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2. Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food sovereignty
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Powell, Lisa Jordan (author) and Wittman, Hannah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03
- Published:
- Canada: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10214
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(1) : 193-206
- Notes:
- Article first online: 18 July 2017, Via online journal., Farm to school programs have been positioned as interventions that can support goals of the global food sovereignty movement, including strengthening local food production systems, improving food access and food justice for urban populations, and reducing distancing between producers and consumers. However, there has been little assessment of how and to what extent farm to school programs can actually function as a mechanism leading to the achievement of food sovereignty. As implemented in North America, farm to school programs encompass activities not only related to school food procurement, but also to the development of student knowledge and skills under the framework of food literacy. Research on farm to school initiatives has largely been conducted in countries with government-supported national school feeding programs; this study examines farm to school organizing in Canada, where there is no national student nutrition program. Using qualitative fieldwork and document analysis, we investigate the farm to school movement in British Columbia, in a context where civil society concerns related to education and health have been the main vectors of farm to school mobilization. Our analysis suggests that, despite limited institutional infrastructure for school meals, the British Columbia farm to school movement has contributed toward realizing goals of food sovereignty through two main mechanisms: advocacy for institutional procurement of local and sustainable foods and mobilizing food literacy for increased public engagement with issues of social justice and equity in food systems.
3. Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Goodman, David (author) and Watts, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- International: Routledge, London, England
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08668
- Notes:
- 383 pages.
4. The new rural-urban interface: lessons for higher education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lichter, Daniel T. (author) and Brown, David L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- USA: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10924
- Journal Title:
- Choices
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(1) : 1-6
- Notes:
- America’s rural-urban divide seemingly has never been greater, a point reinforced by large geographic disparities in support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. But it is also the case that big cities and rural communities are more tightly integrated than ever and are increasingly interdependent, both economically and socially. This new rural-urban interface is highlighted in this collection of articles, which are organized and developed around the general concept of changing symbolic and social boundaries. Rural-urban boundaries—how rural and urban people and places are defined and evaluated—reflect and reinforce institutional forces that maintain spatial inequality and existing social, economic, and political hierarchies. This volume makes clear that rural-urban boundaries are highly fluid and that this should be better reflected in research programs, in the topics that we choose to study, and in the way that public policy is implemented.
5. Woodlands Forum, The
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Newsletter
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: The Woodlands Center for Growth Studies
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: S-W; Folder: V1.12.W.378 Document Number: D01772
- Journal Title Details:
- 1
- Notes:
- 11p, Volume One Number One Collection; John Harvey Collection