Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.121.001
Antonio Roman-Alcalá
In 2021, I completed my Ph.D. dissertation research on Californian food movements (Roman-Alcalá, 2021b).[1] That participatory research process deepened my preexisting engagement in these movements as an organizer, urban farmer, policy advocate, educator, and writer. You can find the 400 pages of details online, but the main thrust of the research concerned how various subsectors of food movements describe and manifest “emancipatory” politics, and how they do and do not work across various lines of difference. Secondarily, it concerned how food movements oppose—but also potentially intersect with—resurgent right-wing politics. Converging across differences is an essential challenge and task in order to fundamentally transform the food system, push back right-wing gains, and achieve a broader emancipatory political agenda. In this short commentary, I offer some insights on these topics from the research and my over 18 years of involvement in emancipatory (food) politics. . . .
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Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.017
D. Hilchey
This summer issue (volume 11, issue 4) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics, many of which relate to both the fragility and the resilience of food systems. Gracing our cover is Julia Slocum, who was the owner and operator of Lacewing Acres, a small certified-organic vegetable farm in Ames, Iowa, from 2012 to 2019. (She is now a first-year doctoral student in counseling psychology at Iowa State University.) In this issue, you will read about her decision to close her farming operation in Ending Lacewing Acres: Toward amplifying microperspectives on farm closure (co-authored by Abby Dubisar at Iowa State University). Julia’s experience highlights the challenge of being a beginning farmer in the U.S. Small-scale, community-based farming is certainly one of the most difficult occupations to take up. For at least two-thirds of each year, it is an all-consuming endeavor. In daylight hours, small local growers manage dozens of crops (each of which has its own requirements to flourish); they may have to manage co-workers, customers, perhaps CSA members, a retail operation, wholesale accounts, and so on. In their evenings, they track production and sales, fill out surveys and tax forms, and nurse aches and injuries received during the day. Imagine going to bed exhausted and then having nightmares about crop failures or injuries or even lawsuits. Somehow, they must find time to recover and carve out personal and family time.
今年夏季刊(第11卷，第4期)收录了广泛的粮食系统主题论文，其中许多论文既涉及粮食系统的脆弱性，也涉及粮食系统的复原力。我们的封面是朱莉娅·斯洛克姆(Julia Slocum)，她在2012年至2019年期间是爱荷华州艾姆斯(Ames)一家小型有机认证蔬菜农场Lacewing Acres的所有者和经营者。(她现在是爱荷华州立大学(Iowa State university)咨询心理学专业的一年级博士生。)在这一期中，你将读到她决定关闭她的农场经营，《结束割草英亩:扩大农场关闭的微观视角》(由爱荷华州立大学的Abby Dubisar合著)。茱莉亚的经历凸显了在美国成为一名农民新手所面临的挑战。小规模的、以社区为基础的农业无疑是最难从事的职业之一。每年至少有三分之二的时间，这是一项耗费全部精力的工作。白天，当地的小种植者管理着几十种作物(每种作物都有自己的繁荣需求);他们可能需要管理同事、客户、CSA成员、零售业务、批发账户等等。在晚上，他们跟踪生产和销售，填写调查和纳税表格，护理白天的疼痛和受伤。想象一下，筋疲力尽地上床睡觉，然后做着关于作物歉收、受伤甚至诉讼的噩梦。无论如何，他们必须找时间恢复，挤出个人和家庭的时间。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.019
C. Rocha, M. Mendonça, H. Nguyen, Phuong-Thao Huynh, Bao Do, F. Yeudall, Andrea Moraes, Matthew Brown, Yvonne Yuan, T. Tenkate
Despite recent improvements in health, Vietnam continues to face significant problems with food security and chronic malnutrition among children. In the Northern Mountainous Region, small-scale farmers and ethnic minority groups are particularly hit hard. Anemia is present in almost half the local population of children under two, and close to 20% of children experience stunted growth. Anemia and stunting can cause irreversible deficiencies in learning and child development. Fortification of food products that are complementary to breast milk has been identified as an option to intervene and tackle chronic child malnutrition, particularly in situations requiring rapid results. Our paper describes how the ECOSUN project addressed food security and chronic child malnutrition in northern Vietnam (Lào Cai, Lai Châu, and Hà Giang provinces) using a food-system approach to design and implement a viable and sustainable value chain for fortified complementary foods. Through public-private partnerships, the project procured locally grown crops from small-scale women farmers to produce affordable fortified complementary food products in a small-scale food processing plant. Social marketing campaigns and nutrition education counseling centers supported product distribution through local vendors while emphasizing and promoting the value of fortified foods for healthy child development. The ECOSUN project also aimed to contribute to the broader goal of transforming the local economy. The process, lessons, challenges, successes, and methods employed to assess and test the delivery mechanisms of the project can offer insights to researchers, program implementers, and decision-makers involved in research-integrated development projects embedded in local socio-ecological systems.
