RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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GENDER
Martin, S., C.R. Matare, R.A. Kayanda, I. Owoputi, R. Bezner Kerr, K.A. Dearden, L. Nnally, A. Kazoba, K.L. Dickin. 2021. Engaging fathers to improve complementary feeding practices is acceptable and feasible for parents in the Lake Zone, Tanzania. Maternal and Child Nutrition.
Cetrone, H.M., M.V. Santoso, R. Bezner Kerr, L. Petito, L. Blacker, T. Nonga, H.D. Martin, N. Kassim, E. Mtinda, & S.L. Young. 2021. Food security mediates the decrease in women's depressive symptoms in a participatory nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention in rural Tanzania. Public Health Nutrition.
Bezner Kerr, R., C. Hickey, E. Lupafya & L. Dakishoni. 2019. Repairing rifts or reproducing inequalities? Agroecology, food sovereignty, and gender justice in Malawi, The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Lentz, E., R. Bezner Kerr, R. Patel, L. Dakishoni and E. Lupafya. 2018. The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys. Development and Change.
Chung, Y., S.L.Young and R. Bezner Kerr. 2018. Rethinking the value of unpaid care work: lessons from participatory visual research in central Tanzania. Gender, Place and Culture.
NUTRITION
Santoso, M.V., R. Bezner Kerr, N. Kassim, H. Martin, E. Mtinda, P. Njau, K. Mtei, J. Hoddinott and S.L. Young. 2021. A nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention in rural Tanzania increases children’s dietary diversity and household food security but does not change child anthropometry: results from a cluster-randomized trial. Journal of Nutrition.
Bezner Kerr, R., S. Madsen, M. Stüber, J. Liebert, S. Enloe, N. Borghino, P. Parros, D. Munyao Mutyambai, M. Prudhon, & A. Wezel. 2021. Can agroecology improve food security and nutrition? A review. Global Food Security 29.
Kansanga, M.M., J. Kangmennaang, R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni & I. Luginaah. 2020. Agroecology and household production diversity and dietary diversity: Evidence from a five-year agroecological intervention in rural Malawi. Social Science and Medicine.
Richmond, C., R. Bezner Kerr, H. Neufeld, M. Steckley, K. Wilson, B. Dokis. 2020. Supporting Food Security for Indigenous Families through the Restoration of Indigenous Foodways. The Canadian Geographer.
Richmond, C., M. Steckley, H. Neufeld, R. Bezner Kerr, K. Wilson, B. Dokis, 2020. First Nations Food Environments: Exploring the role of place, income and social connection. Current Developments in Nutrition.
Santoso, M.V., R. Bezner Kerr, J. Hoddinott, P. Garigipati, S. Olmos, S.L. Young. 2019. What is the role of women’s empowerment in child nutrition outcomes? A systematic review. Advances in Nutrition.
Matare, C., H.C. Craig, S.L. Martin, R.A. Kayanda, G.M. Chapleau, R. Bezner Kerr, K.A. Dearden, L.P. Nnally, K.L. Dickin. 2019. Barriers and Opportunities for Improved Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Tanzania: Household Trials with Mothers and Fathers. Food and Nutrition Bulletin.
R. Bezner Kerr, M. Rahmanian, I. Owoputi, C. Batello. 2018. Agroecology and nutrition: transformative possibilities and challenges in Sustainable diets: linking nutrition and food systems (eds. B. Burlingame, S. Dernini).
Powell, B., R. Bezner Kerr, S. L. Young and T. Johns. 2017. The determinants of dietary diversity and nutrition: ethnonutrition knowledge of local people in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine.
POLITICAL ECOLOGY & CLIMATE CHANGE
Bezner Kerr, R., L. O. Naess, B. Allen-O’Neil, E. Totin, H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, C. Risvoli, M. G. Rivera Ferre, F. Lopez-i-Gelats, S. Eriksen. 2022. Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems. Global Change Biology 28(11): 3580-3604.
Nightingale, A. J., S. Eriksen, M. Taylor, T. Forsyth, M. Pelling, A. Newsham, E. Boyd, K. Brown, B. Harvey, L. Jones, R. Bezner Kerr, L. Mehta, L. Otto Naess, D. Ockwell, I. Scoones, T. Tanner and S. Whitfield. 2019. Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate solutions and the great derangement. Climate and Development, 1–10.
R. Bezner Kerr, J. Kangmennaang, L. Dakishoni, H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, E. Lupafya, L. Shumba, R. Msachi, G. Odei Boateng, S. S. Snapp, A. Chitaya, E. Maona, T. Gondwe, P. Nkhonjera, I. Luginaah. 2019. Participatory agroecological research on climate change adaptation improves smallholder farmer household food security and dietary diversity in Malawi. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 279: 109-121.
Bezner Kerr, R., H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, L. Dakishoni, E. Lupafya, L. Shumba, I. Luginaah, S. S. Snapp. 2018. Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi. Renewal Agriculture and Food Systems.
AGROECOLOGY AND FOOD
Kpienbarreh, D., R. Bezner Kerr, H. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, D. Amoak, K. Poveda, U. S. Nagothu, C. Vogel, A. Iverson, T. Mehreteab, I. Luginaah, I. Steffan-Dewenter, J. Wang, G. Kustner, S. Enloe, V. Mayer, L. Dakishoni, E. Lupafaya, L. Shumba, T. Chunga, P. Kanyimbo, P. Munthali, T. Gondwe, I. Mhoni, M. Mkandawire, T. Mkandawire, P. Moyo, Y. Tembo. 2022 (in press). Transdisciplinary agroecological research on biodiversity and ecosystem services for sustainable and climate resilient farming systems in Malawi.
