Volume 20, Issue 1 (2011) Maine's Food System
Front Matter
Letter from the Editor
Ann Acheson
Essays
Food and the Urgency of Now
Kevin W. Concannon
Bringing Local Foods to the Farm Bill
Chellie Pingree
Articles
It’s Growing Season for Maine’s Food System
Deborah Felder
Maine’s Food System: An Overview and Assessment
D. Robin Beck, Nikkilee Carleton, Hedda Steinhoff, Daniel Wallace, and Mark Lapping
Economic Contribution of Maine’s Food Industry
Todd M. Gabe, James C. McConnon Jr., and Richard Kersbergen
Growing Maine’s Foodscape, Growing Maine’s Future
Laura Lindenfeld and Linda Silka
Welcome to Portland; Now Let’s Eat
Hilary Nangle
Farms and the Working Landscape
John Piotti
Getting What We Pay For (and Other Unintended Consequences): An Overview of Federal Agricultural Policy
MaryAnn Hayes
Maine’s Dairy Relief Program
Tim Drake
Toward a Working- Waterfront Ethic: Preserving Access to Maine’s Coastal Economy, Heritage, and Local Seafood
Robert Snyder
Adrift in a Sea of Information about Sustainable Seafood: The Maine Consumer Perspective
Catherine V. Schmitt
By Land and By Sea
Amanda Beal
Poor Nutrition Amidst Plenty
Dora Anne Mills
Healthy Food Access and Affordability: “We Can Pay the Farmer or We Can Pay the Hospital"
Gus Schumacher, Michel Nischan, and Daniel Bowman Simon
Hunger in Maine
Donna Yellen, Mark Swann, and Elena Schmidt
Challenges to Food Access Among Lewiston’s African Immigrants
Michelle Vasquez Jacobus and Reza Jalali
Local Food for Lewiston: Exploring the Role of Food Assessment as Part of Broader Work in Community-engaged Food Systems
Kirsten Walter
Historical Perspectives on Resource Use in Food Systems
John Jemison and Amanda Beal
Resource, Environment and Energy Considerations for Maine Food Security in 2050 and Beyond
Amanda Beal and John Jemison
Food Safety
Alfred A. Bushway, Beth Calder, and Jason Bolton
Meat and Poultry Processing
Henrietta Beaufait
Maine’s Food-Related Workforce: Characteristics and Challenges
Valerie J. Carter
Education on Food, Fisheries and Agriculture
Molly Anderson
Financing Maine’s Food Enterprises
Ron Phillips
Local and Regional Food Systems: A USDA Priority
Virginia Manuel
On Slow Money
Linzee Weld
Crown O’Maine Organic Cooperative
Leah Cook
Farm to School
Amy Winston
Kitchen Gardens: From the White House to Your House
Jean English and Douglas Fox
Maine’s Connected Food System: On the Web and Online
Barbara Ives and Sam Merrill
Seafood Pies with a Social Purpose
Jeff Johnson
Commentaries
An Abundant Food System
Russell Libby
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