Resources from the SAFSF 2007 Iowa Forum
Our Evolving Food System: Perspectives from the HeartlandProgram
Presentations
Opportunities for Farming in the 21st Century
Paul Lasley, Iowa State UniversityAgricultural Impacts on Water Quality and Quantity: a Perspective from Iowa
Susan Heathcote, Water Program Director
Iowa Environmental CouncilFood Policies: Supporting Farmers and Promoting a Healthy Local Economy
Thomas L. Dobbs, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Food & Society Policy Fellow
South Dakota State UniversityRisk Management - USDA
Nancy Beaumont, Risk Managment AgencySGlobal Agripower - Who Benefits? Public Policy Impacts? Power Dynamics?
Margaret Krome, Policy Director
Michael Fields Agricultural InstituteAdditional Resources
Blog Entries by Daniel Moss, Grassroots International, attendee of the 2007 Forum
http://www.onthecommons.org/No to Instant Death; Yes to Cancer and Poisoning!
Posted by Daniel Moss on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 10:22amThrowing the Precautionary Principle to the Wind?
Posted by Daniel Moss on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 1:04pmEthanol’s Dissonant Sounds: A Dirge for the Commons
Posted by Daniel Moss on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 8:40amSite Visits
A Global Treasure: Protecting Iowa's Farms and Natural Resources1000 Friends of Iowa
http://www.kfoi.org/Agricultural Sustainability and Smart Growth
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities'
Translation Paper #5
American Farmland Trust
http://www.farmland.org/Bear Creek, Iowa
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/Ecology/chap6bea.htmlFarming on the Edge of Development
http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/nwl/1999/1999-2-leoletter/99-2lavon.htmLand Use Planning
Food Security Learning Center
A good resource for food systems folks to learn about land use planning
Riparian Buffer Zones - Bear Creek
http://www.buffer.forestry.iastate.edu/HTML/demosites.htmlBalancing the Hunger for Energy and Protein: Ethanol and Livestock Production
Biofuels: Opportunity or Threat? A Background Briefing
Commissioned by Environmental Grantmakers Association and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Building Sustainable Futures for Farmers Globally
Policy recommendations for 'Sustainable Biomass" (found under The Issues Section at www.globalfarmer.org)Lincolnway Energy
http://www.lincolnwayenergy.com/Renewable Energy from Farms
Sustainable Agriculture Coalition position paper
Plenaries
Global Agripower: How Midwest corn and soy affect your health, wealth and the future of the planetSociology of Rural America
"Rural America at a Glance." USDA Economic Research Service, Rural Development Research Report 97-1, September, 2003. pp 1-6
"New Farm Bill and U.S. Trade Policy: Implications for Family Farms and Rural Communities"
Talk by John Ikert at "Grain Place" Farm Tour and Seminar, Aurora, Nebraska, July 27, 2002.
"Does the Family Farm Really Matter?"
Paper by Dr. Harold Breimyer, Agricultural Economist at University of Missouri on University of Missouri Extension website.
"Policy Challenges for Ag-Based Rural Development"
Presentation by Christopher Merrett, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2005
Agriculture, Profitability and Rural Communities
"Strategies to Revitalize Rural America." A compilation of articles from the Center for Rural Affairs Newsletter, by Chuck Hassebrook, November 2003
"Concentration in U.S. Agriculture."
Report to the National Farmers Union, 1999. Dr. Bill Heffernan, Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Robert Gronski.
Hunger, Poverty, and Community Food Security
Community Food Security definitions, policy initiatives, examples of community food security needs and local projects
'Hunger in the U.S.'
A report by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) Jan 2007
The adoption of 'food insecurity' to replace 'hunger,' Nov, 2006
FRAC, Hunger & Obesity, July 2006
Diabetes prevention and food access, June 2007
Student report, good references, 2005
Journal report linking obesity to poverty and rising food prices, Jan 2004
Population in Rural Areas and on Farms
W. Goudy. 1999. "Dimensions of the Rural Population." Rural Development News--Vol. 23 No.3.S.J. Goetz and D.L. Debertin. 1996. "Rural Population Decline in the 1980s: Impacts of Farm Structure and Federal Farm Programs." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 517-529
doi:10.2307/1243270USDA Economic Research Service. 2007. "Nonmetro Population Growth Slower Now Than During the 1990s".
Aging of the Farming Population
Fred Kirschenmann, "Potential for a New Generation of Biodiversity in Agro-ecosystems of the Future" Agron J 99:373-376 (2007) DOI: 10.2134/agronj2006.0104USDA Economic Research Service. 2002. "Farm Structure: Questions and Answers."
Domestic Violence
Detailed report is available at http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/pub/domviol.htmSee Rural Assistance Center website for info on rural domestic and intimate partner violence: http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/public_health/domesticviolence.php
Mental Health and Suicide
P.G. Beeson. "Some notes and data on rural suicide."Rossman, Michael. 2003. "Meeting the Challenges of Suicide Prevention in Rural and Frontier Areas." Presentation to Suicide Prevention Resource Center Regional Planning Conference, October 28-30, 2003.
G.K. Singh and Mohammad Siahpush. "Increasing Rural-Urban Gradients in US Suicide Mortality, 1970-1997" Am J Public Health. 2002 July; 92(7): 1161-1167.
