The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

Freudenberg, Nicholas; Silver, Michele; Hirsch, Lesley; Cohen, Nevin

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2016.062.020

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“…While the food system is our entry point for analysis, solutions cannot be confined to food systems alone. To this end, the authors recommend urgent policy action to implement: Significantly improved social safety nets and income floors, including consideration of comprehensive policies such as a Universal Basic Income, and public programs modeled on principles of wealth redistribution ( Ferguson, 2015 ); Rights-based approaches to food security and nutrition, including implementing the Right to Food, and protecting access to food during the deep economic recession predicted for 2020 and 2021 ( IMF, 2020 , Sampson et al, 2020 ); The strengthening of workers’ rights, including protections and benefits for all essential services workers, in particular farm and food workers ( Freudenberg et al, 2016 , IUF, 2020 ); The extension of workers’ rights and employment benefits to all, regardless of citizenship ( FAO, 2020a , Faraday, 2012 ); and Comprehensive immigration reform, including regularized status and access to permanent residency for all migrants ( FAO, 2020a , Migrant Rights Network, 2020 ) …”

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Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

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Highlights COVID-19 has exposed interconnected weaknesses of food, social and economic systems. Levels of food insecurity have increased by 83-132 million people mainly due to food access disruptions and exacerbated poverty. Those who are food insecure are more likely to suffer from health conditions that cause more severe symptoms of COVID-19. Food workers are essential but are treated as sacrificial, with racialized migrant food workers facing unique inequities. Addressing these inequities are not only what is just, it is what is necessary to promote resilience to future shocks.

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“…The strengthening of workers’ rights, including protections and benefits for all essential services workers, in particular farm and food workers ( Freudenberg et al, 2016 , IUF, 2020 );…”

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Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

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“…The conditions of food workers are particularly important to measure. The food sector has grown signifi cantly over the past decade (Freudenberg et al, 2016 ). However, most of the food jobs that have been created in the United States since the Great Recession of 2007-2008 have been nonunion, insecure, hourly labour in food services and food retail.…”

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Sustainable Food System Assessment

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Conaré²,

Meter³

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Sustainable Food System AssessmentSustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence.Interest in assessing food system sustainability is growing, as evidenced by the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and the importance food systems initiatives have taken in serving as a lever for attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book opens by looking at the conceptual considerations of food systems indicators, including the place-based dimensions of food systems indicators and how measurements are implicated in sense-making and visioning processes. Chapters in the second part cover operationalizing metrics, including the development of food systems indicator frameworks, degrees of indicator complexities, and practical constraints to assessment. The fi nal part focuses on the outcomes of assessment projects, including impacts on food policy and communities involved, highlighting the importance of building connections between sustainable food systems initiatives.The global coverage and multi-scalar perspectives, including both conceptual and practical aspects, make this a key resource for academics and practitioners across planning, geography, urban studies, food studies, and research methods. It will also be of interest to government offi cials and those working within NGOs.

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“…Since many of the features of precarious work are not unique to a single occupation or to a single workplace, interventions aimed at addressing the causes of precarious work must be implemented at these broadly impactful social ecological levels. These types of interventions, typically in the form of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes, are most effective when a diverse group of stakeholders are involved in intervention development and implementation, and when these stakeholders understand the problem and relevant power dynamics [17,20,21].…”

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Understanding the Role of Academic Partners as Technical Assistance Providers: Results from an Exploratory Study to Address Precarious Work

Bonney

Welter

Jarpe-Ratner

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Universities may be well poised to support knowledge, skill, and capacity-building efforts to foster the development of multi-level interventions to address complex problems. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) engaged organizations interested in developing policy- and systems-level initiatives to address the drivers of precarious work in a six-meeting Action Learning (AL) process, in which the researchers served as technical assistance (TA) providers focused on facilitating learning and promoting critical thinking among participants. This exploratory qualitative study examined the role, facilitators, challenges, and impacts of university facilitation in this context. A total of 22 individuals participated in this study, including UIC TA providers, content expert TA providers from labor-focused organizations, and TA recipients from health-focused organizations. Results from interviews and a focus group highlight the utility of a university connecting organizations from different disciplines that do not traditionally work together, and suggest that the TA provided by UIC helped participants think concretely about precarious work and ways in which their organizations might work collaboratively to bring about sustainable change. Findings from this study suggest that university facilitation using an AL approach may be effective in increasing knowledge to action.

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The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

Sustainable Food System Assessment

Understanding the Role of Academic Partners as Technical Assistance Providers: Results from an Exploratory Study to Address Precarious Work

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