Ryan E Galt
Biographic Data
| ID | 171124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan E Galt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Galt |
| SIGNATURE | GALT R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0243-5636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Toward digital community economies
This paper explores how farmers in California who sell through direct market channels (e.g. farmers markets, community-supported agriculture) experience and respond to market digitalization trends. Consumers increasingly use the internet to find information about or buy products, a trend that accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, online information and communication technologies are becoming prerequisites for participating in many …
Against the odds
Global pesticide use and trade database (GloPUT)
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt
Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally organized farmer networks are emerging as a unique entity that blend the benefits of decentralized exchange of farmer knowledge within the structure of an organization providing a variety of sources of information and forms of engagement. We define formal farmer networks as farmer networks with a dis…
A digital divide in direct market farmers’ online sales and marketing
The use of the internet for sales and marketing has been on an upward trend in the past decade. The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing. This paper analyzes California direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing technologies during the first ten months of the pandemic to understand (1) how their use interacted with farmers' sales and profitability and …
Transforming the Corn Belt
Practical Farmers of Iowa is a unique and longstanding farmer-to-farmer network with a history of driving the use of sustainable practices like cover cropping and low-chemical-input farming in the heart of the US Corn Belt. PFI was at the center of the launch of participatory, on-farm agricultural research in the 1980s, and has grown to a network of over 6,000 farmers, researchers, advocates, and professionals using farmer-driven research and kno…
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Securing the future of US agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in the United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health crisis, and a rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural workforce: both because the current farm population is aging, and because sustainable agriculture is knowledge-intensive work that substitutes experienti…
The (un)making of “CSA people”
Alternative Food Movement
There are arguably several alternative food movements (AFMs) rather than a singular one. Most exist to challenge the negative consequences of the industrial food system. Geographers and allied scholars have been central to a number of scholarly debates about AFMs centered on neoliberalism, accessibility, and the wellbeing of farmers and farmworkers within them. Organic, fair trade, civic agriculture and sustainable community food systems, food ju…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
What difference does income make for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in California? Comparing lower-income and higher-income households
The relevance of Regional Political Ecology for agriculture and food systems
The region as a concept continues to hold promise as a way of breaking through the many binaries that often divide political ecology. Operationalizing a regional political ecology approach allows the researcher to generate a large number of insights and conclusions that a more narrow disciplinary (disciplined) focus and non-scalar approach would miss; this is because important biophysical and social processes intersect with each another and work …
Eroding the Community in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
The effects of competition within alternative food networks (AFNs) remain largely unexplored. Using a study of farms that operate Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programmes in California, the state in the USA with the most CSAs, we empirically examine the effects of competition within alternative food networks. We conducted a statewide survey of CSA farmers in California, which collected data from 111 CSAs. For this analysis we construct a …
Food Systems in an Unequal World
Placing Food Systems in First World Political Ecology
In this paper, I review recent political ecological scholarship on first world agrifood systems and advocate for further development of the field. To do so, I first briefly examine the themes of first world political ecology and argue that food systems is an underdeveloped topic in first world political ecology relative to other themes because of the existence of agrarian political economy, a strongly allied field. This requires interrogating and…
From Homo economicus to Complex Subjectivities
Through empirical analysis and theory, this paper critiques technocratic regimes of protection vis à vis pesticide use, which are efforts limited to technical rationality and didactic communication of pesticide risks that model pesticide users as self‐responsible individuals (ie Homo economicus ). Data reveal that knowledge of pesticide risk does not translate into greater protective gear use, within the Costa Rican case presented and more broadl…
The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword
In this articleIdevelop a political economic understanding of community-supported agriculture (CSA). I first develop the relevance of three concepts-economic rents, self-exploitation, and social embeddedness-toCSAand then introduce a framework that relatesCSAfarmers' earnings to the average rate of profit, economic rents, and self-exploitation. I then examine qualitative and quantitative data from a study of 54CSAsin California's Central Valley a…
Transformative food systems education in a land-grant college of agriculture
Scaling Up Political Ecology
Compliance with regulations on pesticide residues in food is a major health and safety issue, as well as a signal about the complex set of ecological, social, and regulatory relationships. This article presents a multiscale analysis of data from analytical chemistry tests of pesticide residues conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on fresh vegetables from 1996 to 2006. Empirical findings include: (1) domestic vegetables have lower ad…
Overlap of US FDA residue tests and pesticides used on imported vegetables
It just goes to kill Ticos
