Food and Climate Justice Publications
- Agroecology
Christopher Bacon has helped to develop the field of agroecology, including describing the role of participatory action research in helping farmers to develop a more sustainable and just global agrifood system.
Bacon, C. M., & Gliessman, S. R. (2026). . Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 50(3), 451–456.
Bacon, C. M., & Gliessman, S. R. (2024). Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1-5.
Bacon, C.M., Flores Gomez, M. E., Shin, V., Ballardo, G., Kriese, S., McCurry, E., Martinez, E., & Rivas, M. (2023). . Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(4), 579-620.
Guzmán Luna, A., Bacon, C. M., Méndez, V. E., Flores Gómez, M. E., Anderzén, J., Giménez Cacho, J. M. T., Hernández Jonapá, R., Rivas, M., Duarte Canales, H. A., & Benavides González, A. N. (2022). . Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, 810840.
Bacon, C. M. (2021/2022). . Promotio Iustitiae, 132, 48-54.
Méndez, V. E., Bacon, C. M., Cohen, R., & Gliessman, S. R. (Eds) (2015). . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Chappell M.J., H. Wittman, C.M. Bacon, B.G. Ferguson, L. García-Barrios, R. García-Barrios, D. Jaffee, J. Lima, V.E. Méndez, H. Morales, L. Soto-Pinto, J. Vandermeer & I. Perfecto (2013). . F1000Research, 2:235.
Kremen, C. Iles, A. and C.M. Bacon (Eds) (2012). . Ecology and Society 17(4): 44.
Bacon, C. M., Méndez, V. E., Gliessman, S. R., Goodman, D., & Fox, J. A. (Eds.) (2008). . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bacon, C., Méndez, V.E., & Brown, M. (2005) . Santa Cruz, CA: Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), University of California. Santa Cruz.
Gliessman, S. R., Guadarrama-Zugasti, C., Mendez, V. E., Trujillo, L., Bacon, C., & Cohen, R. (2004). Agroecología: Un enfoque sustentable de la agricultura ecológica. Sevilla, Spain: Universidad Internacional de Andalucia.
- Farmer Food Security, Vulnerability, and Resilience to Global Change
Christopher Bacon, Iris Stewart-Frey, Ed Maurer, William Sundstrom, and colleagues from the US and Central America have coordinated several community-based action research projects to analyze strategies that small-scale farmers could use to eliminate hunger and improve access to safe water as they face climate change and other hazards. Funding is from the National Science Foundation and the Agropolis Foundation.
Bacon, C.M., L. C. Kelley, and I. T. Stewart. (2022). Ecology and Society 27(1):16.
Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E., & Kelley, L. C. (2021). . World Development, 143, 105468.
Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I. T., & Beezer, D. (2017). . World Development, 93, 136-152.
Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Gómez, M. E. F., Méndez, V. E., Santos, R., Goldoftas, B., & Dougherty, I. (2014). . Global Environmental Change, 25, 133-149.
Maurer, E. P., Roby, N., Stewart-Frey, I. T., & Bacon, C. M. (2017). . Regional Environmental Change, 17(8), 2421-2432.
Bacon, C.M., L. C. Kelley, and I. T. Stewart. (2022). . Ecology and Society 27(1):16.
Bacon, C.M. Sundstrom, W. Stewart, IT., Maurer, E. and Kelley, L. (2021). World Development.143, 105468.
- Governance and Socio-Environmental Impacts of Fair Trade and Organic Coffee
Christopher Bacon has conducted extensive community-based participatory research on fair trade coffee certifications and their implications for smallholder farmers in Latin America.
Bacon, C. M. (2015). . Third World Quarterly, 36(3), 469-488.
Bacon, C. M., Rice, R. A., & Maryanski, H. (2015). Fair trade coffee and environmental sustainability in Latin America. In L. T. Raynolds & E. A. Bennett, Handbook of Research on Fair Trade (pp. 388-404). Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bacon, C.M. (2010). . Journal of Peasant Studies 37(1): 111–147.
Méndez, V. E., Bacon, C. M., Olson, M., Stillings, K. S., & Shattuck, A. K. (2010). . Professional Geographer. 62(3): 357–376.
Méndez, V. E., Bacon, C. M., Olson, M., Petchers, S., Herrador, D., Carranza, C., ... & Mendoza, A. (2010). Effects of Fair Trade and organic certifications on small-scale coffee farmer households in Central America and Mexico. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 25(3), 236-251.
Bacon, C. M., Ernesto Mendez, V., Gómez, M. E. F., Stuart, D., & Flores, S. R. D. (2008). Are sustainable coffee certifications enough to secure farmer livelihoods? The Millennium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade cooperatives. Globalizations, 5(2), 259-274.
Bacon, C. (2005). Confronting the coffee crisis: Can fair trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce small-scale farmer vulnerability in northern Nicaragua? World Development, 33(3), 497-511.
Rhiney, K., Guido, Z., Knudson, C., Avelino, J., Bacon, C. M., Leclerc, G., Aime, M.A. Bebber, D. P. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27)
Kelley, L.C., Pitcher, L. and Bacon, C.M., (2018). Remote Sensing, 10(6).
- Environmental and Food Justice in California
Christopher Bacon and Gregory Baker published the first study that maps private food assistance from soup kitchens and food pantries to community needs.
Chen, S., Vollmer, L., Sotnik, G., Diekmann, L., & Bacon, C. (2025). . Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 15(1), 103–108.
Bacon, C., Gleicher, A., McCurry, E., & McNeil, C. (2024). . Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 13(3), 1-22.
Amore Rojas, A., Pugh, M., Svendahl, E., Holland, J, Duffy, K., Felix, P,Key, T., Wood, K., & Bacon, C.M. (2023). Report. The Agroecology, Climate Resilience, and Food Justice Lab. 58.
Bacon, C. M., & Baker, G. A. (2017). . Agriculture and Human Values, 34(4), 899-919.
- Mapping School Gardens and Equity
Iris Stewart-Frey has examined disparities in school gardens.
Stewart, I. T., Purner, E. K., & Guzmán, P. D. (2013). . Children Youth and Environments, 23(2), 127-153.
