Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development  

Christine M. Porter, Gayle M. Woodsum, Monica Hargraves

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Christine M. Porter, Gayle M. Woodsum, Monica Hargraves

First paragraphs:Over the course of five funded years and with five million dollars, three dozen community food justice leaders and academics across three U.S. states and nine organizations collaborated on action and research about community food justice,... see more

Sarita Daftary-Steel

First paragraphs:I worked as the director of the East New York Farms! (ENYF) Project for seven years, from 2006 to 2013. As media interest and general excite­ment about sustainable food grew during that time, assessing potential opportunities for “partner... see more

Sarita Daftary-Steel

First paragraphs:I worked as the director of the East New York Farms! (ENYF) Project for seven years, from 2006 to 2013. As media interest and general excite­ment about sustainable food grew during that time, assessing potential opportunities for “partner... see more

E. Jemila Sequeira

First paragraph:When asked to tell the story of how and why I was invited and decided to join the Food Dignity research project, I found myself traveling back over a long road full of unexpected turns, bumps, discoveries, and delights. And as I began to r... see more

E. Jemila Sequeira

First paragraph:When asked to tell the story of how and why I was invited and decided to join the Food Dignity research project, I found myself traveling back over a long road full of unexpected turns, bumps, discoveries, and delights. And as I began... see more

Virginia J. Sutter

First paragraphs:If I can do something to help my people, and to help other people understand Indian people better and to appreciate our culture, then I have done what my father asked me to do in 1969 when he asked me to come home to the reservation and h... see more

Virginia J. Sutter

First paragraphs:If I can do something to help my people, and to help other people understand Indian people better and to appreciate our culture, then I have done what my father asked me to do in 1969 when he asked me to come home to the reservation and h... see more

Gayle M. Woodsum

First paragraphs:Having Feeding Laramie Valley become part of the Food Dignity research project was a unique oppor­tunity to contribute to a new body of knowledge associated with food systems work—to have the voices of the people of our community and our ... see more

Gayle M. Woodsum

First paragraphs:Having Feeding Laramie Valley become part of the Food Dignity research project was a unique oppor­tunity to contribute to a new body of knowledge associated with food systems work—to have the voices of the people of our community and our ... see more

Marty Neideffer

First paragraphs:We found a way to grow carrots, to look people straight in the eye and say, “That’s good community policing.”It was an unusual process that ultimately led the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in San Lean­dro, California to become one of th... see more

Marty Neideffer

First paragraphs:We found a way to grow carrots, to look people straight in the eye and say, “That’s good community policing.”It was an unusual process that ultimately led the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in San Lean­dro, California to become one of th... see more

Monica Hargraves, Christine M. Porter, Gayle M. Woodsum

First paragraph:Together, Christine Porter, Gayle Woodsum, and Monica Hargraves led the action and research project called Food Dignity to its close, seven years after it began in 2011. Though playing this role could not be a surprise for Christine, who w... see more

Monica Hargraves, Christine M. Porter, Gayle M. Woodsum

First paragraph:Together, Christine Porter, Gayle Woodsum, and Monica Hargraves led the action and research project called Food Dignity to its close, seven years after it began in 2011. Though playing this role could not be a surprise for Christine, who w... see more

Monica Hargraves

First paragraph:The Food Dignity Values Statement was drafted at a national project meeting in May 2014, three years into the community-university collaboration that was the Food Dignity action research project. The project brought together academics from... see more

Monica Hargraves

First paragraph:The Food Dignity Values Statement was drafted at a national project meeting in May 2014, three years into the community-university collaboration that was the Food Dignity action research project. The project brought together academics from... see more

Christine M. Porter

Case study research provides scholarly paths for storytelling, with systematic methodological guides for achieving epistemological rigor in telling true stories and deriving lessons from them. For docu­menting and better understanding work as complex as c... see more

Christine M. Porter

Case study research provides scholarly paths for storytelling, with systematic methodological guides for achieving epistemological rigor in telling true stories and deriving lessons from them. For docu­menting and better understanding work as complex as c... see more

Christine M. Porter, Alyssa Wechsler

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Christine M. Porter, Alyssa Wechsler

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Gayle M. Woodsum

IntroductionThere’s a world of difference between research funding awarded to institutions of higher learning and what goes for standard program support funding available to the average nonprofit community-based organization (CBO)—in particular, grassroot... see more

