Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Part of the meeting was devoted to a symposium "Food Insecurity: Assessing Disparities, Consequences, and Policies" that took place. " CY comments: thanks Sandy for hosting. Good symposium. Does the group need new people? AES is investing resources in these multi-state projects to (a) reduce duplication, (b) encourage collaboration, especially interdisciplinary collaboration. Good show case for interdisciplinary work. Food and healthcritical issue. 14 AES stations currently listed, but necessarily involved. CY says group could be bigger. We could recruit new members, especially from other land grants. Reduce duplication, push science forward, and return in investment. 60 day deadline to turn in report. Official and unofficial ways to recruit new members. " Cindy: no Hatch funds to invite more people to project. However, you could write AFRI grant and include funds for community leaders to invite them to participate in project. " Patricia: thanks Sandy for great symposium. " Sandy: has been working on the symposium, also a large AFRI project, food security related AFRI project. Holistic approach, including interventions, food pantry clients, infrastructure, etc. Has raised awareness in the College of Ag regarding Food insecurity issues. Lot of client households either are or were gardeners. Looking at local food production by pantries. As a result, MU will have its first food policy position. " Patricia: moving from UC Santa Cruz to Marylhurst University. Small private liberal arts college near Portland. Will be starting up a Masters program in food studies. Hybrid program, will focus on intersection between theory and practice. Finishing up other research on food localization. Qualitative study on food system labor. How it continues to be a system that is rigidly organized around race, class, gender, citizenship. Working on food justice issues. " Darcy: works with SC State, which is a land grant, working in food security in rural SC. " Virginie: project with Headstart children, trying to introduce fresh foods and healthy lifestyles to children. Uses stories, visual tools, high tunnels. Children do planting, etc. Also doing some work in Ghana. " Alex: continued to analyze parent and child time data, focusing on food consumption at home and away from home, on weekends and weekdays, by combinations of various family members; wrote a proposal with Virginie on the shared experience of food insecurity by mothers and children from the same household. The proposal was submitted to USDA but was not funded. " Natural Resources at MU. Documenting efforts like this at MU. " Cindy Reeves: National program leader at NIFA. She is our liaison. Hopes to be more involved in the coming year. Has received Hatch proposals. As we move forward, we need to send updated IRB approvals. Looking forward to the annual report. With Sonny Ramaswamy, he has understanding of the land grant system. Wants to see more social and behavioral sciences in all funding requests that come in. Can take a proactive role in adjusting program priorities in AFRI. S-COP group went through RFAs, and looked at how to include social sciences. Need to look at the new foundational RFA that was just released. Ag Econ and rural communities. " Need to look at the RFA? What area or areas are of interest? Contributions: " Concentration of experience in food insecurity " Broader examinations of food systems " Intersection of analysis and action " Translation of research " Smart outliers " Citizen science (e.g., photovoice, video, narrative, insider/outsider voices, etc.) " LaDonna: witnesses to hunger. In her work, the farm workers and laborers have an issue with immigration status, so they are reluctant to say about their work conditions, if they were equipped with cameras, we would be able to see what they see. This would help her work at IATP " How food system impacts workers and creates health disparities and how they can be reduced/eliminated. " CY: where to fund this kind of work? Private foundations, non-profits, etc. would allow to combine " Cindy: AFRI: research, teaching, extension. This is the trend. Integrated project, multi-state, comprehensive. Must have strong components in two of three. Look at allocation of emphasis " Strength in the Teaching/training of students " Integrated project of graduate education " E-extension " Community commons at MU. Taking 20yrs of data and make it available more widely. The more people use it, the more useful it becomes. " Practice-based evidence: becoming more common. A bottom up model for evidence. What are people doing in communities that seem to be working to promote change? Taking exemplars in our areas (e.g., Roberts group in Tucson). Without funding? Maybe one exemplar in each area. What does success look like? How is it measured? Maybe small pilots. Pairing our students with placements in the field. Food systems methodology. " (New theory, new method). Could each person in the group write up exemplar in their areas? " Research question: What theories at the local level are driving the local community food security work? " What should we learn from the pilot study? What is the exemplar? How to sample? " Service learning: can we use service learning programs as a way to involve students in this project. The students in SC are paired with a CBO to do program evaluation. Integrate leadership theory. Students should be able to help NGOs advance their mission. Future of the project " We want to (and will) invite new people. Several of the presenters at the workshop appear to be people who might be interested in joining us. " Get issues of Journal of Rural Social Science. Explore the possibility of putting together a special issue (Gerad) " Also follow up on the idea of having a section in edited volume on Comm Food Security (Gerad) " AFRI: Nov 15 is deadline for letter of intent. This is the foundational grant. Deadline for full proposal is Feb 23 (We need to pull together the various relevant RFAs and related deadlines (Virginie?) " Ag Econ and Community Development: this was the focus of an AFRI? " Ask Ardy (or Virginie) to review NIFA RFAs, and send group info about deadlines, etc.

The symposium while sponsored by the University of Missouri was planned by one of the project members and several of the project members made presentations at the event. Groups members contributed to discussions that took place during in break-out sessions. Plans for the coming year include inviting additional faculty members located at Land Grant universities to join our project. Resubmit a proposal about methods by which family members communicate their perceptions of their families' food insecurity and methods of coping with this insecurity submitted to USDA last year will be resubmitted, possibly to NIH. Continue our search for a journal interested in allowing us space for a special issue regarding local food and local health.

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