Laurel E Bellante

Interests

Research

critical food studies, political ecology, human environment geography, climate change, agrarian change, rural Mexico, Latin America, global environmental change, farmer rights, local food movements, food waste, US-Mexico border, food justice, food sovereignty

Teaching

critical food studies, political ecology, human environment geography, climate change, agrarian change, rural Mexico, Latin America, global environmental change, farmer rights, local food movements, food waste, US-Mexico border, food justice, food sovereignty

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Bellante, L. E., Carney, M. A., & Owen, G. (2022).

  Bellante, L., Carney, M.A., & Owen, G. 2022. Leveraging university resources to build awareness, support regional food policy, and disrupt dominant narratives guiding food-based development: Examples from the University of Arizona’s Center for Regional Food Studies. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.017

  . Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. doi:https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.017
• Bellante, L. (2017). Building the local food movement in Chiapas, Mexico: rationales, benefits, and limitations. Agriculture and Human Values, 34(1), 119-134. doi:10.1007/s10460-016-9700-9
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  Tinker Foundation; SBSRI Pre-Doc Graduate Research Grant Program; AAG Latin America Specialty Group; Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship

Presentations

• Bellante, L. E. (2021, April). Paper presenter: “The state of the Tucson food system in the time of COVID-19” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting (April 2021). AAG Annual Meeting. Virtual conference.
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  We have established an inter-state collaboration with colleagues working on local food systems research in their home regions at four other universities (MSU, UC Davis, UNC, U Iowa). These AAG sessions our intended to be the first step in sharing our initial research findings. We have funding to support an in-person meeting in Fall 2021 to discuss future collaboration, co-authorship and special issue submissions.
• Bellante, L. E. (2019, Fall). Changing Livelihoods in Mexico. Climate and Migration in Central America and Mexico: Drought, Vulnerability, Livelihoods, and Attribution Workshop. University of Arizona.

Others

• Owen, G., Kinkaid, E., Bellante, L. E., & Maccabe, S. (2021, May). The 2020-21 state of the Tucson food system report: Assessing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Arizona. UA Center for Regional Food Studies. https://crfs.arizona.edu/sites/crfs.arizona.edu/files/2020-21%20State%20of%20the%20Tucson%20Food%20System%20Report_3.pdf
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  This report is part of an ongoing series produced by the University of Arizona’s Center for Regional Food Studies thatinvestigates local and regional food system issues and needs in southern Arizona. This year, the report is a collaborativeeffort with the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) program housed in Arizona Institutes for Resilience atthe University of Arizona. It provides an in-depth, rapid qualitative assessment on the impacts of and responses to thepandemic in the local food system centered in Pima County.Our work is informed by the experiences and expertise of a variety of people involved in local food in and near PimaCounty (see Map below). In this report, we focus on a few nodes in the food system, including agricultural producers(farmers and ranchers), distributors, restaurant owners, and representatives from food and agriculture organizations.Between August 2020 and February 2021, our research team conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 37representatives of the food system (see Table 1). In addition, 19 agricultural producers completed an online survey duringfall 2020
• Bellante, L. E. (2019, January). Double Exposure, Dispossession and Farmer Resistance in the Cornfields of Chiapas, Mexico. Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy1.library.arizona.edu/pqdtglobal/docview/2186638261/C82ABCBBE48546B1PQ/2?accountid=8360
• Bellante, L. E. (2019, January). State of the Tucson Food System Report.