Research & Reports
This page features timely research and reports focused on food justice, race and equity, agriculture, fisheries, and related food system issues.
Some but not all U.S. metro areas could grow all needed food locally, estimates study
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Originally published in Tufts Now. Researchers estimate potential for locally sourced food based on land needs for different diets A new modeling study finds that urban centers in green could
Health care procurement can heal the supply chain
Thursday, 23 July 2020
New guide published by FSNE network partner Health Care Without Harm. A groundbreaking new guide available for GGHH members, featuring stories from 25 health care organizations around the globe, offers
Food Solutions Forum: Overview & Toolkit
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Policy matters. Elections matter. All our work to build a stronger, healthier and more just food system could be for nought if our efforts are not made more durable through
Towards an equity competency model for sustainable food systems education programs
Monday, 20 July 2020
Authors Will Valley, Molly Anderson, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Eleanor Sterling, Erin Betley, Sharon Akabas, Pamela Koch, Colin Dring, Joanne Burke, Karen Spiller Abstract Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have
- Published in Food Justice & Equity, Racial Equity Challenge, Research and Reports
Perennial vegetables: A neglected resource for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and nutrition
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Eric Toensmeier, Rafter Ferguson, Mamta Mehra (Published: July 10, 2020 on https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234611) Abstract: Perennial vegetables are a neglected and underutilized class of crops with potential to address 21st century challenges. They represent 33–56%
Northeast SARE preproposal deadline coming up 7/23
Thursday, 09 July 2020
Originally shared by Deb Heleba of Northeast SARE on the NESAWG Listserv. I’m sending a reminder that Northeast SARE is currently accepting preproposals for its Research and Education, Professional Development,
Farms Under Threat: The State of the States
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
From FSNE network partners American Farmland Trust For 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has used high-quality research to demonstrate the need to protect farmland and ranchland—and to provide solutions.
Misunderstandings, myths and mantras in aquaculture: Its contribution to world food supplies has been systematically over reported
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Abstract This paper re-evaluates the contributions to global food supplies of ‘aquatic animal-source food’ from aquaculture and capture fisheries, and ‘terrestrial animal-source food’ from livestock farming. Three common misunderstandings in
- Published in Fisheries, Research and Reports
Local Food in COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
From the National Farm to School Network Schools and early care and education (ECE) sites have always been a vital access point for meals for children. During this emergency, the
- Published in COVID-19, Networks & Network Weaving, Research and Reports
Leveling the Fields: Opportunities for Black People, Indigenous People, and Other People of Color
Friday, 19 June 2020
By Union of Concerned Scientists and the H.E.A.L. Food Alliance Farming offers a powerful path to build community wealth and resilience to challenges such as water pollution, droughts and floods,
The People’s Agroecology Process: Unlocking Our Power Through Agroecology
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Cross-posted from WhyHunger.org The People’s Agroecology Process emerged in 2015 as a grassroots-led initiative to scale out agroecology in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. It was inspired by
New England Food Hub Network: Exploring Options To Enhance Food Hub Collaboration & Increase New England Farm To Institution Sales
Thursday, 22 March 2018
https://www.farmtoinstitution.org/blog/fine-report-explores-new-england-food-hub-network
- Published in News & Announcements, Research and Reports
A deeper Challenge of Change: The role of land-grant universities in assessing and ending structural racism in the US food system
Monday, 26 February 2018
http://asi.ucdavis.edu/networks/infas/a-deeper-challenge-of-change-the-role-of-land-grant-universities-in-assessing-and-ending-structural-racism-in-the-us-food-system
- Published in News & Announcements, Racial Equity Challenge, Research and Reports
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