Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development  

Duncan Hilchey

First paragraphs:On behalf of the JAFSCD staff and community, I would like to extend condolences to anyone in the JAFSCD community—our shareholders—who have lost family members or colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are with you. We also wish anyo... see more

Jane Kolodinsky, Marilyn Sitaker, Lisa Chase, Diane Smith, Weiwei Wang

First paragraph:Our food system has been disrupted. Shopping at a grocery store during the COVID-19 pan­demic is not a pleasant experience, and, for some of the most vulnerable, it can be outright dangerous. It may become worse. How long will supply chain... see more

Claudia Schmidt, Stephan J. Goetz, Sarah J. Rocker, Zheng Tian

First paragraph:Consumers are dramatically changing their food purchasing habits in response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic (Kolodinsky, Sitaker, Chase, Smith, & Wang, 2020; Schmidt et al., 2020; Worstell, 2020). In part this is due to growing public a... see more

Rami Zurayk

First paragraphs:“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”—Antonio GramsciLike many modern day viral epidemics (e.g., MERS, SARS), SARS-CoV-2 emerged from the folds of the food system. The dominant narr... see more

Jim Worstell

Resilience of food systems is being tested by the COVID-19 disruption. As with any severe disruption, collapse of some systems, innovation in others, and total reorganization of some will occur. Direct delivery of food, online farmers markets, community s... see more

Stephan J. Goetz, Claudia Schmidt, Lisa Chase, Jane Kolodinsky

Ella Haley, Susana Caxaj, Glynis George, Jenna L. Hennebry, Eliseo Martell, MD, Janet McLaughlin

First paragraph:The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reshaped Canadian society in just a few short weeks. At the same time, its varied impacts shine a light on pre-existing social inequities. Certain populations, including low wage workers, racial minor... see more

Amy Halloran

First paragraph:In the surreality of March 2020, as states closed the doors on business, my colleague Alyssa Hartman had a great idea. Watching businesses struggle, she wondered what she could do as a non-essential worker to help farmers and bakers. We se... see more

Salina Brown, Kathleen Liang

First paragraphs:COVID-19 has introduced new ways of com­plet­ing jobs virtually. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 22 million Americans filed for unemployment through mid- April 2020 (Long, 2020). Approximately 747,000 citizens in North C... see more

John Ikerd

Charlotte E. Blattner

Just Transition has become an established discursive and conceptual framework to transition economic industries toward a low-carbon and climate-resilient future. In the coal and mining industry in particular, it has gained a foothold and transformed polit... see more

Jennifer Lynn Wilkins

Nutrition education has traditionally focused primarily on food and nutrition knowledge, motivations, and skills that facilitate behavior change. This essay argues that while this content remains an essential foundation for nutrition education, is it no l... see more

Julia C. D. Valliant, Julia Freedgood

Jeff Schahczenski, Celia Schahczenski

First paragraphs:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all pro­duction; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for pro­moting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it ... see more

Kristin A. Drexler

The sustainability of milpa agriculture, a traditional Mayan farming system in southern Belize, is uncertain. For centuries, the milpa has been a sustainable agriculture system. The slash-and-burn aspect of milpa farming, however, has become less reliable... see more

David S. Conner

This paper is an exploratory comparative case study of three Vermont food businesses. It examines the use of transaction cost and knowledge management theories to understand how food businesses with sustainability missions make key management decisions ab... see more

Manar A. Alattar, James DeLaney, Jennifer L. Morse, Max Nielsen-Pincus

After policy change, educational programming has been cited as one of the most powerful tools for improving food systems and decreasing food waste. University students represent a population in which emerging habits, skills, and identity may be targeted e... see more

Sarah Lott, Emily Irwin, Sarah Heiss

Food loss and waste is a significant issue in the global food system. The agricultural practice of gleaning—recovery and distribution of unharvested produce directly from farms or the recovery of unsold produce from farmers markets—is seen as a multifunct... see more

