Research Guides: Food Studies: Other Resources

National Organizations/Resources

Agricultural Law Information Partnership The Agricultural Law Information Partnership is a collaboration between the National Agricultural Library, National Agricultural Law Center (NALC) and the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law School. The Partnership supports the dissemination of agricultural and food law information to consumers, researchers and legal professionals. Agricultural law is defined broadly to include land-based agriculture, food and fiber production and systems, aquaculture and energy issues.
Agricultural Research Service ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and provide information access and dissemination to: - Ensure high-quality, safe food, and other agricultural products; - Assess the nutritional needs of Americans; - Sustain a competitive agricultural economy; - Enhance the natural resource base and the environment; - Provide economic opportunities for rural citizens, communities, and society as a whole; and - Provide the infrastructure necessary to create and maintain a diversified workplace.
Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (Vermont Law School) Mission: to train the next generation of food and agriculture advocates and entrepreneurs, and to create innovative legal tools supporting the new food movement
Center on Food Security and the Environment (Stanford University) Addressing critical global issues of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating vital knowledge and policy-relevant solutions
Feast for the Future Created in response to three American Indian communities’ concerns for the health of their people, and an interest in strengthening their local food systems through the power of their traditions.
National Agricultural Law Center The nation's leading source of agricultural and food law research and information
National Agriculture Library The National Agricultural Library is one of four national libraries of the United States and houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
National Gleaning Project The NGP is specifically focused on legal barriers to enhancing gleaning and fresh food recovery in the United States. This site provides information on national and state laws and regulations pertaining to gleaning and food donation, state specific factsheets on gleaning and food donation liability, an interactive map of gleaning and fresh food recovery organizations across the country, and other topical resources.
Sustainable Agricutlre Research and Education SARE’s vision is an enduring American agriculture of the highest quality. This agriculture is profitable, protects the nation’s land and water and is a force for a rewarding way of life for farmers and ranchers whose quality products and operations sustain their communities and society. SARE’s mission is to advance – to the whole of American agriculture – innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life by investing in groundbreaking research and education.
Intertribal Agriculture Council Land-based agricultural resources are vital to the economic and social welfare of many Native American and Alaskan Tribes. The IAC has, over the last three decades, become recognized as the most respected voice within the Indian community and government circles on agricultural policies and programs in Indian country.

International Organizations

Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS)
The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS) is a prominent professional organization which provides an international forum to engage in the cross-disciplinary study of food, agriculture, and health, as well as an opportunity for examining the values that underlie various visions of food and agricultural systems.
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
The world's largest association devoted to promoting the interdisciplinary study of food and society.
Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)
Promotes critical, interdisciplinary scholarship on Food Studies in Canada.
Compassion in World Farming
Compassion in World Farming is dedicated to reforming a broken food and farming system and introducing a more humane, fair, and sustainable one.
Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations
FAO goals: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, including land, water, air, climate and genetic resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food)
is an independent panel of experts with a mission to promote transition to sustainable food systems around the world. Since 2015, IPES-Food has shaped the debate on global food system reform through scientific reports & detailed policy recommendations.
La Via Campesina: International Peasant's Movement
An international group committed to fighting for agroecology, peasants rights, climate and environmental justice, dignity for migrants and waged workers, food sovereignty, international solidarity, land, water and territories.

Special Reports

'I Refuse to Let Them Kill Me': Food, Violence, and the Maryland Correctional Food System A six-part report uncovering the experience of eating in Maryland's prisons from an abolitionist lens
Blueprint for a National Food Strategy The Blueprint for a National Food Strategy, a collaborative project between the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School and Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, examines the potential for developing a national food strategy in the United States. Through legal and original research, the Blueprint Project considers the need for a national food strategy, how other countries have developed national food strategies in response to similar food systems challenges faced by the United States, and the process by which the United States has developed national strategies in response to other issues. The resources created by this project provide a roadmap for the adoption of national food strategy in order to ensure a food secure future for all Americans.
Farmland Access Legal Toolkit Helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland.
Good Food is Power: A collection of traditional foods stories from the Ramah Navajo Community, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Tohono Oâ€™odham Nation This report explores the traditional foods movement through the lenses of three traditional foods programs: the Ramah Navajo Community, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and Tohono O’odham Nation. These stories were originally gathered by the University of Oklahoma’s American Indian Institute
Measuring Access to Healthful, Affordable Food inAmerican Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Areas by Phillip Kaufman, Chris Dicken, and Ryan Williams The study compares distances to outlets for obtaining healthy, affordable food in tribal areas to those for the general U.S. population, with implications for improving the health of tribal populations.
Technology in Agribusiness: Opportunities to Drive Value (White Paper) In this white paper, we examine how new technology will drive value in the evolving agribusiness value chain. We address three areas of value creation: operational excellence, supply chain orchestration, and transparency. We show how future technology developments will contribute to these sources of value and how they will transform the structure of the agribusiness value chain. We show how advancements in artificial intelligence, system design solutions, and orchestration technologies can facilitate intelligent food production and how they’ll enable the development of new business models. As a result, food systems will be more productive, efficient, sustainable, inclusive, transparent, and resilient.
Vermont Farm to Plate Network Farm to Plate is a comprehensive strategic plan that acknowledges agriculture's interconnectedness with economy, especially in a "rural, agrarian state like Vermont."

Food History Resources

Below are some resources from the Library of Congress related to Food History:

Food History Tracer Bullet

Presidential Food Resources

Katherine Golden Bitting Collection

Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life