Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 12, issue 4, 2023

Appetizers in development economics

Ryder Bell

Nourishing hope: Unraveling the path to justice in the global food system

Mallory Cerkleski

Food access in Kalamazoo, Michigan: A spatial analysis

Natalie Call, Elizabeth Silber and E. Binney Girdler

IN THIS ISSUE: Fostering socially and ecologically resilient food and farm systems through research networks

Duncan Hilchey

Reflection on the Groceries to Graduate scholarship program at Missouri Southern State University

Megan Bever, Amber Carr, Kamryn Colburn, Andrea Cullers and J. Rutledge

Treatment of racism and social injustice in addressing complex topics: What we learned

Kathryn Ruhf and Kate Clancy

Engaging, empowering, and evaluating farm-to-school projects with photovoice

Shoshanah Inwood, Joy Rumble, Sara Meeks and V. Haden

Digging in: Toward a more just urban garden land policy

Hannah Ramer and Kristen Nelson

Intellectual property exhaustion, breeder frustration, and hindered innovation: reviewing U.S. organic corn seed development

A. Endres, Jessica Guarino and Nabilah Nathani

Successes and challenges of a university-based agroecological community garden and educational program in Japan

Benjamin Schrager, Hiroki Ikeda and Takahashi Yukitsugu

Farmer knowledge as formal knowledge: A case study of farmer-led research in Ontario, Canada

Erin Nelson, Sarah Hargreaves and Dillon Muldoon

Can you have it your way? The consequences of racial capitalism in fast food in America

Tristian Lee

Finding justice in the food movements

Xiaoya Yuan

Raising awareness and advocating change: The work of Nova Scotia food security NGOs

Gregory Cameron, Julia Roach, Steven Dukeshire and Delaney Keys

Locally supported, values-based framework for a university foodservice program: Results of a Delphi study

Catherine Campbell, Cody Gusto and John Diaz

Values-based institutional food procurement programs: A narrative review

Catherine Campbell

Farming for sociologists: A new key text for rural sociologists

Danielle Schmidt

Assessing the profitability of scaling up for retail access: Lessons from local salad mix in Southeast Michigan

Jennifer Gerhart and Philip Howard

“We need a better system”: Maryland crop growers’ perspectives on reducing food loss through donation

Caitlin Ceryes, Kathryn Heley, Danielle Edwards, Chergai Gao-Rittenberg, Leah Seifu, Saifra Khan Sohail and Roni Neff

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Agri-food corporations are not real people; why does it matter?

John Ikerd

Volume 12, issue 3, 2023

IN THIS ISSUE: Small is beautiful, but

Duncan Hilchey

COVID-19 and Pennsylvania farmers: Financial impacts, relief programs, and resiliency strategies during the 2020 growing season

Christopher Murakami, Miriam Seidel, Chia-Lin Tsai and Jasmine Pope

Food insecurity among households with children during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Bailey Houghtaling, Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Lauri Andress, Annie Hardison-Moody, Michelle Grocke-Dewey, Denise Holston, Megan Patton-López, Nila Pradhananga, T. Prewitt, Justin Shanks, Eliza Webber and Carmen Byker Shanks

Experiences of structural violence and wage theft among immigrant workers in the California cannabis industry

Stella Beckman, Xóchitl Castañeda, Vania del Rivero, Anaisabel Chavez and Marc Schenker

A snapshot of nutrition incentive adaptation during COVID-19: Consensus-building with practitioners

Cody Gusto, John Diaz, Laura Warner, Christine Overdevest, Catherine Campbell and Sebastian Galindo

Indigenous food systems and food sovereignty: A collaborative conversation from the American Association of Geographers 2022 Annual Meeting

Suzanne Brant, Keith Williams, Jesse Andrews, Colleen Hammelman and Charles Levkoe

“The farm has an insatiable appetite”: A food justice approach to understanding beginning farmer stress

Fiona Doherty, Rachel Tayse, Michelle Kaiser and Smitha Rao

Food systems change and the alternative campus foodscape

Michael Classens, Kaitlyn Adam and Sophia Srebot

“It wasn’t built for us”: The possibility of Indigenous food sovereignty in settler colonial food bureaucracies

Sarah Rotz, Adrianne Xavier and Tabitha Robin

The myth of “feeding the world”: Subsidizing agricultural overproduction and industrial technologies, and marginalizing alternatives

Philip Howard

“Flawless” data: How Big Tech is penetrating modern agriculture

Amos Strömberg

Assessing the impact of parental involvement on scaling agricultural technologies from school garden to home farm in Cambodia

Gracie Pekarcik, David Ader, Tom Gill and Jennifer Richards

Surveying queer farmers: How heteropatriarchy affects farm viability and farmer well-being in U.S. agriculture

Michaela Hoffelmeyer, Jaclyn Wypler and Isaac Leslie

Diversification strategies for the resilience of small New England dairies

Julie Snorek, Wyatt Cummings, Eric Hryniewicz, Keelia Stevens and Rose Iannuzzi

The motivations, challenges and needs of small- and medium-scale beginning farmers in the midwestern United States

Keri Iles, Rebecca Nixon, Zhao Ma, Kevin Gibson and Tamara Benjamin

Lessons in shared humanity from Wisconsin’s dairy farmers and Mexican workers

Emily Nink

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Voting with your food dollars is not enough!

