Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 2, issue 4, 2012

Understanding the Loss of Traditional Agricultural Systems: A Case Study of Orchard Meadows in Germany

Kristine Hammel and Thorsten Arnold

More Than Counting Beans: Adapting USDA Data Collection Practices To Track Marketing Channel Diversification

Alan R. Hunt and Gary Matteson

Toward a Food Policy "First Step" in Oakland, California: A Food Policy Council's Efforts To Promote Urban Agriculture Zoning

Nathan McClintock, Heather Wooten and Alethea Harper Brown

Modeling Impacts to Agricultural Revenue and Government Service Costs from Urban Growth

Nathaniel E. Roth, James H. Thorne, Robert A. Johnston, James F. Quinn and Michael C. McCoy

Exploring Food System Policy: A Survey of Food Policy Councils in the United States

Allyson Scherb, Anne Palmer, Shannon Frattaroli and Keshia Pollack

In This Issue: The Forefront of Food Systems Policy and Practice

Duncan Hilchey

Demystifying the Local: Considerations for Higher Education Engagement with Community Food Systems

Howard Rosing

Safe Re-use Practices in Wastewater-Irrigated Urban Vegetable Farming in Ghana

Bernard Keraita, Robert C. Abaidoo, Ines Beernaerts, Sasha Koo-Oshima, Philip Amoah, Pay Drechsel and Flemming Konradsen

Community Supported Agriculture in the City: The Case of Toronto

Sima Patel and Rod MacRae

Linking Farmers, Healthy Foods, and Underserved Consumers: Exploring the Impact of Nutrition Incentive Programs on Farmers and Farmers' Markets

Lydia Oberholtzer, Carolyn Dimitri and Gus Schumacher

Making It Too Simple? Researchers, Recommendations, and NGOs in the Sundarbans, Indian West Bengal

Cathy Rozel Farnworth and Mette Vaarst

Volume 2, issue 3, 2012

In This Issue: Higher Education and Food Systems: A Tentative But Growing Relationship

Duncan Hilchey

VIEWS FROM THE FOOD SYSTEM FRONTIER: The Emergence of a Field

Joseph McIntyre

The End of Local? Book Review: Shuman's "Local Dollars, Local Sense"

Ken Meter

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Learning Together

Ken Meter

Walking the Talk of Food Systems at a Small Land-Grant University: Overcoming Process Barriers to a Transdisciplinary Approach

Jane Kolodinsky, Naomi K. Fukagawa, Erin Roche, Cynthia Belliveau and Haylley Johnson

Critical Reflections on Experiential Learning for Food Justice

Leslie Gray, Joanna Johnson, Nicole Latham, Michelle Tang and Ann Thomas

Community Engagement from the Ground Up: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning After-School Garden Program

Shari E. Miller, Jung Sun Lee and David Berle

Living Concrete/Carrot City: An Exhibition Platform as a Growing Medium

Nevin Cohen and Radhika Subramaniam

Building Sustainable Food Systems in a Single Bottom-Line Context: Lessons from SEED Wayne, Wayne State University

Kameshwari Pothukuchi

Building a Food Studies Program: On-the-Ground Reflections from Syracuse University

Evan Weissman, Leigh Gantner and Lutchmie Narine

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Sustainability in Higher Education: Beyond Going Green

John Ikerd

The "Buy Local" Challenge to Institutional Foodservice Corporations in Historical Context

Sarah J. Martin and Peter Andrée

Internationalizing Sustainable Agriculture Education

Michelle S. Schroeder-Moreno, Susan F. Clark, Carmen J. Byker and Xin Zhao

Engaging Values in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Education:: Toward an Explicitly Values-Based Pedagogical Approach

Ryan E. Galt, Susan F. Clark and Damian Parr

Sustainable Agriculture Education and Civic Engagement: The Significance of Community-University Partnerships in the New Agricultural Paradigm

Kim L. Niewolny, Julie M. Grossman, Carmen J. Byker, Jennifer L. Helms, Susan F. Clark, Julie A. Cotton and Krista L. Jacobsen

Sustainable Agriculture Undergraduate Degree Programs: A Land-Grant University Mission

Krista L. Jacobsen, Kim L. Niewolny, Michelle S. Schroeder-Moreno, Mark Van Horn, Alison H. Harmon, Yolanda H. Chen Fanslow, Mark A. Williams and Damian Parr

The Learning Gardens Laboratory: Teaching Sustainability and Developing Sustainable Food Systems Through Unique Partnerships

Heather Burns and Weston Miller

The Food Policy Audit: A New Tool for Community Food System Planning

Jennifer O'Brien and Tanya Denckla Cobb

Access to Sustainably Produced Food: An Investigation of Organic Food Availability in Manhattan, New York

Laura Mirsch and Carolyn Dimitri

Volume 2, issue 2, 2012

IN THIS ISSUE: A Smörgåsbord of Fresh Applied Research Papers

Duncan Hilchey

GLOBALVIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Bread, Freedom, and Social Justice

Rami Zurayk

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: How Do We Grow New Farmers?

Ken Meter

Strategies for Accessing Volume Markets in the Beef Industry: A Review of Three Case Studies

Nick McCann and Frank Montabon

Is a Geographical Certification a Promising Production and Commercialization Strategy for Smallholder Sheep Farming in Ceará, Brazil?

