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Chickens, weeds, and the production of green middle-class identity through urban agriculture in deindustrial Michigan, USA
In recent decades, urban agriculture has drawn practitioners seeking ways to increase both environmental sustainability and social equity in their...
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Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Despite the acknowledged importance of the meanings that people attach to places (e.g., homes, businesses, communities), the literature on...
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The bright and the dark side of commercial urban agriculture labeling
Consumers have a growing desire to know where their food comes from and how it is produced, not only for health and safety reasons, but also to...
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Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe
Understandings of urban foodways in Zimbabwe and other African countries have been dominated by food security frameworks. The focus on material...
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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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Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950
Masui Kiyoshi (1887–1981), a prominent Japanese geneticist, is best known for inventing the sex-sorting method of chicks and his contributions to...
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Applying Biomimicry to Cities: The Forest as Model for Urban Planning and Design
The idea of applying biomimicry to cities is attracting increasing attention as a way of achieving sustainability. Undoubtedly the most frequently...
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Theorizing urban agriculture: north–south convergence
Few topics have been addressed through as large a range of perspectives and interests as urban agriculture (UA), yet the literature has been loosely...
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The Farm-Village Practice of Yorùbá in West Africa
The Yorùbá ethnic group of West Africa, an urban people, resided in walled towns in pre-colonial times but farmed the surrounding areas in villages...
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The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi
The Malabo Declaration places the transformation of agriculture and food systems at the centre of regional and national policy priorities across...
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The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya
This paper investigates the challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship – reducing and optimizing the use of antibiotics – in agricultural...
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Postscript: An Urban Farm in Process
In this brief survey of motives and methods of urban agriculture, we’ve seen several examples of farms in the city. Setting aside the skyscrapers...
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The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Processes of rapid and truncated agrarian change—driven through expanding urbanisation, infrastructure development, extractive industries, and...
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Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China
Wet markets, a ‘traditional’ form of food retail, have maintained their popularity in urban China despite the rapid expansion of ‘modern’ supermarket...
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Farming non-typical sentient species: ethical framework requires passing a high bar
More widespread farming of species not typically used as livestock may be part of a sustainable approach for promoting human health and economic...
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The Animal as Ontological Strategy
This chapter is the first episode of a three-part essay that explores the concept of the animal as an ontological question. This essay delves deeply...
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On the Confluence of Permaculture and African Agrarianism
This chapter offers a sketch of some practical components of a small but arguably typical permaculture homestead, with attention given to possible...
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Virtualizing the ‘Good Life’: Reworking Narratives of Agrarianism and the Rural Idyll in a Computer Game
Farming computer games enable the ‘desk chair countryside’—millions of people actively engaged in performing farming and rural activities on-line—to...
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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...
