Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

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Volume 3, issue 4, 2013

A Vision for Transdisciplinarity in Future Earth: Perspectives from Young Researchers

Marta G. Rivera-Ferre, Laura Pereira, Timothy Karpouzoglou, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Sheila Onzere, Wilma Waterlander, Fawzi Mahomoodally, Anton Vrieling, Fola D. Babalola, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Atul Dogra, Aline de Conti, Susanne Baldermann, Chijioke Evoh and Silke Bollmohr

The Next Food Systems Agenda: A Western Grassroots Perspective

V. Philip Rasmussen, Stacie Clary, Al Kurki and Ron Daines

Future Food System Research Priorities: A Sustainable Food Systems Perspective from Ontario, Canada

Alison D. Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, Karen E. Landman, Phil A. Mount, Connie H. Nelson, Erin Nelson, Lori M. Stahlbrand, Mirella L. Stroink and Kelly Skinner

In This Issue: Food Systems Research Priorities: Blueprints for the Next 5 Years

Duncan Hilchey

Advancing Rural Food Access Policy Research Priorities: Process and Potential of a Transdisciplinary Working Group

Sheila Fleischhacker, Donna Johnson, Emilee Quinn, Stephanie B. Jilcott Pitts, Carmen Byker and Joseph R. Sharkey

A Research Agenda for Food System Transformation Through Autonomous Community-based Food Projects

Branden Born

Closing the Knowledge Gap: How the USDA Could Tap the Potential of Biologically Diversified Farming Systems

Liz Carlisle and Albie Miles

Methodologies for Identifying Food System Research Priorities: Dispatch from Alaska

Elizabeth Hodges Snyder and Shannon Donovan

Warhol's Apiary: A Review of Farming the City

Christian Man

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: High-priority Research Approaches for Transforming U.S. Food Systems

Kate Clancy

Future Research Approaches To Encourage Small-scale Fisheries in the Local Food Movement

Connie H. Nelson, Kristen Lowitt, Mike Nagy and Dean Bavington

Toward Alternative Food Systems Development: Exploring Limitations and Research Opportunities

Cayla Albrecht, Rylea Johnson, Steffi Hamann, Lisa Ohberg and Michael CoDyre

Researching Market and Supply-Chain Opportunities for Local Foods Systems: Setting Priorities and Identifying Linkages

Dawn Thilmany, David Conner, Kynda R. Curtis, Liang, Chyi-lyi (Kathleen), Kranti Mulik, Jeffrey O'Hara, Martha Sullins and Tim Woods

Research Priorities for Advancing Adoption of Cover Crops in Agriculture-intensive Regions

Sarah Carlson and Ryan Stockwell

Critical Research Needs for Successful Food Systems Adaptation to Climate Change

Michelle Miller, Molly Anderson, Charles Francis, Chad Kruger, Carol Barford, Jacob Park and Brent H. McCown

Rethinking Research: Creating a Practice-Based Agenda for Sustainable Small-Scale Healthy Food Retail

Allison Karpyn and Hannah Burton-Laurison

White Spaces in Black and Latino Places: Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Brandon Hoover

Participation and Investment in Local Agriculture: What's in a Community?

David V. Fazzino , Philip A. Loring and Azara Mohammadi

A Regional Economics–Based Research Agenda for Local Food Systems

Kathryn A. Boys and David W. Hughes

Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Land Use Planning: The Need To Integrate Public Priorities Across Jurisdictions

David J. Connell, Cristopher R. Bryant, Wayne J. Caldwell, Arthur Churchyard, Greg Cameron, Tom Johnston, Matias E. Margulis, Doug Ramsey and Claude Marois

Food Webs and Food Sovereignty: Research Agenda for Sustainability

Charles Francis, Michelle Miller, Molly Anderson, Nancy Creamer, Michelle Wander, Jacob Park, Thomas A. Green and Brent H. McCown

Going "Beyond Food": Confronting Structures of Injustice in Food Systems Research and Praxis

Catarina Passidomo

Feeding Cities: Charting a Research and Practice Agenda Toward Food Security

Catherine Brinkley, Eugenie Birch and Alexander Keating

Including the Voices of Communities in Food Insecurity Research: An Empowerment-based Agenda for Food Scholarship

Adam M. Pine and Rebecca de Souza

Crop Diversification: A Potential Strategy To Mitigate Food Insecurity by Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ezekiel Mugendi Njeru

