See Dr. Hannah Wittman’s Google Scholar profile for a full list of publications.

2023

Basok, T., Tucker, E. M., Vosko, L. F., Caxaj, C. S., Hennebry, J. L., Mayell, S., … & Weiler, A. M. (2023). The ‘contract’and its discontents: Can it address protection gaps for migrant agricultural workers in Canada?. International Migration. Online First.

Bowness, E., & Wittman, H. (2023). Sites, Stakes, and Scales: Radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization. Globalizations, 20:7, 995-1013.

Ruder, S-L., and Kandlikar, M.(2023) Governing gene-edited crops: risks, regulations, and responsibilities as perceived by agricultural genomics experts in Canada. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 10:1.

Weiler, A. M. (2023). Toxic freedom: How middle-class seasonal fruit pickers perceive and manage agrochemical exposures. Environmental Sociology.

2022

Black, J., Mazac, R., & Heckelman, A., & Elliott, S. (2022). Unwrapping school lunch: Examining the social dynamics and caring relationships that play out during school lunch. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, 9, 276-298.

Heckelman, A. & Johnson-Chappell, M.J. & Wittman, H. (2022). A polycentric food sovereignty approach to climate resilience in the Philippines. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10.

Huambachano, M., Arulingam, I., Bowness, E., Korzenszky, A., Mungai, C., Termine, P.and Wittman, H. (2022). Intergenerational Knowledge Networks to Support Youth Engagement in Sustainable Food Systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Johnston, J., Weiler, A., Baumann, S. (2022). The cultural imaginary of ethical meat: A study of producer perceptions. Journal of Rural Studies, 89(4), 186-198.

Weiler, A. M. (2022). Seeing the workers for the trees: Exalted and devalued manual labour in the Pacific Northwest craft cider industry. Agriculture & Human Values, 39, 65-78.

Weiler, A. M., & Encalada Grez, E. (2022). Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Food Studies, 9(2), 38-52.

2021

Hudson, M. and Bowness, E. (2021). Finance and Fossil Capital: A Community Divided? The Extractive Industries and Society 8(1): 383-394.

James, D. and Bowness, E. (2021). Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action. Fernwood Publishing.

James, D., Bowness, E., Robin, T., McIntyre, A., Dring, C., Desmarais, A., and Wittman, H. (2021). Dismantling and Rebuilding the Food System after COVID-19: Ten Principles for Redistribution and Regeneration. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 10(2): 29–51.

Sampson, D., Cely-Santos, M., Gemmill-Herren, B., Babin, N., Bernhart, A., Bezner Kerr, R., Blesh, J., Bowness, E., Feldman, M., Luiz Goncalves, A., James, D., Kerssen, T., Klassen, S., Wezel, A., and Wittman, H. (2021). Food Sovereignty and Rights-based Approaches Strengthen Food Security and Nutrition Across the Globe: A systematic review. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Sanniti, S. & Ruder, S-L. (2021). Engaging economies of change: equitable partnerships for climate action. Ecological Limits of Development. Routledge.

Weiler, A. M., Sexsmith, K., Minkoff, L.A. (2021). Parallel precarity: A comparison of U.S. and Canadian agricultural guest worker programs. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food.

2020

Bowness, E. and Wittman, H. (2020). Bringing the City to the Country: Urban Agrarianism in Metro-Vancouver. The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Bowness, E., Baird, N, Hallberg, A., Packulak M and Students from SOC3460 (2020). Reconnecting through Urban Agriculture: A Community-Engaged Video Ethnography in Winnipeg. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-engaged research, teaching and learning.

Bowness, E., James, D., Desmarais, A., McIntyre, A., Dring, C., Robin, T., and Wittman, H. (2020). Risk & responsibility in the corporate food regime: research pathways beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review 101(3): 245-263.

Bowness, E., Nicklay, J., Liebman, A., Cadieux, V, and Blumberg, R.  (2020). “Navigating Urban Agroecology with the Social Sciences.” In Egerer, M., Cohen, H (Eds.) Interdisciplinary Research in Urban Agroecology. CRC Press.

