Research – Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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Lunia E. Oriol

Circumpolar Northern Food Systems in a Changing World In the Circumpolar North, farming is generally limited due to its cold climate and short growing season. However, these trends may change. Due to climate change, these northern regions are warming at an accelerated rate, raising questions about future changes to land and water use patterns. In

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Macy Robinson

Farmville NC’s modern take on “Honoring Our Past, Shaping Our Future” through agribusiness transformation My hometown in eastern North Carolina has a long history of excellence in the tobacco industry. Over the past fifty years, however, the economic growth in Farmville began to stall and tobacco production began to shift to other areas of the

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Jack O’Brien

Finding the Magic; Creating shared space in an increasingly unequal and racially divided Ireland This project sought to summarize the socioeconomic upheaval that has transformed Ireland over the past thirty years in particular. Centering Muck and Magic community garden, the idea of community gardens as ‘embodying the radical imaginaries’ of a more equal, anti-racist Ireland

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Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification

Published originally here on March 27th, 2023. Jennifer Blesh, Zia Mehrabi, Hannah Wittman, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Dana James, Sidney Madsen, Olivia M. Smith, Sieglinde Snapp, Anne Elise Stratton, Mohamed Bakarr, Abram J. Bicksler, Ryan Galt, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Ingo Grass, Marney E. Isaac, Innocensia John, Sarah K. Jones, Christina M. Kennedy, Susanna Klassen,

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