Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 6, issue 4, 2016

In This Issue: Short Supply Chains

Duncan Hilchey

Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide for Local Economic Development in Nekemte and its Hinterlands, Oromia, Ethiopia

Megerssa Tolessa Walo

Choosing and Siting Food Access Interventions: Food Mirages and Produce Stands in Portland, Oregon

Love Jonson

Delineating the Southwest British Columbia Bioregion for Food System Design and Planning: A Practical Approach

Greg Harris, Denver Nixon, Lenore Newman and Kent Mullinix

Local Foods and Low-income Communities: Location, Transportation, and Values

James Farmer, Sara Minard and Cliff Edens

Collaboration and Commitment in a Regional Supermarket Supply Chain

Rebecca Dunning

Socioeconomic Dynamics of Vermicomposting Systems in Lebanon

Sara Moledor, Ali Chalak, Monika Fabian and Salma N. Talhouk

Traveling the Path of an Organic Revolutionary

Carrie A. Scrufari

Digitally Engaged Rural Community Development

Laxmi Prasad Pant

Taking the Leap and Sustaining the Journey: Diversification on the Irish Family Farm

Aisling Moroney, Seamus O'Reilly and Mary O'Shaughnessy

Engaging Stakeholders To Refine Models of State-level Food Self-reliance

Christian Peters, Jennifer Wilkins, Scott Rosas, Brenda Pepe, Jamie Picardy and Gary Fick

Economic Viability of a Food Hub Business: Assessment of Annual Operational Expenses and Revenues

Olya Rysin and Rebecca Dunning

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: How Do We Ensure Good Food for All?

John Ikerd

Volume 6, issue 3, 2016

In This Issue: Peer2Peer

Duncan Hilchey

Anticipating a Transformative Future

Frederick Kirschenmann

A Public Health Approach to Our Food System

Gregory Zimmerman

Examining Barriers to Implementation of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) in Farmers Markets: Perspectives from Market Managers

Anne M. Roubal, Alfonso Morales, Karen Timberlake and Ana Martinez-Donate

Locational Advantage and the Impact of Scale: Comparing Local and Conventional Fruit and Vegetable Transportation Efficiencies

Chuck Grigsby and Chad Hellwinckel

The Tipping Point: Can Walmart's New Animal Welfare Policy End Factory Farming?

Carrie A. Scrufari

Principles Guiding Practice: A Case Study Analysis of the Principles of Sustainable Agriculture for Diverse Farms

Kelly N. Moore, Marilyn E. Swisher, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Mark Blevins, Michael Hogan, Lauren Hunter, Christine Kelly-Begazo, Stephen Komar, Suzanne Mills-Wasniak and David Redhage

Beyond Extension: Strengthening the Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program (FRTEP)

Joseph P. Brewer and Paul V. Stock

Understanding Perceptions of Fresh Produce Safety and Barriers to Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) Use Among Amish Growers in the Holmes County Settlement of Ohio

Jason Shaw Parker, Pamela Schlegel, Douglas Doohan and Jeffrey T. LeJeune

Putting the World on a Better Diet: A review of Global Eating Disorder

Grace Gershuny

Food System Sustainability Standards: Room for Everyone?

Keith Williams

The Benefits and Challenges of Machinery Sharing Among Small-scale Fruit and Vegetable Growers

Georgeanne Artz and Linda Naeve

West Virginia Farmers Market Training Network: A Case Study in Connecting Markets and Resources

Daniel Eades, Kelly Nix and Kelly Crane

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Toward an Ethic of Sustainability

John Ikerd

Volume 6, issue 2, 2016

A Whole-Systems Design Approach to City Living

Sharon Ferguson and Jillian Ferguson

Situating On-farm Apprenticeships within the Alternative Agrifood Movement: Labor and Social Justice Implications

Lorien E. MacAuley and Kim L. Niewolny

Labor in the Food System: A download from INFAS

Joanna Friesner and Infas co-creators of the Statement on Equity in the Food System

In This Issue: Labor in the Food System, from Farm to Table

Patricia Allen

#LivingOffTips: Reframing Food System Labor Through Tipped Workers' Narratives of Subminimum Wage Exploitation

Kathleen P. Hunt

The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

Nicholas Freudenberg, Michele Silver, Lesley Hirsch and Nevin Cohen

Paid Work, Unpaid Work, and Economic Viability in Alternative Food Initiatives: Reflections from Three Boston Urban Agriculture Endeavors

Carole Biewener

After the Incubator: Factors Impeding Land Access Along the Path from Farmworker to Proprietor

Adam Calo and Kathryn Teigen De Master

Justice Issues Facing Family-Scale Farmers and Their Laborers in the Northeastern United States

Becca Berkey and Tania Schusler

The Good Food Purchasing Policy: A Tool to Intertwine Worker Justice with a Sustainable Food System

