Publications

Babb, A.M. 2022. A Brief Genealogy of the Thrifty Food Plan. Food, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2072073

Fisher, E., E. Boyd, E. S. Brondizio (Guest Editors). 2021. Special Issue: Transformations to sustainability: critical social Science perspectives. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability. Vol. 49. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-environmental-sustainability/special-issue/105K09V026L

Hecht, S., M. Schmink, R. Abers, E. Assad, D. Humphreys Bebbington, E. Brondizio, F. Costa, A. M. Durán Calisto, P. M. Fearnside, R. Garrett, S. Heilpern, D. McGrath, G. Oliveira, H. S. Pereira, M. Pinedo-Vazquez. 2021. Amazonia in Motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes and livelihoods. Chapter 14 In: C. Nobre & A. Encalada (eds.)Amazon Assessment Report 2021. Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA). United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA. Part II, pp.13-77. https://www.theamazonwewant.org/amazon-assessment-report-2021/

Costa, F.A., M. Schmink, S. Hecht, E. D. Assad, D. Humphreys Bebbington, E. S. Brondizio, P. M. Fearnside, R. Garrett, S. Heilpern, D. McGrath, G. Oliveira, H. S. Pereira. 2021. Complex, diverse and changing agribusiness and livelihood systems in the Amazon. Chapter 15 In: C. Nobre & A. Encalada (eds.) Amazon Assessment Report 2021. Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA). United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA. Part II, pp. 78-137. https://www.theamazonwewant.org/amazon-assessment-report-2021/

Pearsall, H., V. H. Gutierrez-Velez, M. R. Gilbert, S. Hoque, H. Eakin, E. S. Brondizio, W. Solecki, L. Toran, J. E. Baka, J. E. Behm, C. Brelsford, C. Hinrichs, K. Henry, J. Mennis, L. A. Roman, C. Rosan, E. C. South, R. D. Valletta. 2021. Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban-rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability-Nature.

Welch, J.R., E.S. Brondizio, E.S., C.E.A. Coimbra Jr.. 2021. Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime. Biota Neotropica 22(1): e20211220. https://doi.org/10.1590/ 10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2021-1220

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2021. 2021 Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future: Proceedings of a Summit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26310

Brondizio, E.S., M. C. Lemos, D. Guan, N. Jennings, C. Mbow, H. Nagendra, P. Tschakert. (editors). 2021. Virtual Special Issue: GEC+30: human and policy dimensions. Global Environmental Change, Volume 71. [10 articles accompanied by commentaries] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/global-environmental-change/special-issue/10C5K1VCN73

Yoder, L., Houser, M., Bruce, A., Sullivan, A., & Farmer, J. (2021). Are climate risks encouraging cover crop adoption among farmers in the southern Wabash River Basin?  Land Use Policy. https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/science/article/pii/S0264837720326065

RobinsonJ.M., Mzali, L., Knudsen, D., Farmer, J., Spiewak, R., Suttles, S., Burris, M., Shattuck, A., Valliant, J., and Babb, A., (2021). Food after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Case for Change Posed by Alternative Food: A Case Study of the American Midwest. Global Sustainability. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EA8368B4FA1416A2B22AEBC355F2DC0A/S2059479821000053a.pdf/div-class-title-food-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-case-for-change-posed-by-alternative-food-a-case-study-of-the-american-midwest-div.pdf

Farmer, J. (2020). Gleaning for White-tailed Deer (pp. 105-112). In Hunting, Gathering, and Fishing for Food: Place Studies and Perspectives. J. Pontius, D. Greenwood, M., Mueller. Springer Publisher: Champaign, IL.

Blekking, J., Gatti, N., Waldman, K., and Evans, T. The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia. World Development

Anderson, K., Blekking, J., and Omodior, K. Tick Trails: The role of online recreational trail reviews in identifying risk factors and behavioral recommendations associated with tick encounters in Indiana. BMC Public Health

Deer RR, Hosein E, Mera A, Howe K, Goodlett S, Robertson N, Volpi E. Dietary Intake Patterns of Community-Dwelling Older Adults After Acute Hospitalization. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 Jan 7;77(1):140-147. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glab232. PMID: 34410002; PMCID: PMC8923293.

