Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development  

Duncan Hilchey

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John Ikerd

Note: This column is a follow-up to my previous Economic Pamphleteer column, “How Do We Ensure Good Food for All?,” which appeared in the summer 2016 issue.How do we provide good food for all 323 million Americans? I began my previous column with this que... see more

Kate Clancy

First paragraph:In the last chapter of her classic book, Thinking in Systems (2008), Donella Meadows laid out more than a dozen lessons and concepts that summa­rized what she had learned from her immersion in the systems world. In this column I want to fo... see more

Mateja Savoie-Roskos, Heidi LeBlanc, Casey Coombs, Lea Palmer, Melanie Jewkes, Teresa Hunsaker

Many farmers markets are now accepting federal nutrition assistance benefits through programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), allowing program participants to use their benefits for purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetab... see more

Diana Cuy Castellanos, Josh Keller, Emma Majchrzak

Food insecurity and poor dietary consumption continues to impact low-income populations in the U.S. However, communities are developing ways to address it at the local level. Community Food Security Initiatives (CFSI) focus on increasing a sustainable, he... see more

Christine Slade, Claudia Baldwin, Trevor Budge

Food security is a daily problem for vulnerable groups of urban citizens in developed countries, who face physical and mental stress and poor health outcomes from limited food choices. They are often unable to change their circumstances through the margin... see more

Daryl Nelligan, Nairne Cameron, Brandon Lee Mackinnon, Carter Vance

Local food research has been generally focused on strengthening the alternative food system by scaling up local agriculture, rather than advancing strategies to bridge gaps between local farmers and conventional food retail businesses. Competitive advanta... see more

David Burley, Emily Coker, Bonnie May, Timothy McCarty, Erica Dickerson, Benny Milligan, Danaty Moses, Sole Sanchez, Rick Hortman

In the fall of 2011, a graduate seminar in applied environmental sociology at a southern university in the U.S. took on a project to help an undergraduate student environmental organization obtain local and sustainably produced food for the university caf... see more

Catherine Sands, Carol Stewart, Sarah Bankert, Alexandra Hillman, Laura Fries

Across the country, local and regional food policy councils are collaborating to make healthy, afford­able food more available to everyone. What ingre­dients are needed for a true collaboration that changes social and racial equity dynamics? How can these... see more

Kameshwari Pothukuchi

The paper reports and reflects on an action research project to increase availability and sales of fresh produce in 26 neighborhood corner stores in Detroit, Michigan. Through analysis of neighbor­hood, store-related, and supply-chain character­istics, I ... see more

Matthew M. Mars

First paragraph:In the book Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier, Michael Ableman tells the story of how an urban farm has transformed vacant lots in the Low Tracks neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, into sites where f... see more

Robert Perry

First paragraphs:No matter the subject, Barry Estabrook is a writer whose experiences in the world of food and agriculture are wide and deep. Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat is no excep­tion. The title gives his approach away: this is ... see more

Elizabeth Morgan

In the food studies field, it is uncommon to encounter a local food/alternative food movement practitioner who is also an academic. Alan R. Hunt is one of these rare birds. He runs a consultancy business, Local Food Strategies, working from his parents’ f... see more

Kathleen P. Hunt

First paragraph:The six contributed chapters in Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: An Inclusive Framework bring public policy, political economy, and gender equity together to create an inclusive framework for food system reform. Uni... see more

Wende Marshall

First paragraphs:The early 20th-century Italian social theorist and revolutionary, Antonio Gramsci, argued that in struggling for socialism, the working class pursued two strategies. The crucial, decisive clash, the frontal attack between workers and the ... see more