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LGBTQ+ food insufficiency in New England
As a group, LGBTQ+ people experience food insecurity at a disproportionately high rate, yet food security scholars and practitioners are only...
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The intersection of food justice and religious values in secular spaces: insights from a nonprofit urban farm in Columbus, Ohio
Critical food scholars have argued that activists’ political ideologies and environmental values are important influences on their food justice...
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Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa
The majority of food in the US is distributed through global/national supply chains that exclude locally-produced goods. This situation offers...
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Food justice in Vermont’s environmentally vulnerable communities
In this study, we examine cases of food insecurity and food justice issues in Vermont’s environmentally vulnerable communities. Using a structured...
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Food justice: turning private choices into public issues
This paper uses distinctions between differing senses of “private,” “public” and “political” in the United States to argue for the value of framing...
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Assembling agroecological socio-natures: a political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina
Rosario, Argentina, a city of more than one million people strategically located on the Paraná River in the heart of a fertile agricultural region,...
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Ethical Perspectives on Food Morality: Challenges, Dilemmas and Constructs
This study examines the concept of food morality and explores its implications for today's world. The analysis carried out allowed us to develop a...
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Neoliberal peri-urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales
Rural Australia has been experiencing dramatic agricultural restructuring. A major contributor to this in some areas is peri-urban and rural...
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Lifestyle or profit? The complex decision-making criteria for local food entrepreneurs
The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic examination of local food entrepreneurs (LFE) across the local food system (LFS) of a specific...
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Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods
In order to foster a transition of the food system toward more sustainable outcomes, scholars have increasingly pointed at the need for organizing...
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Calculating the Impacts of Food Gentrification in Portland, Oregon
While there is much research about the extreme gentrification currently occurring in most major cities around the United States, the economic impacts...
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“How do we measure justice?”: missions and metrics in urban agriculture
This paper offers a critical analysis of program evaluation in contemporary urban agriculture. Drawing on data from an exploratory study designed at...
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Right to Food and Geoengineering
Climate change poses grave risks to food security, and mitigation and adaptation actions have so far been insufficient to lessen the risk of...
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Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies
Scholarly debate over the transformative potential of neoliberal, market-based, food movement strategies historically contrasts those who value their...
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Sustainability assessment of short food supply chains (SFSC): develo** and testing a rapid assessment tool in one African and three European city regions
Recent literature demonstrates the contribution of short food supply chains (SFSC) to regional economies and sustainable food systems, and...
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Farmer satisfaction and short food supply chains
In response to a commentary on our research article (Azima and Mundler in Agric Hum Values 39:791–807, 2022), we address the argument that increased...
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Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events
Food pantries play a growing role in supporting households facing or at risk of food insecurity in the United States. They also support emergency...
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Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems
Advocates for structural change in the food system see opportunity in alternative food systems (AFS) to bolster sustainability and equity. Indeed,...
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Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)
Dominant agri-food systems are increasingly seen as unsustainable in terms of environmental degradation, mass production or high food waste. In an...