Kpienbarreh, D., I. Luginaah, R. Bezner Kerr, J. Wang, K. Poveda, I. Steffan-Dewenter, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni. 2022. Assessing local perceptions of deforestation, forest restoration, and the role of agroecology for agroecosystem restoration in northern Malawi. Land Degradation & Development 33(7), 1088– 1100.
Bezner Kerr, R., S. Madsen, M. Stüber, J. Liebert, S. Enloe, N. Borghino, P. Parros, D. Munyao Mutyambai, M. Prudhon, & A. Wezel. 2021. Can Agroecology Improve Food Security and Nutrition? A Review. Global Food Security 29:100540.
Bezner Kerr, R. Position Paper: Agroecology as a means to transform the food system. 2021. Landbauforschung – Journal of Sustainable and Organic Agricultural Systems. 70 (2): 77-82.
Kpienbaareh, D., X. Sun, J. Wang, I. Luginaah, R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni. 2021. Crop Type and Land Cover Mapping in Northern Malawi Using the Integration of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and PlanetScope Satellite Data. Remote Sensing 13 (4).
Madsen, S., R. Bezner Kerr, N. LaDue, I. Luginaah, C. Dzanja, L. Dakishoni, E. Lupafya, & L. Shumba. 2021. Explaining the impact of agroecology on farm-level transitions to food security in Malawi. Food Security.
Enloe, S., D. Banda, P. Moyo, L. Dakishoni, R. Msachi, & R. Bezner Kerr. 2021. Managing the new kapuchi: photovoice as a method for co-constructing knowledge in northern Malawi. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Kansanga, M. M., R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni, & I. Luginaah. 2021. Does participatory farmer-to-farmer training improve the adoption of sustainable land management practices? Land Use Policy.
Mottet, A., A. Bicksler, D. Lucantoni, F. De Rosa, B. Scherf, E. Scopel, S. Lopez-Ridaura, B. Gemmil-Herren, R. Bezner Kerr, J-M. Sourisseau, P. Petersen, J-L. Yves Chotte, A.M. Loconto, M. Drago, & P. Tittonell. 2020. Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
Wezel, A., B. Gemmill Herren, R. Bezner Kerr, E. Barrios, A.L.R. Gonçalves, & F. Sinclair. 2020. Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review. Agronomy and Sustainable Development 40.
Kansanga, M.M., I. Luginaah, R. Bezner Kerr, L. Dakishoni, E. Lupafya. 2020. Determinants of smallholder farmers’ adoption of short-term and long-term sustainable land management practices. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 1–13.
Kpienbaareh, D., R. Bezner Kerr, I. Luginaah, J. Wang, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni and L. Shumba. 2020. Spatial and Ecological Farmer Knowledge and Decision-Making about Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. Land 9 (10), 356.
Madsen, S., R. Bezner Kerr, L. Shumba & L. Dakishoni on behalf of the SFHC team. 2020. Agroecological practices of legume residue management and crop diversification for improved smallholder food security, dietary diversity and sustainable land use. Malawi, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 45(2).
Kansanga, M.M., I. Luginaah, R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya & L. Dakishoni. 2020. Beyond ecological synergies: examining the impact of participatory agroecology on social capital in smallholder farming communities, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 27:1, 1-14.
Pendergrast, T.L., B.J. Smith, J.A. Liebert, & R. Bezner Kerr. 2019. Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation—food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship. Agriculture and Human Values.
Iragaba, P., E. Nuwamanya, E. Wembabazi, Y. Baguma, D. Dufour, E.D. Earle, R. Bezner Kerr, H.A. Tufan, M.A. Gore, & R.S. Kawuki. 2019. Estimates for heritability and consumer-validation of a penetrometer method for phenotyping softness of cooked cassava roots. African Crop Science Journal 27 (2): 147-163.
S. Snapp, R. Bezner Kerr, V. Ota, D. Kane, L. Shumba & L.Dakishoni. 2019. Unpacking a crop diversity hotspot: farmer practice and preferences in Northern Malawi, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 17:2, 172-188.
Bezner Kerr, R., S. Young, C. Young, M. Santoso, M. Magalasi, M. Entz, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni, V. Morrone, D. W. Wolfe, & S. Snapp. 2019. Farming for change: developing a participatory curriculum on agroecology, nutrition, climate change and social equity in Malawi and Tanzania. Agriculture and Human Values 18.
Kangmennaang, J., R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni, M. Katundu, I. Luginaah. 2017. Impact of a participatory agroecological development project on household wealth and food security in Malawi. Food Security 9: 561-576.
Wittman, H. M.J. Chappell, D. Abson; R. Bezner Kerr, J. Blesh, J. Hanspach, I. Perfecto, J. Fischer. 2017. A social-ecological perspective on harmonizing food security and biodiversity conservation. Regional Environmental Change 17(5): 1291-1301.
Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., F. N Mambulu, R. Bezner Kerr, I. Luginaah and E. Lupafya. 2016. Agroecology and sustainable food systems: Participatory research to improve food security among HIV-affected households in northern Malawi. Social Science and Medicine 164: 89-99.
Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Bezner Kerr, R. 2016. Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana. The Journal of Peasant Studies.