Shepherding Community Engagement to Strengthen the Local Food System in Northeast Iowa

Enderton, Arlene E.; Bregendahl, Corry; Topaloff, Alice

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2017.072.011

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“…Pesticide use in the MS scenario is lower for Iowa growers than for those in other areas in the upper Midwest due to their smaller operations. Horticultural crop farms in Iowa are, on average, 3.20 ha, with a median size of 0.81 ha [74]. Among pesticides, fungicides are used sparsely, although insecticides and herbicides are more widely used [74].…”

Section: Mid-scale (Ms) Scenariomentioning

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“…Horticultural crop farms in Iowa are, on average, 3.20 ha, with a median size of 0.81 ha [74]. Among pesticides, fungicides are used sparsely, although insecticides and herbicides are more widely used [74]. We estimated pesticide use for each vegetable type based on the amount used in a "typical year" in Iowa by category (herbicide, fungicide, insecticide).…”

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A Life Cycle Assessment Approach for Vegetables in Large-, Mid-, and Small-Scale Food Systems in the Midwest US

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Although vegetables are important for healthy diets, there are concerns about the sustainability of food systems that provide them. For example, half of fresh-market vegetables sold in the United States (US) are produced in California, leading to negative impacts associated with transportation. In Iowa, the focus of this study, 90% of food is imported from outside the state. Previous life cycle assessment (LCA) studies indicate that food consumption patterns affect global warming potential (GWP), with animal products having more negative impacts than vegetables. However, studies focused on how GWP, energy, and water use vary between food systems and vegetable types are less common. The purpose of this study was to examine these environmental impacts to inform decisions to buy locally or grow vegetables in the Midwest. We used a life cycle approach to examine three food systems (large-, mid-, and small-scale) and 18 vegetables commonly grown in/near Des Moines, Iowa. We found differences in GWP, energy, and water use (p ≤ 0.001 for each) for the three food systems with the large-scale scenario producing more emissions. There were also differences among vegetables, with the highest GWP for romaine lettuce (1.92 CO2eq/kg vegetable) approximately three times that of leaf lettuce (0.65 CO2eq/kg vegetable) at the large scale. Hotspots and tradeoffs between GWP, energy, and water use were also identified and could inform vegetable production/consumption based on carbon and water use footprints for the US Midwest.

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“…While various methods of community engagement are used by mobile markets to build trust, researchers and funders focused on food systems are increasingly calling for more empowering forms of public participation in addressing food access and health disparities (Enderton, Bregendahl, and Topaloff 2017). In developing a mobile market that would be led by community members, local health organizations in Wyandotte County, Kansas, recruited residents to form the Mobile Market Community Council (MMCC) and introduced a shared governance framework to guide their collaborative decision-making process.…”

Section: The Dotte Mobile Grocermentioning

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Community Health Design: A Collaborative Framework for Improving Public Health Outcomes

KLEINMANN

2021

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The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought to light how public health outcomes are partially determined by governance and access to resources. In historically redlined communities, however, the availability and quality of neighborhood parks and grocery stores has been eroded by generations of disinvestment, leaving residents isolated as they work to build a healthier community. This paper shares the experiences of two community-led initiatives in Wyandotte County, Kansas, that have used community health design in collaborative settings to promote tangible improvements to green spaces and food systems during the pandemic.Both community health design case studies give context for how designers can reframe their methods of participation and collaboration and put them in service to community members who are closest to the issues being designed for. Building upon historical methods of participatory design, socially conscious designers can adopt principles of community engagement from public health practitioners and apply innovative research methods throughout the design process. The theories, processes, and outcomes of community health design illustrate a framework of participatory decision- making where designers can find common ground with the communities they serve.Though the pandemic did not introduce these conditions – park and food apartheids are symptomatic of a multi-generational epidemic of racism – this moment has highlighted the need for new ways of collaboration to address environ- mental health disparities. A framework of community health design is possible through the translation of community voices into a shared vision, designing governance structures to build community power, and turning design tools over to communities to define and achieve their desired publichealth outcomes.

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Section: Cooperative Extension and Knowledge Co-constructionmentioning

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“…In recent years, Cooperative Extension has begun to promote alternatives to top-down engagement, including co-learning, co-facilitation, and collaboration (Dunning et al 2012;Enderton et al 2017;Hassel 2004;Raison 2010). Moreover, and directly relevant to our co-authorship, Cooperative Extension organizations are increasingly emphasizing the need to address uneven power relations and structural inequities in the food system in the United States, and are acknowledging that local food systems are not inherently more just (Ammons et al 2018;Enderton et al 2017;Pirog et al 2016). Importantly, we emphasize here that engagement includes but also is about more than working with diverse and marginalized community partners; it involves opening up to diverse ways of viewing the world and constructing knowledge, including local and indigenous knowledges (Collins and Mueller 2016;Hassel 2004).…”

Section: Cooperative Extension and Knowledge Co-constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visceral Encounters: A Political Ecology of Urban Land, Food, and Housing in Dubuque, Iowa

Chennault

Klavitter

Sutton³

2019

Social Sciences

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Through a praxis of co-authorship between a university scholar and two community gardeners/organizers/activists, this article showcases the ways in which knowledge, practices, and relationalities emergent in community gardens in Dubuque, Iowa USA directly engage with the politics of food, land, and housing. The authors engage in co-authorship across university and community boundaries to ontologically reframe knowledge production and draw critical attention to the everyday livelihoods and political ecologies experienced within marginalized communities. We use extended conversations and interviews to analyze the food, land, and housing issues that emerge in the context of uneven racial relations and neighborhood revitalization. We then organize our analysis using a Political Ecology of the Body (PEB) framework to consider how people’s bodily, emotional, and social lives impact their relationalities with food, gardening, and neighborhood spaces. Our findings show that community gardening efforts are transforming the Washington and North End neighborhoods—even if these changes appear to outsiders to be small-scale or difficult to measure—while also calling attention to the anti-oppression and anti-racism work that remains to be done. Our co-authorship demonstrates how community gardeners and university partners can work together to contest histories of marginalization and foster more socially just relations.

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Shepherding Community Engagement to Strengthen the Local Food System in Northeast Iowa

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

A Life Cycle Assessment Approach for Vegetables in Large-, Mid-, and Small-Scale Food Systems in the Midwest US

A Life Cycle Assessment Approach for Vegetables in Large-, Mid-, and Small-Scale Food Systems in the Midwest US

Community Health Design: A Collaborative Framework for Improving Public Health Outcomes

Visceral Encounters: A Political Ecology of Urban Land, Food, and Housing in Dubuque, Iowa

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