Engagement for transformation: Value webs for local food system development   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Daniel R. Block  Michael Thompson  Jill Euken  Toni Liquori  Frank Fear  Sherill Baldwin 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(3):379-388

Engagement happens when academics and non-academics form partnerships to create mutual understanding, and then take action together. An example is the “value web” work associated with W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food Systems Higher Education–Community Partnership. Partners nationally work on local food systems development by building value webs. “Value chains,” a concept with considerable currency in the private sector, involves creating non-hierarchical relationships among otherwise disparate actors and entities to achieve collective common goals. The value web concept is extended herein by separating the values of the web itself, such as the value of collaboration, from values “in” the web, such as credence values associated with a product or service. By sharing and discussing case examples of work underway around the United States, the authors make a case for employing the value webs concept to represent a strategy for local food systems development, specifically, and for higher education–community partnerships, generally.

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Daniel R. Block   is an associate professor of geography and coordinator of the Frederick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center at Chicago State University. His current research focuses on food access issues in urban environments, particularly in Chicago. Michael Thompson   is an assistant professor at Oregon State University, and a Seafood and Fisheries specialist for Oregon Sea Grant Extension. Primary areas of research include fisheries management, seafood quality/handling, and seafood product development. Jill Euken   is an industrial specialist for biobased products for Iowa State University Extension/CIRAS, and deputy director, ISU Bioeconomy Institute. She was part of the steering team for the Iowa Value Chain Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture and led the Bioeconomy Working Group. Toni Liquori   is a nutritionist, teacher and food activist with a long time interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of school-based intervention programs and coalition building for activism around food related issues, as well as teaching and training in public health. Frank Fear   is senior associate dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; and professor, in the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies; and Senior Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University. He is lead author of Coming to Critical Engagement (University Press of America, 2006), an analysis of the engagement movement in higher education; and recently completed two terms as president of the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Sherill Baldwin   is ecology director at Mercy Center at Madison, Connecticut, a spiritual retreat and conference center. She previously provided consulting services to CitySeed, Inc. in New Haven (CT) and to Frank Fear and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for a community learning project related to sustainable food systems. She has an MS in Resource Development from Michigan State University and a BA in Solid Waste Management from the University of Massachusetts.  相似文献   

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Kum HC  Ahalt S  Carsey TM 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2011,332(6035):1263

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Godfray HC  Pretty J  Thomas SM  Warham EJ  Beddington JR 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2011,331(6020):1013-1014

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土壤砷有效性及其在柑桔中累积特征研究     

张焱  王成秋  代征科  Thomas Tian  杨剑虹 《西南大学学报(自然科学版)》2011,33(9)

在对全国柑桔主产区部分土壤和植株系统采样基础上,采用1.0mol/L HCl、0.5mol/L NaHCO3和1.0mol/L NH4Cl对土壤砷提取测定,结合土壤总砷、柑桔植株枝条、叶片和果肉中砷的测定结果,研究柑桔园土壤砷的总量、有效性及砷在柑桔中分布累积规律.结果表明:供试土壤总砷含量在1.77～16.0mg/kg之间,按土壤类型,黄棕壤最高,以下依次为黄壤、红壤和紫色土;砷在柑桔植株中累积分布规律为,叶片最高,枝条次之,果肉最少.其中,果肉与叶片砷含量呈极显著正相关(R=0.735 6**n=13),且叶片累积远大于果肉;三种提取剂中,0.5mol/L NaHCO3无论在酸性或石灰性土壤上提取结果均表现与柑桔果肉砷含量具极显著正相关性(R=0.541 0**n=45),可作为柑桔土壤砷有效性指标;0.5mol/L NaHCO3提取有效砷与土壤Olsen磷呈极显著正相关(R=0.600 6**n=45),且在不同酸碱性质土壤上砷的提取量与Olsen磷的大小具有相同趋势,证明砷在土壤中具有与磷相似的化学行为和吸附-解吸特征.  相似文献   

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Plasmon rulers can be used to determine nanoscale distances within chemical or biological species. They are based on the spectral shift of the scattering spectrum when two plasmonic nanoparticles approach one another. However, the one-dimensionality of current plasmon rulers hampers the comprehensive understanding of many intriguing processes in soft matter, which take place in three dimensions. We demonstrated a three-dimensional plasmon ruler that is based on coupled plasmonic oligomers in combination with high-resolution plasmon spectroscopy. This enables retrieval of the complete spatial configuration of complex macromolecular and biological processes as well as their dynamic evolution.  相似文献   

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Nina E. Cohen  Marcel A.P.M. van  Asseldonk  Elsbeth N. Stassen 《Agriculture and Human Values》2007,24(4):499-510

In 2004 a survey was conducted in the member states of the European Union designed to gain greater insight into the views on control strategies for foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever, and avian influenza with respect to the epidemiological, economic and social-ethical consequences of each of these animal diseases. This article presents the results of the social-ethical survey. A selection of stakeholders from each member state was asked to prioritize issues for the prevention and control of these diseases. A majority of stakeholders chose preventive measures as the preferred issue. An analysis was done to determine whether there were differences in views expressed by stakeholders from member states with a history of recent epidemics and ones without such a history, and whether there were regional differences. There were no differences between member states with or without a history of recent epidemics. There were indeed regional differences between the priority orders from Northern and Southern Europe on the one hand, and from Eastern Europe on the other. Nina E. Cohen is a biologist and is a researcher at the Wageningen University. She is specialized in societal and ethical issues in human–animal relationships. Her current research is focused on the social-ethical issues concerning the prevention and control of foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever and avian influenza. Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk has studied animal science. Currently he works at the Institute for Risk Management in Agriculture (IRMA) of the Wageningen University. He is specialized in the design and pricing of insurance policies and animal health funds for the main livestock epidemics. Elsbeth N. Stassen is a veterinarian and professor of Animals and Society at the Wageningen University. Elsbeth Stassen is specialized in animal health, animal welfare and human–animal relationships. She was a member of a governmental welfare committee during the avian influenza epidemic in the Netherlands in 2003.  相似文献   

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