Rethinking Food System Transformation

Contents
Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation—food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship
	Symposium contributions
	Conclusion and future directions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The mainstream U.S. “food movement” context: corporate agriculture and local food
	The food justice movement
	From West Oakland to Detroit: the case of black farmers
		The West Oakland farmers market
		The Detroit black community food security network
	Queer food justice activism in the eco-queer movement
		Queer youth programming at bushwick campus farm
		Queer farmers in Northern California
		Queer food justice activism
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Pockets of peasantness: small-scale agricultural producers in the Central Finger Lakes region of upstate New York
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Peasants in the United States?
	Subsistence production within the substantive economy
	Intrinsic and extrinsic conditions of farming
	Farming in the Central Finger Lakes Region in upstate New York
	Methodology and research design
	Self-sufficiency and co-sufficiency
	Community and cooperation
	Subsistence-oriented farming in a capitalist world
	Subsistence-orientation as social struggle
	Repeasantization in the Central Finger Lakes
	Conclusion and discussion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Action research on organizational change with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: a regional food bank’s efforts to move beyond charity
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Literature review
		Theories and definitions of hunger and poverty
		Economic crisis, growing inequality, and poverty: impacts in New York State
		The emergency food regime: critiques and contradictions
	Methods: action research for organizational change
	Findings
		Discursive change in FBST’s strategic plans
		Advocacy, education and its impacts on participants
		Phases of organizational change
			Phase 1
			Phase 2
			Phase 3
	Discussion and analysis of changes in organizational practices from 2008 to 2018
		Defining the problem and its solutions
	Conclusions
		Reflections about collaborative inquiry and AR
		Reflections on organizational change
		Implications
	Acknowledgements
	References
Gardens and Green Spaces: placemaking and Black entrepreneurialism in Cleveland, Ohio
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Literature review: community development, placemaking, and entrepreneurialism
		Placemaking and entrepreneurialism
		Placemaking and philanthropic capital
	Historical geographical background
	The gardens and green spaces pilot program
		Methods, data collection, and project evaluation
	Placemaking and entrepreneurship at the intersection of art, culture, and food
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
		Priority setting
		Implementation
		Outreach
	Seed to Kitchen success: connecting plant breeding to social movements for food system change
		Plant breeding for organic systems and regional agriculture
		Participatory research in organic and local food movements of the Global North
	Seed to Kitchen Opportunities: plant breeding, seed sovereignty and food justice
		Community seed sovereignty
		Intellectual property rights
		Food justice initiatives
		Ways forward
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
To save the bees or not to save the bees: honey bee health in the Anthropocene
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Anthropocene
	Honey bee health challenges
	Methods
		The conventional approach to honey bee health
		A more “natural” approach?
	Apiculture in the Anthropocene
		Novel ecologies and shifting baselines
		Hybridity
			Bees as “ghosts”
			Bees as “things”
			Bees as both?
		Not-so-natural selection and fitness
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References