Funder Collaborations
Allison H. Fine, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006)Lucy Bernholz, Creating Philanthropic Markets (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley, 2004)
Howard Gardner, Changing Minds (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006)
Joel L. Fleishman, The Foundation: A Great American Secret (New York: Public Affairs, 2007)
Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest (New York: Viking, 2007)
Leading Boldly: Foundations can move past traditional approaches to create social change through imaginative - and even controversial - leadership
Ronald A. Heifetz, John V. Kania, & Mark R. Kramer Winter 2004Agricultural Chemicals and Human Health
Are EDCs blurring issues of gender?Environmental Health Perspectives
Epigenetics: The Science of Change. Environmental Health Perspectives
Myers, J.P. 2006. Good genes gone bad. American Prospect
Myers, J.P. 2007. Does 'the dose make the poison?'
Scientists: EPA chemical screening program flawed.
Dallas Morning News.Creating Business Models for Sustainable Food Systems: New Perspectives on the Traditional Bottom Line
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
(New York: Hyperion, 2006)Bo Burlingham, Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
(New York: Portfolio, 2005)Bill McKibben, Deep Economy (New York: Times Books, 2007)
George Pyle, Raising Less Corn, More Hell (New York: Public Affairs, 2005)
Michael H. Shuman, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
(New York: The Free Press, 1998)Michael H. Shuman, The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating The Global Competition (San Francisco: Berett-Koehler, 2006)
Workshop Sessions
How Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) are Endangering the Health, Environment, and Economic Viability of Rural CommunitiesThe Farm Bill: Food Policy in an Era of Corporate Power and the Farm Bill 101: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/us-farmbill
Food Safety Consequences of Factory Farms: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/factoryfarms/foodsafety-factoryfarms
Got Pollution (dairy factory farms): http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/factoryfarms/industrial-dairy-farming
Foul Fowl:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/pubs/reports/salmonella-chickenFood Policies: Supporting Farmers and Promoting a Healthy Local Economy
The 2007 National Organic Research Agenda, published in April 2007, presents a catalogue of research needs for organic agriculture. Based on a series of scientist/producer meetings held by the Scientific Congress on Organic Agricultural Research (SCOAR), this volume emphasizes topics related to soils, systemic management of plant pests, organic livestock and poultry management, and breeding and genetics. http://ofrf.org/publications/publications.htmlCities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
From a review: Jacobs argues fairly convincingly that significant, distributed wealth is created by cities that are inventive enough to replace imports by their own local production, that this is the only reliable source of wealth for cities in the long run, and that these cities need other like-minded cities to trade with in order to survive and prosper.Woodbury County - Rural and Economic Development Department
See http://econ.sdstate.edu/Research/NSL.htm for links to the following articles:
No. 484, Time for Change in U.S. Farm Policy: Fundamental Reform Emphasizing Institutions Based on Agriculture's Multifunctionality? (March 21, 2007)
No. 483, Competing Visions of U.S. Agriculture: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too in Reforming Federal Farm Policy? (Feb. 28, 2007)
No. 456, Local and Regional Policy Implications of Agriculture's "Multifunctionality" (Dec. 10, 2004)
No. 454, Recognizing Agriculture's "Multifunctionality": Implications for Policy Making in the United States (Oct. 3, 2004)
Visualizing Rural Assets: How Community Planning Can Protect Agricultural Lands
American Farmland Trust resources: www.farmland.org
Farmland Information Center: www.farmlandinfo.org
AFT technical assistance services: http://www.farmland.org/services/default.asp
Planning for Agriculture Guides For New York
Planning for Agriculture Guides For North CarolinaMoving Beyond the Choir: Building Successful Food Networks in Rural Regions
Supply Chain Options for Biobased Businesses
Rhonda Lummus, ISU COllege of Business, 2004The Learning Supply Chain, Christopher Peterson
Good to Great and the Social Sectors - Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer
Jim Collins (2005) Monograph available through www.jimcollins.comSecuring the Safety Net: Federal Response to Weather Disasters on the Farm
Regional Office Crop Fact Sheets http://www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/rme/fctsht.html
Organic Farming Practices http://www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/2006/organics.pdf
Water: The Power to Nourish
Deep Trouble: The Gulf in Peril
This is a 15-part series published in the Naples Daily News Sept 28-Oct 12 2003 Part 1, published on September 28, 2003 included an article on the water pollution problems in the Iowa and the Midwest and how this pollution is affecting the Gulf of Mexico "Soiling the Gulf: from Iowa to the Everglades, farm fertilizer and waste pollutes waterways". The article is available online.Drever, James I., 1982., "The Geochemistry of Natural Waters", New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 388p.
Dunne, T. and L. Leopold, 1998, "Water in Environmental Planning", New York: W.H. Freeman and Co., 881 p.
Emoto, Masaru, 2004. "The Secret Life of Water", New York: Atria Books, 178 p.
Freeze, R. Allen and John A. Cherry, 1979. "Ground Water", New Jersey: Prentice-Hall 604 p.
Maas, Arthur, 1979, "….and the Desert Shall Rejoice", New York: Random House
Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Action Plan
Describes a national strategy to reduce the frequency, duration, size, and degree of oxygen depletion of the hypoxic zone of the northern Gulf of Mexico and was submitted as a Report to Congress on January 18, 2001.Reisner, Marc., 1981, "Cadillac Desert", New York: Random House
Threatening Iowa's Future: Iowa's Failure to Implement and Enforce the Clean Water Act for Livestock Operations
Published in May 2004 by the Environmental Integrity Project, examines the impact of livestock operations on Iowa's water quality and how the state is implementing and enforcing federal and state laws to protect water quality.Water Quality in the Easter Iowa Basins, Iowa and Minnesota, 1996-98
USGS in depth study of water quality in Eastern Iowa from 1996-1998 and compared the findings of this study with water quality in other parts of the United States. Some of the major findings from the study are that nutrient concentrations in Iowa streams are some of the highest in the country and that streams in areas with concentrated animal feeding operations have higher nutrient pollution levels than streams in areas with fewer livestock.