Clapp, J., & Ruder, S.-L. (2020). Precision Technologies for Agriculture: Digital Farming, Gene-Edited Crops, and the Politics of Sustainability. Global Environmental Politics, 20(3), 49–69.

Dring, C., Lee, S, & Rideout, C. (2020). Public school teachers’ perceptions of what promotes or hinders their use of outdoor learning spaces. Learning Environments Research.

Hepburn, J., Murphy, S., Glauber, J.W., Laborde, D. (2020). What National Farm Policy Trends Could Mean for Efforts to Update WTO Rules on Domestic Support. International Institute for Sustainable Development.

James, D. & Bowness, E. (2020). Book Review: Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future (Ed. Annette Desmarais). Agriculture and Human Values.

James, D. and Mack, T. (2020). Toward an Ethics of Decolonizing Allyship in Climate Organizing: Reflections on Extinction Rebellion Vancouver. Journal of Human Rights and Environment.

Klassen, S., & Murphy, S. (2020). Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19. World Development, 136, 105104.

Kueneman, R. and E. Bowness. (2020). “The Social Context of Dispute Resolution and the Rise of Law” In Rick Linden (Ed.), Criminology: A Canadian Perspective. 9th Edition. Toronto: Nelson Education.

Murphy, S. & Smaller, C. (April 6 2020). We Need a Global Stimulus Package to Avoid a COVID-19 Hunger Crisis. International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Murphy, S. & Smaller, C. (May 4 2020). We Can Prevent a COVID-19 Hunger Crisis if We Look Back and Learn. International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Nawaz, S., Klassen, S., & Lyon, A. (2020). Tensions at the boundary: Rearticulating ‘organic’ plant breeding in the age of gene editing. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1), 34.

Ostenso, V, Dring, C, & Wittman, H (2020). Planning for Whom? Towards Culturally Inclusive Food Systems in Metro Vancouver. J. Agyeman and S. Giacolone (ed). The Immigrant-Food Nexus – Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America. MIT Press.

Valley, W., Anderson, M., Blackstone, N. T., Sterling, E., Betley, E., Akabas, S., Koch, P., Dring, C., Burke, J. and Spiller, K. (2020). Towards an equity competency model for sustainable food systems education programs. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8: 33.

Velásquez-Lopez, C; Páez-Varas, C; Benavides-Zúñiga, X; Gallegos, F; Fallon, G. (2020).Women mine-rock waste collectors in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ecuador: Challenges and opportunities. The Extractive Industries and Society.

Wouterse, F., Murphy, S. & Porciello, J. (2020). Social protection to combat hunger. Nature Food. 1. 517-518.

2019

Bowness, E. (2019). Book Review: From Grassroots to Global: Broader impacts of Civic Ecology (Ed. Marianne E. Krasny). Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 28(1), p. 88-89.

Gambling, S. & Laliberte, S. (2019). Tiny Homes: A good option for the body, mind and spirit. Visions Journal, 14(4), 36-39.

Heckelman, A. (2019). Enhancing Smallholder Resilience: Organic Transition, Place-based Knowledge & Local Resource Generation. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(1), 1-9.

Jonasson, M. E., Spiegel, S. J., Thomas, S., Yassi, A., Wittman, H., Takaro, T., … & Spiegel, J. M. (2019). Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: Threat to health equity for Indigenous communities. Journal of Public Health Policy, 40(4), 504-517.

Murphy, S. and Hansen-Kuhn, K. (2019). The true costs of US agricultural dumping. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-15.9

Roberts, W. and Guerra, J. (2019). Submission to House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food regarding Perception of and Public Trust in the Canadian Agricultural Sector.

Valley, W., & Wittman, H. (2019). Beyond feeding the city: The multifunctionality of urban farming in Vancouver, BC. City, Culture and Society, 16, 36-44.

Weiler, A. M. (2019). Whose Labor Counts as Craft? Terroir and Farm Workers in North American Craft Cider. In A. Bonanno, K. Sekine, & H. N. Feuer (Eds.), Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food: Development and Democratization. Abingdon, ON and New York: Routledge.

Weiler, A. M., & McLaughlin, J. (2019). Listening to migrant workers: should Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program be abolished? Dialectical Anthropology, 1-8.

