Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Objective 1: Participants discussed their work related to Objective 1 (Collaborate with local food system stakeholders and food citizensto identify high priority information needs and the forms in which information should be shared). It was decided that all project participants working on this objective should send written information on their methodologies or procedures used within the framework of Objective 1 should be sent to Mike Hamm, who in turn will post them on the projects Blackboardsite, hosted by Beth Barham of the University of Missouri.

Objective 2: Participants working on Objective 2 ( Identify and analyze ongoing and potential forces that are maintaining or transforming the relationships between localities and their food systems) summarized their progress in meeting this objective. They reiterated the utility of the incorporated comparisons methodology for research related to this objective. It was decided that project participants working on this objective will send Beth Barham a list of the most significant trends or forces effecting localities and food systems in their state. The time frame should extend back to at least 1975.

Objective 3: Participants discussed their work related to Objective 3 (Examine the diverse strategies employed by local food system stakeholders to create and manage ongoing and potential change in the food system). It was agreed that participants working on this objective would address the eleven questions articulated in the project proposal. It was decided that brief, preliminary answers to these questions for the respective states would be sent to Viviana Carro-Figueroa.

Objective 4: Participants working on Objective 4 (Document and assess the economic, environmental and social impacts of efforts to create and manage ongoing and potential change in the food system) summarized their work related to this objective. Because the objective involves a new research approach for most participants, it was agreed that more needs to be done in pursuit of this objective by individual states before decisions could be made on how best to coordinate activities of the states involved.

Much was accomplished during the year toward the milestones of making progress meeting Objective 1. Research protocols were developed by each of the states working on this objective and applied in at least some preliminary research. The decision to share the methodologies developed in a common location will facilitate the sharing of information across the states. Moreover, the several publications were produced involving collaborations of researchers in different states (see below).

Project participants also collaborated with food system stakeholders and food citizens in their respective states. Examples include (1) the organization of the fifth annual Food For Thought festival and the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Project for three elementary schools in Wisconsin; (2) sponsoring a Food Summit in Minnesota that brought together various stakeholders of local food systems in the state; (3) posting of foodshed reports on a website maintained by California project members; (4) conducting focus groups with stakeholders in Puerto Rico; (5) formation of the Community, Food, and Agriculture Program (CFAP) at Cornell University in New York; and, (6) surveys of farmers market participants by project members in Michigan and Kansas.

Bells, A.C. and M.W. Hamm. 2003. International Effects On and Inspiration for Community Food Security Policies and Practices in the U.S. Critical Public Health, 13(2):107-123.

Bellows, A.C. and M.W. Hamm. 2003. U.S.-Based Community Food Security: Influences, Practice, Debate. Journal for the Study of Food and Society 6(1)31-44.

Bingen, Jim. 2002. Guest Editor. Shaping our Agro-Food System: Whose Standards Count? Guest Editor Observations. Special Issue. Agriculture and Human Values. 19, 4 (Winter): 279-281.

Bingen, Jim, and Andile Siyengo. 2002. Standards and Corporate Reconstruction in the Michigan Dry Bean Industry. Agriculture and Human Values. 19, 4 (Winter): 311-323.

Bingen, Jim. 2002. Michigan Organic: Power in Making the Numbers Known. Michigan Organic Connections. IX, 5: 1, 3. (September/October).

Bingen, Jim. 2003. Making Our Voice Heard. Michigan Organic Connections. X,2: 1, 6 (April/May/June).

Carro-Figueroa, V. 2002. Agricultural Decline and Food Import Dependency in Puerto Rico: A Historical Perspective on the Outcomes of Postwar Farm and Food Policies. Caribbean Studies 30 (2):77-107.

Carro-Figueroa, V. 2002. Global Trade and Technological Change in Roots and Tubers: The Case of Puerto Rico. Pp. 68-78 in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society. Lamentin, Martinique: AMADEPA-CFCS.

Carro-Figueroa, V. and A. Guptill. 2003. Emerging Farmers Markets and the Globalization of Food Retailing: A Perspective from Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Paper presented in the 2003 joint meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Austin, Texas, June 15.

DeLind, Laura, and Jim Bingen. 2003. Be Careful What You Wish For: Democratic Challenges and Political Opportunities for the Michigan Organic Community. Paper presented for our session, Searching for the C Word: Michigan Cases in Civic Agriculture at the joint meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, June 12-15, 2003, Austin TX. Revised version accepted for publication in Clare Hinrichs and Tom Lyson (eds.) Remaking the North American Food System.

DeLind, Laura B. 2002. Community Supported Agriculture 2002: The State of the Art in Michigan. National Farmers Union, Economic and Cooperative Development.

DeLind, Laura B. 2003. Chapter 11: Considerably More than Vegetables, A Lot Less than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture, in Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed, Jane Adams, ed., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp.192-206.

