Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 4, issue 4, 2014

Locating Nation, State, and Identity in the Global Food Debate

Nadra Hashim

In This Issue: Adapting to Change: A Challenge for Producers and Consumers

Duncan L. Hilchey

Strengthening the Core Business of Farmers Markets through Strategic Business Planning

David J. Connell and Christopher Hergesheimer

Accessibility and Viability: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to a Wicked Problem for the Local Food Movement

Connie H. Nelson and Mirella L. Stroink

Rustbelt Radicalism: A Decade of Food Systems Planning Practice in Buffalo, New York (USA)

Samina Raja, Diane Picard, Solhyon Baek and Christina Delgado

Consumer and Producer Information-Sharing Preferences at Arizona Farmers Markets

Keri Szejda Fehrenbach and Christopher M. Wharton

Author's Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding Meter Column

Ken Meter

Letter to the Editor Regarding Meter Column

Dave Gutknecht and Joan Stockinger

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Designing Food to Suit Our Infrastructure?

Ken Meter

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: A Different Way To Approach Policy Change

Kate Clancy

Where Urban Residents Shop for Produce

Allison Karpyn, Karyn Tappe, Amy Hillier, Carolyn Cannuscio, Julia Koprak and Karen Glanz

Language as Lever: Can the Lexicon of Local Make a Global Impact?

Stacy Miller

Organic Farming in West Virginia: A Behavioral Approach

James R. Farmer, Graham Epstein, Shannon Lea Watkins and Sarah K. Mincey

Institutional Dimensions of Farmland Conservation: Applying the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework to the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program

Kerri Morrison and Scott Hardy

Rural Development Strategies and Government Roles in the Development of Farmers' Cooperatives in China

Aijuan Chen and Steffanie Scott

Factors Influencing Local Food Procurement Among Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Eastern and Western North Carolina (USA)

Jared T. McGuirt, Rachel Ward, Nadya Majette Elliott, Sally Lawrence Bullock and Stephanie B. Jilcott Pitts

Understanding Collaboration Among Farmers and Farmers' Market Managers in Southeast Michigan (USA)

Crystal L. Miller and Dan McCole

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Beyond Economic Growth

John Ikerd

How to Communicate with Farmers about Climate Change: Farmers' Perceptions and Adaptations to Increasingly Variable Weather Patterns in Maine (USA)

John M. Jemison , Damon M. Hall, Stephanie Welcomer and Jane Haskell

Volume 4, issue 3, 2014

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: The Agrarian Limits of the Food Movement

Rami Zurayk

Group Editorial for the Special Issue on Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives Working Together to Build Cooperative Food Systems

Colin Ray Anderson, Lynda Brushett, Thomas Gray and Henk Renting

Pulling in the Indigenous Fishery Cooperative Net: Fishing for Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security in Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba, Canada

Shirley Thompson, Mohammad Rony, Jennifer Temmer and Darcy Wood

Seeding a Culture of Remembering

Deirdre Helfferich

Metrics from the Field: Co-ops and Collective Impact

Ken Meter

Historical Tensions, Institutionalization, and the Need for Multistakeholder Cooperatives

Thomas Gray

Collaboration Meets Opportunity: The Baltimore Food Policy Initiative

Raychel Santo, Rachel Yong and Anne Palmer

Solidarity Economy and Agricultural Cooperatives: The Experience of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement

Marie-Josée Massicotte

In This Issue: Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives — and More

Duncan L. Hilchey

Navigating the Fault Lines in Civic Food Networks

Colin Ray Anderson, Wayne McDonald, Jo-Lene Gardiner and Stéphane M. McLachlan

Re-imagining Rural Cooperation in Atlantic Canada

Greg Cameron and Louise Hanavan

Reflexive Resilience and Community Supported Agriculture: The Case that Emerged from a Place

Oliver Moore, Olive McCarthy, Noreen Byrne and Michael Ward

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Limits to Economic Growth

John Ikerd

Building Resilience in Nonprofit Food Hubs

Jacqueline R. LeBlanc, David Conner, Glenn McRae and Heather Darby

Leveraging the Local: Cooperative Food Systems and the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario, Canada

