Brandi Janssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 84280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandi Janssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandi |
| FAMILY NAME | Janssen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7889-3633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feasibility and fidelity in applying media advocacy principles as an implementation strategy
Despite these results, this study provides a clearer picture of the contextual issues states face in attempting to adopt and implement agricultural safety and health programs, such as the National ROPS Rebate Program
Perceptions of the Right to Food Among Adults Aged 60 Years and Older
This study explores perceptions of the right to food and issues around food assistance and access among older adults. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with adults aged 60+ in Iowa, half of whom were food insecure. Most respondents expressed the right to food concerns freedom of choice rather than physical and financial access. The respondents said poor food access was due to improper choices or not accessing food assistance. While respo…
Pivoting is exhausting
Understanding Rural Women’s Domestic Work Experiences (DWE) in Ibadan, Nigeria
Gender norms prescribe domestic labor as primarily a female's responsibility in developing countries. Many domestic tasks depend on access to water, so the physical, emotional, and time demands of domestic labor may be exacerbated for women living in water-insecure environments. We developed a set of domestic work experience (DWE) measures tailored to work in rural areas in developing countries, assessed rural Nigerian women's DWE, and examined r…
Examination of Symptoms of Depression among Cooperative Dairy Farmers
Farmers experience a high risk of stress, depression, and suicide. Risk factors are well documented but protective factors are seldom examined. Social support has been reported to reduce psychological distress among the general population but its effect on farmers is inconclusive. Agricultural cooperatives are typically created and owned by farmers to secure markets, access supplies and services, and participate in decision-making. It is unknown …
Identifying Issues and Priorities in Reporting Back Environmental Health Data
Experts recommend reporting environmental exposure results back to research participants and communities, yet environmental health researchers need further guidance to improve the practice of reporting back. We present the results of a workshop developed to identify pertinent issues and areas for action in reporting back environmental health research results. Thirty-five attendees participated, brainstorming responses to the prompt: "What are som…
"Saving" Plant Genetic Resources (& Ourselves) in a Time of Accelerating Ecological Change
The articles in this issue examine the strategies that farmers, scientists, and citizens use to “save” the things that matter to us (our seeds, our bodies, our farms, and our communities) in the midst of accelerating, human-induced environmental degradation. They investigate the ways that these actors imagine the future-the ways that they seek to preserve what they see as vital, prevent what they see as unacceptable, and (sometimes) give in to wh…
Transitional Moments, Mediators, and Alternative Modernities
The articles presented in this issue explore familiar anthropological territory. The authors examine the ways that farmers and other food system actors adapt in the context of changing markets, negotiating pressures to abandon the “traditional” in favor of the “modern.” Although the themes investigated in this set of articles may be well-known, the authors’ innovative approaches illuminate new areas of inquiry. In particular, they focus on the ro…
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Small Farms, Big Plans
Over the past decades, farms in the U.S. have become fewer and larger. Along with the trend of increasing in size, farms have become increasingly specialized, producing fewer products per farm, and mechanized, relying on precision equipment rather than human labor. The concepts of farm size, specialization, and mechanization, appear to be tightly articulated. As a farm increases in size, it becomes more specialized and reliant on equipment. Conve…
Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification
The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well-being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive r…
Public health science in agriculture
Actor Networks, Celebrity Farmers, Identity Performance, and Super Star Crops
Anthropologists are well aware of the blurred boundaries between what is local and global and the complex ways that identity, performance, knowledge, and practice intersect to inform both angles of view. These relationships are particularly evident in networks and systems of agriculture and food production. This issue of CAFE considers how locals respond to, are affected by, and empower themselves in relation to global markets and international d…
Future-making in the Face of Risk
In this very full issue of CAFE, we present two clusters of articles. The first represents a special themed issue, guest edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico. This collection of stimulating articles examines the role that heritage, construed and deployed in various ways, can play as a potent source of ideas and resources for building a future placed at risk by climate change. The collection's contributors come to the topic from a v…
