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Moreover, field men visits can provide a source of information and a familiar contact through which producers could “negotiate contract terms, share technical information, estimate expected yields, and maintain a presence to ensure that the contract will be renewed” The use of field men … Continue reading →

It will be crucial to see if the benefits of NURTURE that I saw evidence for in my interviews carry over now that NURTURE is a module within Global G.A.P., or whether the character of those interactions and the high quality … Continue reading →

At the federal level, the US Food and Drug Administration establishes rules and sets general regulations that apply to all producers in all US states. In California, the California Department of Public Health and California Department of Food and Agriculture undertake guidance, inspection … Continue reading →

In the UK, high profile food safety concerns and a new focus on food safety began with the emergence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or “mad cow” disease in British cattle from 1986 onward. The BSE crisis, along with and later scares … Continue reading →

Groups of thought and practice as disparate as the California organic movement, the Italian slow food movement, the eat-local phenomenon, low-carbon diets, geographically protected traditional denominations of origin like Champagne and Parma ham reflecting ideals of quality, and proponents of … Continue reading →

In the current study, the majority of Enterococcus spp. isolates that were susceptible to macrolides were found in hospital cows, similar to previous work demonstrating that Enterococcus resistance to macrolides was found in isolates from clinical animals. Moreover, all MDR … Continue reading →

Key practices such as no-till farming, optimal use of biomass , groundwater recharge, and substitution of chemical inputs for natural processes require further place-based research in order to develop and disseminate “best practices” for large scale operations through farmer-to-farmer and … Continue reading →

At the same time, in exploring the radical democratic politics of groups like Food-Not-Bombs, Heynen describes the kind of anarchist philosophy of mutual aid and cooperativism through food sharing that we see in the East Bay agroecosystem. Farms are not … Continue reading →

Supermarket access studies demonstrate mixed results on whether providing a supermarket alone is sufficient to resolve problems of “food deserts”; in fact, supermarkets can contribute to displacement through “supermarket greenlining” . Critical scholarship in the food desert literature finds that … Continue reading →

Doug Benoliel and Tamara Buchanan are among the most knowledgeable and skilled people to be producing and distributing diverse vegetables to the Lopez Island food bank . After 25 years of running a successful plant nursery in Kirkland, WA, the … Continue reading →