Jill K Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill K Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill K |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7415-3355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Strengthening democratic governance in times of crisis: Lessons from the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council
Democracy, including processes that govern food systems, are under threat of erosion. Contextualizing and articulating governance challenges is an essential first step. However, it is valuable to look to practices that provide more meaningful ways of engaging non-state actors in government processes. In this commentary, we look at the establishment and activities of the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council (the Council) which has been “learning-…
The Impact of Differential Treatment by Race and Ethnicity on Diet Quality
There is a growing focus on addressing differential access to resources by race and ethnicity in order to combat the negative impacts of diet-related diseases in the Black and Hispanic communities. A healthy food retail environment is one resource that has been heavily studied, but its role in contributing to the disparity in health outcomes by race and ethnicity is debated. One reason may be that previous food retail environment measures often o…
Finding our way through the fog: Embedding Social Infrastructure in Food System Resilience
In this commentary we focus on the significance of social infrastructure for food system resilience by drawing on the insights and experiences from our positions as emergency management practitioners and land-grant university social science food system researchers working with emergency management agencies, food system and food security organizations. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the years since, as a group we have worked in …
Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”
We investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ engaged research conducted in their neighborhoods. Analyzing interviews, first, we find perceptions are not simply developed from singular experiences, personal experiences, or even research experiences. Most interviewees did not, or could not, clearly distinguish engaged research from other university activities. They also regarded the university as a …
Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review
Anchor institutions are a part of a complex urban governance regime influencing policy, investment and programming in urban neighborhoods. Anchor land-grant educational institutions are questioning their role in conducting impactful research in and with the community. We find growing evidence of interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) by universities and funders. Utilizing a systematic literature review we analyze peer-reviewed …
A systematic review of cultural capital in U.S. community development research
AFHVS 2023 Presidential Address: Generating joy to confront and create power
Equitable Deliberative Participation Design: A Call to Use a Lens of Multidimensional Power
There is a long-standing call for the use of deliberative approaches in public participation—taking such forms as deliberative forums, deliberative polling, participatory budgeting, citizen juries, and collaborative planning—the merits of which have been written about extensively (Nabatchi 2010; Neblo 2015; Cooper, Bryer, and Meek 2006). Despite growing interest in deliberative techniques, scholars have critiqued deliberative participation for at…
Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy
Small Improvements in an Urban Food Environment Resulted in No Changes in Diet Among Residents
A relational approach to evaluate food environments finds that the proximate food environment matters for those who use it
Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system
Access to fresh and healthy food within a neighborhood has been identified as a social mechanism contributing to community health. Grounded in the understanding that challenges related to equity within a food system are both structural and systemic, our research demonstrates how systems thinking can further understandings of food system complexity. Within systems thinking, we provide an illustration of how system archetypes offer an analytic tool…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
The power to convene: Making sense of the power of food movement organizations in governance processes in the Global North
Beyond backyard chickens: A framework for understanding municipal urban agriculture policies in the United States
The growth of interest in urban agriculture (UA) has paralleled an increase in municipal policy to enable, regulate, or otherwise support UA, particularly over the past decade. Yet, there has been no systematic documentation and characterization of the myriad UA public policies emerging across different cities within the United States (US). To address this gap, we developed a framework to understand the landscape of municipal UA policy, focusing …
Essential, fragile, and invisible community food infrastructure: The role of urban governments in the United States
Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process
Research on public participation in community planning processes often focuses on the design of participation activities and the tensions therein. Past research, however, gives little attention to the question of who makes these design decisions, what public values they hold, and how those values affect decisions about design. Addressing this gap, this study empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and p…
Disparities in Access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Retailers Over Time and Space
Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance
Food policy councils (FPCs) are an embodiment of food democracy, providing a space for community members, professionals, and government to learn together, deliberate, and collectively devise place-based strategies to address complex food systems issues. These collaborative governance networks can be considered a transitional stage in the democratic process, an intermediary institution that coordinates interests not typically present in food polic…
Local Capitalism and Civic Engagement: The Potential of Locally Facing Firms