Deer RR, Hosein E, Harvey M, Nguyen T, Givan A, Hamilton M, Turner K, Kretzmer R, Rock M, Swartz MC, Seashore J, Brown B, Messenger C. Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Persistent Lingering Symptoms on Patient Reported Indicators of Nutritional Risk and Malnutrition. Nutrients. 2022 Feb 2;14(3):642. doi: 10.3390/nu14030642. PMID: 35277001; PMCID: PMC8839070.

Valliant, J. C. D., Burris, M. E., Czebotar, K., Stafford, P. B., Giroux, S. A., Babb, A., Waldman, K., and Knudsen, D. C. 2021. Navigating Food Insecurity as a Rural Older Adult: The Importance of Congregate Meal Sites, Social Networks and Transportation Services. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.1977208

Babb, A.M. 2021. “The Politics of SNAP Mathematics” In Administering and Managing the U.S. Food System: Revisiting Food Policy and Politics. Edited by Hoflund, B.A., Jones, J.C., and M.C. Pautz. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 25-41.

Leatherman, K., Beyer, R., Smith, J. 2022. Sustainability Action Plan for the City of Bloomington, Indiana: Following up on policy and action for local food and agriculture. 8p.

Osterhoudt, S. (2021, February 18). The pandemic and the process of becoming. Retrieved March 22, 2021, from https://www.sapiens.org/culture/pandemic-liminal-state/

Otieno, Gloria; Zebrowski, Wesley M.; Recha, John; Reynolds, Travis W. 2021. "Gender and Social Seed Networks for Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Bean, Finger Millet, and Sorghum Seed Systems in East Africa" Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2074. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042074

Landon Yoder, Matthew Houser, Analena Bruce, Abigail Sullivan, James Farmer, Are climate risks encouraging cover crop adoption among farmers in the southern Wabash River Basin?, Land Use Policy, Volume 102, 2021, 105268, ISSN 0264-8377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105268

Robinson, J., Mzali, L., Knudsen, D., Farmer, J., Spiewak, R., Suttles, S., Burris, M., Shattuck, A., Valliant, J. and A. Babb. 2021. Food after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Case for Change Posed by Alternative Food: A Case Study of the American Midwest. Global Sustainability, 1-17. doi:10.1017/sus.2021.5

Bruce, A., Maynard L. Valliant, J., and Farmer, J. (2021). A typology of high tunnel management in the U.S. Midwest state of Indiana. Hort Tech. https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/aop/article-10.21273-HORTTECH04783-21/article-10.21273-HORTTECH04783-21.xml.

Valliant JCD, Bruce AB, Houser M, Dickinson SL and Farmer JR.(2021). Product Diversification, Adaptive Management, and Climate Change: Farming and Family in the U.S. Corn Belt. Front. Clim.3:662847. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2021.662847

Waldman, K., Giroux, S., Farmer, J., Heaberlin, B., Blekking, J., and Todd, P. (In Press). Socioeconomic threats are more salient to farmers than environmental threats. Journal of Rural Studies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0743016721002138?dgcid=author

Brondizio, E.S., K. Andersson, F. de Castro, C. Futemma, C. Salk, M. Tengö, M. Londres, D.,C.M.Tourne, T. S. González, A. Molina, G. Russo, S. Siani. 2021. Making place-based initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability [Special issue: Transformations to Sustainability: Critical Social Science Perspectives.] Vol. 49: 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.007

Valliant JCD, Bruce AB, Houser M, Dickinson SL and Farmer JR (2021) Product Diversification, Adaptive Management, and Climate Change: Farming and Family in the U.S. Corn Belt. Front. Clim. 3:662847. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2021.662847

Brondizio, E. S. 2021. Uma Agricultura Amazônica: Sem o conhecimento do agricultor ribeirinho não haveria expansão global da economia do Açaí. In Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Sônia Barbosa Magalhães e Cristina Adams (organizadoras); Laure Emperaire (coordenadora da seção 7). Povos tradicionais e biodiversidade no Brasil [recurso eletrônico] : contribuições dos povos indígenas, quilombolas e comunidades tradicionais para a biodiversidade, políticas e ameaças. São Paulo : SBPC, 2021. 351 pp. http://portal.sbpcnet.org.br/livro/povostradicionais7.pdf

Kassandra R. Leuthart, Laxmi Prasanna R. Palde, Angela M. Babb, Brian P. Healey & Daniel C. Knudsen (2021) Examining Public Transportation in Healthy Food Access Research, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2021.1905129

Robinson JM et al. (2021). Food after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Case for Change Posed by Alternative Food: A Case Study of the American Midwest. Global Sustainability 4, e6, 1–7. https://doi.org/ 10.1017/sus.2021.5

Farmer, J. (2020). Gleaning for White-tailed Deer (pp. 105-112). In Hunting, Gathering, and Fishing for Food: Place Studies and Perspectives. J. Pontius, D. Greenwood, M., Mueller. Springer Publisher: Champaign, IL.

