Pub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.134.004
Bobby Smith, Jamila Walida Simon, Desirée McMillion
The August 2014 murder of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of the police in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, USA, sparked international attention, ignited a surge in #BlackLivesMatter protests, and reconfigured national discussions about race, police brutality, and state-sanctioned violence. Black food activists on the frontlines of the food justice movement grappled with Brown’s murder by joining together on a national call to address the question: What does Ferguson mean for the food justice movement? Answers to this question manifested into the 2015–2016 special digital series entitled “What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement,” published online in the Food Justice Voices section of the WhyHunger organization website. In this article, we use a qualitative critical content analysis of the series to examine how Black food activists reframed agricultural and food systems in the context of the Ferguson struggle. We draw on intersectional agriculture theory to illuminate how Black food activists draft visions of food justice through three intersecting pathways: (1) critical Black agrarianism, (2) radical Black mothering, and (3) Black futures. Our research reveals that Black visions of food justice in the wake of Ferguson are instructive and offer a fresh lens to understand the evolving landscape of Black food activism, given a set of racial, gendered, social, political, and economic realities. We conclude with a brief discussion on how these visions compel us to reconsider racial equity at the nexus of agriculture, food, and various forms of unrest in Black communities, providing insights for scholars, practitioners, and activists who work on issues of food justice.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.034
D. Hilchey
First paragraph: Our spring-summer 2024 issue is devoted largely to a set of commentaries prepared by more than two dozen participants in the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Their individual and collective voices challenge the hegemony of the dominant global industrial food system. However, they acknowledge that there are significant philosophical and pragmatic divisions between progressives in the agroecology “movement” that need to be openly addressed before significant progress can be made in building a cohesive movement. . . .
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Pub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.032
Johanna Wilkes
Food systems governance regimes have long been spaces of “thick legitimacy” (Montenegro de Wit & Iles, 2016), where embedded norms benefit productivist agricultural practices. Within governance regimes, the science-policy interface and the scientists who occupy this space are integral in today’s public policy processes. Often treated as objective science, technical disciplines have become a powerful source of legitimatizing in decision making. Without the contextualization of lived experience or diverse ways of knowing, these siloed spaces can lead policymakers towards an action bias (e.g., a rush to short-term solutions) that neglects the underlying causes and concerns of our current crises. Current governance arrangements in the science-policy interface demonstrate the bias toward technical science (e.g. economics) and short-term solutions. However, by challenging productivist agriculture norms reformed public policy processes may shift from a space of repression to one of possibility. This reform can happen through investigatiing dominant actor coalitions and identifying tools to reconfigure these power arrangements. Public policy theory, such as the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), helps organize relations within current agricultural policy arenas. The work of practitioners and other disciplines offer tools that can support transformative action by food systems advocates in the pursuit of changing the way public policy is made. In part, understanding how power is organized and who may influence policy processes is critical to change. This reflective essay ends with tools and strategies for those wishing to engage governments in this shift. The proposed tools and strategies focus on how people (e.g. policy champions), processes (e.g. policy leverage points), and partnerships (e.g. allyship) generate ways in which advocates can, and do, engage governments in transformative change.
长期以来，粮食系统治理制度一直是 "厚重合法性 "的空间（Montenegro de Wit & Iles, 2016），其中的嵌入式规范有利于生产型农业实践。在治理制度中，科学与政策的衔接以及占据这一空间的科学家是当今公共政策进程中不可或缺的一部分。技术学科通常被视为客观科学，已成为决策合法性的强大来源。如果没有生活经验的背景化或不同的认知方式，这些孤立的空间可能会导致政策制定者的行动偏差（例如，急于寻求短期解决方案），从而忽视了我们当前危机的根本原因和关注点。当前科学与政策界面的治理安排显示出对技术科学（如经济学）和短期解决方案的偏向。然而，通过对生产主义农业规范的挑战，改革后的公共政策进程可能会从压制空间转向可能性空间。这种改革可以通过调查占主导地位的行为者联盟并确定重新配置这些权力安排的工具来实现。公共政策理论，如倡导联盟框架（ACF），有助于组织当前农业政策领域内的关系。实践者和其他学科的工作提供了一些工具，可以支持粮食系统倡导者为改变公共政策制定方式而采取的变革行动。在某种程度上，了解权力是如何组织的以及谁可能影响政策进程对变革至关重要。这篇反思性文章最后提出了一些工具和策略，供那些希望参与政府转变的人参考。所建议的工具和策略侧重于人（如政策拥护者）、过程（如政策杠杆点）和伙伴关系（如盟友关系）如何产生倡导者可以并确实参与政府变革的方式。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.031
Amaia Sangroniz, Roland Ebel, Mary Stein
Rapid urbanization and peri-urban development are driving land use change across the globe, resulting in lands being converted from agricultural uses to housing development. Sustainable, multifunctional land use in urban and peri-urban areas is needed to balance the requirements of producing food in a way that protects environmental resources and of providing housing to a growing population. An agrihood is a planned development model that incorporates food production within a community to help address goals of nutritious food security while providing social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agrihoods may offer an alternative land use for integrating food production in new housing developments for the sustainable development of rapidly urbanizing cities. A comparative case study, using semi-structured, qualitative interviews with key informants from two cities (Bozeman, Montana, and Longmont, Colorado), highlighted four key barriers to agrihood development in two cities in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S: labor; ownership and governance structures; resource availability; and land use regulation. Concerns for water and land resource availability reflect general barriers to agricultural expansion in the Rocky Mountain region, while the other identified barriers reflect the structural and legal limitations preventing agrihood development and expansion. To reduce these barriers, policy interventions and incentives provided at municipal, state, and federal levels, informed by community advocates in support of local food production, will be essential.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.134.030
Leland Glenna
First paragraph: The government and the press in the United States tend to define corruption narrowly as the misbehavior of individual politicians. They turn a blind eye to systematic corruption such as, for example, the wealthiest people and corporations using campaign contributions to buy political influence. A politician who takes a cash bribe in exchange for a political favor might be deemed corrupt. In contrast, a politician who derails a piece of legislation after receiving a large campaign contribution is operating within the limits of the U.S. campaign laws and is, therefore, not deemed corrupt. . . .
