Social Research in Organic Agriculture Conference

January 21, 2005

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Presentations

THEME 1: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC POLICY

• No Brainer: Mad Sheep, Crazy Women and Blinded Bureaucrats
  Martha McMahon
  
• Cultivating Controversy: Organic Seed Production and Policies in Canada
  Catherine Phillips
  
• Building and Evaluating Organizational Linkages in Food Security Initiatives: A Preliminary Analysis of International Collaboration in Cuba
  Ilan Alleson
  

THEME 2: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE FARMING EXPERIENCE

• Hiding Hens and Dodging the Chicken Police: Realities of Organic Egg Farming on the Saanich Peninsula
  Katie Wagner
  
• Conversion to Organic Farming and Social Justice: A Sociological Approach
  M.D. Loreto et al
  
• The Moral Ecology of Organics
  Mary Richardson
  

THEME 3: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY

• Unpacking ‘Good Food’: Towards Understanding the Semantics of Organics
  David Connell, John Smithers and Alun Joseph
  
• Growing Green Jobs Partnership
  Helene May and Karine Jaouich
  
• Farmers’ Markets in Low-Income Neighbourhoods: Confronting the Dilemma Between Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability
  Lauren Baker

We would like to acknowledge the following financial contributors to the Second Annual Conference for Social Research in Organic Agriculture - 2005

• The Organic Agriculture Conference
• The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Windsor
• The College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph
• The Rural Studies Program, University of Guelph

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