A5036633754- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Science Education and Perceptions
Middlebury College
2015-2024
Kumasi Technical University
2023
Institute of Development Studies
2023
University of Sussex
2021
Hague Institute for Global Justice
2021
College of the Atlantic
2011-2015
Tufts University
1990-2013
Yale University
2013
University of Waterloo
2013
University of Asmara
2010
This article analyzes the development and organization of United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear instead an effort a powerful alliance multinational corporations, philanthropies, export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions governance capture narrative “food transformation.” places upcoming...
Hunger continues to be one of humanity's greatest challenges despite the existence a more-than-adequate global food supply equal 2,800 kilocalories for every person day. In measuring progress, policy-makers and concerned citizens across globe rely on information supplied by Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), an agency United Nations. 2010 FAO reported that in wake 2007–2008 food-price spikes economic crisis, number people experiencing hunger worldwide since 2005–2007 had increased 150...
Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued movements lacking an orientation towards addressing issues of justice. To address inequity, sustainable systems education (SFSE) programs will increase students’ equity-related capabilities. Our first objective in this paper is determine the extent which SFSE USA Canada equity. We identified 108 reviewed their public facing documents for explicit focus on found...
I/O abstraction is offered as a new high-level approach to interprocess communication. Functional components of distributed system are written encapsulated modules that act upon local data structures, some which may be published for external use. Relationships among specified by logical connections their structures. Whenever module updates data, takes place implicitly according the configuration connections. The Programmers' Playground, software library and runtime supporting abstraction,...
A food systems approach is critical to understanding and facilitating system transformation, yet gaps in analysis are impeding changes towards greater equity, sustainability, emancipation. Gaps include analyses of interdependencies among activities, narrative politics, the behaviour components using dynamic methodologies. Other problems inappropriate boundaries system, insufficient learning across scales, lack integration social ecological drivers trends, inadequate attention intersectional...
A timely assessment of how research is conducted in the United States. This unique contribution to general field philosophy discusses topics that few researchers dare explore and administrators appear have courage consider. (Charles A. Francis, director, Center for Sustainable Agriculture Systems, University Nebraska-Lincoln). Clearly, debate no longer over agricultural sustainability as a legitimate goal, but about fulfill goal. Research vital factor contributing creation sustainable...
Due to the growing number of immigrants in United States, made up principally Latinos, Asians and Africans, there has been a demand for products that are popular their countries origin. In order meet this demand, tremendous increase imports agricultural States. Cassava is good example. Imports cassava US have increased 370% last six years. The University Massachusetts began evaluate vegetable crops among Puerto Ricans Dominicans 1996, 2002 large Brazilian population state region. This paper...
Any analysis of food systems needs to include power as an aspect political economy, in order understand how relations develop over time and they affect different system actors.This issue the IDS Bulletin examines a range perspectives on systems, various active players, relationships, activities, institutions that play major role shaping them. It notes need for mainstream research policy grapple with inequities system, order, instance, challenge increase private sector funding is reshaping...
All over the world, financial capitalism and extractivism are appropriating land as if it was nothing more than a commodity, mere ‘factor’ of production that can be exploited to generate returns. Movements activists organizing, resisting, protecting promoting life-giving visions against this continuous enclosure living beings paces: they use their bodies, laws, educational projects, histories regain control territory political space, self-determine create solidarities. In act resistance,...
Despite growing calls for food system transformation, the need to develop a vision guide that transformation is sometimes overlooked. Vision essential inspire, mobilize, and keep collective of people on track toward their goals. Individual visions can be exhilarating, but create change are taken up by large groups or movements movements. A beginning transformation, it requires policy enables enacted, ideally through democratic processes. The vision, buttressed governance, what determines...
Abstract Although consumers have a high opinion of locally grown produce, they do not consider origin as important other factors in produce selection. Inconvenience is major barrier to purchasing local produce. In rural community Maine, the Farm Fresh Project tested an intervention designed exploit consumers' regard for and also overcome inconvenience buying it. Each week six weeks summer 1997, employees at three worksites were offered tastings information about opportunity order it their...