Farm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of California direct market farmers

JL Durant, L Asprooth, RE Galt, SP Schmulevich… - Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial shocks to US food systems at
multiple scales. While disturbances to long-distance supply chains received substantial …

A digital divide in direct market farmers' online sales and marketing: Early pandemic evidence from California

S Pesci, RE Galt, JL Durant, GM Manser… - Journal of Rural …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of the internet for sales and marketing has been on an upward trend in the past
decade. The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in direct market …

Dominant modes of agricultural production helped structure initial COVID-19 spread in the US Midwest

L Bergmann, LF Chaves, D O'Sullivan… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations
proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities …

The interactions of food security, health, and loneliness among rural older adults before and after the onset of COVID-19

M Howe-Burris, S Giroux, K Waldman… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Older adults and those living in rural areas face unique challenges to health and food
security which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine the …

(Un-) sustainable transformations: everyday food practices in Italy during COVID-19

F Forno, M Laamanen, S Wahlen - Sustainability: Science, Practice …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we study how the global pandemic has affected food practices. We underscore
how time, space, and modality as key facets of the everyday intersect with understandings …

Government intervention, human mobility, and COVID-19: a causal pathway analysis from 121 countries

F Wang, X Ge, D Huang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Based on data from 121 countries, the study assesses the dynamic effect and causality path
of the government epidemic prevention policies and human mobility behaviors on the …

Is parity pricing enough? A critical analysis of parity pricing and the case for additional strategies

M Howe, LPR Palde, KR Leuthart, NJ Monroe… - npj Sustainable …, 2024 - nature.com
Producers in the US, particularly small-scale farmers and specialty crop growers, are unable
to maintain their livelihoods with farming alone. This issue is convoluted by low farm gate …

A qualitative investigation of resilience among small farms in western Washington State: Experiences during the first growing season of COVID-19

D Ladyka, Y Sipos, M Spiker… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2022 - foodsystemsjournal.org
The 2020 growing season presented new and significant challenges for farmers and farms
across the United States as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. The rich and diverse …

Post-lockdown changes in diet in Italy and the USA: Return to old habits or structural changes?

G Scozzafava, C Contini, F Gerini, L Casini - Agricultural and Food …, 2022 - Springer
This study analyses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food consumption at the end
of the first lockdown in the New York State (USA) and in Italy (spring 2020). The results of …

In Common or Enclosed

JM Robinson, R Śpiewak - International Journal of the Commons, 2023 - JSTOR
How do alternative food networks (AFNs) cohere as a recognizable, global initiative against
the dominant industrial food system (IFS), even in differing locations and social contexts …