John Ikerd

Volume 12, issue 2, 2023

Addressing and preventing food and housing insecurity among college students: An asset-based approach

Rebecca Shisler, Emilia Cordero Oceguera, Annie Hardison-Moody and Sarah Bowen

Experiences of food insecurity among LGBTQIA+ college students in North Texas: Meaning, experiences, and recommendations for inclusive solutions

Lisa Henry, Dani Ellis, Steven Ellis, Micah Fleck, Steve Migdol, Neida Rodriguez, Vanessa Delgado, Spencer Esmonde, Ishraq Islam, Kio Kazaoka, Wei Sun and Paria Tajallipour

From food access to food sovereignty: Striving to meet university student needs

Kate Darby, Lena Hemmer, Renee Holt, Terri Kempton, Melanie del Rosario, Jon Stubblefield and Grey Webster

College student food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frankie Rafferty, Tania Schusler and Mariana Valencia Mestre

Food insecurity and utilization of campus food resources differ by demographic and academic group

Zoee Tanner, Brittany Loofbourrow, Gwen Chodur, Leslie Kemp and Rachel Scherr

Students as co-researchers: Using participatory action research to address college food insecurity

Rachel Brand

The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

Jason Evans and April Roggio

Justice and equity approaches to college and university student food (in)security: Introduction to the special section

Rachael Budowle, Christine Porter and Caitlin McLennan

Alfabetización crítica de políticas alimentarias: Conceptualizando la participación de las comunidades en políticas alimentarias municipales

Carol Ramos-Gerena

Exploring the motivations, satisfactions, and well-being of agricultural intentional community residents

Jess Lasoff-Santos and Raymond De Young

Connectivity and racial equity in responding to COVID-19 impacts in the Chicago regional food system

Rowan Obach, Tania Schusler, Sydney Durkin, Paulina Vaca and Sheikh, Ma’raj

Marketing opportunities and challenges for locally raised meats: An online consumer survey in South Carolina

Steven Richards and Michael Vassalos

Critical food policy literacy: Conceptualizing community municipal food policy engagement

Carol Ramos-Gerena

Applying emerging core competencies to extension training courses for local food system practitioners

Hannah Dankbar, Courtney Long, Dara Bloom, Kaley Hohenshell, Emma Brinkmeyer and Bre Miller

Understanding small- and very-small-scale size meat processors in Missouri to strengthen the local supply chain

Muh Syukron and Ye Su

Civil society engagement in food systems governance in Canada: Experiences, gaps, and possibilities

Charles Levkoe, Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, Kirsti Tasala, Amanda Wilson and Monika Korzun

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Susanna Klassen, Lydia Medland, Poppy Nicol and Hannah Pitt

The experience of Vermont local food businesses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Claire Whitehouse, David Conner, Lisa Chase and Travis Reynolds

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Economies of scale in food production

John Ikerd

Suburban agriculture, immigrant farmers, and access to agricultural services and resources

Lin Xie, Zeyuan Qiu and Mei Fu

IN THIS ISSUE: Winter 2022–2023 open call content in a two-part issue

Duncan Hilchey

Volume 12, issue 1, 2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Scaling up through economies of community

Duncan Hilchey

How power is created and exercised—often invisibly

Matthew Hoffman

Sustaining New England’s iconic tourism landscapes: An exploratory study to examine perceptions of value from farmers and fishermen

Caroline Paras, Tracy Michaud and Matthew Hoffman

How to create intermediated and partnership local food networks? Collective performance, collective negotiation, and collective learning

Ronan Le Velly, Mathieu Désolé and Carole Chazoule

Perilous Bounty and the future of farming in America

Lars Chinburg

Economies of community in local agriculture: Farmers in New London, Connecticut, respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

Rachel Black and Adalie Duran

The school food solution: Creating a healthy school food environment with Canada’s Food Guide

Chantelle Dacunha, Eric Ng and Sarah Elton

Communication and building social capital in community supported agriculture

Ella Furness, Angelina Sanderson Bellamy, Adrian Clear, Samantha Mitchell Finnigan, J. Elliot Meador, Susanna Mills, Alice Milne and Ryan Sharp

Adaptations and innovations: Analyzing food system organizations' responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Colleen Hammelman and Dylan Turner

Local innovation in food system policies: A case study of six Australian local governments

Amy Carrad, Lizzy Turner, Nick Rose, Karen Charlton and Belinda Reeve

A pilot study exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on small-scale direct marketing farmers in Northwest Arkansas and their responses to the pandemic

Laura Florick and Chul Park

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: The challenge: Making good food accessible

John Ikerd

Sustainable food procurement by the University of California’s health systems: Reflections on 10 years and recent COVID-19 challenges

Sapna Thottathil

A decade of the Missouri Hunger Atlas: Information for action

Steven Henness, Bill McKelvey, Darren Chapman, Gloria Mangoni and Mary Hendrickson

Manifesto for a regionally oriented food industry

Marco Ginanneschi

Five practical strategies for those who work for food systems change

Antonio Roman-Alcalá