Valliant, Julia, Kathryn Ruhf, Stephanie Dickinson, Yijia Zhang, Lilian Golzarri Arroyo and James Farmer. 2020. Farm Seeker Needs Versus Farm Owner Offers: A Comparison and Analysis in the U.S. Midwest and Plains. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 9(2).

Giroux, Stacey; Blekking, Jordan; Waldman, Kurt; Resnick, Danielle; and Fobi, Daniel. Informal vendors and food systems planning in an emerging African city. Food Policy. Article in press. First published online on November 05, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101997

Brondizio, E. S. 2020. The Global Acaí: A chronicle of possibilities and predicaments of an Amazonian superfood. In Emma McDonell and Richard Wilk (Eds). Critical Approaches to Superfoods. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. Pp. 149-168.

Futemma, C., F. de Castro, E. S. Brondizio. 2020. Farmers and Social Innovations in Rural Development: Collaborative Arrangements in Eastern Brazilian Amazon. Land Use Policy. Vol. 99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104999

Chazdon, R., S. J. Wilson, E. S. Brondizio, J. Herbohn, M. R. Guariguata. 2020. Key challenges for governing forest and landscape restoration across different contexts. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104854

Erica L. Nantz, Maxx B. Millstein, Hannah F. Davis, Kayla H. Kaplan, Kamila Czebotar, Angela M. Babb, Laxmi Prasanna R. Palde, Thaddeus Grantz & Daniel C. Knudsen (2020) Comparing two analytical approaches to evaluate access to fresh, healthy food: a case of the Indiana Uplands, Local Environment, 25:11-12, 921-943, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2020.1845638

Kurt B Waldmanet al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett.15 113004. Agricultural decision making and climate uncertainty in developing countries, available online: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb909

Walters, L., T. Wade, and S. Suttles. 2020. Food and Agricultural Transportation Challenges Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic." Choices. Quarter 3. Available online: https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/covid-19-and-the-agriculture-industry-labor-supply-chains-and-consumer-behavior/food-and-agricultural-transportation-challenges-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic

Jordan Blekking, Kurt B. Waldman & Tom Evans (2020) Hybrid-maize seed certification and smallholder adoption in Zambia, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2020.1764342

Jordan Blekking, Kurt Waldman, Cascade Tuholske, Tom Evans, Formal/informal employment and urban food security in Sub-Saharan Africa, Applied Geography, Volume 114, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102131.

OSTERHOUDT, S.R. (2020), “Nobody wants to kill”. American Ethnologist. doi:10.1111/amet.12911

Sarah Osterhoudt, Shaila Seshia Galvin, Dana J. Graef, Alder Keleman Saxena, Michael R. Dove, Chains of Meaning: Crops, commodities, and the ‘in-between’ spaces of trade, World Development, Volume 135, 2020, 105070, ISSN 0305-750X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105070

Carl Ipsen; Xylella fastidiosa and the Olive Oil Crisis in Puglia. Gastronomica 1 May 2020; 20 (2): 55–66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2020.20.2.55

Kaplan, K.H., Kirk, K.J., Lich, K.M. et al. Accessibility to emergency food systems in south-central Indiana evaluated by spatiotemporal indices of pressure at county and pantry level. Nat Food1, 284–291 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0079-9

Graddy-Lovelace, G., McCutcheon, P., Reese, A., Babb, A., Hall, J., Sarmiento, E. S., & Wilson, B. (2020). Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement: Reflections on White’s Freedom Farmers. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(2), 287-295. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2020.092.020

Fajardo-Ortiz D, Shattuck A, Hornbostel S (2020) Mapping the coevolution, leadership and financing of research on viral vectors, RNAi, CRISPR/Cas9 and other genomic editing technologies. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0227593.

