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Modeling community garden participation: how locations and frames shape participant demographics
Ample research documents the health benefits of community gardens, but our understanding of the factors sha** gardener participation is limited....
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Politically Branding India’s “First Fully Organic State”: Re-Signification of Traditional Practices and Markets in Organic Agriculture
In 2016, summarily outlawing all chemical inputs, the Indian state of Sikkim transitioned to completely organic agriculture. Despite “organic...
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Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens
Over the past several decades, urban community gardens have arisen in diverse and economically compromised neighborhoods across the U.S. as part of...
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Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) seeks to address injustices in the food system by supporting small-scale farmers applying agroecological...
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Organic Communities, Atomistic Societies, and Loneliness
The chapter endorses Ferdinand Tönnies’ sociological dichotomy between two forms of human association in his definitions of Gemeinschaft and...
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Reuniting the Three Sisters: collaborative science with Native growers to improve soil and community health
Before Euro-American settlement, many Native American nations intercropped maize ( Zea mays ), beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ), and squash ( Cucurbita pepo )...
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Building a Global Community of Sustainability, Ethics, and Spirituality One Village at a Time: Plum Village as a Case Study
Even though the subject of sustainability has received much broader attention in public policy and scholarly research, it remains an evolving and...
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A one-sided love affair? On the potential for a coalition between degrowth and community-supported agriculture in Germany
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a grassroots response to the threat the global industrial agri-food system poses to smallholders. The...
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Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay
Increased pressures on agri-food systems have indicated the importance of intermediaries to facilitate sustainability transitions. While producer...
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‘Workable Utopias’ for Social Change Through Inclusion and Empowerment? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Wales as Social Innovation
The focus of this article is community supported agriculture (CSA) as an alternative food movement and a bottom-up response to the problems of the...
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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...
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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight
Drawing on an exploratory study of urban food self-provisioning (FSP) in China, this article argues that progress in sustainability scholarship can...
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Community gardens and the making of organic subjects: a case study from the Peruvian Andes
This research contributes to emergent theories on subject formation by showing how community garden (CG) participants in a small rural town in...
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Pockets of Peasantness: Small‑Scale Agricultural Producers in the Central Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York
Some farmers in the Central Finger Lakes Region of New York balance their production between principles of peasant farming and capitalist farming....
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‘Workable utopias’ for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation
The focus of this article is community supported agriculture (CSA) as an alternative food movement and a bottom-up response to the problems of the...
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Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network
In the last 2 decades, the literature has documented the upsurge of community-driven processes of consumer-producer cooperation, which are...
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Rhythms of Law: Aboriginal Jurisprudence and the Anthropocene
On 1 December 2019, over one hundred Aboriginal nations performed ancestral and creation dances in synchrony across the Australian continent. One of...
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Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives
Food is becoming an increasingly important issue in the urban context. Urban food policies are a new phenomenon in Czechia, where urban food...
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Growing the City as a Community
The effort to design a perfect city, an ideal society, eutopia (the good place) rather than utopia (nowhere at all), has a history centuries long; it...
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Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
There is a strong need to connect agricultural research to social movements and community-based food system reform efforts. Participatory research...