Joann Lo and Alexa Delwiche

The Exceptional One Percent: U.S. Farmworker and Business Owner

Michael J. Pisani and Joseph M. Guzman

"We Just Have To Continue Working": Farmworker Self-care and Heat-related Illness

Michael D. Courville, Gail Wadsworth and Marc Schenker

Agricultural Exceptionalism at the State Level: Characterization of Wage and Hour Laws for U.S. Farmworkers

Sarah O. Rodman, Colleen L. Barry, Megan L. Clayton, Shannon Frattaroli, Roni A. Neff and Lainie Rutkow

Cultivating Equitable Ground: Community-based Participatory Research To Connect Food Movements with Migrant Farmworkers

Anelyse M. Weiler, Charles Z. Levoke and Carolyn Young

Making Visible the People Who Feed Us: Educating for Critical Food Literacy Through Multicultural Texts

Lina Yamashita and Diana Robinson

Transformations in Agricultural Non-waged Work: From Kinship to Intern and Volunteer Labor: A Research Brief

Michael Ekers and Charles Z. Levoke

Forging Links Between Food Chain Labor Activists and Academics

Charles Z. Levoke, Nathan McClintock, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Amy K. Coplen, Jennifer Gaddis, Joann Lo, Felipe Tendick-Matesanz and Anelyse M. Weiler

Anchors in a Globalizing World

Kimberley Curtis

Pondering Farmworker Justice: The Visible and Invisible Borders of Social Change

Anna Erwin

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: The Many Uses of a New Report on Food Systems Assessments

Kate Clancy

Evaluating the Impacts of Food Systems

Charles Francis and Amy Swoboda

The Role of Food Workers in Food Safety: A Policy Analysis of the U.S. 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act

Megan L. Clayton, Katherine Clegg Smith, Lainie Rutkow and Roni A. Neff

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Rethinking the Value of Work

John Ikerd

The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Future Food Systems

David V. Fazzino

Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Wanda Martin and Kathleen Perkin

Volume 6, issue 1, 2015

In This Issue: Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems

Duncan Hilchey

Alternative Dimensions: Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

Julia Russell Jozkow

Both Timeless and New: Behind the Scenes of Locally Grown Food

Angela Glore

Balancing Power Relations for Food Security

Molly D. Anderson

Assessing the Potential for Pocket Agriculture in Mountainous Regions: A Case Study in West Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada

Rachael Roussin, Julie E. Wilson, Gregory Utzig and Les M. Lavkulich

Perceptions of Local Hospitals and Food Producers on Opportunities for and Barriers to Implementing Farm-to-Hospital Programs

Allie Perline, Annie Heuscher, Annie Sondag and Blakely Brown

The Unattainable Trifecta of Urban Agriculture

Sarita Daftary-Steel, Hank Herrera and Christine M. Porter

Production and Consumption of Homegrown Produce and Fish by Noncommercial Aquaponics Gardeners

David C. Love, Laura Genello, Ximin Li, Richard E. Thompson and Jillian P. Fry

Maximize Impact, Minimize Resources: Locating Food Deserts and Increasing SNAP Spending on Fruits and Vegetables

Kelly Moore, Bruce Waite, David Dinkins, Marilyn E. Swisher, Alia Delong and Tracy Johns

Regulating Backyard Slaughter: Strategies and Gaps in Municipal Livestock Ordinances

Jennifer Blecha

Associations Between Farmers Market Managers' Motivations and Market-Level Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer (SNAP/EBT) Availability and Business Vitality

Rachel Ward, Deborah Slawson, Qiang Wu and Stephanie Jilcott Pitts

Bioplastics: Acceptable for the Packaging of Organic Food? A Policy Analysis

Ching-Hua Yeh, Friedrich-Karl Lücke and Johann Janssen

Agriculture of the Middle Participation in State Branding Campaigns: The Case of Kentucky

Alicia M. Hullinger and Keiko Tanaka

Rural School Food Service Director Perceptions on Voluntary School Meal Reforms

Natoshia Askelson, Disa Lubker Cornish and Elizabeth Golembiewski

Nonprofit-Driven Community Capacity-Building Efforts in Community Food Systems

Mahbubur R. Meenar

Farmers' Market or Farmers Market? Examining How Market Ownership Influences Conduct and Performance

Snehalatha Gantla and Larry Lev

Consumer Demand for Value-added Products of African Indigenous Vegetables in Coastal Kenya: The Case of Sun-dried and Frozen Cowpea Leaves

Julius J. Okello, Margaret J. Hutchinson, Mwang’ombe, Anges, Jane Ambuko, Florence Olubayo and Martin Mwakangalu

Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs

Allison Perrett and Charlie Jackson

The Framing and Celebration of the American Local Grain Movement

Matthew Mars

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Toward a Food Ethic

John Ikerd