Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 1, issue 4, 2011

In This Issue: Small and Midscale Food Value Chains: A State of the Art

Duncan Hilchey

The Potential of an "Agriculture of the Middle" Model in the Context of EU Rural Development: An American Solution to an Irish Problem?

Áine Macken-Walsh

Increasing Farm Income and Local Food Access: A Case Study of a Collaborative Aggregation, Marketing, and Distribution Strategy That Links Farmers to Markets

Michele C. Schmidt, Jane M. Kolodinsky, Thomas P. DeSisto and Faye C. Conte

Informal and Formal Mechanisms of Coordination in Hybrid Food Value Chains

J. Dara Bloom and C. Clare Hinrichs

Food Value Chain Development in Central New York: CNY Bounty

Becca B. R. Jablonski, Javier Perez-Burgos and Miguel I. Gómez

Acting Collectively To Develop Midscale Food Value Chains

Larry Lev and G. W. Stevenson

Money and Mission: Moving Food with Value and Values

Adam Diamond and James Barham

Reforming Our Industrial Agriculture Economy

Frederick Kirschenmann

Corbin Hill Road Farm Share: A Hybrid Food Value Chain in Practice

Nevin Cohen and Dennis Derryck

Agricultural Development Is Economic Development: Kentucky State Parks Local Food Purchasing Case Study

Robert R. Perry

Using a Supply Chain Analysis To Assess the Sustainability of Farm-to-Institution Programs

Gail Feenstra, Patricia Allen, Shermain Hardesty, Jeri Ohmart and Jan Perez

Metrics from the Field: Breaking Our Chains

Ken Meter

Midscale Food Value Chains: An Introduction

G. W. Stevenson, Kate Clancy, Robert King, Larry Lev, Marcia Ostrom and Stewart Smith

Out in the Cold About COOL: An Analysis of U.S. Consumers' Awareness of Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labels for Beef

Katie L. Allen, Courtney Meyers, Todd Brashears and Scott Burris

Value Chains for Sustainable Procurement in Large School Districts: Fostering Partnerships

David S. Conner, Andrew Nowak, JoAnne Berkenkamp, Gail W. Feenstra, Julia Van Soelen Kim, Toni Liquori and Michael W. Hamm

Views from the Food System Frontier: The Signs of a New Mainstream

Joseph McIntyre

Access to Information and Farmer's Market Choice: The Case of Potato in Highland Bolivia

Nadezda Amaya and Jeffrey Alwang

Agricultural Economic Development at the Rural-Urban Interface: Community Organization, Policy, and Agricultural Change

Jeff S. Sharp, Doug Jackson-Smith and Leah Smith

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Essential Principles of Sustainable Food Value Chains

John Ikerd

Volume 1, issue 3, 2011

Beliefs, Attitudes, and Propensity To Buy Locally Produced Food

Steven Dukeshire, Renée Garbes, Chloe Kennedy, Ainslie Boudreau and Theresa Osborne

Integrating Agriculture and Food Policy To Achieve Sustainable Peri-urban Fruit and Vegetable Production in Victoria, Australia

Rachel Carey, Fanny Krumholz, Kena Duignan, Kathy McConell, Jessica L. Browne, Catherine Burns and Mark Lawrence

In This Issue: Open Call Papers and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture — Part 2

Duncan Hilchey

Expanding Technical Assistance for Urban Agriculture: Best Practices for Extension Services in California and Beyond

Kristin A. Reynolds

Overcoming Barriers To Providing Local Produce in School Lunches in Vermont

Erin Roche and Jane M. Kolodinsky

"The Next Generation, That's Why We Continue To Do What We Do": African American Farmers Speak About Experiences with Land Ownership and Loss in North Carolina

Peter Balvanz, Morgan L. Barlow, Lillianne M. Lewis, Kari Samuel, William Owens, Donna L. Parker, Molly De Marco, Robin Crowder, Yarbrough Williams, Dorathy Barker, Alexandra Lightfoot and Alice Ammerman

Between Conventionalization and Civic Agriculture: Emerging Trends in the Chilean Agroecological Movement

Beatriz Cid-Aguayo

Planting Seeds for an Improved Agrifood System? Linking the Aims of the Alternative Agrifood Movement to Executive Action in the First Two Years of the Obama Administration

K. Michelle Glowa, Sarah Carvill and Costanza Rampini

Community Gardening in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona: Aligning Programs with Perceptions

Tommy Bleasdale, Carolyn Crouch and Sharon L. Harlan

Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Organic Waste: Feasibility of Establishing an Urban Composting Program in Chiapas, Mexico

Jorge Camacho Barboza, Helda Morales, Ricardo Alvarado Barrantes, Antonio Saldivar Moreno and Esperanza Huerta Lwanga

