Food Systems

OK! Final week of readings. This week will be some things on urban ag. For Tuesday: McClintock: From industrial garden to food desert McEntee: Realizing rural food justice For Thursday: Slater: Gender and urban ag McLees: Intersection and flow on open space farms  (yes! It's a chapter by me!)

Tuesday we talk about race in food movements. Guthman: Whiteness of alternative food Harper: Vegans of color Thursday, the mini briefs are due. Here is what I expect. We're have some intensive peer reviews on Thursday, so no readings. Here is an updated version of what to prep for the min-briefs Week 8, Tuesday May 22nd: Mini-briefs are due.  These should include an in-depth outline of the policy problem and outlines of the potential solutions. Bring two hard copies to class. These mini briefs should be a clear and in-depth look at your policy and include all the sections you expect to include in the final brief (see below). While you do not have to have every section fleshed-out, you should at least have a general outline with some depth and some ideas of where you're going. Remember to keep it at the right scale to address the problem. Think about how you are going to get buy-in, or encourage people who might otherwise oppose the policy to agree, or at last active...

This is an update to bring scientific eating to the modern day. Some interesting stuff on how the way we see nutrition has chanced in the US. Biltekoff: intro Biltekoff: Ch 5 Biltekoff: Cha6  Thursday we switched gears to social justice and food. Farmworker food insecurity Asian immigrants in California's agriculture.  The following questions are for assessment 2: Due Tuesday, May 22nd at 11:59pm For  three  out of  four  of the following prompts, write a 350-450 word response. If you answer more than three, only the first three will be graded. Graduate students need to answer all four. You will be graded on structure, coherency, spelling, grammar, how ideas relate to readings, using in-text citations, and properly citing sources at the end. Submit all questions in the same file and place all citations for both essays after the second essay. You do not need to start a new page for citations, just place them at the end of the text. Please make...

We're taking a tangent this week as we've been selected as a class to do a teaching interview with a visiting job candidate. His talk will be on food sovereignty and re-peasantization (yes, that's a thing now). Wittman et al: The origins and potential of food sovereignty Van der Ploeg, 2012: The role of peasants in the creation of an agri-ecological agriculture We will move back to milk on Thursday! Students will also spend time in class on their policy briefs, so please be working on those! Here are those milk readings Du Puis: The Milk Question  Du Puis: Perfect Milk, Perfect Bodies