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Valuing farmers in transitions to more sustainable food systems: A systematic literature review of local food producers’ experiences and contributions in short food supply chains
Industrial food systems are being increasingly challenged by alternative food movements globally that advocate for better environmental, social,...
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Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel
Understanding the meaning of land–water entanglement is increasingly important today, in an age of climate change and desertification. Despite the...
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Exploring mental systems within regenerative agriculture: systems thinking and rotational grazing adoption among Canadian livestock producers
Regenerative agriculture is an approach that places soil conservation at the center of its practices. As part of this approach, regenerative...
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Saving, sharing and sha** landrace seeds in commons: unravelling seed commoning norms for furthering agrobiodiversity
One of the major challenges facing agricultural and food systems today is the loss of agrobiodiversity. Considering the current impasse of preventing...
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How agricultural producers use local knowledge, climate information, and on-farm “experiments” to address drought risk
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of drought in many parts of the world, including Montana. In the face of worsening...
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Children needs and childcare: an illustration of how underappreciated social and economic needs shape the farm enterprise
Despite 40-year-old evidence of childcare challenges limiting women’s participation in agriculture in the United States, it was not until a major...
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Marginality in the berry fields: hierarchical ordering of food and agrarian systems in Norway
Although being essential to sustaining food production, migrant workers continuously find themselves at the bottom of the social and power hierarchy...
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Peer review trends in six fisheries science journals
BackgroundAs the production of scientific manuscripts and journal options both increase, the peer review process remains at the center of quality...
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The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti
Urban food sovereignty is a growing field of research and a site of struggle for food justice advocates, but it has gained less attention in...
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Assessing the impacts of EU agricultural policies on the sustainability of the livestock sector: a review of the recent literature
How do agricultural policies in the EU need to change to increase the sustainability of livestock production, and what measures could encourage...
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“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt
Agricultural diversification in the Midwestern Corn Belt has the potential to improve socioeconomic and environmental outcomes by buffering farmers...
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The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes
Collective trauma refers to psychological effects that are experienced by a group of people in response to shared traumatic conditions. Farmers...
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Between “better than” and “as good as”: mobilizing social representations of alternative proteins to transform meat and dairy consumption practices
This article is concerned with the dynamic of social change in the domain of food consumption and seeks to understand the role played by social...
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The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis
The rise of multi-stakeholder institutions (MIs) involving the ultra-processed food (UPF) industry has raised concerns among food and public health...
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Revealing agricultural land ownership concentration with cadastral and company network data
In many high-income countries, agricultural land is highly concentrated in a few hands, but detailed knowledge of ownership structures is limited. We...
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“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza
Poultry production makes a substantial contribution to global food security, providing energy, protein, and essential micro-nutrients to humans....
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Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station
Transhumance is a form of extensive livestock production that involves seasonal movements among ecological zones or landscape types. Rangeland-based...
