Climate change poses significant threats to our food system and resource stability and has the potential to aggravate existing social inequities in the agrifood system. T [...]

The social problem of economic inequality negatively affects millions of people in the United States every day. Experiencing firsthand how difficult it is to participate [...]

Food insecurity is prevalent among higher-education students resulting in short and long-term academic and health consequences.

An increasing number of alternative food initiatives (AFIs) are working to address inequities within the current food system. Despite their valiant efforts, key obstacles [...]

This research addresses the inequitable causes and consequences of climate change for subsistence farmers in the developing world. These inequities exist as developing na [...]

This research specifically examines how food-focused, collaboratively based multi-stakeholder efforts aiming to address social problems align with and operationalize theo [...]

The social, cultural and economic value of food often reflects the value that society places on a particular culture or group of people. Food discourse reflects these val [...]

This presentation describes how the Food Systems and Society (FSS), M.S. program at OHSU applies concepts from critical pedagogy (see Valley et al. 2022, Allen and Gillon [...]

This Capstone Research Synthesis examines famine as a persistent social problem and its relationship with oppressive, unjust societal frameworks. Three constitutive resea [...]

This research addresses the problems of hunger and food insecurity through the analysis of food bank mission statements and programs. This research examines how food bank [...]