The New Environmental Security: Linking Food, Water, and Energy for Integrative and Diagnostic Social-ecological Research

Philip A. Loring, S. Craig Gerlach and Henry P. Huntington

The Role of Food Hubs in Food Supply Chains

James Matson and Jeremiah Thayer

Economic Impacts of Local Food Systems: Future Research Priorities

Jeffrey K. O'Hara and Rich Pirog

Alternative Food Systems and the Citizen-consumer

Matthias Lehner

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Rethinking Science: The Highest Research Priority for the Next 5 Years

John Ikerd

Volume 3, issue 3, 2013

Commercial Bakers' download on the Meaning of "Local" Wheat and Flour in Western Washington State

Karen M. Hills, Jessica R. Goldberger and Stephen S. Jones

In This Issue: Surf and Turf: JAFSCD Looks at Both Land and Seafood Systems

Duncan Hilchey

Whole Measures Only Partially Measures Up

Bethann Garramon Merkle

Northern Food Networks: Building Collaborative Efforts for Food Security in Remote Canadian Aboriginal Communities

Rebecca Schiff and Fern Brunger

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Addressing Hunger by Strengthening Local Foods Logistics

Ken Meter

Toward an Informative and Applied Methodology for Price Comparison Studies of Farmers' Markets and Competing Retailers at the Local Scale

Joshua Long, M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine, Katherine Castles, Jillian Curran, Harrison Glaser, Ellen Hoyer, Whitney Moore, Lisa Morse, Molly O'Hara and Ben Parafina

An Economic Impact Comparative Analysis of Farmers' Markets in Michigan and Ontario

Richard C. Sadler, Michael A. R. Clark and Jason A. Gilliland

Community Food Systems: Strengthening the Research-to-Practice Continuum

David C. Campbell, Ildi Carlisle-Cummins and Gail Feenstra

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: Feedback Loops

Kate Clancy

Seafood as Local Food: Food Security and Locally Caught Seafood on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula

Philip A. Loring, S. Craig Gerlach and Hannah L. Harrison

Strengthening Informal Seed Systems To Enhance Food Security in Southeast Asia

Thomas B. Gill, Ricky Bates, Abram Bicksler, Rick Burnette, Vincent Ricciardi and Laura Yoder

Measuring Current Consumption of Locally Grown Foods in Vermont: Methods for Baselines and Targets

David Conner, Florence Becot, Doug Hoffer, Ellen Kahler, Scott Sawyer and Linda Berlin

Integrating Food Waste Diversion into Food Systems Planning: A Case Study of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley and Angel Arroyo-Rodríguez

21st Century Crofting: Strengths and Opportunities for Community Development

Bryan J. Hains, Ronald Hustedde and Kristina G. Ricketts

Regulatory and Other Barriers to Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture: A Case Study of Urban Planners and Urban Farmers from the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area

Sheila R. Castillo, Curtis R. Winkle, Stephen Krauss, Amalia Turkewitz, Cristina Silva and Edie S. Heinemann

Volume 3, issue 2, 2013

The Importance of Quantifying Food Waste in Canada

Majd Abdulla, Ralph Martin, Martin Gooch and Eduardo Jovel

Rejoinder: "Dumb Farmers": Or, They Can't Possibly Know What They're Talking About — We're the Experts

Jay Gatrell, Thomas Steiger, Neil Reid, Jeanette Eckert and Paula Ross

Cultivating Narratives: Cultivating Successors — A Reply to Steiger et al

Hannah Chiswell

In This Issue: The Depth and Breadth of the Emerging Food Systems Literature

Duncan Hilchey

No Buts About It...The Value of Urban Food Production: Response #4 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Evan Weissman

Cultivating More Than Food: Where Community Gardens Fit with What Cities Do: Response #3 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Terri L. Evans and Christiana Miewald

Urban Gardens: Part of a Whole System Approach: Response #2 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Laura Lavid

Increased Productivity, Role in Alleviating Food Insecurity Possible: Response #1 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Kathryn Colasanti and Michael Hamm

Urban Gardening: A Valuable Activity, But

Alan Hallsworth and Alfred Wong

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Civil War and the Devastation of Syria's Food System

Rami Zurayk

Iowan Women Farmers' Perspectives on Alternative Agriculture and Gender

Andrea Rissing

A Traceability Model for Beef Product Origin Within a Local Institutional Value Chain

Daniel Buskirk, Jeannine Schweihofer, Jason Rowntree, Robert Clarke, Daniel Grooms and Tristan Fowler

A GIS-based Methodology Toward Refining the Concept of Rural Food Deserts: A Case Study from Rutland County, Vermont

John Van Hoesen, Brandy Bunkley and Cody Currier

Toronto Farmers' Markets: Towards Cultural Sustainability?