The twin forces of globalization and devolution have created administrative circumstances that strain the problem‐solving capacity of local governments and increase the importance of nongovernmental processes and institutions. The literature suggests that locally owned firms are more likely to engender higher levels of civic engagement critical to buttressing that problem‐solving capacity. This research adds an additional dimension, investigating…
Designing Public Participation: Managing Problem Settings and Social Equity
Researchers suggest that inequity and disparities in public participation in the policy‐making process will go hand in hand unless public managers and community leaders are attentive to these concerns when they are designing participation opportunities. Previous research has considered how the design of participatory opportunities can address inequity, but it has provided few insights into what is behind design choices. This article provides a th…
Cooperative extension and food system change: Goals, strategies and resources
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
The agrifood system policy agenda and research domain
Food By JenniferClappCambridge, U.K: Polity Press, 2012
The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First-Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Recognizing the inherent pressures on farm families and farmland, USDA has been developing policies and programs that simultaneously attempt to retain existing farm families on the landscape, recruit new farmers, and create lasting economic opportunities rooted in agriculture. In this article we argue that to date there has been an overemphasis on economic and structural approaches and a systematic discounting of the way individual farmer and far…
The power to convene: Making sense of the power of food movement organizations in governance processes in the Global North
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe
Substantial U.S. population growth in relatively rural areas adjacent to large urban areas is sparking renewed interest in the rural–urban fringe. This research identifies some of the roots of the rural–urban fringe concept and reviews recent scholarly interest in the related exurban concept. Analysis of primary and secondary data is conducted to examine the fringe in relation to both urban/suburban areas and rural areas of Ohio, seeking to deter…
A relational approach to evaluate food environments finds that the proximate food environment matters for those who use it
Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance
Food policy councils (FPCs) are an embodiment of food democracy, providing a space for community members, professionals, and government to learn together, deliberate, and collectively devise place-based strategies to address complex food systems issues. These collaborative governance networks can be considered a transitional stage in the democratic process, an intermediary institution that coordinates interests not typically present in food polic…
Beyond backyard chickens: A framework for understanding municipal urban agriculture policies in the United States
The growth of interest in urban agriculture (UA) has paralleled an increase in municipal policy to enable, regulate, or otherwise support UA, particularly over the past decade. Yet, there has been no systematic documentation and characterization of the myriad UA public policies emerging across different cities within the United States (US). To address this gap, we developed a framework to understand the landscape of municipal UA policy, focusing …
Essential, fragile, and invisible community food infrastructure: The role of urban governments in the United States
Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process
Research on public participation in community planning processes often focuses on the design of participation activities and the tensions therein. Past research, however, gives little attention to the question of who makes these design decisions, what public values they hold, and how those values affect decisions about design. Addressing this gap, this study empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and p…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system
Access to fresh and healthy food within a neighborhood has been identified as a social mechanism contributing to community health. Grounded in the understanding that challenges related to equity within a food system are both structural and systemic, our research demonstrates how systems thinking can further understandings of food system complexity. Within systems thinking, we provide an illustration of how system archetypes offer an analytic tool…
Cooperative extension and food system change: Goals, strategies and resources
Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review
Anchor institutions are a part of a complex urban governance regime influencing policy, investment and programming in urban neighborhoods. Anchor land-grant educational institutions are questioning their role in conducting impactful research in and with the community. We find growing evidence of interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) by universities and funders. Utilizing a systematic literature review we analyze peer-reviewed …
Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy
The agrifood system policy agenda and research domain
Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”
We investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ engaged research conducted in their neighborhoods. Analyzing interviews, first, we find perceptions are not simply developed from singular experiences, personal experiences, or even research experiences. Most interviewees did not, or could not, clearly distinguish engaged research from other university activities. They also regarded the university as a …
Promising Strategies for Preventing Perinatal HIV Transmission: Model Programs from Three States
Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe
Substantial U.S. population growth in relatively rural areas adjacent to large urban areas is sparking renewed interest in the rural–urban fringe. This research identifies some of the roots of the rural–urban fringe concept and reviews recent scholarly interest in the related exurban concept. Analysis of primary and secondary data is conducted to examine the fringe in relation to both urban/suburban areas and rural areas of Ohio, seeking to deter…
Food By JenniferClappCambridge, U.K: Polity Press, 2012