DeLind, Laura B. 2002. Place, Work, and Civic Agriculture: Common Fields for Cultivation. Agriculture and Human Values 19(3): 217-224.

Feenstra, Gail, Christopher Lewis, C. Clare Hinrichs, Gilbert Gillespie, Jr., and Duncan Hilchey. 2003. Entrepreneurial outcomes and enterprise size in U.S. retail farmers markets. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 18(1): 46-55.

Feenstra, Gail, Jeri Ohmart and David Chaney; with contributions from Mark Mulcahy and Kris Pustina. 2003. Selling Directly to Restaurants and Retailers.
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cdpp/selldirect.pdf. University of California, Davis: UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program.

Gandee, Jesse. 2003. Modeling Direct Farm marketing in West Virginia: A Spatial, Policy, and Profit Analysis. M.S. Thesis. West Virginia University [http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2842].

Gandee, J., G. DSouza, and C. Brown. 2003. The Role of Spatial and Demographic Characteristics in Direct Farm Marketing: An Econometric Approach. Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30.

Gillespie, Gilbert W., C. Clare Hinrichs, Gail W. Feenstra, and Duncan L. Hilchey. 2003. Farmers Markets: (Re)Building a Better Food System Infrastructure through Small Business Incubation. Joint annual meetings of Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and Association for the Study of Food and Society, Austin, Texas, June 12-15.

Hamm, M.W. 2003. Shifting From Food as a Commodity to Food as a Community, Proceedings of the Farm to School Cafeteria Partnerships Conference (Ithaca, NY), p. 111-115.

Hamm, M.W. and D. Fischer. 2003. Lessons from K through 12 Farm-to-School Projects. Proceedings of the Farm to School Cafeteria Partnerships Conference (Ithaca, NY), p. 92-93.

Hamm, M.W. and Bellows, A.C. 2003. Community Food Security and Nutrition Educators. Journal of Nutrition Education 35(1):37-43.

Hinrichs, C. Clare, Gilbert W. Gillespie and Gail W. Feenstra. 2003. Social learning and innovation at retail farmers‘ markets. Rural Sociology. Accepted for publication.

Hinrichs, C. Clare, and Rick Welsh. 2003. The effects of the industrialization of U.S. livestock agriculture on promoting sustainable production practices. Agriculture and Human Values 20: 125-141.

Hinrichs, C. Clare. 2003. The practice and politics of food system localization. Journal of Rural Studies 19(1): 33-45.

Hinrichs, C. Clare. 2003. Putting (Which) Actors in (What) Place: Dilemmas in Locating Local Food. Annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Montreal, Quebec, July 27-29.

Jaffee, Daniel, Jack Kloppenburg, and Mario Monroy. 2003 . Bringing the moral charge home: fair trade within the North and within the South. Forthcoming in Rural Sociology.

Lass, Daniel, G.W. Stevenson, John Hendrickson, and Kathy Ruhf. 2003. CSA Across the Nation: Findings from the 1999 CSA Survey. A report published by the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, UW-Madison, November.

Lyson, Thomas A. 2002. Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable agriculture. Trends in Biotechnology 20:193-196.

Lyson, Thomas A. and Amy Guptill. (forthcoming). Commodity agriculture, civic agriculture and the future of U.S. farming. Rural Sociology.

Lyson, Thomas A. 2003. Civic agriculture. In Encyclopedia of Community. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Lyson, Thomas A. 2003. Agricultural scale and community quality. In Encyclopedia of Community. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Peters C, Fick G, Wilkins J. 2003. Forging a link between agriculture and nutrition: can the Food Pyramid help translate dietary recommendations into agricultural goals? Agronomy Journal. Nov/Dec.

Peters CJ, Bills N, Wilkins JL, and Smith RD. 2003. Fruit Consumption, Dietary Guidelines and Agricultural Production in New York State - Implications for Local Food Economies. Research Bulletin 2003-02, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. http://aem.cornell.edu/research/researchpdf/rb0302.pdf

Stevenson, G.W. and Holly Born. 2003. The Red Label Poultry System in France: Lessons for Renewing an Agriculture-of-the-Middle in the U.S. Submitted for inclusion in the edited book, Remaking the North American Food System.

Stevenson, G. W. and Kathy Ruhf, Sharon Lezberg, and Kate Clancy. 2003. Warrior, Builder, and Weaver Work: Exploring Change Strategies in the North American Food System. Submitted for inclusion in the edited book, Remaking the North American Food System.

Stouder, Heather, Jack Kloppenburg, and Sara Tedeschi. 2003. The Potential of Public Schools in Madison, Wisconsin, as Markets for Local Fresh Fruits and Vegetables: Assessing the Myths and Realities of Seasonality, Price, Transaction Costs, and Prep Labor. A report prepared for the North Central Initiative on Small Farm Profitability, October.