Deborah Bond and Robert Feagan

Reading from Farmers' Scripts: Local Perceptions of Climate Variability and Adaptations in Laikipia, Rift Valley, Kenya

Sarah Ayeri Ogalleh, Christian Vogl and Michael Hauser

Can We Have Our (Safe and Local) Cake and Eat It Too? Oregon Re-crafts Food Safety Regulations for Farm Direct Marketed Foods

Christy Anderson Brekken

Challenges and Strategies Among the Poor: Focus on Urban Agriculture in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa

Magidimisha, Hangwelani (Hope), Lovemore Chipungu and Rosemary Awuorh-Hayangah

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Reflections on Cooperation

John Ikerd

Volume 3, issue 1, 2012

In This Issue: Sustainable Livelihoods: An Evolving Asset-based Strategy for Food Systems Development

Duncan Hilchey

The Future of Subsistence Agriculture in the Rural Community of Uzanu, Edo State, Nigeria

Stephen Onakuse

Sustainable Economies: A Question of Values

Antonio Roman-Alcala

Thoughts on John Ikerd's The Essentials of Economic Sustainability

Gilbert W. Gillespie

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Asking the Right Questions

Rami Zurayk

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: Issues of Scale

Kate Clancy

Surveying Agrifood Stakeholders To Identify Priorities as Part of a Virginia Food System Assessment

Matthew C. Benson, Lisa S. Hightower, Eric S. Bendfeldt, Crystal Tyler-Mackey, Kim L. Niewolny and Gordon Groover

Guest Editorial: Balancing Multiple Perspectives for Collaborative Food Decision-Making

Ardyth Harris Gillespie

Economic Viability of Selling Locally Grown Produce to Local Restaurants

Amit Sharma, Catherine Strohbehn, Rama B. Radhakrishna and Allan Ortiz

Community Food Security via Urban Agriculture: Understanding People, Place, Economy, and Accessibility from a Food Justice Perspective

Mahbubur R. Meenar and Brandon M. Hoover

Building Capacity Between the Private Emergency Food System and the Local Food Movement: Working Toward Food Justice and Sovereignty in the Global North

Jesse C. McEntee and Elena N. Naumova

Examining the Economic Benefits of Agritourism: The Case of New Jersey

Brian J. Schilling, Kevin P. Sullivan and Stephen J. Komar

Educator and Institutional Entrepreneur: Cooperative Extension and the Building of Localized Food Systems

Rebecca Dunning, Nancy Creamer, Joanna Massey Lelekacs, John O'Sullivan, Tes Thraves and Teisha Wymore

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Building a Framework for Sustainable Livelihoods

Ken Meter

Close to Home: The Drive for Local Food

Shawn A. Trivette

Interdisciplinary Model for Infusing Food Security into STEM Curriculum

Maleka P. Hashmi and Kitrina M. Carlson

Community-Engaged Learning in Food Systems and Public Health

Julie L. Self, Becky Handforth, Janelle Hartman, Corey McAuliffe, Elizabeth Noznesky, Rebecca J. Schwei, Laura Whitaker, Amanda J. Wyatt and Amy Webb Girard

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Cooperation: The Key to Sustainable Livelihoods in Food Systems

John Ikerd

Determinants of Agricultural Land Use Diversification in Eastern and Northeastern India

Chandan Kumar and S. P. Singh

Concentrations of Heavy Metals and Pesticide Residues in Leafy Vegetables and Implications for Peri-urban Farming in Nairobi, Kenya

Nancy N. Karanja, Mary Njenga, G.k Mutua, C.J. Lagerkvist, Kutto, E, and J. J. Okello

Association Between Duration of Community-based Group Membership and Sustainable Livelihoods for Kenyan Women Dairy Farmers

Colleen Walton, John VanLeeuwen, Fiona Yeudall and Jennifer Taylor

Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches for Exploring Smallholder Agricultural Programs Targeted at Women: Examples from South Africa

Stefanie Lemke, Farideh Yousefi, Ana C. Eisermann and Anne C. Bellows