尽管最近卫生状况有所改善，但越南继续面临粮食安全和儿童长期营养不良的重大问题。在北部山区，小农和少数民族受到的打击尤其严重。当地近一半的两岁以下儿童患有贫血，近20%的儿童发育迟缓。贫血和发育迟缓可导致学习和儿童发育方面不可逆转的缺陷。强化母乳补充食品已被确定为干预和解决儿童慢性营养不良的一种选择，特别是在需要迅速取得成果的情况下。我们的论文描述了ECOSUN项目如何利用粮食系统方法解决越南北部(Lào Cai, Lai chang和h Giang省)的粮食安全和慢性儿童营养不良问题，以设计和实施可行和可持续的强化辅食价值链。通过公私伙伴关系，该项目从小规模女农民那里采购当地种植的作物，在一家小规模食品加工厂生产负担得起的强化辅食产品。社会营销活动和营养教育咨询中心通过当地供应商支持产品分销，同时强调和宣传强化食品对儿童健康发育的价值。ECOSUN项目还旨在为改造当地经济的更广泛目标作出贡献。评估和测试项目交付机制所采用的过程、经验教训、挑战、成功和方法可以为研究人员、项目执行者和参与嵌入当地社会生态系统的研究集成开发项目的决策者提供见解。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.020
Cyndee Bence, Matthew Giguere
Marne Coit and Theodore A Feitshans’s Food Systems Law is a broad primer providing explanations of the complex regulatory landscape of the American food system. Students will benefit from the presentation of the material—both in its clarity and through the many examples that ground the information in real-world issues. Because this book is tailored for legal and general audiences alike, Food Systems Law is likely best suited for upper-level undergraduate students or graduate students. This book provides information needed for students to understand the scope, nuance, and unresolved conflicts in food law. In doing so, the book presents background information that is approachable for students unfamiliar with the fundamentals of U.S. law and policy. . . .
Marne Coit和Theodore A Feitshans的《食品系统法》是一本广泛的入门书，提供了对美国食品系统复杂监管格局的解释。学生将受益于材料的展示——无论是在它的清晰性，还是通过许多基于现实问题的信息的例子。因为这本书是为法律和普通读者量身定制的，所以《食品系统法》可能最适合高年级本科生或研究生。这本书提供了学生了解食品法的范围，细微差别和未解决的冲突所需的信息。在这样做，这本书提出的背景资料，是学生不熟悉的美国法律和政策的基础知识可接近. . . .
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.022
A. Koempel, Lilian Brislen, K. Jacobsen, J. Clouser, Nikita Vundi, Jing Li, Mark Williams
Hospitals not only provide access to healthcare services in rural areas; they also serve as major employers and economic drivers. The goal of this pilot study was to improve our understanding of how a rural healthcare system in Appalachian Kentucky could be leveraged to expand access to fresh fruits and vegetables. We conducted 11 semi-structured interviews with food system and healthcare stakeholders in Hazard, Kentucky, to (1) improve our understanding of key barriers to accessing and utilizing fresh produce for healthcare worker and patient populations, (2) identify models for direct-to-consumer market channels and farm-to-institution programming in collaboration with a local hospital, and (3) explore the potential of those models to foster greater consumption of fruit and vegetables among community members. Stakeholders emphasized the need for staff support and funding during program development and discussed the difficulty in maintaining prior local food and health promotion efforts when pilot funding expired. Other considerations included the importance of community ownership, robust communication and coordination among stakeholders, and attunement to the opportunities and challenges of a hospital-based approach. Direct farm-to-consumer models were considered feasible but would require accommodation for low-income consumers, such as vouchers, sliding-scale payment methods, or “double dollar” programs. Farm-to-hospital initiatives were discussed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and reduced hospital cafeteria usage, which may limit the success of some events but highlights the potential for to-go options such as pre-prepared salads, lightly processed snacks, and medically tailored meal kits. Results of this study illustrate the challenges and opportunities of leveraging a rural hospital as an anchor institution for expanding local food system development in rural Appalachia. This study also offers insights into the intersections of health, culture, and economy in an Appalachian community, and provides a framework for expanding local food system initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.018
Katelyn Cline, Alexandria Huber-Disla, A. Cooke, Elizabeth Havice
Many universities are working toward more sustainable campus dining food systems. Third-party standards that offer definitions of sustainable food and outline procurement goals are one tool universities can use to drive food system transformations. We seek to understand how campus community stakeholders influence campus sustainability commitments and what effects third-party certifications have on food purchasing and the campus dining community. We explore these questions by examining the circumstances surrounding, and outcomes of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)’s 2010 engagement with the Real Food Calculator/Real Food Challenge (RFC), a third-party standard for sustainable campus dining. Our analysis is based on reports from the past 10 years that document UNC’s progress