Kristen C. Giombi, Anupama Joshi, Caroline Rains, Jean Wiecha

We undertook this study to measure the reach of Oregon’s legislated farm-to-school grant program among school districts and children, particularly low income, and examine changes in local purchasing, particularly fruit and vegetables, and the use of produ... see more

Aditya R. Khanal, Fisseha Tegegne, Stephan J. Goetz, Lan Li, Yicheol Han, Stephan Tubene, Andy Wetherill

A network analysis can quantify the depth and breadth of a farmer’s relationships with other local farmers, buyers and sellers, or other groups and organizations. Such an analysis can potentially also reveal farmers’ incentives, situations, and behaviors,... see more

Sarah E. Cramer

Formerly “invisible,” lesbian farmers have received increased attention recently, within both sociological scholarship and the popular media. Despite this attention, preconceptions about their lives persist. Assumptions of gay culture existing exclusively... see more

Michelle L. Kaiser, Kelsey Ryan-Simkins, Julia Dionne, Erica K. Pence

Sustainable agriculture and community food security (CFS) are frameworks commonly used, but often separately, within the broader alternative food movement. Sustainable agriculture is production-centered, with a focus on environmental degradation and famil... see more

Christine M. Porter, Lacey Gaechter, Shikha Upadhyaya

Until the advent and spread of supermarkets, the markets that we now call farmers, public, open-air, or traditional markets needed no adjectives. They were simply markets. Currently, the bodies of research about traditional markets common in the Global So... see more

Mesfin Bezuneh, Zelealem Yiheyis

Food insecurity continues to affect a significant number of U.S. households, even during periods of economic growth and prosperity. Household food insecurity in the U.S. is measured with the Food Security Core Survey Module, which reflects the importance ... see more

Patricia Ballamingie, Alison D. Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, André E. B. Lacerda, Evelyn R. Nimmo, Lori Stahlbrand, Rotem Ayalon

Cody Gusto, John M. Diaz, Laura A. Warner, Paul Monaghan

Florida’s Fresh Access Bucks program provides incentives to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries to redeem fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables at select farmers markets. Policy-makers and practitioners designed the program to imp... see more

Patrick Mundler, Daniel-Mercier Gouin, Sophie Laughrea, Simone Ubertino

In recent years, Canada has witnessed a rapid growth in short food supply chains. As in other countries, such marketing channels have emerged in Canada in response to a growing demand among consumers for fresh, local products. However, a unique feature of... see more

Chris Maughan, Colin R. Anderson, Moya Kneafsey

Food justice represents an evolving framework that puts social justice at the center of debates on how to achieve sustainable food systems. Food justice has largely been examined in community-level projects and activism outside the UK. This paper uses foo... see more

Sarah N. Heiss, Andrea Suozzo

Consumption of raw milk has long been a hotly debated topic: government entities, medical pro­fessionals, and advocacy groups often present dif­ferent reasons in support of or opposition to raw milk, creating a particularly difficult environment for consu... see more

Malory Foster

First paragraph:What once may have been an underground movement to save organic materials from the waste stream, community composting is now celebrated and further empowered by James McSweeney’s technical guide Community-Scale Composting Systems: A Compre... see more

Anthony M. Fuller

First paragraph:This book is an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of rural China in a time of economic slowdowns, continued urbanization, and growing political unease in China. In this light, a focus on food and farming, particular... see more

Brian Raison

First paragraphs:“It’s not about the vegetables. It’s about community.”Are you looking for some inspiration for a local food group, garden club, or association meeting? Would you like to set the stage of an event—perhaps a food summit or a gardening or ag... see more

Renee Brooks Catacalos

First paragraph:In Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ashanté Reese guides us through the interconnected issues that affect the food landscape in many low-income Black communities, through the words and e... see more

Emily Reno

First paragraph:Based on six years of community-based ethno­graphic research, Teresa M. Mares’ Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont takes readers on a journey of understanding the facets of food security, from its theoretical ... see more

Stacey F. Stearns

First paragraph:Agriculture is currently in an unsustainable cycle created by the industrial food system. Breaking that cycle and creating a sustainable agriculture system will not be easy and requires dramatically altering the food system framework. In D... see more