Sarah Schneider, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Evandro V. Holanda Júnior, Francisco S. F. Alves and Anne Valle Zárate

Cultivating Narratives: Cultivating Successors

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

From the Ground Up: Assessing Consumer Preferences for Multifunctional Agriculture

Leah Greden Mathews

Kaiser Permanente's Farmers' Market Program: Description, Impact, and Lessons Learned

DeAnn Cromp, Allen Cheadle, Loel Solomon, Preston Maring, Elisa Wong and Kathleen M. Reed

Assessing the Growth Potential and Economic Impact of the U.S. Maple Syrup Industry

Michael L. Farrell and Brian F. Chabot

Planning for Climate Action in British Columbia, Canada: Putting Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on Local Government Agendas

Tara L. Moreau, Jennie Moore and Kent Mullinix

Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A review of Scientific Information for Food System Planning

Tara L. Moreau, Jennie Moore and Kent Mullinix

Assessing Access to Local Food System Initiatives in Fairbanks, Alaska

Alison M. Meadow

The Feasibility of Regional Food Systems in Metropolitan Areas: An Investigation of Philadelphia's Foodshed

Peleg Kremer and Yda Schreuder

"Food Security" and "Food Sovereignty": What Frameworks Are Best Suited for Social Equity in Food Systems?

Megan Carney

Welcoming Animals Back to the City: Navigating the Tensions of Urban Livestock Through Municipal Ordinances

William H. Butler

Could Toronto Provide 10% of its Fresh Vegetable Requirements from Within its Own Boundaries? Part II, Policy Supports and Program Design

Rod MacRae, Joe Nasr, James Kuhns, Lauren Baker, Russ Christianson, Martin Danyluk, Abra Snider, Eric Gallant, Penny Kaill-Vinish, Marc Michalak, Janet Oswald, Sima Patel and Gerda Wekerle

Unfolding Farm Practices: Working Toward Sustainable Food Production in the Netherlands and Spain

Paul Swagemakers, M. Dolores Domínguez García, Xavier Simón Fernández and Johannes S. C. Wiskerke

Volume 2, issue 1, 2011

In This Issue: Planners Coming to the Table

Duncan Hilchey

Emerging Assessment Tools To Inform Food System Planning

Julia Freedgood, Marisol Pierce-Quiñonez and Kenneth Meter

Preparing Future Food System Planning Professionals and Scholars: Reflections on Teaching Experiences

Wendy Mendes, Joe Nasr, Timothy Beatley, Branden Born, Kristina Bouris, Marcia Caton Campbell, Jerome Kaufman, Barbara Lynch, Kami Pothukuchi and Gerda Wekerle

Measuring the Food Environment: From Theory to Planning Practice

Leia Minaker, Pat Fisher, Kim Raine and Lawrence Frank

Satiating the Demand: Planning for Alternative Models of Regional Food Distribution

Lindsey Day-Farnsworth and Alfonso Morales

Kirschenmann’s Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: A Better Philosophy for the Food Movement

Eliav Bitan

Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Food Hubs

Megan Horst, Eva Ringstrom, Shannon Tyman, Michael Ward, Virginia Werner and Branden Born

Planning Urban Foodscapes

Nevin Cohen

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Occupy the Global Food Regime

Rami Zurayk

Metrics from the Field: Seventeen Reasons To Do Food System Assessments

Ken Meter

Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Produce: An Analysis of Willingness-To-Pay and Geographic Scale

Perry Burnett, Todd H. Kuethe and Curtis Price

The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System

Charles Levkoe and Sarah Wakefield

Case Study: A Systems Analysis of Cattle Morbidity in a Niche Market Beef Cooperative

Kim McCuistion, Jennie Johnson Livsey, Doug Wilmeth, Dan Probert, Barry Dunn, Ryan Rhoades and Clay Mathis

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Land Use Planning for Sustainable Food Systems

John Ikerd

Evaluating Food Systems in Comprehensive Planning: Is the Mississippi Gulf Coast Planning for Food?

Jennifer Evans-Cowley

From Turf to Table: Grass Seed to Edible Grains in the Willamette Valley

Katlyn Giombolini, Kimberlee Chambers, Joe Bowersox and Peter Henry

Do Fast Food Restaurants Cluster Around High Schools? A Geospatial Analysis of Proximity of Fast Food Restaurants to High Schools and the Connection to Childhood Obesity Rates

Hilary Nixon and Lauren Doud

The Emerging Role of a Food System Planner: Integrating Food Considerations into Planning

Tammara Soma and Sarah Wakefield

Practicing Food Sovereignty: Spatial Analysis of an Emergent Food System for the Standing Rock Nation

Morgan Ruelle, Stephen J. Morreale and Karim-Aly S. Kassam

An Optimization Approach To Assessing the Self-Sustainability Potential of Food Demand in the Midwestern United States

Guiping Hu, Lizhi Wang, Susan Arendt and Randy Boeckenstedt

Incorporating Policies for a Healthy Food System into Land Use Planning: The Case of Waterloo Region, Canada

Ellen Desjardins, John Lubczysnki and Marc Xuereb

An Analysis of the Impacts of Health Insurance Rebate Initiatives on Community Supported Agriculture in Southern Wisconsin

Greg Jackson, Amanda Raster and Will Shattuck

Acculturation and Consumption: Examining the Consumption Behavior of People of Afro-Caribbean Descent in Canada

Bamidele Adekunle, Glen Filson, Sridharan Sethuratnam and Dario Cidro