with RFC, along with participant observations, stakeholder interviews, and a student survey. Our findings reveal that new and developing relationships emerge as third-party goals become institutionalized: at UNC, a small, vocal group of student stakeholders pushing campus administrators for third-party certification evolved into a sustained collaboration between students and campus dining administrators centered on maintaining and advancing purchasing toward more sustainable options. Over time, the RFC commitment was formalized into the foodservice contract at UNC. These findings suggest that community relationships at universities are central in sustainable food transitions: the relationships shape, and are shaped by, efforts to move toward more sustainable campus procurement practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-17DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.021
Bobby J. Smith
Any historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences, the result of a unique process, and the operation required to deconstruct these silences will vary accordingly. —Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past, p. 27 On October 13, 1965, the New Farmers of America (NFA) disappeared without a trace. The organization had operationalized one of the largest Black youth farm movements in American history and boasted a membership of over 50,000 Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture in public high schools in 18 states across the South and parts of the East Coast. They were last seen in the shadows of the Jim Crow era, participating in the national convention of the majority-white Future Farmers of America (FFA)—now named the National FFA Organization—in Kansas City, Missouri. At the convention, a ceremony took place that symbolized the July 1, 1965, decision to merge the NFA and FFA. But for some, as one former member told me, the “merger” was more like a “hostile takeover.” The “pageantry of the merger,” as Cecil L. Strickland, Sr. (1994, p. 44) described it, required Adolphus Pinson, the NFA’s last president, to surrender the organization’s charter to Kenneth Kennedy, the national FFA president. “I am duly authorized to transfer to you the National NFA Charter, together with the permanent record of officers of the organization,” Pinson told Kennedy. “Also, to inform you that the total membership of 50,807 students of vocational agriculture in 12 states are now active members of the Future Farmers of America” (Strickland, 1994, p. 43). The NFA charter was placed in the national FFA archives along with the minutes of the last NFA convention and important cultural artifacts of the organization, including its banner and flag. The NFA also transferred the US$20,000 in its savings account to the FFA treasury. The final nail in the coffin for the NFA occurred when Pinson took off his NFA jacket and handed it to Kennedy. In return, Kennedy presented Pinson with an FFA jacket, declaring, “The exchanging of this NFA jacket for the FFA jacket by you, the last NFA President, symbolizes the joining together all students of vocational agriculture into one great organization” (Strickland, 1994, p. 46). And with Kennedy’s final statement, the NFA vanished.
任何历史叙事都是一束特定的沉默，是一个独特过程的结果，解构这些沉默所需的操作也会相应变化。——米歇尔·罗尔夫·特鲁洛特《沉默的过去》第27页1965年10月13日，美国新农民(NFA)消失得无影无踪。该组织发起了美国历史上规模最大的黑人青年农场运动之一，在南部18个州和东海岸部分地区的公立高中学习职业农业的5万多名黑人农场男孩是该组织的成员。他们最后一次露面是在吉姆·克劳时代的阴影中，当时他们参加了在密苏里州堪萨斯城举行的白人占多数的美国未来农民(FFA)全国大会，该组织现在被命名为全国FFA组织。在大会上，举行了一个仪式，象征着1965年7月1日决定合并NFA和FFA。但正如一位前成员告诉我的那样，对一些人来说，“合并”更像是“恶意收购”。塞西尔·l·斯特里克兰(Cecil L. Strickland, Sr. 1994，第44页)所描述的“壮观的合并”要求NFA最后一任主席阿道夫·平森(Adolphus Pinson)将该组织的章程交给全国足协主席肯尼斯·肯尼迪(Kenneth Kennedy)。“我被正式授权向你转交国家足球协会章程，连同该组织官员的永久记录，”平森告诉肯尼迪。“同时，通知您，12个州的50,807名职业农业学生现在是美国未来农民协会的活跃成员”(Strickland, 1994，第43页)。NFA章程与上一次NFA会议纪要以及该组织的重要文化文物(包括其旗帜和旗帜)一起被放置在国家FFA档案中。足协还将其储蓄账户中的2万美元转入足协金库。当Pinson脱下他的NFA夹克并把它交给肯尼迪时，NFA的棺材被钉上了最后一颗钉子。作为回报，肯尼迪送给Pinson一件FFA夹克，并宣布:“你作为最后一任NFA主席，用这件NFA夹克交换FFA夹克，象征着所有职业农业学生团结成一个伟大的组织”(Strickland, 1994, p. 46)。随着肯尼迪的最后声明，NFA消失了。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.016
Susan P Harvey, Rebecca R Mount, Heather Valentine, Cheryl Gibson
Food waste and food insecurity are two concurrent major public health issues. To address them, gleaning programs can reduce waste and enhance food security by diverting produce to food pantries. To understand the experiences of farmers and gleaning programs, interviews were completed with 12 farmers who had participated in a gleaning program and 16 farmers who had not donated produce through a gleaning program within the Greater Kansas City metro area. For farmers who had participated in the gleaning program, the ease of donating and tax incentives were primary benefits. Inadequate experience and inefficient volunteers were cited as challenges. Farmers without experience with gleaning programs cited safety and liability issues as concerns. Because farmers communicate frequently with other farmers, food rescue organizations should consider enlisting their support. Communities and government agencies should provide financial support to improve the resources and infrastructure of gleaning organizations to improve farmer-gleaner relationships.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.011