2018

Heckelman, A. A. (2018). A Primer on Local Food Systems. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(2), 153–155.

Heckelman, A., Smukler, S., & Wittman, H. (2018). Cultivating climate resilience: a participatory assessment of organic and conventional rice systems in the Philippines. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 33(3), 225-237. (Featured on the United Nation’s FAO website)

Holmes, E., Black, J., Heckelman, A., Lear, S., Seto, D., Fowokan, A., & Wittman, H. (2018). “Nothing is going to change three months from now”: A mixed methods characterization of food bank use in Greater Vancouver. Social Science & Medicine, 200: 129-136.

Weiler, A. M. (2018). A food policy for Canada, but not just for Canadians: Reaping justice for migrant farm workers. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, 5(3), 279-284.

2017

Chapman, M., Klassen, S., et al. (2017). 5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems. Sustainability, 9(9), 1594.

Guerra J. & L. Martin. (2017). State of Organics: Federal-Provincial-Territorial Performance Report. Canada Organic Trade Association Report.

Guerra, J., Blesh, J., Schmitt Filho, A. L., and Wittman, H. (2017). Pathways to agroecological management through mediated markets in Santa Catarina Brazil. Elementa Sci Anth.5: 67.

Guerra, J. (2017). Canadian Organic Market Report: Trends and Opportunities. Canada Organic Trade Association Report.

Heckelman, A, & James, D.  (2017, March 21). Liu Debates: Should we label GMO foods? [Blog post]. Liu Institute for Global Issues.

Klassen, S.E. and Wittman, H. (2017). Place-based food systems in J. Duncan and M. Bailey (eds.) Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions, Routledge Studies in Food, Society, & the Environment.

Powell, L.J. and Wittman, H. (2017). Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food sovereignty. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-14.

Valley, W., Wittman, H., Ahmed, S., Jordan, N., Galt, R. (2017). An emerging signature pedagogy for sustainable food systems education. Renewable Agriculture And Food Systems, 1–14.

Weiler, A. M., McLaughlin, J., & Cole, D. C. (2017). Food security at whose expense? A critique of the Canadian temporary farm labour migration regime and proposals for change. International Migration, 55(4), 48-63.

Wittman, H., Dennis, J., & Pritchard, H. (2017).  Beyond the market? New agrarianism and cooperative farmland access in North America. Journal of Rural Studies, 303-316.

2016

Bowness, E. and E. Comack. (2016). “Crime and Punishment: The More Things Change….” In Cy Gonick (Ed.), Canada Since 1960: A People’s History: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers.

Chappell, M.J., Moore, J.R., and Heckelman, A. A. (2016). Participation in a City Food Security Program May Be Linked to Higher Ant Α- and Β-Diversity: an Exploratory Case from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.  Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

Dring, C, Devlin J, Boag G, Sunohara M, Fitzgibbon J, Topp E, Lapen D. (2016). Incentives and disincentives identified by producers and drainage contractors/experts on the adoption of controlled tile drainage in eastern Ontario, Canada. Water Quality Research Journal. 51(1): 1-16.

Dring, C, Yeung L. & Wittman, H. (2016). An Exploration of Intercultural Food Security & Health in Richmond, BC. 29. Centre for Sustainable Food Systems UBC.

Guerra, J., Amir, N., Harper, S., and Kiamanesh, S. (2016). Inequality Explained: Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Affect Canada’s Food Sovereignty? Open Canada.

Klassen, S. E. (2016). Decreasing Distance and Re-Valuing Local: How Place-Based Food Systems Can Foster Socio-Ecological Sustainability. Solutions, 7(August), 22–26.

Mesquita, P.S., Wittman, H., and Mota, J.A.  (2016) Climate variability, agricultural livelihoods and food security in Semiarid Brazil, Sustentabilidade em Debate, 7:38-51.

Murphy, S. (2016). “International Trade, Food Security and Nutrition,” in Pritchard, B., Ortiz, R. and Shekar, M. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security, Routledge, Oxford/New York.