The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First-Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Recognizing the inherent pressures on farm families and farmland, USDA has been developing policies and programs that simultaneously attempt to retain existing farm families on the landscape, recruit new farmers, and create lasting economic opportunities rooted in agriculture. In this article we argue that to date there has been an overemphasis on economic and structural approaches and a systematic discounting of the way individual farmer and far…
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
The agrifood system policy agenda and research domain
Cooperative extension and food system change: Goals, strategies and resources
Local Capitalism and Civic Engagement: The Potential of Locally Facing Firms
The twin forces of globalization and devolution have created administrative circumstances that strain the problem‐solving capacity of local governments and increase the importance of nongovernmental processes and institutions. The literature suggests that locally owned firms are more likely to engender higher levels of civic engagement critical to buttressing that problem‐solving capacity. This research adds an additional dimension, investigating…
Designing Public Participation: Managing Problem Settings and Social Equity
Researchers suggest that inequity and disparities in public participation in the policy‐making process will go hand in hand unless public managers and community leaders are attentive to these concerns when they are designing participation opportunities. Previous research has considered how the design of participatory opportunities can address inequity, but it has provided few insights into what is behind design choices. This article provides a th…
Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance
Food policy councils (FPCs) are an embodiment of food democracy, providing a space for community members, professionals, and government to learn together, deliberate, and collectively devise place-based strategies to address complex food systems issues. These collaborative governance networks can be considered a transitional stage in the democratic process, an intermediary institution that coordinates interests not typically present in food polic…
The power to convene: Making sense of the power of food movement organizations in governance processes in the Global North
Beyond backyard chickens: A framework for understanding municipal urban agriculture policies in the United States
The growth of interest in urban agriculture (UA) has paralleled an increase in municipal policy to enable, regulate, or otherwise support UA, particularly over the past decade. Yet, there has been no systematic documentation and characterization of the myriad UA public policies emerging across different cities within the United States (US). To address this gap, we developed a framework to understand the landscape of municipal UA policy, focusing …
Essential, fragile, and invisible community food infrastructure: The role of urban governments in the United States
Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process
Research on public participation in community planning processes often focuses on the design of participation activities and the tensions therein. Past research, however, gives little attention to the question of who makes these design decisions, what public values they hold, and how those values affect decisions about design. Addressing this gap, this study empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and p…
Disparities in Access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Retailers Over Time and Space
Small Improvements in an Urban Food Environment Resulted in No Changes in Diet Among Residents
A relational approach to evaluate food environments finds that the proximate food environment matters for those who use it
Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system
Access to fresh and healthy food within a neighborhood has been identified as a social mechanism contributing to community health. Grounded in the understanding that challenges related to equity within a food system are both structural and systemic, our research demonstrates how systems thinking can further understandings of food system complexity. Within systems thinking, we provide an illustration of how system archetypes offer an analytic tool…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
Equitable Deliberative Participation Design: A Call to Use a Lens of Multidimensional Power
There is a long-standing call for the use of deliberative approaches in public participation—taking such forms as deliberative forums, deliberative polling, participatory budgeting, citizen juries, and collaborative planning—the merits of which have been written about extensively (Nabatchi 2010; Neblo 2015; Cooper, Bryer, and Meek 2006). Despite growing interest in deliberative techniques, scholars have critiqued deliberative participation for at…
Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy
A systematic review of cultural capital in U.S. community development research
AFHVS 2023 Presidential Address: Generating joy to confront and create power
Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”
We investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ engaged research conducted in their neighborhoods. Analyzing interviews, first, we find perceptions are not simply developed from singular experiences, personal experiences, or even research experiences. Most interviewees did not, or could not, clearly distinguish engaged research from other university activities. They also regarded the university as a …
Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review
Anchor institutions are a part of a complex urban governance regime influencing policy, investment and programming in urban neighborhoods. Anchor land-grant educational institutions are questioning their role in conducting impactful research in and with the community. We find growing evidence of interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) by universities and funders. Utilizing a systematic literature review we analyze peer-reviewed …
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Business (15 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (15 works) · Food security (12 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Food systems (9 works) · Politics (9 works)