2022 Webinar Series: Understanding Barriers to Equity within Farmers Markets

Dr. James Farmer, Indiana University

James Farmer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Food Systems at Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Farmer studies local and regional food system development, with special interest in consumer behavior in relation to farmers’ markets and CSAs, food justice, and farmer behavior and decision making. He teaches classes on sustainable food systems and sustainable agriculture, co-directs the IU Campus Farm, convenes IU’s Sustainable Food Systems Science Initiative, and is the acting director of the IU Food Institute.

Dr. Farmer will discuss research surrounding local food accessibility at farmers’ markets and CSAs, drawing from Indiana-based scholarship. He will also highlight examples of organizations seeking to remedy food injustice through alternative market strategies and market policies focused on the eaters and farmers.