Valliant, Julia, Kathryn Ruhf, Kevin Gibson, J.R. Brooks, and James Farmer. 2019. Fostering Farm Transfers From Owners to Unrelated, New Farmers: A Qualitative Assessment of Farm Link Services. Land Use Policy 86: 438-447.

Babb, A. (2019). America’s “Thrifty Food Plan”: Hunger, Mathematics, and the Valuation of Nutrition Assistance. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1664889

Babb, A., Knudsen, D.C., and S.M. Robeson (2019). A Critique of the Objective Function Utilized in Calculating the Thrifty Food Plan. PLOSOne, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219895

Flórez, Karen R., Brad R. Fulton, and Kathryn P. Derose. 2019. "National Trends in Food Insecurity and Congregation-Based Food Provision between 1998 and 2012." Ecology of Food and Nutrition.

Babb, Angela M., Julie K. Wasserman, Daniel C. Knudsen, and Steven T. Lalevich. 2019. "An Examination of Medically Necessary Diets within the Framework of the Thrifty Food Plan."Ecology of Food and Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2019.1598978.

Bruce, A. 2019. "Farm Entry and Persistence: Three Pathways into Alternative Agriculture in Southern Ohio."Journal of Rural Studies 69: 30–40.

Farmer, J., A. Babb, S. Minard, and M. Veldman. 2019. "Accessing Local Foods: Households Using SNAP Double Bucks and Financial Incentives at a Midwestern Farmers Market."Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 8(4): 1–26.

Flórez, Karen R., Brad R. Fulton, and Kathryn P. Derose. 2019. "National Trends in Food Insecurity and Congregation-Based Food Provision between 1998 and 2012."Ecology of Food and Nutrition: 1–16.

Giroux, Stacey, Inna Kouper, Lyndon Estes, Jacob Schumacher, Kurt Waldman, Joel Greenshields, Stephanie Dickinson, Kelly Caylor, and Tom Evans. 2019. “A High-Frequency Mobile Phone Data Collection Approach for Research in Social-Environmental Systems: Applications in Climate Variability and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa.”Environmental Modelling & Software 119: 57–69. (Funded by NSF grants SES-1360463, SES-1534544, and BCS-1115009)

Haythorn, C., D. Knudsen, J. Farmer, C. Antreasian, and M. Betz. 2019. "It’s All in the SKU: Getting Food from Somewhere from the Field to the Dinner Plate while Using a Large Scale Retailer." Sustainability 11(3): 892.

Waldman, K. B., N. Vergopolan, L. D. Estes, S. Z. Attari, J. Sheffield, K. K. Caylor, and T. P. Evans. 2019. "Cognitive Biases about Climate Variability in Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia."Weather, Climate and Society (early online release).

Neimark, B., S. Osterhoudt, H. Alter, and A. Gradinar. 2019. "A New Sustainability Model for Measuring Changes in Power and Access in Global Supply Chains: Through a Smallholder Lens."Palgrave Communications, vol. 5, Article number: 1.

Babb, A., A. Bryant, and D. C. Knudsen. 2019. "Gardening in America." In Planning for AuthentiCities, edited by L. Tate and B. Shannon, 210–225. New York: Routledge.

Jordan, R., A. Sorensen, R. Shwom, J. M. Robinson, C. Isenhour, S. Gray, M. Nucci, and D. Ebert-May. 2018. "Using Authentic Science in Climate Change Education." Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 1–30.

Khan, K., R. Baidya, A. Aryal, J. Farmer, and J. Valliant. 2018. "Neurological and Mental Health Outcomes among Conventional and Organic Farmers in Indiana, USA."Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine 25(2): 244–249.

Knackmuhs, E., J. Farmer, and D. Knapp. 2018. "The Relationship between Narratives, Wildlife Value Orientations, Attitudes, and Policy Preferences."Society and Natural Resources.

Osterhoudt, S. 2018. "Community Conservation and the (Mis)Appropriation of Taboo."Development and Change 49(5): 1248–1267.

Osterhoudt, S. 2018. "Remembered Resilience: Oral History Narratives and Community Resilience in Agroforestry Systems." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 33(3): 252–255.

