Leadership, Engagement + Impact (MSFS-570)

ALWAYS check your Moodle course page for the complete list of required readings

The course readings provided here are resources in the CIA Library or Open Access

There may be additional readings provided by your instructor.

• Marion Nestle: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Revised and Expanded Tenth Anniversary, 2013 (CIA Library credentials required for access)
• Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman: The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation and Collective Action, University of California Press, 2017 (CIA Library credentials required for access)
• H. Charles Godfray, et al.: Meat Consumption, Health, and the Environment, Science, Vol. 361, Issue 6399, 2018
• D.M. Tendall: et al.: Food System Resilience: Defining the Concept, Global Food Security, pp. 17-23, 2015
• Polly Ericksen: Conceptualizing Food Systems for Global Environmental Change Research, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 234-245, 2008
• The Power of Chefs + Community to Change the World (on YouTube)
• Katherine Miller: At the Table: The Chef’s Guide to Advocacy, 2023.  (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Chef José Andrés We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time, 2018.  (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Civil Eats: Now is the Time for Culinary Schools to Offer Culinary Activism 101, 2020
• Sara Jayaraman: Forked, A New Standard for American Dining, 2016 (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, 2019
• Paul Hawken: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (CIA Library login credentials required for access) Click “Alternate Links” (2 copies EBSCO, 3 copies ProQuest)
• The Bridgespan Group: The Fair Food Program, 2017
• Select one Case Study to review:
  • Surviving the Minimum Wage Increase: A Case Study of an Independent Restaurant
  • Seattle Minimum Wage Study
  • Agricultural Distress and Farmers Protest: A Study of Case Study of Western India
• Bread for the World Institute: 2020 Hunger Report
• Katie Martin: Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger, Chapter 10 (Structural Inequalities and Systems Change). (CIA Library credentials required for access, PDF in Moodle)

• Michelle Jurkovich: Feeding the Hungry : Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger Chapter 2 (How to Think about Advocacy, pp. 34-56).  (CIA Library credentials required for access, PDF in Moodle)

• Politico: The Great FLOTUS Food Fight, 2016
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch: Collaborations with Chefs
• The Pew Charitable Trusts: Antibiotic Resistance Project

• Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, 2016 (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Raj Patel: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, 2012 (Archive.org, create a free account)
• Jayson Lusk: The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate, 2013  (Archive.org, create a free account)
• Daniel Imhoff: Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill, 2012  (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet Health
• Food Politics Blog by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH
• Healthy Food Policy Project, Vermont Law School
• Food Waste Policy Finder, ReFED
• Chefs Manifesto, United Nations, Advocacy Hub
• Food Policy Action Legislative Scorecard, Environmental Working Group (archive only)
• Civil Eats
• Food Policy Networks, Food Policy Network (Johns Hopkins)

• Project Drawdown (browse website)
• Bread for the World Institute: 2020 Hunger Report
• Katie Martin: Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger, 2021 (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Rachel Laudan: Cuisine & Empire: Cooking in World History (Archive.org, create a free account)
• Fabio Parasecoli: Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• John and Karen Hess: The Taste of America (Archive.org, create a free account)
• Jonathan Kauffman: Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
• Alex Prud’homme: Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House (CIA Library login credentials required for access)
• Alison Hope Alkon and Teresa Marie Mares: Food Sovereignty in US food movements: Radical Visions and Neoliberal Constraints, Agriculture and Human Values, pp. 347-359, 2012
• Kelly Brownell and Jeffrey Koplan: Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling—An Abuse of Trust by the Food Industry?, The New England Journal of Medicine, pp. 2373-2375, 2011

• Food, Inc. - Directed by Robert Kenner, this documentary explores the impact of industrial agriculture on the American food system, 2008
• A Place at the Table - Directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, this documentary addresses the issue of food insecurity in the United States, 2012
• Fed Up - Directed by Stephanie Soechtig, this documentary delves into the obesity epidemic in the United States and the role of the food industry, 2014
• The Future of Food - Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, this documentary examines the consequences of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and industrial agriculture, 2004
• Rotten - Netflix documentary series explores various aspects of the global food industry, including episodes that touch on U.S. food policy, 2018
• Food Fight: Inside the Battle for Market Basket - This documentary explores a workers' protest and consumer movement in support of a grocery store chain in New England, 2018

• TED Talk featuring Mark Bittman: What's Wrong with What We Eat?, 2007
• TED Talk featuring: Birke Baehr: What's Wrong With Our Food System?, 2010
• TED Talk featuring Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + Hunger = 1 Global Food Issue, 2011
• TED Talk featuring Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA, 2013
• TED Talk featuring Tristram Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal, 2012
• TED Talk featuring: Britta Riley: A Garden in My Apartment, 2011
• TED Talk featuring: Pam Warhurst: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes, 2012
• Food Tank: Resources on Food and Agriculture