Gayle M. Woodsum

IntroductionThere’s a world of difference between research funding awarded to institutions of higher learning and what goes for standard program support funding available to the average nonprofit community-based organization (CBO)—in particular, grassroot... see more

Monica Hargraves, Cecilia Denning

The Food Dignity project brought teams from five community-led organizations working on local food systems together with researchers from four academic institutions, to learn from community strategies for building sustainable local food systems and improv... see more

Monica Hargraves, Cecilia Denning

The Food Dignity project brought teams from five community-led organizations working on local food systems together with researchers from four academic institutions, to learn from community strategies for building sustainable local food systems and improv... see more

Monica Hargraves

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Monica Hargraves

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Lacey Gaechter, Christine M. Porter

Social movement theory suggests that effectively framing the cause of a problem (diagnostic fram­ing), its solutions (prognostic framing), and reasons to support its solutions (motivational framing) is likely to be essential for reaching movement goals. I... see more

Lacey Gaechter, Christine M. Porter

Social movement theory suggests that effectively framing the cause of a problem (diagnostic fram­ing), its solutions (prognostic framing), and reasons to support its solutions (motivational framing) is likely to be essential for reaching movement goals. I... see more

Christine M. Porter

Community-based organizations (CBOs) leading the U.S. food justice movement have helped expand community food production. Understand­ing the nature of this work is one key to being able to more effectively support and expand it. The literature, however, c... see more

Christine M. Porter

Community-based organizations (CBOs) leading the U.S. food justice movement have helped expand community food production. Understand­ing the nature of this work is one key to being able to more effectively support and expand it. The literature, however, c... see more

Christine M. Porter

Supporting home and community gardening is a core activity of many community-based organiza­tions (CBOs) that are leading the food justice movement in the U.S. Using mixed methods across multiple action-research studies with five food justice CBOs, this p... see more

Christine M. Porter

Supporting home and community gardening is a core activity of many community-based organiza­tions (CBOs) that are leading the food justice movement in the U.S. Using mixed methods across multiple action-research studies with five food justice CBOs, this p... see more

Philip McMichael, Christine M. Porter

Introduction:In fall 2009, I taught a graduate course at Cornell University in the sociology of food and ecology. My students and I were fortunate to have food systems sociologist Harriet Friedmann participating in our seminar meetings while she was on sa... see more

Philip McMichael, Christine M. Porter

Introduction:In fall 2009, I taught a graduate course at Cornell University in the sociology of food and ecology. My students and I were fortunate to have food systems sociologist Harriet Friedmann participating in our seminar meetings while she was on sa... see more

Christine M. Porter

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Christine M. Porter

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Katharine Bradley, Megan M. Gregory, John Armstrong, Melvin L. Arthur, Christine M. Porter

Food Dignity is an inter- and postdisciplinary action research project designed to support five communities’ efforts to build sustainable food systems, tell their stories, and create common ground between the collaborating campuses and communities. Food D... see more

Katharine Bradley, Megan M. Gregory, John Armstrong, Melvin L. Arthur, Christine M. Porter

Food Dignity is an inter- and postdisciplinary action research project designed to support five communities’ efforts to build sustainable food systems, tell their stories, and create common ground between the collaborating campuses and communities. Food D... see more

Megan M. Gregory, Scott J. Peters

Supporting community food production is a key strategy for all the community-based partners in Food Dignity, a community-university research partnership dedicated to supporting and learning from food justice organizations. Participatory action research (P... see more

Megan M. Gregory, Scott J. Peters

Supporting community food production is a key strategy for all the community-based partners in Food Dignity, a community-university research partnership dedicated to supporting and learning from food justice organizations. Participatory action research (P... see more

Alicia Swords, Amy Frith, Julia Lapp

Community-campus engagement in higher edu­cation provides educational experiences for students to grapple with complex, real-world problems, including the lack of equitable access to healthy food for all. In this reflective essay, three faculty members of... see more

Alicia Swords, Amy Frith, Julia Lapp

Community-campus engagement in higher edu­cation provides educational experiences for students to grapple with complex, real-world problems, including the lack of equitable access to healthy food for all. In this reflective essay, three faculty members of... see more