Entanglements of Reciprocal Relations
We borrow our title from James Verinis’ review, this issue, of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's book, The Mushroom at the End of the World. This collection of articles highlights relationship (as idea and as lived reality) from different perspectives and in transition. One set of contributions invites us to explore emergent ideas about the concept of relationship as an organizing principle for the natural world, humans included. These pieces provide us wi…
Theories of Farmer Knowledge and Food Security
In the United States, the Department of Agriculture has encouraged consumers to “know your farmer” because, as the bumper sticker tells us, “know farmers, know food.” In part, these statements aim to broaden agricultural knowledge beyond the farm sector, creating a more agriculturally literate population. In a larger sense, though, they aim to make visible the intricate web of farming practices, market and state dynamics, and individual food ‘con…
Corn Meets Maize
Herd Management
Local food has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the natural food industry. Nationwide, farmers' market attendance and memberships in Community Supported Agriculture have increased dramatically. This increased demand for locally produced food puts producers in the position of having to decide whether or not to rapidly scale up their operations, collaborate with other producers, or turn business away. One of the major obstacles to growt…
Local Food, Local Engagement
This paper examines some of the daily realities of operating a Community‐Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in eastern Iowa and addresses the concept of community among growers. Popular depictions of local foods systems often emphasize the close relationships that develop between producers and consumers. This picture, however, may gloss over the necessary complexities of a healthy local food system. CSA has been promoted as a direct marketing strat…
Pivoting is exhausting
Herd Management
Local food has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the natural food industry. Nationwide, farmers' market attendance and memberships in Community Supported Agriculture have increased dramatically. This increased demand for locally produced food puts producers in the position of having to decide whether or not to rapidly scale up their operations, collaborate with other producers, or turn business away. One of the major obstacles to growt…
Small Farms, Big Plans
Over the past decades, farms in the U.S. have become fewer and larger. Along with the trend of increasing in size, farms have become increasingly specialized, producing fewer products per farm, and mechanized, relying on precision equipment rather than human labor. The concepts of farm size, specialization, and mechanization, appear to be tightly articulated. As a farm increases in size, it becomes more specialized and reliant on equipment. Conve…
Public health science in agriculture
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Theories of Farmer Knowledge and Food Security
In the United States, the Department of Agriculture has encouraged consumers to “know your farmer” because, as the bumper sticker tells us, “know farmers, know food.” In part, these statements aim to broaden agricultural knowledge beyond the farm sector, creating a more agriculturally literate population. In a larger sense, though, they aim to make visible the intricate web of farming practices, market and state dynamics, and individual food ‘con…
Local Food, Local Engagement
This paper examines some of the daily realities of operating a Community‐Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in eastern Iowa and addresses the concept of community among growers. Popular depictions of local foods systems often emphasize the close relationships that develop between producers and consumers. This picture, however, may gloss over the necessary complexities of a healthy local food system. CSA has been promoted as a direct marketing strat…
Herd Management
Local food has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the natural food industry. Nationwide, farmers' market attendance and memberships in Community Supported Agriculture have increased dramatically. This increased demand for locally produced food puts producers in the position of having to decide whether or not to rapidly scale up their operations, collaborate with other producers, or turn business away. One of the major obstacles to growt…
Corn Meets Maize
Entanglements of Reciprocal Relations
We borrow our title from James Verinis’ review, this issue, of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's book, The Mushroom at the End of the World. This collection of articles highlights relationship (as idea and as lived reality) from different perspectives and in transition. One set of contributions invites us to explore emergent ideas about the concept of relationship as an organizing principle for the natural world, humans included. These pieces provide us wi…
Theories of Farmer Knowledge and Food Security
In the United States, the Department of Agriculture has encouraged consumers to “know your farmer” because, as the bumper sticker tells us, “know farmers, know food.” In part, these statements aim to broaden agricultural knowledge beyond the farm sector, creating a more agriculturally literate population. In a larger sense, though, they aim to make visible the intricate web of farming practices, market and state dynamics, and individual food ‘con…
