Rethinking Food System Transformation

This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food System conference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system. The research presented at this symposium shows the diverse range of approaches scientists have taken to investigate this aforementioned question. The papers represent a combined effort to creatively educate, share, and connect work being done by stakeholders on food system transformation. 
Previously published inAgriculture and Human Values Volume 36, issue 4, December 2019
Chapters The abandonment of maize landraces over the last 50 years in Morelos, Mexico: a tracing study using a multi-level perspective, How to include socio-economic considerations in decision-making on agricultural biotechnology? Two models from Kenya and South Africa, Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand, Correction to: Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand and Translocal practices and proximities in short quality food chains at the periphery: the case of North Swedish farmers are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Rachel Bezner Kerr is a Professor in Global Development at Cornell University, and does research in Africa on sustainable agriculture, gender, climate change adaptation, food security and nutrition. She has published over 80 scientific articles. She was a Coordinating Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Dr. Bezner Kerr also served as a member of the High Level Panel of Experts for the United Nations Committee for World Food Security, coauthoring the 2019 report on agroecology. She has carried out participatory research with farmers in Malawi and Tanzania on agroecology, nutrition and climate-change related studies. Dr. Bezner Kerr attained her PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University.

The abandonment of maize landraces over the last 50 years in Morelos, Mexico: a tracing study using a multi-level perspective.- How to include socio-economic considerations in decision-making on agricultural biotechnology? Two models from Kenya and South Africa.- Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand.- Correction to: Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand.- Food sovereignty in place: Cuba and Spain.- Understanding the relationship between farmers and burrowing mammals on South African farms: are burrowers friends or foes?.- Value structures determining community supported agriculture: insights from Germany.- Livelihood strategies and household resilience to food insecurity: insight from a farming community in Aguie district of Niger.- Translocal practices and proximities in short quality food chains at the periphery: the case of North Swedish farmers.- NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing.- Subverting the new narrative: food, gentrification and resistance in Oakland, California.- Parent activists versus the corporation: a fight for school food sovereignty.- Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformationfood sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship.- Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement.-Pockets of peasantness: small-scale agricultural producers in the Central Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.- Action research on organizational change with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: a regional food banks efforts to move beyond charity.- Gardens and Green Spaces: placemaking and Black entrepreneurialism in Cleveland, Ohio.- Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative.- To save the bees or not to save the bees: honey bee health in the Anthropocene.- Todd LeVasseur: Religious agrarianism and the return of place: from values to practice in sustainable agriculture.- Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups.- Michelle Bastian, Owain James, Niamh Moore, and Emma Roe (eds): Participatory research in more-than-human worlds.- Shane Hamilton: Supermarket USA: food and power in the cold war farms race.- Books received.