Kristin M. Osiecki, J. Barnett, Angie P. Mejia, Tessie Burley, Kara Nyhus, Kaitlyn Pickens
Food insecurity on college campuses disproportionately impacts underrepresented students and can contribute to detrimental outcomes. Furthermore, new research with a broader scope includes universitywide populations such as faculty and staff who may also face food insecurity. The reasons behind higher-education food insecurity are complex and based in historic academic structures that create gender and race disparities. Focusing on increasing the numbers of women and minorities entering the graduate school pipeline has resulted in a more equitable distribution of master and doctoral level degrees. However, lower wages, higher workloads, and perceptions of inferior academic performance continue in the current day. These factors contribute to only 26% of women achieving full professorship and only one-third receiving external federal research funding. This reflection provides autoethnographical accounts of three female faculty members who experienced hunger during their undergraduate and graduate careers, and intermittently struggle with purchasing nutritious foods as working professionals. They also discuss their interactions with and observations of their students who also face challenges in securing meals on a regular basis. Three undergraduate female students who are actively involved in campus food projects share their insights from a personal and peer perspective. Grassroot initiatives including an onsite food pantry, a village garden, external funding, and ongoing research attempt to fill gaps. In addition to short-term fixes, it is important to continue conversations with university administration and community leaders to create policies and programs to address campus food insecurity.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.008
Jane Karetny, C. Hoy, Kareem Usher, Jill K. Clark, M. Conroy
National planning and health organizations agree that to achieve healthy and sustainable food systems, planners must balance goals across a spectrum of sustainability issues that include economic vitality, public health, ecological sustainability, social equity, and cultural diversity. This research is an assessment of government-adopted food system plans in the U.S. that examines which topics, across the three dimensions of sustainability (social, environmental, and economic), are included in local food system plans and conducts an exploratory analysis that asks whether the community capitals (built, cultural, social, financial, human, and natural) available in a community are associated with the content of food system plans. The research team first developed a Sustainable Food System Policy Index made up of 26 policy areas across the three dimensions that, in aggregate, define and operationalize sustainable food systems. With this index we evaluated a sample of 28 food system plans for inclusion of these policy impact areas. We then performed an exploratory regression analysis to examine whether the availability of community capitals was associated with the content of food system plans. Findings indicated that jurisdictions integrated a broad range of issues into their food system plans; however, there are certain issues across every dimension of sustainability that are much less frequently included in plans, such as strategies related to participation in decision-making, financial infrastructure, and the stewardship of natural resources. Regression analysis identified statistically significant linear relationships between particular capitals and the proportion of policy areas included in plans. In particular, higher metrics associated with poverty were associated with the inclusion of fewer policy areas and with a potentially narrower policy agenda. This study adds to the plan evaluation literature as one of the first attempts to document the content of a sample of U.S. food system plans through a sustainability lens, contributing to the knowledge of what types of issues are advanced by local food system plans and the policy implications of current gaps in planning agendas.
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