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Food systems – the set of activities that link food production to consumption (Ericksen 2008) – are transforming around the world. These transformations occur through complex, dynamic, and spatially variable processes, such as climate change, financialization, urbanization, and globalization, among others. It is increasingly recognized that the uneven impacts of these respective processes on respective food systems are linked to underlying social, structural, and environmental issues. Geographers have employed a variety of methods to explore the spatial complexity of food systems and the dynamic processes which shape them. For example, Shannon (2021) uses food diaries and geo-referenced store locations to study financialization of food retail environments. Hemerjickx et al. (2021) use remote sensing to detail socio-economic segregation at a sub-residential area level in rapidly expanding Kampala, Uganda. Using spatio-temporal analysis, Kaplan et al. (2020) use spatio-temporal analysis to show that the Indiana emergency food system provides variable coverage in depopulating rural areas of the state.

In this session, we invite junior and senior researchers and practitioners to submit papers on new and on-going work that uses innovative methods and approaches that consider the role of spatial variability in limiting or enhancing food system transformations, including - but not limited to - climate change, urbanization, financialization, and globalization. Both examples of critiques and successes are encouraged, and all geographic focus areas are welcome.

This will be an in-person session.

References
Ericksen, P. J. (2008). Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research. Global environmental change, 18(1), 234-245.

Hemerijckx, L. M., Van Emelen, S., Rymenants, J., Davis, J., Verburg, P. H., Lwasa, S., & Van Rompaey, A. (2020). Upscaling household survey data using remote sensing to map socioeconomic groups in Kampala, Uganda. Remote Sensing, 12(20), 3468.

Kaplan, K. H., Kirk, K. J., Lich, K. M., Palde, L. P. R., Van Allen, C., Nantz, E. L., ... & Knudsen, D. C. (2020). Accessibility to emergency food systems in south-central Indiana evaluated by spatiotemporal indices of pressure at county and pantry level. Nature Food, 1(5), 284-291.

Shannon, J. (2021). Dollar stores, retailer redlining, and the metropolitan geographies of precarious consumption. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(4), 1200-1218.

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