Ventura, B. A., Keyserlingk, A. G., Wittman, H., and Weary, D. M. (2016). What difference does a visit make? changes in animal welfare perceptions after interested citizens tour a dairy farm. PLoS One, 11(5)

Weiler, A. M., Levoke, C. Z., & Young, C. (2016). Cultivating equitable ground: Community-based participatory research to connect food movements with migrant farmworkers. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 6(2), 73-87.

Weiler, A., Otero, G., and Wittman, H. (2016). Rock Stars and Bad Apples: Moral Economies of Alternative Food Networks and Precarious Farm Work Regimes.  Antipode. doi: 10.1111/anti.12221

Wittman, H., Chappell, M.J., Abson, D., Kerr, R., Blesh, J., Hanspach, J., Perfecto, I., Fischer, J. (2016). A social-ecological perspective on harmonizing food security and biodiversity conservation. Regional Environmental Change.

2015

Blesh, J. and Wittman, H. (2015). “Brasilience:” Assessing Resilience in Land Reform Settlements in the Brazilian Cerrado. Human Ecology, 43: 531.

Franko, A., Kaplan-Hallam, M., Guerra, J., and Maji, P. (2015) Mount Polley: A Call for Improved Coordination and Transparency in Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement for Mines in BC. Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Working Paper Series.

Heckelman, A. and Wittman, H. (2015).  Food Sovereignty: A framework for assessing agrarian responses to climate change in the Philippines.  Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 8(1), 87-94.

Kueneman, R. and Bowness, E. (2015). “The Changing Social Context of Dispute Resolution and the Rise of Law” in Rick Linden (Ed.), Criminology: A Canadian Perspective. 8^th Edition. Toronto: Nelson Education.

Murphy, S. (2015). Food security and international trade: Risk, trust and rules. Canadian Food Studies. 2(2), 88-96.

Wittman, H. (2015). From protest to policy: The challenges of institutionalizing food sovereignty. Canadian Food Studies. 2(2), 174-182.

Wittman, H. and Blesh, J. (2015). Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil. Journal of Agrarian Change.

Wittman, H., Powell, L., and Corbera, E. (2015). Financing the Agrarian Transition? The Clean Development Mechanism and Agricultural Change in Latin America.  Environmental and Planning A.  

2014

Burnett, K. and Murphy, S. (2014). What place for international trade in food sovereignty? Journal of Peasant Studies. 41(6), 1065-1084.

Dennis, J. and Wittman, H. (2014). Farmland Access in British Columbia. Final Project Summary Report.

Desmarais, A. A., & Wittman, H. (2014). Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6), 1153–1173.

Hudson, M. and Bowness, E. (2014). Directly and Adversely Affected: Public Participation in tar
sands development 2005-2014. Calgary: Parkland Institute.

Newman, L., Powell, L. and Wittman, H.  (2014). Landscapes of food production in agriburbia: farmland protection and local food movements in British Columbia, Canada.  Journal of Rural Studies. 

Stock, P. V., Forney, J., Emery, S. B., & Wittman, H. (2014). Neoliberal natures on the farm: farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective. Journal of Rural Studies, 1–12.

Weiler, A. M., Hergesheimer, C., Brisbois, B., Wittman, H., Yassi, A., & Spiegel, J. M. (2014). Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: a meta-narrative mapping exercise. Health Policy and Planning, 30(8): 1078–1092.

Wittman, H. and Dennis, J. (2014). Real Estate Foundation of BC Guest Blog Post: Strengthening Regional Food Systems through Alternative Models of Farmland Access.

2013

Bowness, E. and Hudson, M. (2013). Sand in the Cogs? Power and Public Participation in the Albertan Tar Sands. Environmental Politics 23(1): 59-76.

Dennis, J. and Kelvin C.S. (2013). Evaluating the agronomic benefits of biochar amended soils in an organic system: Results from a field study at the UBC Farm, Vancouver.

Dring, C., Khaledi, B., and Fritz, C. (2013). Richmond Foodland Asset Report. 39. Richmond Food Security Society.

2012

Dennis, J. (2012). Amending for soil quality and carbon sequestration. BC Organic Grower, 15:(2).

Dennis, J., Johnson, M., and Wittman, H. (2012). Biochar Manual for Small Farms in BC.