Community-Campus Collaborations for Food Justice: Strategy, Successes and Challenges at a Teaching-Focused College

Swords, Alicia; Frith, Amy; Lapp, Julia

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.08a.009

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“…It makes little sense to ignore the spaces where many of us spend significant portions of our days, and to overlook the formative power of working with students. A growing literature on pedagogy for sustainable food systems points to the potential of community-based learning and community-partnered research courses for equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need to work with communities, NGOs, and frontline groups to catalyze structural change for racial justice and economic equity (Bradley, Gregory, Armstrong, Arthur, & Porter, 2018;Swords, Frith, & Lapp, 2018;Valley, Wittman, Jordan, Ahmed, & Galt, 2018;Valley et al, 2020). Diverse models and designs exist for such courses.…”

Section: Integrating Accountability and Participatory Research In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operating principles for collective scholar-activism: Early insights from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective

Wit

Shattuck

Iles

et al. 2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Scholar-activism is attractive to researchers who want not just to learn about the world, but about how to change that world. Agri-food studies have experienced a surge in the past two decades in researchers who see closer ties to social movements as key to food systems change. Yet to date, much scholar-activism depends on individually negotiated researcher-movement relationships, which may or may not be sustained long term and where knowledge can remain siloed. The Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC) seeks something different. Born of a desire to subordinate scholarship for scholarship’s sake to the needs and exigencies of movements, ARC envisages collective processes, horizontal non-exploitative learning among ourselves and with movements, and mechanisms for multidirectional accountability. This reflective essay is the story of how ARC set out to “get our house in order”: to organize ourselves as scholars committed to systematizing more accountable and reciprocal relationships with frontline communities and grassroots movements. We first share the Principles & Protocols that guide our actions and the process through which we developed them. We then discuss two interconnected arenas in which ARC is developing a community of practice guided by the Principles & Protocols. The first arena is through integrating participatory education into our everyday teaching and mentoring. The second arena is working to achieve broader social and institutional change by sharing methods and strategies for mobilizing resources and legitimating knowledge, both old and new.

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Section: Integrating Accountability and Participatory Research In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operating principles for collective scholar-activism: Early insights from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective

Wit

Shattuck

Iles

et al. 2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…Food security, the next largest category of studies, described inequitable access to healthy, affordable and culturally appropriate food and land. Terminology such as poor or unjust access to healthy and affordable food was most prominent, with terms such as food insecurity, food poverty, food apartheid, scarcity, hunger, right to food, food deserts, food sovereignty and community food security also used to imply challenges or solutions to accessing food (28,29,43,44,47,54,56,(59)(60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71)(72) .…”

Section: Thematic Analysis Of the Conceptualisations Of Food Justicementioning

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A scoping review of the conceptualisations of food justice

Murray

Gale

Adams

et al. 2023

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective The emerging concept of ‘food justice’ has been described as a movement and a set of principles that align with the goals of social justice, which demands recognition of human rights, equal opportunity, fair treatment, and is participatory and community specific. Considering its widespread use and variable definitions, this study establishes the scope of research by exploring diverse conceptualizations of food justice. Design A scoping review of peer-reviewed literature was conducted using the term “food justice”. This study used a five-step scoping review protocol. The databases included Scopus, Web of Science and Medline (OVID). Data were extracted on country of origin, research discipline, study type and conceptualizations of food justice. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify the themes. Results The search identified 546 abstracts of which 90 were peer-reviewed studies. Thematic analysis revealed five themes of food justice across 90 studies: 1) social equity, 2) food security 3) food systems transformation, 4) community participation and agency, and 5) environmental sustainability. Conclusions Current conceptualizations of food justice are evolving. Together these themes embrace a more holistic and structural view of the food system. They emphasize healthy, sustainable, and equitable food as a human right and acknowledge the need to address structural barriers to that right. Despite its 20-year history the parameters of food justice are still not well defined, making it difficult for communities to mobilize for transformative change. Community participation and agency in food justice decision-making are critical to create a healthy, sustainable, and more just food system.

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“…In addition, the extension office had a little additional funding to pay community-based leaders and mentors who accepted student interns. The faculty leading that effort at Ithaca College reflect deeply on their struggles and successes in striving for community-campus collaborations for food justice in this issue (Swords, Frith, & Lapp, 2018). They outline both the struggles and the unexpected benefits of coordinating internships.…”

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Fostering Formal Learning in the Food Dignity Project

Porter

2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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This short essay summarizes our formal higher education work in the Food Dignity project, with some initial reflections and questions that this work raised for me, and for many of our collaborators. 1 Food Dignity was a five-year action research collaboration dedicated to building community food systems that provide food security, sustainability, and equity. It was proposed and funded as an integrated program of research, extension, and education, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grant program for food security. Five food justice community-based organizations (CBOs) and four

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Community-Campus Collaborations for Food Justice: Strategy, Successes and Challenges at a Teaching-Focused College

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Operating principles for collective scholar-activism: Early insights from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective

Operating principles for collective scholar-activism: Early insights from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective

A scoping review of the conceptualisations of food justice

Fostering Formal Learning in the Food Dignity Project

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