Alison Blay-Palmer

Biographic Data

ID3720194
NAMEAlison Blay-Palmer
GIVEN NAMESAlison
FAMILY NAMEBlay-Palmer
SIGNATUREBLAY-PALMER A
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS80
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Leveraging community agroecological values across scales for food system transformation in Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, Northwest Territories

    Open AccessJennifer Temmer, Alison Blay‐palmer et al.ARTICLECanadian Food Studies / La Revue…2025

    Communities in northern Canada are adopting community gardens as a means to address food insecurity, which has been exacerbated by climate change, rising food costs, and limited access to traditional and nutritious foods. Despite these initiatives, many northern communities lack the essential resources required to sustain such projects. This study seeks to address this gap through a Participatory Action Research approach, whereby community member…

  • Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities

    Open AccessElodie Valette, Alison Blay-Palmer et al.BOOKEvaluating Sustainable Food…2023

  • Modularity in Intersectoral Research/Action Collaborations for Food Systems Transformation: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Network

    Open AccessCharles Z Levkoe, Alison Blay‐palmer et al.ARTICLECanadian Food Studies / La Revue…2021

    How can academics and community practitioners better collaborate to overcome the existing barriers? What role can intersectoral research collaboratives play in supporting, enhancing, and sustaining the impact of community-engaged research? In response to these broad questions, this paper shares insights from the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) community-engaged research network, a collaborative, interdisciplinary group of schola…

  • FLEdGE (Food: (Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership

    Open AccessAlison Blay‐palmer, Alison Blay-PalmerARTICLECanadian Food Studies / La Revue…2021

    The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010. From there it expanded to include seven research nodes across Canada and three thematic international working groups, with over 90 researchers, students, a…

  • Post Covid 19 and food pathways to sustainable transformation

    Open AccessAlison Blay‐palmer, Alison Blay-Palmer et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2020Cited by: 14

  • Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice

    Open AccessAlison Blay-Palmer, Damien Conaré et al.BOOKSustainable Food System Assessment2019

    Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence.Interest in assessing food system sustainability is growing, as evidenced …

  • An emerging user-led participatory methodology

    Open AccessElodie Valette, Kerstin Schreiber et al.CHAPTERSustainable Food System Assessment2019

    This chapter presents an emerging effort to develop a participatory mapping methodology that will illuminate the pathways through which sustainable urban food systems achieve lasting impact. Carried out in collaboration with Està (Economia e Sostenibilità), the UNESCO Chair in World Food System (at Montpellier SupAgro), CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development) and the LCSFS (Laurier Center for Sustainable Food Sys…

  • Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting Inclusive, Transformational City Region Food Systems

    Open AccessAlison Blay‐palmer, Alison Blay-Palmer et al.ARTICLESustainability2018

    This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility of the evolving City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows of resources—food, waste, people, and knowledge—from rural to peri-urban to urban and back again, and the policies and process needed to enable sustainability. This paper reflects on (1) CRFS merits compared to other approaches; (2) the operational potential of applying the CRFS approach to e…

  • A food politics of the possible? Growing sustainable food systems through networks of knowledge

    Open AccessAlison Blay‐palmer, Alison Blay-Palmer et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2015Cited by: 48References: 11

  • The Urban Creative-Food Economy: Producing Food for the Urban Elite or Social Inclusion Opportunity

    Open AccessBetsy Donald, Alison Blay‐palmer et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2006Cited by: 18References: 46

    The food industry has always been a major generator of economic activity in the Greater Toronto Area. However, recently the innovative and creative elements of the industry have changed. Since the mid-1990s, the fastest growing segment within the industry has been small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The specialty, ethnic, and organic SMEs (hereinafter referred to as the 'creative-food' industry) appear to be particularly innovative as they…

  • Sustainable Food System Assessment

    Alison Blay-PalmerBOOKSustainable Food System Assessment

    food supply; environmental aspects; sustainable agriculture; nutrition policy