Sustainable agri-food systems: environment, economy, society, and policy

H El Bilali, C Strassner, T Ben Hassen - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

Improving sustainable food access and availability in rural communities: An assessment of needed resources

CE Sanders, T Markosyan, KE Gibson, AR Byrd… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Extension educators are uniquely positioned to assist with sustainable
community-based food environment change, especially related to obesity prevention efforts …

Bringing local food education to workplaces: Assessing needs for a health and wellness program

C Gusto, C Campbell, A Wallau… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2024 - foodsystemsjournal.org
Abstract Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Extension educators have a long history of
providing education to help individuals, families, and communities. Since the 1980s …

The Transformation of Extension Family and Consumer Science Programs to Health Extension

EL Martinez - … Extension: Community-Based Healthcare and the …, 2024 - books.google.com
T he land-grant university (lgu) system and the Cooperative Extension Service (ces) have
continuously evolved since the late nineteenth century, yet the overall premise has …

Applying emerging core competencies to extension training courses for local food system practitioners

H Dankbar, C Long, D Bloom… - … Food Systems, and …, 2023 - foodsystemsjournal.org
In 2019, a national group of local food system educators and practitioners identified over
140 foundational core competencies critical to local food system development work and …

Developing a community-based local food system in Will County, Illinois: Insights from stakeholders' viewpoints

M Ben-Othmen, J Kavouras - Journal of Agriculture, Food …, 2022 - foodsystemsjournal.org
The interest in and enthusiasm for shifting food systems to community-based and local
trajectories have increased exponentially over the past decade. Part of the appeal of …