The State of the World's Arable Land

L Olsson, F Cotrufo, T Crews, J Franklin… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For millennia, agriculture has been shaping landscapes on Earth. Technological change
has increased agricultural productivity dramatically, especially in the past six decades, but …

Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic

A Marusak, N Sadeghiamirshahidi, CC Krejci… - Agricultural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context The US food supply system relies heavily on vertically-integrated food supply chains
(FSCs), which leverage large-scale production, streamlined operations, and centralized …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking sustainability? The power of corporate lock-ins and how they shape digital agriculture in Germany

S Hackfort - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
The digital transformation of agriculture is widely presented as a path to sustainability and a
win-win strategy that benefits the environment, farmers, and consumers alike. However …

Why Do We Need Food Systems Informatics? Introduction to This Special Collection on Smart and Connected Regional Food Systems

TP Tomich, C Hoy, MR Dimock, AD Hollander… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Public interest in where food comes from and how it is produced, processed, and distributed
has increased over the last few decades, with even greater focus emerging during the …

Good for the soil, but good for the farmer? Addiction and recovery in transitions to regenerative agriculture

JA Miller-Klugesherz, MR Sanderson - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
While the ecological benefits of regenerative agriculture (RA) are becoming clearer, its
effects on farmers themselves are less well-understood. This paper's aim is to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming the Corn Belt: A recipe for collaborative, farmer-driven research and diffusion of innovation

L Asprooth, M Norton, R Galt - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Practical Farmers of Iowa is a unique and longstanding farmer-to-farmer network
with a history of driving the use of sustainable practices like cover cropping and low …

(Re) commoning food and food systems. The contribution of social innovation from solidarity economy

A Rossi, M Coscarello, D Biolghini - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
The need for a transition to sustainable food systems is widely recognised. Over the last
three decades, movements have been demanding and proposing a radical transformation …

[HTML][HTML] Hungry for power: Financialization and the concentration of corporate control in the global food system

L Keenan, T Monteath, D Wójcik - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
The global food system is in crisis. Climate change, ecological degradation, and economic
and military conflict have exposed significant vulnerabilities in how the world produces …

“Protein” industry convergence and its implications for resilient and equitable food systems

PH Howard, F Ajena, M Yamaoka… - Frontiers in sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent years have seen the convergence of industries that focus on higher protein foods,
such as meat processing firms expanding into plant-based substitutes and/or cellular meat …

From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture

L Ashwood, A Pilny, J Canfield, M Jamila… - Agriculture and Human …, 2022 - Springer
Critics charge that agriculture has reached an unsustainable level of consolidation and
expropriation, as exemplified by the supply-chain breakdown of the COVID-19 pandemic …