Public health science in agriculture
Actor Networks, Celebrity Farmers, Identity Performance, and Super Star Crops
Anthropologists are well aware of the blurred boundaries between what is local and global and the complex ways that identity, performance, knowledge, and practice intersect to inform both angles of view. These relationships are particularly evident in networks and systems of agriculture and food production. This issue of CAFE considers how locals respond to, are affected by, and empower themselves in relation to global markets and international d…
Future-making in the Face of Risk
In this very full issue of CAFE, we present two clusters of articles. The first represents a special themed issue, guest edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico. This collection of stimulating articles examines the role that heritage, construed and deployed in various ways, can play as a potent source of ideas and resources for building a future placed at risk by climate change. The collection's contributors come to the topic from a v…
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Small Farms, Big Plans
Over the past decades, farms in the U.S. have become fewer and larger. Along with the trend of increasing in size, farms have become increasingly specialized, producing fewer products per farm, and mechanized, relying on precision equipment rather than human labor. The concepts of farm size, specialization, and mechanization, appear to be tightly articulated. As a farm increases in size, it becomes more specialized and reliant on equipment. Conve…
Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification
The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well-being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive r…
"Saving" Plant Genetic Resources (& Ourselves) in a Time of Accelerating Ecological Change
The articles in this issue examine the strategies that farmers, scientists, and citizens use to “save” the things that matter to us (our seeds, our bodies, our farms, and our communities) in the midst of accelerating, human-induced environmental degradation. They investigate the ways that these actors imagine the future-the ways that they seek to preserve what they see as vital, prevent what they see as unacceptable, and (sometimes) give in to wh…
Transitional Moments, Mediators, and Alternative Modernities
The articles presented in this issue explore familiar anthropological territory. The authors examine the ways that farmers and other food system actors adapt in the context of changing markets, negotiating pressures to abandon the “traditional” in favor of the “modern.” Although the themes investigated in this set of articles may be well-known, the authors’ innovative approaches illuminate new areas of inquiry. In particular, they focus on the ro…
Identifying Issues and Priorities in Reporting Back Environmental Health Data
Experts recommend reporting environmental exposure results back to research participants and communities, yet environmental health researchers need further guidance to improve the practice of reporting back. We present the results of a workshop developed to identify pertinent issues and areas for action in reporting back environmental health research results. Thirty-five attendees participated, brainstorming responses to the prompt: "What are som…
Understanding Rural Women’s Domestic Work Experiences (DWE) in Ibadan, Nigeria
Gender norms prescribe domestic labor as primarily a female's responsibility in developing countries. Many domestic tasks depend on access to water, so the physical, emotional, and time demands of domestic labor may be exacerbated for women living in water-insecure environments. We developed a set of domestic work experience (DWE) measures tailored to work in rural areas in developing countries, assessed rural Nigerian women's DWE, and examined r…
Examination of Symptoms of Depression among Cooperative Dairy Farmers
Farmers experience a high risk of stress, depression, and suicide. Risk factors are well documented but protective factors are seldom examined. Social support has been reported to reduce psychological distress among the general population but its effect on farmers is inconclusive. Agricultural cooperatives are typically created and owned by farmers to secure markets, access supplies and services, and participate in decision-making. It is unknown …
Pivoting is exhausting
Perceptions of the Right to Food Among Adults Aged 60 Years and Older
This study explores perceptions of the right to food and issues around food assistance and access among older adults. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with adults aged 60+ in Iowa, half of whom were food insecure. Most respondents expressed the right to food concerns freedom of choice rather than physical and financial access. The respondents said poor food access was due to improper choices or not accessing food assistance. While respo…
Feasibility and fidelity in applying media advocacy principles as an implementation strategy
Despite these results, this study provides a clearer picture of the contextual issues states face in attempting to adopt and implement agricultural safety and health programs, such as the National ROPS Rebate Program
Geography (12 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Food security (6 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)