This paper addresses pesticide residues on vegetables in developing countries through the specific case of Costa Rica. Pesticide residues are often very high on vegetables in developing countries, generally considerably higher than in industrialized countries. Using a political ecology approach, I combine qualitative and quantitative primary data with secondary data to answer two questions. Why do farmers use pesticides in a manner that results i…
Beyond the circle of poison
Pesticides in export and domestic agriculture
Toward an Integrated Understanding of Pesticide Use Intensity in Costa Rican Vegetable Farming
The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword
In this articleIdevelop a political economic understanding of community-supported agriculture (CSA). I first develop the relevance of three concepts-economic rents, self-exploitation, and social embeddedness-toCSAand then introduce a framework that relatesCSAfarmers' earnings to the average rate of profit, economic rents, and self-exploitation. I then examine qualitative and quantitative data from a study of 54CSAsin California's Central Valley a…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Beyond the circle of poison
Globalization and Multi-spatial Trends in the Coverage of Protected-Area Conservation (1980–2000)
This study is focused on the global expansion of protected-area coverage that occurred during the 1980--2000 period. We examine the multi-scale patterning of four of the basic facets of this expansion: i) estimated increases at the world-regional and country-level scales of total protected-area coverage; ii) transboundary protected areas; iii) conservation corridor projects; and iv) type of conservation management. Geospatial patterning of protec…
Pesticides in export and domestic agriculture
From Homo economicus to Complex Subjectivities
Through empirical analysis and theory, this paper critiques technocratic regimes of protection vis à vis pesticide use, which are efforts limited to technical rationality and didactic communication of pesticide risks that model pesticide users as self‐responsible individuals (ie Homo economicus ). Data reveal that knowledge of pesticide risk does not translate into greater protective gear use, within the Costa Rican case presented and more broadl…
Global pesticide use and trade database (GloPUT)
What difference does income make for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in California? Comparing lower-income and higher-income households
The (un)making of “CSA people”
Eroding the Community in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
The effects of competition within alternative food networks (AFNs) remain largely unexplored. Using a study of farms that operate Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programmes in California, the state in the USA with the most CSAs, we empirically examine the effects of competition within alternative food networks. We conducted a statewide survey of CSA farmers in California, which collected data from 111 CSAs. For this analysis we construct a …
Transformative food systems education in a land-grant college of agriculture
Scaling Up Political Ecology
Compliance with regulations on pesticide residues in food is a major health and safety issue, as well as a signal about the complex set of ecological, social, and regulatory relationships. This article presents a multiscale analysis of data from analytical chemistry tests of pesticide residues conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on fresh vegetables from 1996 to 2006. Empirical findings include: (1) domestic vegetables have lower ad…
Regulatory risk and farmers’ caution with pesticides in Costa Rica
In a globalizing economy, agri‐food regulation in the industrialized world increasingly affects food‐producing industries and farmers in developing countries. Discussions of these transformations remain mostly disconnected from the literature on pesticide use in developing countries, which emphasizes widespread pesticide misuse and abuse. Previous attempts to consider the relationship between agri‐food regulation and farmers’ pesticide use are fo…
A digital divide in direct market farmers’ online sales and marketing
The use of the internet for sales and marketing has been on an upward trend in the past decade. The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing. This paper analyzes California direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing technologies during the first ten months of the pandemic to understand (1) how their use interacted with farmers' sales and profitability and …
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt
Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally organized farmer networks are emerging as a unique entity that blend the benefits of decentralized exchange of farmer knowledge within the structure of an organization providing a variety of sources of information and forms of engagement. We define formal farmer networks as farmer networks with a dis…
It just goes to kill Ticos
This paper addresses pesticide residues on vegetables in developing countries through the specific case of Costa Rica. Pesticide residues are often very high on vegetables in developing countries, generally considerably higher than in industrialized countries. Using a political ecology approach, I combine qualitative and quantitative primary data with secondary data to answer two questions. Why do farmers use pesticides in a manner that results i…
Toward an Integrated Understanding of Pesticide Use Intensity in Costa Rican Vegetable Farming
Globalization and Multi-spatial Trends in the Coverage of Protected-Area Conservation (1980–2000)
This study is focused on the global expansion of protected-area coverage that occurred during the 1980--2000 period. We examine the multi-scale patterning of four of the basic facets of this expansion: i) estimated increases at the world-regional and country-level scales of total protected-area coverage; ii) transboundary protected areas; iii) conservation corridor projects; and iv) type of conservation management. Geospatial patterning of protec…
Regulatory risk and farmers’ caution with pesticides in Costa Rica
In a globalizing economy, agri‐food regulation in the industrialized world increasingly affects food‐producing industries and farmers in developing countries. Discussions of these transformations remain mostly disconnected from the literature on pesticide use in developing countries, which emphasizes widespread pesticide misuse and abuse. Previous attempts to consider the relationship between agri‐food regulation and farmers’ pesticide use are fo…
Beyond the circle of poison
