From joenasr at sympatico.ca Sat Feb 11 18:25:56 2023 From: joenasr at sympatico.ca (Joe Nasr) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] new article in special issue on urban agriculture Message-ID: <2fa0e07a.ff6c.18643717cf7.Webtop.39@sympatico.ca> Greetings, My colleague Matt Potteiger and I are happy to inform you that we just published an article titled: "Space, systems and infrastructures: From founding visions to emerging approaches for the productive urban landscape". The article can be found at this link: land-2055820 in the journal Land . This is part of a special issue on Why Urban Agriculture Matters , which includes six articles so far. Regards, Joe -- Joe Nasr jnasr@torontomu.ca / joenasr@sympatico.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at lysoncenter.org Fri Feb 17 12:50:49 2023 From: info at lysoncenter.org (JAFSCD) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Article Heads-up: Immigrant farmers in U.S. suburbs; Food businesses during COVID; Ikerd column In-Reply-To: <0.0.87.9FB.1D9430F2894C38E.0@drone065.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.87.9FB.1D9430F2894C38E.0@drone065.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <05d701d94311$8811e740$9835b5c0$@lysoncenter.org> Read about the latest research published in JAFSCD! ? ? View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Article Heads-up ~ February 17, 2023 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, Library Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website Looking at Vermont?s local food businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic ?JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Claire Whitehouse, David Conner, Lisa Chase, and Travis Reynolds (all at the University of Vermont)l Full article Over the past 20 years, food systems research has embraced the term ?resilience? to describe a system?s ability to respond to major shocks. The capacities that enable resilience are built in times of stasis, but resilience itself can only be tested during a crisis. For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has created sequential shocks testing the resilience of food systems actors across all scales and all geographies. In the new JAFSCD article "The experience of Vermont local food businesses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic," University of Vermont researchers Claire Whitehouse ( corresponding author), Dr. David Conner, Dr. Lisa Chase, and Dr. Travis Reynolds turn the lens of COVID-19 resilience research to local food businesses in Vermont. Through surveys of food service operations that use local ingredients and farms that sell directly to consumers, they explore contributors and challenges to food business resilience during the first year of the pandemic. KEY FINDINGS * The only significant factor in business fiscal health one year into the pandemic was how the business was doing before the pandemic. * Just over one-third of farmers reported that their businesses were viable before COVID-19; most relied on built equity or off-farm income to keep their businesses going. * Foodservice businesses were doing significantly better than farms before the pandemic but lost their advantage once it hit. * Businesses that were doing well before the pandemic were more likely to go on to receive COVID-19 emergency funding, and all businesses that self-reported as ?thriving? before the pandemic were funded. * Whether a business received emergency funding had no relationship to its fiscal health one year into the pandemic. * 10% of respondents reported that their businesses were ?vulnerable? one year into the pandemic. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH * Policies to build resilient food businesses should focus on building viable food businesses during stasis. Businesses that paid all labor (including family labor), covered their costs, and generated a profit before March 2020 were more likely to be doing well in the winter and spring of 2021. * The relationship between business health and emergency funding merits further investigation. What did funders (federal, state, and private) consider in allocating emergency funds if businesses that were doing well pre-pandemic were more likely to be funded? Why was there no relationship between receiving funds and business health one year into the pandemic? * Further research is needed on the experience of foodservice businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially immigrant-owned restaurants. Photo above: Local food in Hardwick, Vermont; photo 2008 by Flickr user WBUR Boston, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. A call for inclusive agricultural services to embrace immigrant farmers in suburban U.S. JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Xie Lin (South China Agricultural University & the New Jersey Institute of Technology), Zeyuan Qiu, and Mei R. Fu (both at the New Jersey Institute of Technology) Full article While agriculture and agricultural services are shrinking, the numbers of nontraditional farms run by immigrant farmers are rising in U.S. suburban regions. However, farming as a farm owner rather than a farm laborer presents tremendous challenges to many new immigrant farmers. The nature of their farming practices can only exacerbate the challenges as they tend to run smaller operations that grow specialty products and use alternative farming techniques that are quite different from conventional industrial agriculture. In a new JAFSCD article, " Suburban agriculture, immigrant farmers, and access to agricultural services and resources ," authors Xie Lin, Zeyuan Qiu ( corresponding author), and Mei R Fu describe the shared experiences of accessing agricultural services and resources in four critical areas of farming operations: agricultural technology, financial service, farm labor, and farming machinery, by Chinese immigrant farmers in the New York metro region. They also explore the ways agricultural services need to be changed to meet these new demands. KEY FINDINGS * Chinese immigrant farmers are resilient; they develop diverse ways of accessing agricultural services and resources in the four critical areas of farming operations: agricultural technology, financial service, farm labor, and farming machinery. * Most Chinese immigrant farmers felt that they were isolated and had limited access to available services. * Language barriers, cultural differences, distrust, and isolation were the main obstacles to accessing adequate services and resources. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH As farms and farmers are becoming increasingly diverse in suburban regions in the U.S., the provision of agricultural services needs to adapt accordingly to meet the growing needs of diverse groups of farmers with varying farming experiences and demographic backgrounds. Photo above: Participant P6?s nursery and greenhouse with a variety of Oriental and native plants. Photo by Lin Xie. John Ikerd considers economies of scale and span in agricultural production Prof. John Ikerd begins a series of his "Economic Pamphleteer" columns related to important economic concepts with this: Why do industrial agricultural operations continue to displace smaller family farms in spite of their continued pollution of the natural environment and degradation of rural communi?ties? Large-scale, specialized agricultural operations, such as concentrated animal feeding operations (or CAFOs), persist because they have an economic advantage over smaller, diversified farming opera?tions. They have higher ecological and social costs but lower economic costs. This economic advan?tage is commonly referred to as economies of scale. . . . Read the entire column to learn more from this professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri, and look for his upcoming columns on related concepts! Now accepting applications: Master in Food Studies Program The Master in Food Studies Program of The American University of Rome is accepting applications for enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year. The Master is a 15-month cross-disciplinary program focused on the linkages between food production, consumption, and the environment. It benefits from AUR's proximity to Rome-based UN agencies and numerous alternative food networks. The program includes experiential learning at a small-scale farm in the peri-urban area of Rome. For more information, see the Master in Food Studies website or view a presentation on the program. Questions? Email gradschool@aur.edu or Program Director Dr. Maria Grazia Quieti. This email is sent to you as a notification of newly published content and other JAFSCD news. Were you forwarded this JAFSCD Article Heads-up and you'd like to join the mailing list? Sign up! JAFSCD is an open access, community-supported journal! Your library, program, or organization can become a shareholder to help make JAFSCD's content available to all, regardless of their resources. We welcome individual shareholders as well. JAFSCD is published by the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, a project of the Center for Transformative Action (an affiliate of Cornell University). CTA is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts donations on our behalf. We welcome donations , which are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. FOLLOW US / LIKE / RETWEET / SHARE Questions or comments? Contact us at info@LysonCenter.org Unsubscribe This message was sent from info@lysoncenter.org JAFSCD Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 295 Hook Place Ithaca, NY 14850 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at lysoncenter.org Thu Feb 23 13:36:50 2023 From: info at lysoncenter.org (JAFSCD) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Article Heads-up: Good food work; Civil society organizations; Conference on Novel Foods In-Reply-To: <0.0.67.8A9.1D947C55BF0C664.0@drone124.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.67.8A9.1D947C55BF0C664.0@drone124.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <03d101d947ce$f4f0b0f0$ded212d0$@lysoncenter.org> Read about the latest research published in JAFSCD! ? ? View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Article Heads-up ~ February 23, 2023 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, Library Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website What does "good food work" look like? Reflections from an international forum ?JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Susanna Klassen (U of British Columbia), Lydia Medland (U of Bristol), Poppy Nicol, and Hannah Pitt (both at Cardiff U) Full article Scholars and activists alike have exposed the conditions of food systems work to be objectively ?bad? and argued for and advanced improvements to working conditions. But what does good food work look like? Different food movements are working toward good food work in radically different ways. Building on the discussion of leading scholars who attended the international Good Work for Good Food Forum, the authors identify three archetypes for good food work futures. While alternative food and peasant movements propose alternative labor arrangements based on agroecology, labor lawyers and other advocates propose stronger regulation and formalization of workplaces. These three archetypes of agricultural labor futures (agroecological, formally regulated, and techno-centric) have the potential to leave food scholars and activists without a unified, coherent vision to advance. In a new JAFSCD article, ? Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum,? Susanna Klassen, Lydia Medland, Poppy Nicol, and Hannah Pitt ( corresponding author) address this gap, presenting a new vision developed by the international Good Work for Good Food Forum. The authors organized the forum with the aim of shaping consensus on positive visions for work in food systems. Over 40 scholar-activists across three continents discussed the current challenges facing food workers and crafted a collective vision for good food work. KEY FINDINGS This vision is documented in the form of nine principles. Good food work across all sectors and all scales should: 1. Be recognized as valuable and skilled; 2. Be fairly paid, often well-paid, and personally fulfilling; 3. Be available to everyone regardless of personal identity or immigration status; 4. Be safe and carried out in a healthy and supportive environment; 5. Use technology where it assists workers; 6. Include opportunities for skills development and career progression; 7. Provide workers with access to social security support; 8. Have conditions and terms determined together with workers; and 9. Enable workers? freedom of association and engagement in collective action. The authors conclude by emphasizing the need for a people-centered incorporation of technology and a re-evaluation of food workers? contributions to global food systems. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH The article offers the nine principles as a vision for good food work to provide a collective platform for action to advocate for and organize with workers in food systems. Based on this vision, as well as the barriers to achieving it identified by workshop participants, the authors indicate seven key pathways for achieving good food work: 1. Challenge structural forces, especially capitalism, and racism 2. Build alliances and solidarity 3. Elevate and empower food workers 4. Educate and galvanize the public around worker demands 5. Improve governance and policy for worker rights 6. Build supply chains that enable possibilities for good food work 7. Take a systems approach to address food systems challenges. Photo above: Horticultural workers in the UK; photo by Hannah Pitt. Civil society organizations actively engage in food systems governance in Canada JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Charles Z. Levkoe (Lakehead U), Peter Andr?e, (Carleton U), Patricia Ballamingie (Carleton U), Kirsti Tasala (Lakehead U), Amanda Wilson (Saint Paul U), and Monika Korzun (Dalhousie U) Full article Civil society organizations (CSOs) experience the broad range of policies that shape food systems governance as these policies are imposed by governments from the top down and as unduly influenced by a small group of private-sector actors. This significantly affects the activities and relationships that determine the nature and orientation of food systems. But many CSOs have tried to establish participatory governance structures that are more democratic, accessible, collaborative, and rooted in social and environmental justice. In a new JAFSCD article, ? Civil society engagement in food systems governance in Canada: Experiences, gaps, and possibilities,? authors Charles Z. Levkoe ( corresponding author), Peter Andr?e, Patricia Ballamingie, Kirsti Tasala, Amanda Wilson, and Monika Korzun present findings from interviews and a survey of CSOs in Canada to identify who is involved in this work, key policy priorities, and the opportunities and limitations they experienced. This research seeks to better understand the experiences of CSOs across the food systems governance landscape and analyze the successes, challenges, and opportunities for establishing collaborative governance processes. The findings provide an environmental scan that serves as a springboard for understanding who is involved in food systems governance in Canada, what areas they focus their energies on, and what scales they work at. Findings suggest that what food systems governance is, how it is experienced, and what more participatory structures might look like are part of an emergent and contested debate. The authors argue for increased scholarly attention to how proponents of place-based initiatives engage in participatory approaches to food systems governance, examining current and future possibilities. KEY FINDINGS Findings suggest that what food systems governance is, how it is experienced, and what more participatory structures might look like are part of an emergent and contested debate. This research also points to five key gaps in food systems governance that require additional focus and study: 1. Describing the many meanings of participatory food systems governance; 2. Learning from food movement histories; 3. Deepening meaningful Indigenous-settler relationships; 4. Addressing food system labor issues; and, 5. Considering participatory food systems governance in the context of COVID-19. The full article expands on these gaps. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH As a preliminary study, this research is important in understanding how CSOs engage in food systems governance across Canada. The research brings a diverse constituency of different kinds of organizations associated with food systems work, some that might ascribe to the food movement label and others that might not. It is important to explore the role of CSOs as vehicles for public participation in social movement groups with less formalized structures and access to resources. Photo above: Community event in Toronto, Canada; photo 2016 by Flickr user Wander Thirsty. Conference registration closes on February 28 Novel Foods and Novel Food Production: A Solution to Food Systems Sustainability? March 10, 2023 | Rome & virtual See the program, abstracts, and registration at https://aur.edu/novelfoods2023 This email is sent to you as a notification of newly published content and other JAFSCD news. 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