• Communities
• History
• Knowledge and Education
• Social Ecology

Communities

• NEW!! Cultivating Institutions: Organic Agriculture and Integrative Economic Choice
• NEW!! Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture
• Building bridges: How organic agriculture can strengthen the relationships between rural and urban communities
• A Comparative Case Study of Nova Scotia Farmers’ Markets: Exploring Connections Among People, Places and Food
• The Contribution of Organic Producer Initiatives to Rural Development: A Case-Study Approach
• Cultivating Rural Communities: Economic & Social Links of
  Organic Farms In Southern Ontario (PDF, 3.3 MB)
• Economic and social impacts of organic production systems
• Food Miles: Environmental Implications of Food Imports to the Kingston Region - Brief Summary of Findings and Comparison to Waterloo Region
• Institutionalizing Sustainable Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges in Cuba
• Learning to Grow Sustainable and Proximal Food in Alberta
• Organic Farmers and Rural Development
• Relational Local Food Networks: The Farmers’ Market @ Queen’s
• Returning to the Roots of the Organic Ideal: Local Markets and Participatory Certification in Mexico
• Social identification, social representations, and consumer innovativeness in an organic food context

History

• Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History Series on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming on California's Central Coast
• Do the new organic producers differ from the ‘old guard’? Empirical results from Norwegian dairy farming
• A history of organic farming: Transitions from Sir Albert Howard’s War in the Soil to USDA National Organic Program
• Learning from the Present and Past: A Review of Agricultural Impacts on Soil Fertility

Knowledge and Education

• NEW!! Farmers' approaches to organic farming; motivations, barriers and different strategies
• Broadening the Education Infrastructure in Organic Agriculture for Farmers
• Buying local organic food: a pathway to transformative learning
• Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences: A review
• Coverage of organic agriculture in North American newspapers: Media: linking food safety, the environment, human health and organic agriculture
• Food Consciousness and the Radical Potential of Eco-Gastronomy: The Story of Terra Madre and Slow Food
• How organic farmers view their own practice: results from the Czech Republic
• Long-term strategies and flexibility of organic farmers in southeastern France

• Organic farmers in Quebec are at the heart of an intense innovation that is re-creating local knowledge
• Polycultures of the Mind - Organic Farmers in Québec and the Recovery of Agency
• Protecting Farmers Indigenous Knowledge: Organic Agriculture and Environmental Adult Education
• The Role of Transformative Learning in Fostering a More Sustainable Society: The Case of Consuming Organic in Canada
• Social dynamics for sustainable food systems. Actors' orientations towards sustainability in primary production and public consumption
• Socioeconomic Obstacles to Establishing a Participatory Plant Breeding Program for Organic Growers in the United States

Social Ecology

• Critically Acknowledging, Celebrating and Enabling Further Development in Deep Organics’ Contributions to Sustainability and Wellbeing: A Social Ecology Perspective
• Enabling Redesign for Deep Industrial Ecology and Personal Values Transformation: A Social Ecology Perspective
• Organic Food Demand: A Focus Group Study Involving Caucasian and African-American Shoppers
• Organic Foodscapes and the Corporate Selling of Place
• The work of women on organic farms: a gendered analysis

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