food insecurity on vulnerable population in Nigeria

Oyinbolaji Ajetunmobi

SNAP for U: Food insecurity and SNAP use among college students, including institution type differences

Matthew Chrisman, Andrea Cullers, Candace Rodman, Allene Gremaud, Gil Salgado and Kelsey Gardiner

Resilience strategies for centers and institutes focused on food systems transformation

Lauren Gwin, Michelle Miller, Erin Lowe, Casey Hoy, Nancy Creamer, Nevin Cohen, Rich Pirog, Tom Kelly and Thomas Tomich

Promoting small-scale maple syrup production on Facebook: A field experiment testing emphasis message frames

Scott Hershberger, Bret Shaw, Steven Moen, Tony Johnson and Tricia Gorby

Navigating organic farming challenges with farmer-led entrepreneurial innovations in the U.S. Mid-South

Stephen Mukembo, Garima Srivastava, Mary Hendrickson, Kerry Clark and David Redhage

Mexican sending region and workplace experience: A preliminary study of agricultural guestworkers in Ohio

Anisa Kline and Megan Lindstrom

Making and measuring change in the food system: The perspectives of funders

Sara Shostak

Insights and oversights: Behind the data on agritourism and direct sales in the United States

Chadley Hollas, Claudia Schmidt, Zheng Tian, Stephan Goetz and Lisa Chase

IN THIS ISSUE: Open call papers on a wide range of food systems topics

Duncan Hilchey

Fitting a square peg in a round hole: Applying U.S. farm policy to organic farms

Sara Jean Whelan, Duncan Orlander, Julia Balsam and Carolyn Dimitri

Factors affecting rural youth participation in the smallholder farming sector

Bright Mukwedeya and Maxwell Mudhara

Developing children’s local food programs: One volunteer’s perspective

Jeffrey O'Hara

Creating a municipal-level emergency food plan: Lessons from Thunder Bay, Ontario

Charles Levkoe and Courtney Strutt

Bringing local food education to workplaces: Assessing needs for a health and wellness program

Cody Gusto, Catherine Campbell, Annie Wallau and Wendy Wood

Big ambitions, modest beginnings: Civil society participation in food system governance in Australia

Nicholas Rose, Bethany Ciesielski, Amy Carrad, Rebecca Smits, Belinda Reeve and Karen Charlton

“What does Ferguson mean for the food justice movement?”: Reading Black visions of food justice in times of social unrest

Bobby Smith , Jamila Walida Simon, Candace Star Gwin and Desirée McMillion

“Doing more good”: Exploring the multidisciplinary landscape of regeneration as a boundary object for paradigm change

Alayna Paolini, Iqbal Bhalla and Philip Loring

Volume 13, issue 3, 2024

The food and agricultural nonprofit landscape

Alicia Papanek, Chelsea DeMasters, Micayla Richardson and Kimberly Wiley

Pakistan's path to sustainability: Advancements in cleaner production, a circular economy, and climate-smart solutions

Amanullah

In This Issue: Commentaries from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 and open call papers

Duncan Hilchey

Grassroots organizing for food systems change in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Brittany Oakes

Grassroots agroecology advocates challenge funding objectives focused on U.S. Department of Agriculture

Mollie Wills, J. Antonio Tovar-Aguilar and Patti Naylor

Grain agriculture and the end of the fossil fuel era

Timothy Crews

From market concentration to political corruption

Leland Glenna

Establishing alternative grain networks: A comparison of case experiences in South Tyrol, Italy, and Colorado, United States

Nanna Meyer, Giovanna Sacchi, Camilla Sartori and Christian Fischer

Developing a nascent agriculture industry: Lessons learned with sugar kelp

Stacey Stearns and Anoushka Concepcion

Challenging agricultural norms and diversifying actors: Building transformative public policy for equitable food systems

Johanna Wilkes

Care, agency, and social reproduction in the H-2A program: A case study from Ohio

Anisa Kline

Barriers and opportunities to agrihood development in growing cities of the Rocky Mountain Region: A comparative case study

Amaia Sangroniz, Roland Ebel and Mary Stein

Assessment of households’ food consumption strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ilorin-South LGA, Kwara State, Nigeria

Opeyemi Babafemi and Adetunji Kehinde

Are we meeting student needs? Developing a measure for college food pantry satisfaction

Kelsey Gardiner and Susan Harvey

Agroecology in the belly of the beast: Reflections and contradictions from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

Catherin Horner, Martha Caswell, Colin Anderson, V. Ernesto Méndez and Janica Anderzén

Agroecology beyond the statist quo? Transforming U.S. imperial agricultural policy

