Resources

Updated October 21, 2025

JUST GROW Publications, Presentations and More


Conferences

Sabir, B., Vinge, H. (2025). Mapping Food Policies and Urban Pedagogies: Voll Gård as a Good Practice, Poster Presentation, Agri4D Conference – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, 22-25 September

ASFS/AFHVS Conference, Corvallis, WA, June 19, 2025. Title of Presentation: Preserving cultural foodways through justice-centered growth in urban agriculture: The JUST GROW framework. Presenter & Author: Rose Jennings. Contributing Authors: Patrick Baur

SRI Congress 2025, Chicago, IL, June 16, 2025. Title of Poster: Engaging community, uplifting women and building resilience in urban agriculture systems, #5729. Presenter & Author: Rose Jennings. Contributing Authors: Beste Sabir, Ann-Kristin Koch

11th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference in Brussels & Ghent, June 21, 2024. Title of presentation: Contributions of urban agriculture intensification to ensure sustainable and equitable food security – A Systematic Literature Review. Presenters: Ann-Kristin Koch (ILS Research)

Symposium “Spatial Justice in Practice” in Delft (The Netherlands), November 30, 2023. Title of presentation: JUST GROW?  Co-designing justice-centric indicators to understand trends of intensification in urban agricultural systems. Presenters: Ann-Kristin Steines (ILS Research) & Adam Calo (Radboud University)


Papers & Reports

Baur, P., Treviño-Peña, M., Taylor, J., Jennings, R., Aliu, S., Specht, K., Schröter, B., Steines, A.-K., Martin, M., Farhangi, M., Voora, V., Kanki, K., Miura, K., Kiyoyama, Y., Yukun, H., Vinge, H., Sabir, B., Calo, A., & Stijn, V. D. O. (2024, July 30). How city regions can govern urban agriculture for equity. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 41, 46–48. https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-41-linking-future-policies-and-next-practices/

Yukun, H., Kiyoyama, Y., Ishida, & Yuzhong, H. (2025, October). Hama-cha Field Notes (2024–2025): A Non-Predefined Engagement in the Cultural Sustainability of Urban Agriculture [Field Notes]. Kyoto University. Linked PDF in English and Japanese.


Related Reading

Leimkühler, M., Specht, K., Schröter, B., Wissmann, A., Iodice, C., Fox-Kämper, R., Steines, A.-K., Monticone, F., Samoggia, A., Modarelli, G. C., Reynaud-Desmet, L., Curtis, A., Righini, I., D’Ostuni, M., Ramón, J., Amghar, S., & Pascual-Fernández, J. J. (2024). Using the Net-Map tool to analyze stakeholder networks in the city region food systems of seven European cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems8, 1315399. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1315399

Specht, K., Iodice, C., Monticone, F., Tonini, P., Petruzzelli, M., Carotti, L., Fox-Kämper, R., Toboso-Chavero, S., Orsini, F., Samoggia, A., & Vittuari, M. (2025). Measuring the social impact of City-region food system initiatives (CRFSIs): A systematic review of indicators and metrics. Sustainable Cities and Society128, 106462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106462

Steines, A. K., D’Ostuni, M., Wissman, A., Specht, K., Iodice, C., Fox-Kämper, R., Monticone, F., Righini, I., Saint-Ges, V., Samoggia, A., & Orsini, F. (2024). Cultivating change: Exploring policies, challenges, and solutions to support city region food systems development in six European countries. Cities, 155, 105498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105498

Calo, A., Sippell, S., Sylvia, K., Perrin, C., & Shields, K. (2024). Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2024.00028