Jennifer Sumner, J. J. McMurtry and Hannah Renglich

Voices of Peasant Farmers from the Margins of the Global Food Crisis

Breann Maxwell and Zulfiya Tursunova

The Conventionalization of Local Food: Farm Reflections on Local, Alternative Beef Marketing Groups

Phil Mount and John Smither

Fostering Capacity Building Among Groups of Disadvantaged Farmers, Southeastern North Carolina (USA)

Kathi Beratan, Pamela Jackson and Sherrie Godette

Volume 4, issue 2, 2014

In This Issue: A Good Late Winter's Read

Duncan L. Hilchey

Premium Potential for Geographically Labeled, Differentiated Meat Products

Kynda R. Curtis

Can Large Retailers Localize Supply Chains? A Case Analysis of the Challenges Facing One Canadian Retailer

Doug MacCallum, Alissa Mae Campbell and Rod MacCrae

Evaluating the South Memphis Farmers Market as a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Foods: Lessons from 2011

Kathryn Hicks and Katherine Lambert-Pennington

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: The Fatal Synergy of War and Drought in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rami Zurayk

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: Food System Governance

Kate Clancy

Evaluating the Economic and Nutrition Benefits and Program Challenges of EBT Programs at Farmers' Markets

Kristin Krokowski

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Local Data Is Endangered

Ken Meter

Leveraging Social Change Through Collective Purchasing

Holly A. Chaille

Land Trusts and Beginning Farmers' Access to Land: Exploring the Relationships in Coastal California

Jessica Beckett and Ryan E. Galt

Beyond the Farmer and the Butcher: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Local Meat

Lauren Gwin and Arion Thiboumery

Community Food Production as Food Security: Resource and Economic Valuation in Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

Vincent M. Smith and John A. Harrington

Resource-Use and Partial-Budget Analysis of a Transition to Reduced-Input and Organic Practices and Direct Marketing: A Student-Farm Case Study

Sean Clark

Is Organic Agriculture a Viable Strategy in Contexts of Rapid Agrarian Transition? Evidence from Cambodia

Alice Beban

Exploring Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Law and Policy Reforms

Sheila Fleischhacker

Development and Evaluation of an Introductory Course in Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems

Kate Malone, Alison H. Harmon, William E. Dyer, Bruce D. Maxwell and Catherine A. Perillo

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Competition Versus Cooperation

John Ikerd

Volume 4, issue 1, 2014

Land: The New Gold

Julia Freedgood

Rethinking Investment Dynamics: An Alternative Framework of the Global Land Rush

Elizabeth Starr

Tradition of Healthy Food Access in Low-income Neighborhoods: Price and Variety of Curbside Produce Vending Compared to Conventional Retailers

Catherine Brinkley, Benjamin Chrisinger and Amy Hillier

Concentration, Consolidation, and Control: How Big Business Dominates the Food System

Steven Dukeshire

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Should Farmers Just Say No?

Rami Zurayk

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Running Out of Land for Food

John Ikerd

Farm Adaptation at the Rural-Urban Interface

Shoshanah M. Inwood and Jill K. Clark

Access to Farmland: A Systems Change Perspective

Kathryn Z. Ruhf

Beyond Protection: Delineating the Economic and Food Production Potential of Underutilized, Small-parcel Farmland in Metropolitan Surrey, British Columbia

Kent Mullinix, Caitlin Dorward, Marc Shutzbank, Parthiphan Krishnan, Karen Ageson and Arthur Fallick

Farms or Freeways? Citizen Engagement and Municipal Governance in Edmonton's Food and Agriculture Strategy Development

Mary A. Beckie, Lorelei Hanson and Deborah Schrader

Consumer Characteristics and Willingness to Pay for Locally Produced Product: A Case Study of Rib-eye Steaks in the Northern Great Plains

Kuo-Liang Chang, Pei Xu, Jerry Warmann, Todd Lone, Zelie-Sandra Munzimi and Emmanuel Opuko

Small Organic Farm Renewable Energy Demonstration Project Based on Incremental Capital Investment and Community Participation

Anna E. Demeo and Michael L. Peterson

Peri-Urban Food Futures: Opportunities and Challenges to Reconfiguring Sustainable Local Agri-food Value Chains on the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Brian R. Stockwell, Elaine Bradley, Deborah Davis and Jonathan Smith