Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2010 - 2025

From Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
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Volume 5, issue 4, 2015

In This Issue: Race and Ethnicity in Food Systems Work

Duncan Hilchey

Harnessing the Power of Imagination

Elizabeth Morgan

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Allowing Ethnic Heritage To Emerge in Farm and Food Policy

Ken Meter

Concerning the Unbearable Whiteness of Urban Farming

Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Three Strategies To Foster Diversity in the Food Movement

Hilary King

Privilege and Allyship in Nonprofit Food Justice Organizations

Danny W. Tarng

Engaged Advocacy and Learning To Represent the Self: Positioning People of Color in Our Contemporary Food Movement

Regina A. Bernard-Carreño

Food Solutions New England: Racial Equity, Food Justice, and Food System Transformation

Joanne D. Burke and Karen A. Spiller

Identity and Group Dynamics in Urban Food Systems

Neetu Choudhary

Decolonizing a Food System: Freedom Farmers' Market as a Place for Resistance and Analysis

Gail P. Meyers

A Native Perspective: Food Is More Than Consumption

Rachel V. Vernon

The Rohingyas of Myanmar and the Biopolitics of Hunger

Tamara Nair

Using the Interconnections and Complexities of Food Systems to Teach About Human Diversity and White Privilege

Jason S. Parker

Critical Food Systems Education and the Question of Race

David Meek and Rebecca Tarlau

Diversity Education at Land-Grant Universities from the Perspective of a Female Student of Color

Olivia A. Peña

The Food System Should Unite Us, Not Divide Us

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow and Ricardo Salvador

Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Kareem M. Usher

To the American Food Justice Movements: A Critique That Is Also an Offering

Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo

Reviving Farming Interest in the Philippines Through Agricultural Entrepreneurship Education

Andrea Santiago and Fernando Roxas

A Community Engagement Case Study of the Somerville Mobile Farmers' Market

Erica Satin-Hernandez and Lisa Robinson

Beyond Inclusion: Toward an Anti-colonial Food Justice Praxis

Lauren Kepkiewicz, Michael Chrobok, Madeline Whetung, Madelaine Cahuas, Jina Gill, Sam Walker and Sarah Wakefield

The Food Movement: Growing White Privilege, Diversity, or Empowerment?

Kelly Moore and Marilyn E. Swisher

Organizing the New Food Labor Movement: From Neoliberal Alternatives to Worker-based Justice

Billy Hall

Race, Ethnicity, and the Promise of "Good Food" for Michigan: A Three-voice Commentary

Rich Pirog, Kaitlin Koch and Anel Guel

Lost in Translation: Delivering Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Interventions to Hispanic Populations

Ivette Valenzuela

Notes from an Intentional Farm Community

Gregory Zimmerman

Guest Editorial: Working with Indigenous Peoples to Foster Sustainable Food Systems

Kent Mullinix

Race, Food, and Borders: Situating Migrant Struggle in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Elise Hjalmarson, Robyn Bunn, Amy Cohen, Edna Terbasket and Levi Gahman

Potential National Economic Benefits of the Food Insecurity and Nutrition Incentives Program of the U.S. Agricultural Act of 2014

Carolyn Dimitri and Lydia Oberholtzer

Alternative Agrifood Projects in Communities of Color: A Civic Engagement Perspective

Glennon Sweeney, Christy Rogers, Casey Hoy, Jill K. Clark, Kareem Usher, Kip Holley and Colleen Spees

Solidarity and Sweat Equity: For Reciprocal Food Justice Research

Joshua Sbicca

A Portrait of American Farmers

Kathlee Freeman

Unraveling the Differences Between Organic and Non-Organic Thai Rice Farmers' Environmental views and Perceptions of Well-being

Alexander Harrow Kaufman

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Ethnicity and the War on Big Food

John Ikerd

Volume 5, issue 3, 2015

In This Issue: Advancing the Right to Food

Duncan Hilchey

Using Social Networking Analysis to Measure Changes in Regional Food Systems Collaboration: A Methodological Framework

Libby O. Christensen and Rita O'Sullivan

Barriers and Facilitators to Local Food Market Development: A Contingency Perspective

Sherrie K. Godette, Kathi Beratan and Branda Nowell

Potential of Local Food Use in the Ohio Health Care Industry: An Exploratory Study

Brian Raison and Scott D. Scheer

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Two New Tools for Measuring Economic Impacts

Ken Meter

Defining the "C" in Community Supported Agriculture

Jennifer M. Haney, Michael D. Ferguson, Elyzabeth W. Engle, Kathleen Wood, Kyle Olcott, A. E. Luloff and James C. Finley

The Branding of Community Supported Agriculture: Collective Myths and Opportunities

Ted White

A Worldwide Tour of (Almost) Permaculture

Angela Gordon Glore

Building the Capacity for Community Food Work: The Geographic Distribution of USDA Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program Grantees

Keiko Tanaka, Erica Indiano, Graham Soley and Patrick H. Mooney

From Bread We Build Community: Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Co-creation of Local Food Businesses and Systems

Matthew Mars

Helping or Hurting the Harvest?