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Antonio Roman-Alcalá

A sentiment and keyword analysis of college food pantry stigma among users and non-users

Alisa Duong, Ayron Walker, Amanda Bossert and Matthew Arnold

A declaration of commitments toward agroecology pluralities: A critical gaze on the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

Agroecology Summit ‘Outside Empire’ Subgroup

Increasing the scope and scale of agroecology in the Northern Great Plains

Bruce Maxwell and Hannah Duff

Itadakimasu, ikigai, and wabi-sabi: Poems and reflections on trust after the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

Christopher Murakami

Toward care-full plural agroecologies: Lessons from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

Catherine Horner, Karen Crespo Triveño, Ana Fochesatto, Antonio Roman-Alcalá and Ivette Perfecto

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Perspectives on past and future food systems

John Ikerd

Finding synergies between agroecology and industrial ecology toward sustainable agricultural systems

Christine Costello

Enantiomorphs no more: Indigenous agroecology and the future of food sovereignty: Reflections on the U.S. United States Agroecology Summit 2023

Devon G. Peña

Toward a justice approach to emergency food assistance and food waste: Exploring pantry–urban gardener partnerships in California's Santa Clara County

Bacon, Christopher (Chris) M., Ava Gleicher, Emma McCurry and Christopher McNeil

Online tools helped direct market farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but resources are needed for equitable adoption [new title on resubmit]

Sasha Pesci, Jennie Durant, Gwyneth M. Manser, Ryan E. Galt, Lauren Asprooth and Natalia Pinzon

Food democracy as food security strategy: The case of a Costa Rican tourism town

Mary E. Little, Taylor Horn and Madeline Sit

Reversing food-land relationships in the city: Insights from the Seeding East Buffalo Fellowship Program

Carol E. Ramos-Gerena, Allison DeHonney, Shireen Guru, Rachel Grandits, Insha Akram and Samina Raja

Growing change at the intersection of art and agroecology

Ana Fochesatto, Karen Crespo Triveño, Ryan Tenney, Jesús Nazario, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Mariel Gardner

Broadscale diversification of Midwestern agriculture requires an agroecological approach

Nicholas R. Jordan, Matt Liebman, Mitch Hunter and Colin Cureton

Smart Little Campus Food Pantries: Addressing food insecurity at Virginia Commonwealth University

John C. Jones, Lauren Linkous, Lisa Mathews-Ailsworth, Reyna Vazquez-Miller, Elizabeth Chance, Jackie Carter and Isaac Saneda

Agroecology and corporate power in the U.S

Sarah E. Lloyd, Jordan Jordan Treakle and Mary K. Hendrickson

Reflections on research agendas in agroecology: In search of a practical guide

Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer

Blending knowledge systems for agroecological nutrient management and climate resilience

Jennifer Blesh and Meagan Schipanski

Volume 13, issue 2, 2024

In This Issue: Transformative action in food systems

Duncan Hilchey

Contending food sovereignty with cultivating kinship through community gardens (review of Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance, by Gabriel R. Valle)

Max Sano

Democratizing food systems: A scoping review of deliberative mini-publics in the context of food policy

Simone Ubertino, Romain Dureau, Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme and Laure Saulais

Understanding the emerging phenomenon of food forestry in the Netherlands: An assemblage theory approach

Anna Roodhof

First you need the farmers: The microfarm system as a critical intervention in the alternative food movement

Kent Curtis and Grace Hand

Strengthening nutrition incentive and produce prescription projects: An examination of a capacity building and innovation fund

Sarah Stotz, Hollyanne Fricke, Carmen Byker Shanks, Megan Reynolds, Tessa Lasswell, Laurel Sanville, Rachel Hoh and Courtney Parks

A recipe for advocacy

Bob Perry

Enhancing public health through modern agronomy: Sustainable and nutrient-rich practices

Amanullah and Urooj Khan

Public assistance, living environments, and food insecurity: A comparative community case study

Mesfin Bezuneh and Zelealem Yiheyis

Disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake, attitudes, and experiences between food system and non–food system essential workers

Brianna Smarsh, David Yankey, Mei-Chuan Hung, Heidi Blanck, Jennifer Kriss, Michael Flynn, Peng-Jun Lu, Sherri McGarry, Adrienne Eastlake, Alfonso Lainz, James Singleton and Jennifer Lincoln

Celebrity chef humanitarianism and the possibility of a “giftless” future for the New Orleans foodscape (review of Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice, by Jeanne K. Firth)

Natasha Bunzl

Gender, sexuality, and food access: An exploration of food security with LGBTQIA2S+ university students

Eli Lumens, Mary Beckie and Fay Fletcher

Participatory breeding in organic systems: Experiences from maize case studies in the United States

Christopher Mujjabi, Martin Bohn, Michelle Wander and Carmen Ugarte

An evaluation of the federal Transition Incentives Program on land access for next-generation farmers

Megan Horst, Julia Valliant and Julia Freedgood

Social enterprise, food justice, and food sovereignty: Strange bedfellows or systemic supports?