Robinson, J. M., and J. Farmer. 2018. Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Seaman, A., J. Farmer, C. Chancellor, and A. Sirima. 2018. "Conserving Nostalgia: Exploring Private Land Protection Patterns."Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-018-0500-y.

Shwom, R. L., and A. B. Bruce. 2018. "Theorizing Cross-Sectoral Entrepreneurship to Advance Climate Governance: Tactics of U.S. Energy Efficincy in Non-Governmental Organizations." Regional Environmental Change.

Wiley, A. S. 2018. "The Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Milk Consumption, Insulin-like Growth Factor I, and Human Life-History Parameters."The Quarterly Review of Biology 93(4): 319–345.

Zhao, Y., N. Vergopolan, K. Baylis, J. Blekking, K. Caylor, T. Evans, S. Giroux, J. Sheffield, and L. Estes. 2018. "Comparing Empirical and Survey-Based Yield Forecasts in a Dryland Agro-Ecosystem."Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 262: 147–156. Funded by NSF grant SES-1360463, https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1360463.

Betz, M., J. Mills, and J. Farmer. 2017. "A Preliminary Overview of Community Orcharding in the United States."Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 7(2): 13–28.

Bruce, A. B. 2017. "Frankenfish or Fish to Feed the World? Scientism and Biotechnology Regulatory Policy."Rural Sociology 82(4) (Dec.): 628–633. (First published online Nov. 9, 2016.)

Bruce, A., J. Farmer, L. Maynard, and J. Valliant. 2017. "Assessing the Impact of the EQIP High Tunnel Initiative."Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development7(3): 159–180.

Fernandez, C., and A. S. Wiley. 2017. "Rethinking the Starch Digestion Hypothesis for AMY1 Copy Number Variation in Humans." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163(4): 645–657. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23237/epdf

Osterhoudt, S. 2017. Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar. Bronx: New York Botanical Garden Press, Advances in Economic Botany Series.

Osterhoudt, S. 2017. "The Land of No Taboo: Agrarian Politics of Neglect and Care in Madagascar."The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1337001.

Valliant, J., J. Farmer, S. Dickinson, A. B. Bruce, and J. M. Robinson. 2017. “Family as a Catalyst in Farms’ Diversifying Agricultural Products: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Diversified and Non-Diversified Farms in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.” Journal of Rural Studies 55 (Oct.): 303–315.

Wiley, A. S. 2017. "Cow’s Milk Consumption and Child Growth." In Milk in Human Health and Disease Across the Lifespan, edited by R. Watson, R. J. Collier, and V. R. Preedy, 155–166. Boston, MA: Elsevier.

Wiley, A. S. 2017. "Dietary Analyses in Nutritional Anthropology." In Research Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, vol. 1, edited by J. Chrzan and J. Brett, 79–91. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Press.

Wiley, A. S. 2017. "Growing a Nation: Milk Consumption in India since The Raj." In Making Milk:The Past, Present, and Future of Our Primary Food, edited by M. Cohen and Y. Otomo, 41–59. London: Bloomsbury Press.

Wiley, A. S., and J. Chrzan. 2017. "The Single Food Approach as a Research Strategy in Nutritional Anthropology." In Research Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, vol. 2, edited by J. Chrzan and J. Brett, 253–269. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Press.

Bruce, A. B. 2016. "The Legacy of Agrarian Reform in Latin America: Foundations of the Fair Trade Cooperative System."Geography Compass 10(12) (Dec.): 485–498.

Bruce, A. B., and R. L. Som Castellano. 2016. "Labor and Alternative Food Networks: Challenges for Farmers and Consumers."Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 32(5): 403–416.

Farmer, J., and M. Betz. 2016. "Rebuilding Local Foods in Appalachia: Variables Affecting Distribution Methods of West Virginia Farms."Journal of Rural Studies 45: 34–42.

Farmer, J., S. Minard, and C. Edens. 2016. "Local Foods and Low-Income Communities: Location, Transportation, and Values."Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 6(4): 41–53.

Osterhoudt, S. 2016. "Written with Seed: The Political Ecology of Memory in Madagascar."Journal of Political Ecology 23(1): 263–278.

Wiley, A. S. 2016. "Cow’s Milk as Children’s Food: Insights from India and the United States." In The Handbook of Food and Anthropology, edited by J. Watson and J. Klein, 227–248. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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