Local Food and Community Development

Gary Paul Green is a professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a community development specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of community and economic development.Rhonda G. Phillips, Ph.D., AICP, CEcD is Associate Dean for Barrett, The Honors College and a professor at Arizona State University’s School of Community Resources & Development. Her research and service outreach includes assessing community well-being and quality-of-life outcomes. She teaches courses on local food systems and community development.

• 1. Introduction Gary Paul Green and Rhonda G. Phillips 2. Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism: Culinary Tourism as a Community Development Strategy Gary Paul Green and Michael L. Dougherty 3. Everyday Meanings of "Local Food": Views from Home and Field Marcia Ostrom 4. Rethinking local business clusters: the case of food clusters for promoting community development Davis F. Taylor and Chad R. Miller 5. The influence of community capital toward a community's capacity to respond to food insecurity Jessica Crowe and Justin Smith 6. Investing in the social fabric of rural and urban communities: a comparative study of two Alabama farmers' markets Abel Duarte Alonso and Martin A. O'Neill 7. "Growing Wellness": The Possibility of Promoting Collective Wellness through Community Garden Education Programs Michelle L. D'Abundo and Andrea M. Carden