| Themes | Selected variables for analysis | Selected authors |
|
Human Health |
Food security, hunger, nutrition, wellness,
morbidity and mortality from pesticide exposures, food contamination, livestock
to human diseases, drinking water contamination, obesity. |
Fenske 2002,
Horrigan et al. 2002, Lock et al. 2005, Kerr et al. 2007 |
|
Democracy |
Participation (voice and vote), decision
making, rural associations/cooperatives, social capital and community cohesion,
inequalities in social power, representation, accountability mechanisms, food
sovereignty, social movements, governance and government policy (overlaps with
equity and justice) |
Flora
2003, Fox and Gresham 2000, Pretty and Ward 2001, Allen 2010 |
|
Work |
Paid and unpaid agricultural and food system
labor (within and beyond households). Employment, wages, changing labor routines, injuries, migration/immigration, discrimination, collective bargaining (overlaps with equity and justice, health) |
Carney and Watts
1990, Kevane and Gray 1999, Littig and Griessler 2005, Getz et al. 2008 |
|
Quality of Life and Human
Well-being |
Income, economic poverty, education,
employment, housing conditions, security, life expectancy, as well as subjective perceptions. (Links with health) |
Goldschmidt
1946, MEA 2005, Panelli and Tipa 2007, UNDP 2010 |
|
Equity, Justice, and Ethics |
Procedural and distributional dimensions of
environmental and food justice. Environmental and food access inequalities.
Influence of geography, race, class, gender and other markers of social identity
upon the distributions of environmental benefits and burdens in agri-food
systems. Ethics of eating, farming, food systems, and intergenerational
ecosystem stewardship. |
Kloppenburg
et al. 2000, Dupuis and Goodman 2005, Sneddon et al. 2006, Gottlieb and Joshi 2010, Alkon and Agyeman 2011 |
|
Resiliency and
Vulnerability |
“The capacity of a system to absorb
disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain
essentially the same function, structure and feedbacks, and therefore identity,
that is, the capacity to change in order to maintain the same
identity” (Walker et al. 2004). Response to shocks (hurricanes, floods, droughts, market crashes, social upheavals), coping mechanisms, livelihoods damage, and social learning and local knowledge institutions |
Carpenter
et al. 2001, Turner et al. 2003, Lin 2007, Folke et al. 2010, Wisner et al. 2011 |
|
Biological
and Cultural Diversity |
Cultural practices, languages spoken,
indigenous and hybrid ecological knowledge systems, diet, planned and associated diversity in farms and forests, oral traditions (overlaps with resiliency and vulnerability) |
Berkes et al. 1995, Toledo et al. 2003, Altieri 2004, Johns and Sthapit 2004, Maffi 2005, Chappell and LaValle 2011 |