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Item Open Access 2023 Summit evaluation(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023-01) Food Systems Institute, authorEvaluation of the 9th annual International Livestock Forum and the inaugural Mountain Meat Summit, held on January 11-12, 2023, hosted by Colorado State University.Item Open Access 2023 annual report(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Food Systems Institute, authorItem Open Access Economic impacts of farm to school: case studies and assessment tools(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-09) Christensen, Libby O., author; Jablonski, Becca B. R., author; Stephens, Lacy, author; Joshi, Anupama, authorItem Open Access How older households manage food insecurity with food production activities(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021-08) Berning, Joshua, author; Bayham, Jude, author; Bonanno, Alessandro, author; Cleary, Rebecca, autnor; Baishya, Pratiksha, authorHousehold food insecurity is a concern in the US given the negative effects associated with food insecurity. An interesting finding is that elderly households tend to be more food secure than younger households, even though many are on fixed income. A relevant question is what might elderly households be doing that is resulting in greater food security? One potential explanation is that in retirement, elderly households can invest in more time intensive activities that provide greater food security. In this study, we combine time use diaries with food security surveys to examine whether time spent on food production is associated with lower levels of food insecurity for elderly households. The data show that time spent in meal preparation and eating is increasing with older age cohorts. At the same time, food insecurity is declining steadily with older households. Grocery shopping and non-grocery food shopping do not show any relevant trends. Comparing households above and below 70 years of age, we find that time spent in food production does not explain differences in household level food insecurity.Item Open Access How older households manage food insecurity with food production activities(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023-04) Berning, Joshua, author; Bayham, Jude, author; Bonanno, Alessandro, author; Cleary, Rebecca, autnorHousehold food insecurity is a concern in the U.S. given the negative effects associated with food insecurity. An interesting finding is that elderly households tend to be more food secure than younger households, even though many are on a fixed income. A relevant question is what might elderly households be doing that is resulting in greater food security? One potential explanation is that in retirement, elderly households can invest in more time-intensive activities that provide greater food security. In this study, we combine time-use diaries with food security surveys to examine whether time spent on food production is associated with lower levels of food insecurity for elderly households. The data show that time spent in meal preparation and eating is increasing with older age cohorts. At the same time, food insecurity is declining steadily with older households. Grocery shopping and non-grocery food shopping do not show any relevant trends. We also compare food insecurity of households that are pre and post retirement eligible to see if food production explains the gap in food insecurity between these household types. We find that time spent on meal preparation and time spent eating explain some of the gap in food insecurity between these households and the results vary by marital status. Finally, we specify a two-stage model to estimate whether time spent on food production causes greater food security. Our specification fails to identify a strong relationship. One potential explanation is that older households in our sample generate bias as we only observe households that still live independently and alone.Item Open Access Exploring changes in local food purchasing patterns during COVID-19: insights from a nationwide consumer survey(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Edmondson, Hailey, author; Thilmany-McFadden, Dawn, authorItem Open Access 2022 annual report(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Food Systems Institute, authorItem Open Access A baseline assessment of school food spending and local procurement: exploring the case of CO HB 19-1132 and other public policies(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020-07) Love, Erin, author; McFadden, Dawn Thilmany, author; Jablonski, Becca B. R., author; Bellows, Laura, authorMany agricultural and food system policies are enacted to support positive economic development. Yet, there may be tradeoffs associated with certain types of policies particularly between efficiency and both positive and negative externalities. To test this, we investigate the role of local and regional supply chains in generating local economic development (an example of a positive externality). School nutrition programs are a rich context for this study because they engage with a variety of supply chain pathways, have garnered increasing attention from advocates of institutional procurement in recent years, and many of them have Farm-to-School programs, which produce local economic development benefits according to previous studies. We use an optimization model to test for what we coin the "Efficiency-Externality Tradeoff" specifically looking at how the supply chain by which agricultural products arrive to a school impact both efficiency and local economic development outcomes. We find that in the absence of policy mechanisms, school districts are unlikely to participate in local food procurement, which previous work has documented has a positive impact on local economies. This finding has implications for economic development policies, particularly those targeted at improving the quality of life in agriculturally dependent areas via institutional procurement in a school setting.