1

Course Overview

• Introduction to course, assignments, travel
• Introductions of participants
• Food system 10,000 foot view

Speakers: Roni Neff, Megan Clayton

2

History and community food security

• Service-learning project overview and setup
• Baltimore food system history
• Overview of community food security field/approaches; models of community mobilization. Food justice, food sovreignty. Community food assessments.
• Discussion

Speakers: Roni Neff, Megan Clayton, Anne Palmer

3

Baltimore local & state food policy

• Interviewing Training
• Baltimore local & state food policy
• Orientation to trip 1
• Orientation to corner store potluck lunch assignment

Speakers: Holly Freishtat, Food Policy Director, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore City Department of Planning, Roni Neff, Megan Clayton

• Baltimore Food Policy Task Force report, pp 1-9
• Winne M. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the table in the land of plenty. Beacon Press: Boston. 2008 [hencefoth, "Winne"]: xi-xxii
• Reading Responses

4

Supermarkets

Trip: Food Depot

Speaker: Benji Green, Owner

• Zachary, D., Palmer, A., & Surkan, P. (2012) Grocery Purchasing in the Food Desert Environment: Constraints Outweigh Preferences.
• Haering SA, Franco M. (eds.) The Baltimore City Food Environment. Center for a Livable Future, 2010. Chapter 1.
• Reading Responses
• Completed IRB and Service-Learning Training

5

Corner Stores

• Debrief trip 1 (supermarkets)
• Check-in re: Midterm Project
• Corner store discussion and potluck lunch
• Discussion

Speakers: Roni Neff, Megan Clayton

• Lee SH, Rowam MT, Powell LM, Newman S, Klasson AC, Frick KD, Anderson J, Gittelsohn J. Characteristics of prepared food sources in low-income neighborhoods of Baltimore City. Ecol Food Nutr 2012 Nov 1; 49(6): 409-430
• Reading Responses
• Corner store potluck

6

Food Insecurity

• Food assistance
• Witnesses to Hunger
• Orientation to trip 2
• Service-learning reflection 1
• Discussion of student experience thus far

Speakers: Mariana Chilton, Roni Neff

• Chilton M, Booth S. Hunger of the body and hunger of the mind: African American women's perceptions of food insecurity, health, and violence. J Nutr Educ Behav 2007;39(3):116-125
• Reading Responses

7

Emergency Food

Trip: Franciscan Center

• Winne pp. 69-81
• Reading Responses

8

Issues of race, class, MD Food System Map

• Issues of race, class, and working with communities
• MD Food System Map
• Debrief trip 2

Speakers: Heber Brown, Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, and Amanda Behrens, CLF Project Manager, Eating for the Future

• Guthman, J. Excerpts from "Will local, organic food make you thin?" In: Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism. U of CA Press: 2012.
• Reading Responses
• Final paper topics due by 5pm

9

Student presentations of interview findings

• Midterm papers due
• Class presentations

10

Food choices - Demand, marketing, behavior change

• Food demand
• Marketing
• Behavior change including education, social marketing, behavioral economics
• Discussion

Speakers: Megan Clayton, Joyce Smith

Choose one of the following

• Glanz K, Basil M, Maibach E, Goldberg J, Snyder D. Why Americans Eat What They Do: Taste, Nutrition, Cost, Convenience, and Weight Control Concerns as Influences on Food Consumption. Journal of the American Dietetic Association - October 1998 (Vol. 98, Issue 10, Pages 1118-1126
• Mancino L, Insidious Consumption: Surprising Factors That Influence What We Eat and How Much, Amber Waves, June, 2007 combined with Loewenstein, G., & Ubel, P. (2010, July 14). Economics Behaving Badly. NYTimes, p. A31.
• Glanz K, Resnicow K, Seymour J, Hoy K, Stewart H, Lyons M, et al. How Major Restaurant Chains Plan Their Menus: The Role of Profit, Demand, and Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2007 5;32(5):383-388.
• Drewnowski A. Obesity, diets, and social inequalities. Nutr Rev. 2009 May;67 Suppl 1:S36-9.
• Andreyeva, Tatiana, Long, Michael W., Brownell, Kelly D.The Impact of Food Prices on Consumption: A Systematic Review of Research on the Price Elasticity of Demand for Food Am J Public Health 2010 100: 216-222
• Gearhardt, A. N., Grilo, C. M., DiLeone, R. J., Brownell, K. D. and Potenza, M. N. (2011), Can food be addictive? Public health and policy implications. Addiction, 106: 1208–1212

11

School Food and Farm Policy

• School Food - system-wide shcool food issues and innovations at Montessori
• Farm Bill
• Orient Trip 3
• Service-learning reflection 2 [issues]

Speakers: Jill Wrigley, OSI Baltimore Community Fellow; Good to Grow: Kids, Food, and Gardens Worldwide; Roni Neff

• Food & Water Watch, Public Health Institute. Do Farm Subsidies Cause Obesity? Dispelling Common Myths about Public Health and the Farm Bill [White Paper]. Washington, D.C. & Oakland, CA, 2011.
• Poppendieck J. Free for all. “School food 101” pp. 26-45.
• Reading Responses

12

Agriculture - conventional and sustainable

Trip: Albright Farms

Speaker: Tom Albright - Farmer & Owner of Albright Farms

• Wallinga D. Today's Food System: How Healthy Is It? Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 4, Issue 3&4 July 2009 , pages 251 – 281

13

Direct Marketing and Regional Food Systems

• Debrief trip 3
• Orient trip 4
• Direct marketing (Farmers' markets, CSA, other models)
• Baltimore food system in regional context
• Improving regional food systems
• Service-learning reflection 3 - no what?

Speakers: Kate Clancy, Megan Clayton

• Winne, pp 152-161
• Born B, Purcell M. Avoiding the local trap: Scale and food systems in planning research. Journal of Planning, Education, and Research 2006;26:195-205
• Reading Responses

14

Urban agriculture

• Trip to Whitelock Community Farm
• CLF Aquaponics Facility

Speakers: Elisa Lane, Head Farmer at Whitelock Community Farm; David Love, PhD, Project Director of CLF Aquaponics Facility

• Hu A, Acosta A, McDaniel A, Gittelsohn J. Community Perspectives on Barriers and Strategies for Promoting Locally Grown Produce From and Urban Agriculture Farm. Health Promot Pract 2001 Nov 18
• Reading Responses

15

Food System Workers Discussion

• Discuss Trip 4
• Food system workers
• Agriculture: urban, peri-urban
• Serveice-learning reflection

Speakers: Roni Neff, Worker representative TBA

• Lo J, Jacobson A. Human Rights from Field to Fork: Improving Labor Connections for Food-Sector Workers by Organizing Across Boundaries. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Vol 5 Food Justice (Autumn 2011), pp 61-82

16

Conclusion

Speaker: Roni Neff

• Winne, pp 183-193