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MDP 507 Fieldwork Context Analysis Final Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Due May 14 by 11:59pm
For your final paper for MDP 507, you will write a report that synthesizes the theoretical frameworks that we have been examining (including Mosse and Burawoy), and applies this kind of analysis to your summer practicum placement.
Your topic of concentration for your practicum is: “ Urban Agriculture in Georgia and its Impact on Food Quality and Sufficiency” . Your assigned group for the practicum is Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture (TLW), southwest Atlanta, Georgia.
For the Fieldwork Context Analysis, you will complete a 12 to 15-page (rather than 20!), double-spaced paper (not including the bibliography) that identifies the discourses, actors, and intended beneficiaries you will encounter this summer. You will use the sources that you identified in your abstract, and others that you have identified since then, to flesh out an understanding of the operational logics of each scale of development activity. Your paper should include a minimum of 12 citations*** but can be organized in whatever manner you wish.
We have discussed three scales of development activity:
1. The discourse/policy scale.
2. The scale of implementing organizations.
3. The scale of intended beneficiaries.
It is important not to confuse these scales:
· Each scale has its own logic.
· These logics are often in conflict with one another.
· The logic of each is in part a function of how it connects to the other scales.
Focusing on the project that you will join this summer, your paper should draw upon a range of sources, from either the academic/scholarly world or the development world, for each of the three above-mentioned scales of development activity. Be sure that you have a balance of both kinds of sources, rather than just one.
You should look for sources that will help you understand the different logics of each of the three scales. For example, Mamdani helps us understand the logic that informed decisions that people in northern India made about family size; the Daño reading helps us understand the logic of the intermediate scale with respect to the New Green Revolution for Africa; and the Ferguson reading helps us understand the logic of the discursive scale.
Your paper should include a discussion of what these sources suggest about the operation of all three scales of activity. The scale that will probably be the most difficult to reconstruct will be that of the intended beneficiaries. If you cannot find sources on the specific group of beneficiaries you will be working with, use material on the region where you will be working. The scale that will probably be the easiest to reconstruct will be that of policy/discourse, as the organization you will be working with has already produced accounts of what it is doing and why. You should be sure to make as much progress as possible regarding who the various partners are that have come together at the intermediate scale. Reading for competing narratives or inconsistencies is likely to be helpful to you.
***Since you did not complete your Fieldwork Context Analysis Abstract, which included an Annotated Bibliography section, you should include the six-resource annotations at the end of your final paper. You do not need to include the 1-page description that would have been in the abstract.***
Remember, you are doing research that is intended to help you answer a range of questions that may include the following:
(1) Why are the intended beneficiaries of the project living in difficult circumstances to begin with? In other words, what is the cause of their poverty, ill health, lack of opportunity, etc.?
(2) Is the problem that your organization seeks to engage one that the intended beneficiaries view as important? In other words, who thinks this is a problem and who does not?
(3) To what extent does the problem and solution selected by your organization draw upon buzz words like “empowerment,” “participation,” “community,” “market,” etc.—terms that have no concrete referent? As we have discussed, terms such as these allow organizations at the intermediate scale to work together under a single umbrella term even as they pursue interests that have little to do with what is claimed in discourse;
(4) How, specifically, does your organization propose to solve the problem that has been selected as the focus of the intervention?
(5) Has your project taken into account what was already there when development came calling? In other words, do project personnel understand the kinds of life patterns and forms of adaption to which people are already so deeply committed? Or does the project view the context in which it seeks to intervene in terms of absences, or holes, that need to be filled? And if the latter is the case, what are these holes? How is the effort to fill the holes likely to interact with existing cultural patterns to produce unexpected outcomes for the project?
As these questions suggest, the idea is for you to carry out an Extended Case Method analysis of the project you will join this summer. You do not need to know the answers to all of the above questions before going to the field. However, these kinds of questions are likely to help you distinguish between should and is in preparing for your projects and working in them over the summer.
Some resources to use for the research.
Ali Loker & Charles Francis, “Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for agroecology and systems thinking in a postCOVID-19 future,” ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjsa21
Sabine O'Haraa,⁎ , Etienne C. Toussaint, “Food access in crisis: Food security and COVID-19,” Ecological Economics, journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolecon
Sanderson, Jessica, Katie S. Martin, Angela G. Colantonio, and Rong Wu. “An Outcome Evaluation of Food Pantries Implementing the More than Food Framework.” Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 15, no. 4 (July 3, 2020): 443–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2020.1748782.
Jacknowitz, Alison, Anna Amirkhanyan, Amy S. Crumbaugh, and Michael Hatch. “Exploring the Challenges and Coping Strategies in Households Relying on SNAP and Food Pantries.” Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 14, no. 1–2 (March 4, 2019): 281–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2018.1555073.
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Gundersen, Craig, Brent Kreider, and John Pepper. “The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 33, no. 3 (2011): 281–303.https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppr022.
Caswell, Julie A., Ann L. Yaktine, Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on National Statistics, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. History, Background, and Goals of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. National Academies Press (US), 2013. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK206907/.
