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Civic agriculture in review [PDF]
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 “Civic agriculture,” a term first coined by rural sociologist Thomas Lyson, refers to forms of agriculture that occur on a local level, from production to consumption, and are linked to a community’s social and economic development.
Allison Kaika, Alexis Racelis
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Urban Agriculture Education and Youth Civic Engagement in the U.S.: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Urban agriculture education is increasingly used to foster civic engagement among youth. To better understand empirical research on this topic, we analyzed peer-reviewed journal articles that focus on civic engagement among high-school-age students in ...
Alex Russ, Madeline B. Gaus
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Back to Basics: Is Civic Agriculture the Solution to Food Deserts in Texas?
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2015 Fair access to fresh fruits and vegetable is an important aspect of a healthy civil society. This study investigates the potential of farmers markets to transform food deserts of Texas into oases. Data for age, sex, race, income, grocery store access, and farmers markets in Texas were obtained from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic ...
Faye Anderson
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How Civic Is It? Success Stories in Locally Focused Agriculture in Maine
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 2006 Short food supply chains (SFSCs) and civic agriculture are emerging as promising means to support small and medium-sized farms, revitalize rural communities and transform producer/consumer relationships. To find out more about SFSCs and civic agriculture in Maine and to examine factors that promote their success, this study interviewed 31 successful ...
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Civic Agriculture: Towards a Local Food Web for Sustainable Urban Development
APCBEE Procedia, 2012 AbstractThe past decades have seen an accumulating body of studies assessing the benefits of smaller-scale enterprises on the level of civic and community welfare in the United States and elsewhere. In the context of producing subsistence, agriculture practice is now under a transition from large scale commodity enterprises to small scale self ...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Celebrating new farmers and gardeners
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022 First paragraphs: In this issue, we celebrate the extraordinary contributions that new farmers and gardeners make to their host communities. Immigrant farmers and gardeners, military vet farmers, young BIPOC farmers … all are increasingly joining the
Duncan Hilchey
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Towards a post-capitalist-politics of food: cultivating subjects of community economies
ACME, 2012 Agriculture is an increasingly capitalized and industrialized enterprise that has resulted in the alienation of consumers from the process of food production.
Amy Trauger, Catarina Passidomo
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Everyday Democracy and Civic Agriculture
Innovation in the Social Sciences, 2023 Abstract This article develops the concept of “everyday democracy” by analyzing how a community-supported agriculture organization in Taiwan (CSA-TWN) practices economic democracy. First, it illustrates how democracy is learned and practiced in daily interactions with the logics of “equality” and “collective decision-making”. Second, it argues that
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In This Issue: Planners Coming to the Table
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 In this issue, “Planners Coming to the Table,” we focus on how the planning community has come in recent years to embrace food systems as a legitimate focus of their profession.
Duncan Hilchey
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Community farming in Northern Ireland
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentThis paper explores the extent to which community farming can be a component of a community-based circular food system. Community farming is part of a broader pattern of civic agriculture, whereby more localized food production and consumption are ...
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