Rethinking Food System Transformation

This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food System conference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system. The research presented at this symposium shows the diverse range of approaches scientists have taken to investigate this aforementioned question. The papers represent a combined effort to creatively educate, share, and connect work being done by stakeholders on food system transformation.
Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, issue 4, December 2019

Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship. - Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement. -Pockets of peasantness: small-scale agricultural producers in the Central Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. - Action research on organizational change with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: a regional food bank s efforts to move beyond charity. - Gardens and Green Spaces: placemaking and Black entrepreneurialism in Cleveland, Ohio. - Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative. - To save the bees or not to save the bees: honey bee health in the Anthropocene.