Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The meeting began with the usual reports on project members recent work. Next was a presentation by a speaker, 

Presenter:Diane Peck, MPH, RDN Early Care and Education (ECE) Obesity Prevention Coordinator DHSS Section of Chronic

 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion:  presentation on “Food System in Alaska”. 

 Next a presentation of the survey the members of NC1196 to determine their present status on the project and their feautre plans for remaining on the project. Virginie  Zoumenou and Hector Santiago presented the results of the survey. Comments and inputs included the following:

• In order to help members to participate in person, the Annual Meetingtime will rotate between Spring
• and  Fall (one year Spring, One year Fall etc.).

2-      The annual meeting will  also include an online participation.

• For a better collaboration and better networking, we decided to create a website. This website will include
• the NC1196 information and the members’ information.

4-      Christine Cooker, Maya Vadiveloo, Melissa Prescott, and Bhagyashree Katare will take the lead on the website

         development. Christine and her team will send to the group the website information.

5-      For better collaboration, it was suggested to organize other meetings between annual meetings.

6-      Collaboration on group projects or on publications were suggested.  

 We then briefly discussed how about to begin to develop a new project in order for our work together can contine. McIntosh encouraged the members to think about what their research plans are for the next few years. Once these are discussed this may make it easier to create new objectives for the nex project. 

Annual meeting in Texas

• The 2019 annual meetingwill be at College Station TX in Fall
• The meetingin Texas will focus on the new proposal.Next we visited Seeds of Change. A non-profit organizations that growth food plants indoors.

  At the annual meeting of the Associateion for the Study of Food and Society

  Panel Presentations and Roundtable Discussion:

  • Panel Presentations:

  On Thursday, we had two successful panels. The audience was very interested by each panel discussion. It was very interesting

  • Roundtable Discussion:

  We had the opportunity to provide the audience with a brief overview of NC1196 objectives. We also had the

  opportunity to learn about other NC USDA research groups present in the audience. We discussed successes

   and challenges related to NC USDA research groups.  We also shared strategies to overcome some challenges.

   Lessons learned from the roundtable discussion: more networking, group projects, and publications will

  Strength en the group.

  Some participants were interested in joining the NC1196 group.  

Activities: Some of our members made prsentations at the annual meeting of the Association and the Agriculture, Food and Values Assocation held in Ancorage Alaska at the University of Alasaka. We created these two panels: 

Panel l: NC1196 USDA Research Project Panel I

(Theme: Local, Regional, and Distant Food Systems)

Panel organizer & chair: Virginie Zoumenou, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

1. “Partnerships to Improve Child Diet Quality and Reduce Food Waste in Rural Schools,” Melissa Pflugh Prescott & Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ashley Hoffman & Pamela Haywood, University of Illinois Extension; Nader Hamdi & Jennifer McCaffrey, University of Illinois Extension
2. “Sociodemographic Differences in the Dietary Quality of Food Purchases among Participants in the Nationally-Representative Food Acquisition and Purchase Study (FoodAPS),” Maya Vadiveloo & Haley Parker, University of Rhode Island; Filippa Juul & Niyati Parekh, NYU
3. “Farms to Food Banks - How to Improve Food Security and Improve Food Systems at the Same Time,” Alison Gustafson, University of Kentucky; Tamara Sandberg & Sarah Vaughn, Kentucky Association of Food Banks; Janet Mullins, University of Kentucky

Panel 2: NC1196 USDA Research Project: Panel II: Understanding the Relationship Between Food Systems and Ecological Systems

(Theme: Local, Regional, and Distant Food Systems)

Panel Organizer & Chair: Virginie Zoumenou, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

1. “Ecological Health Index: A Short Term Monitoring Method for Land Managers to Assess Grazing Lands Ecological Health,” Sutie Xu & Jason Rowntree, Michigan State University; Pablo Borrelli, Ovis 21; Jennifer Hodbod & Matt R. Raven, Michigan State University
2. “The Body in the Ad Revisited: Methodological,” William A McIntosh, Billy Brocato & Marissa Cisneros,Texas A&M University
3. “Communicating Across Perspectives: Food Systems, Health, and Well-being,” Ardyth Gillespie, Harrisdale Homestead

Publicathions: five publicatons that are connected to our objectives were publiched this year. These are listed below. 

Miller, Michael, Gerad Middendorf, Spencer Wood, Sonya Lutter, Scott Jones, and Brian Lindshield. 2019. “Food Insecurity and Assistance on Campus: A Survey of the Student Body.” Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy Vol. 14: Iss. 2 https://doi.org/10.4148/1936-0487.1097

 Campbell, Amber, Terrie Becerra, Gerad Middendorf, and Peter Tomlinson. 2019. “Climate Change Beliefs, Concerns and Attitudes of Beef Cattle Producers in the Southern Great Plains.” Climatic Change, 152 (1): 35-46.

Brinkley, Catherine. 2019. "Cities as Coral Reefs." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109(5):1541-1559.

Brinkely, Catherine. 2019. "If You Build It with Them, They Willl Come: What Makes a Supermarket Intervention Successful in a Food Desert?" Journal of Public Affairs 19:e1863.  

Brinkley, Catherine. 2019. "Energy Next Door: A Meta-Analysis of Energy Infrastructure Impact on Housing Value." Energy and Social Science 50:51-65. 

Katare, B. and Chakrovorty, S., 2019. "Association between environmental factors and BMI: evidence from recent immigrants from developing countries." Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(1), p.15. 

Katare, B., Wetzstein, M. and Jovanovic, N., 2019. "Can economic incentive help in reducing food waste: experimental evidence from a university dining hall." Applied Economics Letters, pp.1-4.