Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Administrative report C.Y Wang: Minutes and report due in 60 days after the meeting. Wants to make sure the group is helpful for the participants. To join project officially  and if your university does not have an experiment station office, contact C.Y. and hell assist you in getting added to the project National information and support system on the University of Wisconsin campus If there is not a land grant/ experiment station on your campus. You need to negotiate with them to get you to be funded to make these meetings. C.Y. Wang will help Gail find way to get funded to participate in this group. Also noted that these groups were primarily set up regionally, however NC1033 is national  so travel, etc. is a little greater cost to participants. Decisions by Group for Action  see bold: 1. All members will send to Chery Smith: csmith@umn.edu, all their publications from 2002 to present by January 10th. 2. Group voted to keep current officers for one more year (see above). 3. Group agreed to next meeting in Austin, Texas, November 13-15 to be organized by Alex McIntosh. 4. Group wants to expand to include more members. Gail Feenstra and Brian Fulfrost both have agreed to join and will contact C.Y. to arrange for that. The group wants to recruit from South and to add researchers working with populations of color, poverty and to balance out representation from all regions of the county. Alex will contact colleagues in nutrition from Prairie View  A & M. Other 1890 schools and centers such as Southern Research Center at North Carolina, Florida State, and Tuskegee University. Others to contact: Shiriki at Penn State, John Green at Delta State University, Himmelgreen at Florida State, Elsie Lake at University of Sheffield in the U.K. 5. Phil Howard set up a Google group: Food systems and health for uploading articles, papers, editing handbook chapters, uploading members publications and sharing information. Please make sure you received an invitation, then sign up. You just need a Google I.D., which you can create for free. If you did not receive an invitation, contact: howardp@msu.edu and you will get an invitation from: msuphil@gmail.com 6. Members will contribute chapters/sections to a handbook  preliminary title: What is the Food System and Its Relationship to Health? Alex McIntosh will contact Sage Publishing who does handbooks and see if they are interested. Please submit one page, single spaced abstracts for chapters (see below) to Chery Smith csmith@umn.edu, by February 2008. " Health meaning both community and individual. " Handbook audience: graduate students and academic researchers, health professionals, students of public health and food systems. Sections (sub sections not necessarily in this order): I. Introduction II. What is the Food System? A. Normal (conventional and retail) B. Safety Net (food shelves, shelters, etc.) C. Alternative (farmers markets, CSAs, barter trade, hunting, fishing, foraging, dumpster diving, etc.) D. Urban and rural different E. History of food system (see History of American Diet by Williamson) F. Conceptualizing food system III. What are the unanswered questions and issues around the relationships of health and food systems? a. Critique of current indicators of obesity b. Problematizing the obsession with obesity c. What is Well being? What are the variables that are being left out? d. Income/poverty relationship to health and well being e. Asset based health issues f. Food deserts? IV. How do we study it and answer these questions? What are the Methods? A. Quantitative i. Survey ii. Dietary intake iii. GIS b. Qualitative i. Focus groups ii. Interviews c. Analytical d. Multiple Methods e. Engaged Research f. Asset Based (as done by Ardyth & Cornelia Flora) Appreciative Inquiry V. Community solutions and examples a. Farm to School b. Farm to Institution c. Land based approach? VI. Conclusion

Members have worked togehter to idea generation in achieving the goals of the project. The following are examples: For Objective #1: a. Want to address: Health disparities, racism, classism, access and other b. socioeconomic issues c. Policy contexts that enable and constraints d. Looking at 2 variables: Food consumption patterns and obesity e. What national data? Focus groups for at risk people, f. Generally how food environments impact health Decision to do some preliminary local focus groups in each members community around national and regional patterns of health: How do people change their consumption patterns? A. Look at: a. qualitative food consumption patterns b. generational differences c. How and where to people access foods and what percentage from where? d. Underground, CSAs, Conventional Retail, Etc. e. What are you doing for food? f. What are you eating as healthy food? What are your perceptions of what is healthy food? g. Where do you get healthy food as opposed to where you get unhealthy food? h. How do you make your food decisions of what to buy? i. What are health outcomes of choices and changes? j. How are people managing? k. What would make you change your food choices? l. What are barriers for you in the food system? m. What changes have you made and why did you change, and what keeps you on track? n. What do you see as solutions in your own community to help you and others access more healthy foods. B. Goal to hold at least X groups in each community with X participants to help build a national data set of 500. C. Have set of standardized questions for all regions, and each region can also add a few of their own local questions. D. 90 minute focus groups E. Also take height and weights. F. Possibility to do longitudinal study with grant funding later. G. Phil Howard interested in doing study on CSA members, comparing CSA members and Non members (same socio economic status) in BMI, blood pressure, Decision making processes around food and health. Offering to see if there are benefits to offer to more populations who are currently excluded from CSAs. Collaborate with agencies to offer CSA memberships to low income people. Offer whole picture, food, cooking classes, etc. H. Possibility of further studies to compare the patterns of food environment, like Farm to College, Farm to Institution, Farm to School, after school programs, youth programs, school snack programs  and see what effect they may have. Objectives 2 and 3 - ideas: A. Study how retail options (where cash changes hands) within food environments influence food consumption patterns and obesity rates controlling for individual dietary patterns. B. GIS- how food systems laid out in certain communities C. Food environment in communities D. Transportation/spacial issues E. Price of food in retail market, comparatively in areas different populations live\ F. Prepared v.s. fresh foods available and accessible  and price G. Temporal permanence of stores v.s. CSAs, Seasonal Farmers markets H. Collaborate with Health Department in Alameda County Food Bank and Policy and Law Institute  Oakland CA? They have Kellogg Grant  we could do retail overlay with health indicators? I. GIS Planning assistance to community planners: what is the state of the food environment (happening in Santa Cruz County  Phil Howard and Brian Fulfrost working on that study). J. Surrogate measures: assessment of community health generationally  looking especially at the enculturation of food values K. Do GIS overlay on focus groups in counties (that would be part II) L. Look at interpolators M. Analytical Literature review  critical analysis and/or identifying certain areas that we dont know anything about. N. Different perspectives on decision making from different fields(individual, family, ecosystem) The member worked jointly and independently to obtain grant to accomplish the goals in this project: The Impact of Acculturation on Dietary Intake and Body Mass Index among Hmong Children. Smith C. MAES/CHE administrative fund. $90,000. 10/07-9/09 Assessment of shopping behavior among urban homeless, urban and rural low-income Minnesotans. Smith C., $55,000. 10/06-9/07 Resolving the Social Factors Influencing Variable Compliance and Risk Communication in Foreign Animal Disease Defense Programs. CSREES ($362,990). A. McIntosh as lead PI. School-Based Obesity Project. A project that is part of a center grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH). ($6,381,487). A. McIntosh as co-PI.

