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James Farmer

Associate Professor


Phone:
(812) 856-0969
Email:
jafarmer@indiana.edu
Room Number:
410H
Areas of Interest:
Community food systems and sustainable agriculture
,
Natural resources and protected areas conservation/sustainability
,
Environmental and sustainable behavior
,
Rural landscapes and people

Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    • Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009
    • M.S., Indiana University, 2006
    • B.S., Indiana University, 2000

    Biography

    Dr. James Farmer is a sustainable behavior and decision-making researcher with interest in community food systems and natural resources sustainability. He focuses on individuals’ choice-making that lead to sustainable resource usage, such as landowner decisions to place conservation easements on private lands and farmers’ adoption of organic management practices. Farmer co-directs the IU Campus Farm and convenes the Human Dimensions Lab. His interdisciplinary and applied approaches have him collaborating with scholars from biology to anthropology and professionals such as farmers and food advocates.



    Selected Works

    • “The Relationship between Narratives, Wildlife Value Orientations, Attitudes, and Policy Preferences,” (with E. Knackmuhs, D. Knapp), Society and Natural Resources, (17 November 2018)
    • “Conserving Nostalgia: Exploring Private Land Protection Patterns,” (with Seaman, A., Farmer, J., Chancellor, C., and Sirima, A.), Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, (2018)
    • “Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter,” (with Robinson, J. & Farmer, J), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (2017)
    • “Family as a catalyst in farms' diversifying agricultural products: A mixed methods analysis of diversified and non-diversified farms in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio,” (with Valliant, J.D., Farmer, J., Dickinson, S., Bruce, A., & Robinson, J.), Journal of Rural Studies, 55: 303-315 (2017)
    • “Moving from avocation to a vocation: the challenge of new and beginning farmers and high tunnels,” (with Bruce, A., Farmer, J., Maynard, L., & Valliant, J.), Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, (2017)
    • “Private landowners, voluntary conservation programs, and implementation of conservation friendly land management practices,” (with Farmer, J., Ma, Z. Drescher, M., Knackmuhs, E.,* and Dickinson, S.), Conservation Letters, 10(1), 58-66 (2017)
    • “A preliminary overview of community orcharding in the United States,” (with Betz, M.,* Mills, J.,** & Farmer, J.), Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, (2017)
    • “Local foods and low-income communities: location, transportation, and values,” (with Farmer, J. Minard, S.,* and Edens, C.), Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 6(4) 41-53 (2016)
    • “Networking for Conservation: Understanding the Contributions of Social Capital and Organizational Networks to Private Land Protection,” (with T. Ruseva and C. Chancellor), Ecology and Society, 21 (2) (2016)
    • “Rebuilding local foods in Appalachia: Variables affecting distribution methods of West Virginia farms,” (with M. Betz), Journal of Rural Studies,  (45) 34-42 (2016) 
    • “Farmers’ market governance and its role on consumer motives and outcomes,” (with M. Betz), Local Environment, (21) 1420-34 (2016)

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