2017Census Black Producers (2017) Retrieved from https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Black_Producers.pdf
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SNAPSHOT Black Producers, 2017 Number = 48,697* Black All U.S. (percent) Sex Male 71 64 Female 29 36 Age <35 6 8 35 - 64 51 58 65+ 43 34 Years farming 10 or less 29 27 www.nass.usda.gov |
About the U.S. Department of Agriculture Retrieved from https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda
Bailey, Shayla (2018) USDA Aligns Harmonized GAP Program with FDA Food Safety Rule, Retrieved from https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/FAQsUSDAGAPFSMAProduceSafetyRuleAlignment.pdf
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USDA Aligns Harmonized GAP Program with FDA Food Safety Rule The USDA Harmonized GAP audit program is an audit that was developed as part of the Produce GAP Harmonization Initiative, an industry-driven effort to develop food safety GAP www.ams.usda.gov |
Castro, Abril, and Zoe Willingham. Center for American Progress (2019) Progressive Governance Can Turn the Tide for Black Farmers. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/04/03/467892/progressive-governance-can-turn-tide-black-farmers/
Copeland, Roy W (2015) Post-Pigford Remedies for African American Farmers May Include Promissory and Equitable Estoppel. Western Journal of Black Studies 39 (3): 209–22
Editor, Raj Patel (2009) Food Sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies 36 (3): 663–706 https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150903143079
Global Growers. Retrieved from https://www.globalgrowers.org.
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Global Growers provides farmers and community growers with an ecosystem of support to make local, healthy produce abundant to communities throughout Atlanta. www.globalgrowers.org |
Group Environmental Working. (2021) Timeline: Black Farmers and the USDA, 1920 - Present. Retrieved from https://www.ewg.org/research/black-farmer-usda-timeline/
Hinson, Waymon R and Edward Robinson (2008) We Didn’t Get Nothing:’ The Plight of Black Farmers. Journal of African American Studies 12 (3): 283–302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-008-9046-5.
Rosenberg and Stuki (2019) How USDA Distorted Data to Conceal Decades of Discrimination against Black Farmers | New Food Economy. The Counter. Retrieved from https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/.
Laforge, Julia M., L, Colin R. Anderson., and Stéphane M. Mclachlan.(2017) Governments, Grassroots, and the Struggle for Local Food Systems: Containing, Coopting, Contesting and Collaborating. Agriculture and Human Values 34 (3): 663–81. http://dx.doi.org.proxy.library.emory.edu/10.1007/s10460-016-9765-5.
Maughan, Tiffany., Dan Drost., Shawn Olsen., and Brent Black. (2016) Good Agricultural Practices (GAP): Certification Basics. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1803&context=extension_curall
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Good Agricultural Practices (GAP): Certification Basics 2 . requirements. Some audit protocols may require testing of soil, manure, wash water, irrigation water, and produce. Be aware of these requirements so the testing can be done at the proper time. digitalcommons.usu.edu |
Our Networks. Global Growers. Retrieved from https://www.globalgrowers.org/our-networks
Paggi, Mechel S., Fumiko Yamazaki., Luis A. Ribera., Ronald D. Knutson., Juan Anciso., Marco A. Palma., and Jay E. Noel., (2010) Comparative Producer Costs of GAP and GHP Standards: Can the playing field be made level? AgEcon Search https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.116406.
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COMPARATIVE PRODUCER COSTS OF GAP AND GHP STANDARDS: CAN THE PLAYING FIELD BE MADE LEVEL? doi.org |
Phillips, Sarah T., Dale Potts., Adrienne Petty., Mark Schultz., Sam Stalcup., and Anne Effland. (2013) Reflections on One Hundred and Fifty Years of the United States Department of Agriculture. Agricultural History. 87 (3): 314–67. https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.3.314
Rasmussen, Wayne D (1990) The People’s Department: Myth or Reality? Agricultural History 64 (2): 291–99
The Guardian (2019) There Were Nearly a Million Black Farmers in 1920. Why Have They Disappeared? Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/29/why-have-americas-black-farmers-disappeared
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John Boyd Jr, at his 210-acre farm in Baskerville, Virginia. Boyd is a fourth-generation farmer, still fighting for black farmers’ rights and equal treatment. www.theguardian.com |
Touzeau, Leslie. (2019) Being Stewards of Land Is Our Legacy: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young Black Farmers. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 8 (4): 45–60. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.084.007.
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JAFSCD: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Publication of the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems doi.org |
Gaechter, L. (2020) When Lived Experience Meets the Census of Agriculture: Food Sovereignty Movement Reflections in USDA Data. Center for a Livable Future. Retrieved from Accessed May 9, 2021. https://clf.jhsph.edu/publications/when-lived-experience-meets-census-agriculture-food-sovereignty-movement-reflections
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Does the USDA’s Census of Agriculture reflect broader food sovereignty and resilience movements happening within the United States? In my last post, I described some distinctions between the terms “agriculture” and “food production.” In this post, I explore how food sovereignty and resilience movements are reflected in agricultural production trends for farmers of color. clf.jhsph.edu |
Wilson (2020) Tale of Two Morrill Acts: 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant Universities. AGDAILY . Retrieved from https://www.agdaily.com/insights/tale-of-two-morrill-acts-1890-historically-black-land-grant-universities/