Feenstra, Gail and Thomas P. Tomich. 2007. Sustainable food systems link growers to new consumer markets in California, California Agriculture 61(4): p.146. Feenstra, Gail; Giraud, Deborah and Rilla, Ellie. 2007 "Farm-to-School Programs Link Rural/Urban Communities Promoting Collaboration and Civic Engagement." Annual Meeting Proceedings and Poster, Rural Sociology Society, San Jose, CA.. Salazar, Melissa, Gail Feenstra and Jeri Ohmart. Salad days: Using visual methods to study childrens food culture (pp. 423-437). In Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik (Eds.) Food and Culture: A Reader. Florence, KY: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group. Gillespie, Gilbert W., Jr., Duncan L. Hilchey, C. Clare Hinrichs and Gail Feenstra. 2007. Farmers markets as keystones in rebuilding local and regional food systems (pp. 65-83). Chapter in C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyson (Eds.) Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Feenstra, Gail. 2007. The roles of farmers markets in fueling local economies. Gastronomic Sciences 1/07: 56-67. Kim, Karen, Wm. Alex McIntosh, Jeff Sobal, and Karen S. Kubena. 2007. Religion, Social Support, Food-Related Social Support, Diet, Nutrition, and Anthropometrics in Elderly Individuals. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. Forthcoming. Scott, Amanda, Debra Reed, Karen S. Kubena, and Wm. Alex McIntosh. 2007. Evaluation of a Group Administered 24-Hour Recall Method for Dietary Assessment. Journal of Extension. 45(1). McIntosh et al. 2008. Feedlot Veterinarians Moral beliefs, Instrumental Beliefs regarding Antimicrobial Use in Feedlot Cattle. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Forthcoming. Kim, Mi Jeong, William A McIntosh, Jenna Anding, Debra, Reed, and Karen Kubena. 2008. Parenting Styles&.and Childrens Nutrition. Maternal and Child Nutrition. Revise and resubmit. Sobal, Jeff and McIntosh. 2008. Globalization and obesity. In Globalization of Food. Forthcoming. Bustillos, Brenda, Joseph Sharkey, Jenna Anding, and Alex McIntosh. 2007. Availability of Healthful Foods in Rural Areas: A Challenge to Older Adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the Federation of Experimental Biology. May 1, Washington, DC (poster). Creel, Jennifer, Joseph Sharkey, Jenna Anding, and Alex McIntosh. 2007. The Availability of Healthy Food Options in Fast Food Outlets in Six Rural Counties. Presented at the annual meeting of the Federation of Experimental Biology. May 1, Washington, DC (poster). McIntosh, Alex. 2007. Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Physical Health of American Children at the meeting of the George Society, Minneapolis, April 19. McIntosh, Wm. Alex. 2007. AFSF after 20 Years, Food Studies at 10 Years: A Roundtable Assessment. Association for the Study of Food and Society, Victoria, CA: June 5th. Jesheng, Jan, William A. McIntosh, Wesley Dean, and Morgan Scott. 2007 The Relationship between Moral Obligations to Others and Others Influence in Decisions to Utilize Antibiotics in Feedlot Cattle at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Santa Clara, CA. August 1. Davis, Jennifer, William A. McIntosh, Wesley Dean, and Morgan Scott. 2007. Trust and Confidence in Antibiotic Use by Referent Others in the Feedlot Industry: A Feedlot Owner/Operator - Feedlot Veterinarian Perspective at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Santa Clara, CA. August 1. Smith C, Richards R. Dietary intake, overweight status, and perceptions of food insecurity among homeless Minnesotan youth. Am J Hum Bio. 2008, in press. Richards R, Smith C. Environmental, parental, and personal influences on food choice, access, and overweight status among homeless children. Soc Sci Med. 2007;65:1572-83. Lautenschlager L, Smith C. Understanding gardening and dietary habits among youth garden participants using the Theory of Planned Behavior. Appetite. 2007; 49:122-130. Schrvyer T, Smith C, Wall M. Self-identities and BMI of Minnesotan soy consumers and non-consumers. Obesity Research. 2007;15:1101-1106. Lautenschlager L, Smith C. Beliefs, knowledge, and values held by inner-city youth about gardening, nutrition, and cooking. Ag and Hum Values. 2007;24 (2):245-258.