Pesticides in export and domestic agriculture
Toward an Integrated Understanding of Pesticide Use Intensity in Costa Rican Vegetable Farming
Overlap of US FDA residue tests and pesticides used on imported vegetables
It just goes to kill Ticos
This paper addresses pesticide residues on vegetables in developing countries through the specific case of Costa Rica. Pesticide residues are often very high on vegetables in developing countries, generally considerably higher than in industrialized countries. Using a political ecology approach, I combine qualitative and quantitative primary data with secondary data to answer two questions. Why do farmers use pesticides in a manner that results i…
Scaling Up Political Ecology
Compliance with regulations on pesticide residues in food is a major health and safety issue, as well as a signal about the complex set of ecological, social, and regulatory relationships. This article presents a multiscale analysis of data from analytical chemistry tests of pesticide residues conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on fresh vegetables from 1996 to 2006. Empirical findings include: (1) domestic vegetables have lower ad…
Transformative food systems education in a land-grant college of agriculture
Placing Food Systems in First World Political Ecology
In this paper, I review recent political ecological scholarship on first world agrifood systems and advocate for further development of the field. To do so, I first briefly examine the themes of first world political ecology and argue that food systems is an underdeveloped topic in first world political ecology relative to other themes because of the existence of agrarian political economy, a strongly allied field. This requires interrogating and…
From Homo economicus to Complex Subjectivities
Through empirical analysis and theory, this paper critiques technocratic regimes of protection vis à vis pesticide use, which are efforts limited to technical rationality and didactic communication of pesticide risks that model pesticide users as self‐responsible individuals (ie Homo economicus ). Data reveal that knowledge of pesticide risk does not translate into greater protective gear use, within the Costa Rican case presented and more broadl…
The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword
In this articleIdevelop a political economic understanding of community-supported agriculture (CSA). I first develop the relevance of three concepts-economic rents, self-exploitation, and social embeddedness-toCSAand then introduce a framework that relatesCSAfarmers' earnings to the average rate of profit, economic rents, and self-exploitation. I then examine qualitative and quantitative data from a study of 54CSAsin California's Central Valley a…
Food Systems in an Unequal World
What difference does income make for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in California? Comparing lower-income and higher-income households
The relevance of Regional Political Ecology for agriculture and food systems
The region as a concept continues to hold promise as a way of breaking through the many binaries that often divide political ecology. Operationalizing a regional political ecology approach allows the researcher to generate a large number of insights and conclusions that a more narrow disciplinary (disciplined) focus and non-scalar approach would miss; this is because important biophysical and social processes intersect with each another and work …
Eroding the Community in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
The effects of competition within alternative food networks (AFNs) remain largely unexplored. Using a study of farms that operate Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programmes in California, the state in the USA with the most CSAs, we empirically examine the effects of competition within alternative food networks. We conducted a statewide survey of CSA farmers in California, which collected data from 111 CSAs. For this analysis we construct a …
Alternative Food Movement
There are arguably several alternative food movements (AFMs) rather than a singular one. Most exist to challenge the negative consequences of the industrial food system. Geographers and allied scholars have been central to a number of scholarly debates about AFMs centered on neoliberalism, accessibility, and the wellbeing of farmers and farmworkers within them. Organic, fair trade, civic agriculture and sustainable community food systems, food ju…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
The (un)making of “CSA people”
Securing the future of US agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in the United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health crisis, and a rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural workforce: both because the current farm population is aging, and because sustainable agriculture is knowledge-intensive work that substitutes experienti…
Against the odds
Global pesticide use and trade database (GloPUT)
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt
Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally organized farmer networks are emerging as a unique entity that blend the benefits of decentralized exchange of farmer knowledge within the structure of an organization providing a variety of sources of information and forms of engagement. We define formal farmer networks as farmer networks with a dis…
A digital divide in direct market farmers’ online sales and marketing
The use of the internet for sales and marketing has been on an upward trend in the past decade. The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing. This paper analyzes California direct market farmers' use of online sales and marketing technologies during the first ten months of the pandemic to understand (1) how their use interacted with farmers' sales and profitability and …
Transforming the Corn Belt
Practical Farmers of Iowa is a unique and longstanding farmer-to-farmer network with a history of driving the use of sustainable practices like cover cropping and low-chemical-input farming in the heart of the US Corn Belt. PFI was at the center of the launch of participatory, on-farm agricultural research in the 1980s, and has grown to a network of over 6,000 farmers, researchers, advocates, and professionals using farmer-driven research and kno…
Organic Food and Agriculture (19 works) · Economics (17 works) · Agriculture (16 works) · Business (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Biology (12 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Agricultural economics (9 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (9 works)