Rachel K. Pilloff

Visions of a Truly Nourishing Dinner

Matt Hess

Local Food Innovation in a World of Wicked Problems: The Pitfalls and the Potential

Danielle Lake, Lisa Sisson and Lara Jaskiewicz

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Can Small Farms Be Sustained Economically?

John Ikerd

Volume 5, issue 2, 2015

Increasing Local Procurement in Farm to School Programs: An Exploratory Investigation

Erin Roche, David Conner and Jane Kolodinsky

In This Issue: Local Responses to Global Problems

Duncan Hilchey

Guest Editorial: The UVM Food Systems Summit Makes More Room at the Table

Jane Kolodinsky

Saving Seeds: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Native American Seed-Savers, and Problems of Property

Sheryl D. Breen

High Tunnels for Local Food Systems: Subsidies, Equity, and Profitability

Nathaniel Foust-Meyer and Megan E. O'Rourke

Racism and Capitalism: Dual Challenges for the Food Movement

Eric Holt-Giménez

A Global Perspective on Food Systems

Rosamond L. Naylor

Choice, Responsibility, and Health: What Role for the Food Movement?

Nicholas Freudenberg

"La misma realidad de cada lugar es diferente" ("The same reality of each place is different"): A Case Study of an Organic Farmers Market in Lima, Peru

Kevin Cody

Rewriting the Call to Charity: From Food Shelf Volunteer to Food Justice Advocate

Beth A. Dixon

The Relationship Between Different Approaches to Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Choice of Methods: A Critical Review

Monica Korzun

The Future of Preserved Farmland: Ownership Succession in Three Mid-Atlantic States

Brian J. Schilling, J. Dixon Esseks, Joshua Duke, Paul D. Gottlieb and Lori Lynch

DIGGING DEEPER: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems: Another Argument for Adaptability

Kate Clancy

Creating Space: Sack Gardening as a Livelihood Strategy in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Courtney M. Gallaher, Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins, Mary Njenga and Nancy K. Karanja

Products from Urban Collective Gardens: Food for Thought or for Consumption? Insights from Paris and Montreal

Jeanne Pourais, Eric Duchemin and Christine Aubry

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Food Sovereignty: New Mandate for Food and Farm Policy

John Ikerd

Making Do or Moving Forward: An Assessment of Our Global Food System [review of Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law]

Linda M. Young

Dissolved: Lessons Learned from the Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council

Amy K. Coplen and Monica Cuneo

Exploring the Politics of Possibility [review of Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice and Politics]

Rachael Kennedy

Volume 5, issue 1, 2014

In This Issue: A Challenging New Profession: Food Systems Development Practice

Duncan Hilchey

THE ECONOMIC PAMPHLETEER: Multifunctionality: A New Future for Family Farms

John Ikerd

Illinois Farmers Markets Using EBT: Impacts on SNAP Redemption and Market Sales

Afroza Hasin, Sylvia Smith and Pat Stieren

Conceptualizing Community Buy-in and Its Application to Urban Farming

Melissa N. Poulsen, Marie L. Spiker and Peter J. Winch

Gardeners, Locavores, Hipsters, and Residents: An Alternative Local Food Market's Potential for "Community" Building

Yuki Kato

Bridging the Gap Between Farmers and Food Service Directors: The Social Challenges in Farm to School Purchasing

Brandi Janssen

More Than One Meaning of “Chain” in Food Chains, a Documentary Film

Jane Kolodinsky

Mapping the Cost of a Balanced Diet, as a Function of Travel Time and Food Price

Nathan Hilbert, Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Jason Reece, Christy Rogers, Wendy Ake and Casey Hoy

Building Blocks for Sustainable Food Systems

Molly D. Anderson

Examining Farmers Markets' Usage of Social Media: An Investigation of a Farmers Market Facebook Page

Yue Cui

Guest Editorial: Evaluation and the Local Foods Data Void

Corry Bregendahl and Craig Chase

A Framework for Site Assessment Guides for Urban Impacted Soils: A Vancouver Case Study

Melissa Iverson, Maja Krzic and Arthur Bomke

Looking at Sierra Leone’s Ebola Epidemic Through an Agrarian Lens

Rami Zurayk

Increasing Prosperity for Small Farms Through Sustainable Livestock Production, Processing, and Marketing

Darin A. Saul, Soren M. Newman, Tracie Lee, Steven Peterson, Stephen Devadoss, Dev S. Shrestha and Nick Sanyal

The Farm Fresh Healthcare Project: Analysis of a Hybrid Values-based Supply Chain

Kendra Klein and Ariane Michas

Native to Place: Grass, Soil, Hope by Courtney White [review of Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country, by Courtney White]

Philip A. Loring

Exurban Farmers' Perceptions of Land Use Policy Effectiveness: Implications for the Next Generation of Policy Development

Jill K. Clark, Shoshanah M. Inwood and Douglas Jackson-Smith