Updated October 21, 2025
JUST GROW Publications, Presentations and More
Conferences & Presentations
Just Transformations: AFHVS/ASFS Conference 2026, Burlington, VA, June 10. 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. Link to Agenda: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/21768bd022.html
Providence Metropolitan Region Stakeholder Workshop, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, January 2026. JUST GROW and Equity Indicators for Urban Agriculture in the Stockholm Region. Facilitated by: Patrick Baur, Chelsea Blanchette, Sheriff Aliu.
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
Trondelag Regional Stakeholder Workshop, Reppe Sondre Farm, Trondheim, Norway, September 2, 2025. Facilitated by: Beste Sabir, Heidi Vinge, Ann-Kristin Koch, Rose Jennings.
ASFS/AFHVS Conference, Corvallis, WA, June 19, 2025. Title of Presentation: Catalyzing Just Urban Agriculture Through Community Engaged Research. 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
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, March 11, 2025. Lunch Symposium: Planning for Justice & Equity in Urban Agriculture with the JUST GROW Framework. Presenter: Rose Jennings.
Stockholm Regional Stakeholder Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, March 12, 2025. Justice-centric indicators urban agriculture in Sweden. Facilitated by: M. Faranghi, N. de Brun Skantz, V. Voora, R. Jennings. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Rhine-Ruhr Regional JUST GROW Stakeholder Workshop. Dortmund, Germany, October 23, 2024. Facilitated by: Ann-Kristin Koch, Barbara Schröter, Annika Eisenberg
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)
Publications
Aliu, S., et al. Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Equity in Urban Agriculture: Lessons from the Providence Metropolitan Area, USA (in submission 2026)
Koch, A.-K., Aliu, S., Baur, P., Eisenberg, A., Jennings, R., Mayu, M., Schröter, B., & Specht, K. Contributions of urban agriculture to equitable food security – a systematic literature review (in submission to Agriculture & Food Security, 4/16/2026)
Sabir, B., Calo, A., Vinge, H. (2026, Accepted under publishing). Territorializing Food Systems through Pedagogical Broadening: The Case of Voll Farm. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Jennings, R., Baur, P., He, Y., Koch, Sabir, B., A.K. (2026-forthcoming). Participatory workshops to anchor community engaged research and catalyze urban food system change, in Palgrave Handbook on Urban Food Systems, in Section: Experimental, co-productive and multi-level food governance’. Editors: Alessandra Manganelli, Riccardo Giovanni Bruno, Simon Vonthron, Roxana Triboi.
Jennings, R., & Baur, P. (in press). Designing justice-centered models for effectively governing food systems at a regional level. In M. Farhangi, H. Rohracher, & M. Brückner (Eds.), Justice-Centric Food Systems: Planning and Governance for Transformation. Springer Nature.
Martin, M., & Farhangi, M. (in press). Growing fairness: Vertical farming and food justice in Stockholm. In M. Farhangi, H. Rohracher, & M. Brückner (Eds.), Justice-Centric Food Systems: Planning and Governance for Transformation. Springer Nature.
Calo, A., van den Oever, S., Sabir, B., & Vinge, H. (in press). Legitimizing urban food justice amidst the global land squeeze. In M. Farhangi, H. Rohracher, & M. Brückner (Eds.), Justice-Centric Food Systems: Planning and Governance for Transformation. Springer Nature.
Specht, K., Koch, A.-K., Eisenberg, A., & Schröter, B. (in press). How can urban agriculture enhance food security and promote justice? Insights from a participatory indicator development process in Germany. In M. Farhangi, H. Rohracher, & M. Brückner (Eds.), Justice-Centric Food Systems: Planning and Governance for Transformation. Springer Nature
Sabir, B., Vinge, H. (2026-forthcoming). Embedding the learning landscapes into outdoor curriculums (Integrering av læringslandskapene i utendørs læreplaner), in Turdagen i norsk skole. Hundal, A.K., Stokke, M., Junker, A. (Eds.), Nord University press, Norway
Kanki, K., Kiyoyama, Y., & He, Y. (2026). Current Conditions of Rural Areas and Disaster Prevention Efforts: Focusing on Irrigation Water Management and Urban Expansion. Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, No. 57, pp. 10–13. [in Japanese]
Baur, P., Jennings, R., Aliu, S., Calo, A., Farhangi, M., Yukun, H., Kanki, K., Kiyoyama, Y., Koch, A.-K., Martin, M., Sabir, B., Schröter, B., Specht, K., Taylor, J., Treviño-Peña, M., Vinge, H., Voora, V. “The JUST GROW Framework: Conceptualizing How City Regions Can Govern Urban Agriculture for Equity and Sustainability.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, vol. 9, Nov. 2025, p. 1653448. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1653448.
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 Systems, 8, 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 Society, 128, 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