Katherine Merritt, Jill Clark and Darcy Freedman

Staff and student engagement on and perceptions of a college campus’s urban farm

Marc Sager, Lily Binford and Anthony Petrosino

Harvesting perspectives: A comprehensive review of two pivotal works on Indian agrarian transformation (review of Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization, edited by R. Ramakumar, and Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab: Mobilization and Resilience, by Shinder Singh Thandi)

Mallory Cerkleski

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Perspectives on the past and future of agriculture

John Ikerd

Challenging power relations in food systems governance: A conversation about moving from inclusion to decolonization

Renzo Guinto, Kip Holley, Sherry Pictou, Rāwiri Tinirau, Fiona Wiremu, Peter Andreé, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe and Belinda Reeve

Climate resilient food systems and community reconnection through radical seed diversity

Chris Smith

Volume 13, issue 1, 2023

Does participation in livelihood education programs impact household food security? A comparative study in rural Uganda

Samuel Ikendi, Francis Owusu, Dorothy Masinde, Ann Oberhauser and Carmen Bain

In This Issue: Organic research networks and more!

Duncan Hilchey

Toward a more profitable value chain for New York state onions

Philippe Jeanneaux

Peasants' land rights and the hollowing out of communal property management in rural China [new title on resubmit]

Xiaoyu Yu

Examining the history of trust within Appalachian coal camps

Angel Smothers, Kristen Goins, Tanner Cole, Jaylyne Morgan, Erin Young and Kylie Young

Exploring the implications of the Fair Trade USA certification for farmworker health and well-being at the first certified farm in the U.S. [CHANGED title!]

Alissa Bilfield and Edmundo Hernandez

Northeastern bakers' views on organic and regeneratively certified flours

Karen Simons

Nourishing student success and wellbeing: Unveiling the impact of food environments on student food security challenges through a case study from Montana

Teresa Warne, Roland Ebel and Selena Ahmed

Non-market distribution serves society in ways markets cannot: A tentative defense of food charity from small-town New England

Sam Bliss, Alexandra Bramsen, Raven Graziano, Ava Hill, Saharay Perez Sahagun and Flora Krivak-Tetley

Food insecurity in Yukon communities during COVID-19: A qualitative study

Sara McPhee-Knowles and David Gatensby

Food Resilience Toolkit in action

David Conner, Claire Whitehouse, Neishaly Serrano-Cortés, Robinson Rodriguez-Pérez, Naomi Cunningham, Travis Reynolds, Kerry Daigle, Valery Desravins and Jane Kolodinsky

Assessing food systems funders’ use of data and evidence to make funding decisions

Lesli Hoey, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Catherine Diggs, Duncan Hilchey, Kim Hines and Fally Masambuka-Kanchewa

Engaging rural youth in strengthening the local food movement in India

Ishwari Bisht

The evolution of a partnership-based breeding program for organic corn

Walter Goldstein

Nutrition education centers: A community-based approach to management of malnutrition

Samuel Ikendi, Francis Owusu, Dorothy Masinde, Ann Oberhauser and Carmen Bain

More than procurement: Examination of a farm-to-early-care and education pilot

Meagan Shedd and Rachel Kelly

The spia who loved food

Natasha Bunzl

A feasibility study of the community health worker model for garden-based food systems programming

Maria DeNunzio, Elena Serrano, Vivica Kraak, Melissa Chase and Sarah Misyak

The importance of nutrition-sensitive fisheries management: Women's dietary diversity in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands

Sheridan Rabbitt, Ian Lilley, Simon Albert, Joelle Albert and Ian Tibbetts

Using TAPE to assess agroecology on women-led farms in the U.S.: Support for environmental and social practices

Lianna Gomori-Ruben and Chantal Reid

Growing in relation with the land: Experiential learning of Root and Regenerate Urban Farms

Chelsea Rozanski and Michael Gavin

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Sustainability: The defining question of the 21st century

John Ikerd

Developing a food system indicators database to facilitate local food systems assessments: Using a scoping review approach

Abiodun T. Atoloye, Sophie Schouboe, Caitlin Misiaszek, Jamie Harding, Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Karen Bassarab and Larissa Calancie