Building Gardens, Rebuilding a City: Baltimore’s Community Greening Resource Network

Sarah Krones and Shari Edelson

Community-Based Wastewater Farming and its Contribution to Livelihoods of the Urban Poor: Case of Nairobi, Kenya

Mary Njenga, Nancy Karanja, Gordon Prain, Kuria Gathuru and Diana Lee-Smith

Smallholder Peri-Urban Organic Farming in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis of Farming Systems

Gopal Datt Bhatta and Werner Doppler

“Somos del Campo”: Latino and Latina Gardeners and Farmers in Two Rural Communities of Iowa — A Community Capitals Framework Approach

Diego Thompson

Volume 1, issue 2, 2011

In This Issue: Frontiers in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

Duncan Hilchey

Testing and Educating on Urban Soil Lead: A Case of Chicago Community Gardens

Laura Witzling, Michelle Wander and Ellen Phillips

Metrics from the Field: Learning How To Multiply

Ken Meter

Havana’s Changing Urban Agriculture Landscape: A Shift to the Right?

Charles French, Mimi Becker and Bruce Lindsay

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Zoning Considerations for Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

John Ikerd

Assessing the Pocket Market Model for Growing the Local Food Movement: A Case Study of Metropolitan Vancouver

Terri L. Evans and Christiana Miewald

Multistakeholder Policy Formulation and Action Planning for Urban Agriculture in Lima, Peru

Marielle C. E. Dubbeling, Gunther Merzthal and Noemi Soto

On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit

Anne C. Bellows, Joe Nasr, Diana Lee-Smith, Luc J. A. Mougeot, Michael Levenston, Peter Mann, Katherine Brown and Jerry Kaufman

Could Toronto Provide 10% of its Fresh Vegetable Requirements from within its Own Boundaries? Matching Consumption Requirements with Growing Spaces

Rod MacRae, Eric Gallant, Sima Patel, Marc Michalak, Martin Bunch and Stephanie Schaffner

Creating a Legal Framework for Urban Agriculture: Lessons from Flint, Michigan

Megan Masson-Minock and Deirdra Stockmann

Berry’s Bringing It to the Table: A Call to Honor Farming and Food

Dawn Thilmany

Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains

Phil Mount

Planting Roots: Urban Agriculture for Senior Immigrants

Mary Beckie and Eva Bogdan

The Future of Farming on the Urban Edge: Insights from 15 U.S. Counties about Farmland Protection and Farm Viability

Lydia Oberholtzer, Kate Clancy and J. Dixon Esseks

Assessing the Local Food Supply Capacity of Detroit, Michigan

Kathryn J. A. Colasanti and Michael W. Hamm

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: From Incidental to Essential: Urban Agriculture in the Middle East

Rami Zurayk

Volume 1, issue 1, 2010

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

Cornelia Butler Flora

The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century

Kim L. Niewolny and Nancy K. Franz

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food

Valerie Imbruce

From the Boardroom to the Farm Stand: Applying Principles of Retail Strategy to Facilitate Farmers’ Market Sustainability

Christopher T. Sneed and Ann E. Fairhurst

Laws to Require Purchase of Locally Grown Food and Constitutional Limits on State and Local Government: Suggestions for Policymakers and Advocates

Brannon P. Denning, Samantha Graff and Heather Wooten

The Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies of Adults Following a Local Food Diet

Carmen Byker, Nick Rose and Elena Serrano

Achieving Program Goals? An Evaluation of Two Decades of the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Jan Perez, Damian Parr and Linnea Beckett

Creating Access to Land Grant Resources for Multicultural and Disadvantaged Farmers

Marcia Ostrom, Bee Cha and Malaquías Flores

Expanding the Boundaries of Beginning Farmer Training and Program Development: A review of Contemporary Initiatives To Cultivate a New Generation of American Farmers

Kim L. Niewolny and Patrick T. Lillard

Farm Succession and Retirement: Some International Comparisons

Matt Lobley, John R. Baker and Ian Whitehead

Success in Farm Start-ups in the Northeastern United States

Gilbert W. Gillespie and Sue Ellen Johnson

GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: Family Farmers Are Struggling Everywhere

Rami Zurayk

Metrics from the Field: Letting Food Systems Emerge

Ken Meter

Views from the Food System Frontier: Measuring Agricultural Stewardship: Risks and Rewards

Joseph McIntyre

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Rethinking Government Policies for Growing Farmers

John Ikerd

Why Aren’t There Any Turkeys at the Danville Turkey Festival?

Howard L. Sacks

In This Issue: Inaugural Issue and Special Topic Focus: "Growing New Farmers"

Duncan Hilchey

Welcome — and Thanks To So Many!

Duncan Hilchey