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Pub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.033
Brittany Oakes
California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV) is the wealthiest agricultural region in the United States, yet it has among the highest rates of concentrated poverty and food insecurity in the nation. Despite a growing movement to change the food system nationwide and around the world, wealth and health disparities linked to the dominant agricultural industry in the SJV are growing. This study draws upon critical philanthropy scholarship to understand the opportunities and limitations of grant funding for the food justice movement. This qualitative research contributes a regional case study of grassroots organizing to change the food system from within a region dominated by industrial agriculture. To understand the challenges and potential for change from the perspectives of SJV grassroots organizers, this research draws on semi-structured interviews with 14 SJV organizers working for food systems change. Interviews were thematically analyzed and complemented with a review of activities across all identified organizations’ websites to provide a snapshot of the food justice movement across the SJV. Particular attention is paid to how funding structures may influence organizing activity and discourse. The findings demonstrate how grantmaking influences the dominant narrative in the SJV and shapes organizing priorities and activities. I argue that philanthropic funding may divert the food justice movement away from directly challenging powerful political and economic interests. This study advances a critical conversation in food movement scholarship to change the conditions under which structural inequality is growing.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.029
Nanna Meyer, Giovanna Sacchi, Camilla Sartori, Christian Fischer
Alternative grain networks (AGNs) are micro-systems that supplement conventional food production and distribution systems, emphasizing high quality food and leveraging regional, socio-cultural, and socio-economic values. In this multiple case study analysis we compare two AGNs, Regiokorn in South Tyrol, Italy, and the Colorado Grain Chain (CGC) in the U.S., using qualitative and comparative analysis to explore the indicators of geographical proximity, cultural homogeneity, commercial viability, and community involvement. Regiokorn and the CGC differ in various ways in these operational dimensions as well as in their organizational setups, the former as a pure business network and the latter including consumer members. Our findings highlight how these two different organizational structures can be leveraged to achieve similar outcomes, and provide valuable insights for other AGNs in finding their own paths.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.027
Kelsey Gardiner, Susan Harvey
Food insecurity is a growing concern in higher education. As universities adapt to meet the growing need of college students to access adequate amounts of healthy food, food pantries are among the most widely implemented food security supports. However, little has been done to measure whether this resource is meeting the needs of students. This study aims to fill gaps in the existing literature by using a cross-sectional design to develop a novel satisfaction survey and measure overall satisfaction, use of resources, and additional support needs of students utilizing an on-campus food pantry. A convenience sample of 100 student on-campus pantry users participated. The survey consisted of a ten-item, investigator-designed satisfaction scale, which demonstrated a high measure of reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha = .849). Based on a five-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), overall student satisfaction was high [ = 3.8]. Students reported the highest level of satisfaction with friendliness of staff volunteers [x̅ = 4.55], location of the pantry [x̅ = 4.26], and availability of shelf stable food items [x̅ = 4.11]. Students reported lowest satisfaction with the selection of fresh fruits [x̅ = 3.18] and fresh vegetables [x̅ = 3.21], and the selection of dairy products [x̅ = 3.59]. Most indicated a need for additional support from the pantry site, including school supplies (n = 48), hygiene and toiletry supplies (n = 47), cooking utensils (n = 47), information on other emergency resources (n = 28), financial resources (n = 25), and recipes (n = 25). More research is needed to better understand pantry-site satisfaction, identify potential additional desired supports, and the impacts of on-campus food pantries. This study is the first of a multiphase project that will continue to explore on-campus food pantries as an intervention strategy, the student experience of utilizing food pantries, and their potential impact on students.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.023
Alicia Papanek, Chelsea DeMasters, Micayla Richardson, Kimberly K. Wiley
Collaboration among nonprofits, commercial entities, state Extension offices, and governmental agencies is crucial for improving and sustaining food and nutrition security at the state and local levels. This study examines the landscape of 904 food and agricultural nonprofit organizations (FANOs) operating in Florida in 2019 to determine their scope, role in the food supply chain, and potential collaboration opportunities with allied organizations. FANOs primarily address the preproduction and distribution stages of the supply chain. Aligned goals and initiatives between FANOs and Extension programs revealed a wealth of opportunities for collaboration that would ensure the continuity of food systems and sustainable resource use in Florida, despite existing competition between allied organizations and FANOs.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.026
Anisa Kline
This paper uses the qualitative results of a survey of 285 H-2A workers in Ohio to explore questions of care, social reproduction, and agency within agricultural guestwork. Drawing on frameworks developed in labor and feminist geography, it examines how H-2A workers create community and develop skills of social reproduction during their time in the United States. Countering the common narratives of H-2A worker as victims or stoic, long suffering laborers, the research draws attention to the relational and emotional lives of the men who do this work. By highlighting affective and social dimensions of the guestworker experience, it argues for an approach to questions of agricultural labor that emphasizes the agency, range of experiences, and humanity of the people who participate in the H-2A program.
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