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2. The need for seed: News framing of the pandemic gardening boom
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Perks, Lisa Glebatis (author), Gatchet, Amanda Davis (author), and Gatchet, Roger Davis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-26
- Published:
- USA: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12633
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- V.16, Iss. 4
- Notes:
- 14 pages, Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries around the world saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens. In this article, the authors use rhetorical framing analysis to explore how news coverage of this gardening boom presented the illusion of control framed around the themes of economics, food sovereignty, physical and mental health, and community and connection. It concludes with a discussion of how these four themes offer an overly-optimistic view of gardening that deemphasizes sustainability, focuses on processes over harvests, and ignores food chain inequities.
3. Q&A: organizing for food sovereignty in eastern kentucky
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stern, Rebecca (author)
- Format:
- Online Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-12
- Published:
- United States: The Daily Yonder
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12788
- Journal Title:
- The Daily Yonder
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 6pgs, Valerie Horn works with several community action groups in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The state’s recent flooding has made these organizations even more vital to the community.
4. Eaters, powerless by design
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pollans, Margot J. (author)
- Format:
- Abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-07
- Published:
- USA: University of Michigan Law School
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13368
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Law Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 120(4) : 643-690
- Notes:
- 1 page, abstract only, Food law, including traditional food safety regulation, antihunger programs, and food system worker protections, has received increased attention in recent years as a distinct field of study. Bringing together these disparate areas of law under a single lens provides an opportunity to understand the role of law in shaping what we eat (what food is produced and where it is distributed), how much we eat, and how we think about food. The food system is rife with problems— endemic hunger, worker exploitation, massive environmental externalities, and diet-related disease. Looked at in a piecemeal fashion, elements of food law appear responsive to these problems. Looked at as a whole, however, food law appears instead to entrench the existing structures of power that generate these problems. This Article offers a novel conceptual critique of the food system. It argues that food law is built on two contradictory myths: the myth of the helpless consumer who needs government protections from food producers and the myth of the responsible consumer who needs no government protection and can take on the food system’s many problems herself. The first myth is self-actualizing, as the laws that it justifies disempower food consumers and producers. The second myth is self-defeating, as the legal structures that assume consumer responsibility impede meaningful consumer choice. Food law, as it is shaped by these myths, constructs powerlessness by homogenizing— or erasing diversity within—the food system, paralyzing consumers through information control, and polarizing various food system constituents who might otherwise collaborate on reform. Ultimately, food law is designed to thwart food sovereignty. By revealing how the structures of food law itself obstruct reform, this Article also identifies a path forward toward true food sovereignty.
5. 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.
6. Reform, justice, and sovereignty: A food systems agenda for environmental communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gordon, Constance (author) and Hunt, Kathleen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03-01
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10051
- Journal Title:
- Environment Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 (1) : 9-22
- Notes:
- 14 pages., Food ecologies and economies are vital to the survival of communities, non-human species, and our planet. While environmental communication scholars have legitimated food as a topic of inquiry, the entangled ecological, cultural, economic, racial, colonial, and alimentary relations that sustain food systems demand greater attention. In this essay, we review literature within and beyond environmental communication, charting the landscape of critical food work in our field. We then illustrate how environmental justice commitments can invigorate interdisciplinary food systems-focused communication scholarship articulating issues of, and critical responses to, injustice and inequity across the food chain. We stake an agenda for food systems communication by mapping three orientations—food system reform, justice, and sovereignty—that can assist in our critical engagements with and interventions into the food system. Ultimately, we entreat environmental communication scholars to attend to the bends, textures, and confluences of these orientations so that we may deepen our future food-related inquiries.
7. "We need to look at food as a global system"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jackson, Janine (author) and Bell, Beverly (author)
- Format:
- Interview
- Publication Date:
- 2015-10-22
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08693
- Notes:
- Transcript posted on the website of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), New York City, New York. Interview of Beverly Bell, coordinator of Other Worlds, a "women-led and movement-building collaborative." 6 pages.
8. We need to look at food as a global system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jackson, Janine (author)
- Format:
- Interview
- Publication Date:
- 2015-10-22
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D07404
- Notes:
- Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), New York City, New York. 8 pages.
9. Food tyrants: fight for your basic right to health food in a toxic world
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Faires, Nicole (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International: Skyhorse Publishing, New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07327
- Notes:
- 242 pages.
10. Agriculture and food in crisis: conflict, resistance and renewal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Magdoff, Fred (author) and Tokar, Brian (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International: Monthly Review Press, New York City, New York
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08679
- Notes:
- 348 pages.