Introduction to Special Issue on “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics”

ABSTRACT

Whereas, addressing food insecurity sheds light on public health problems in weight control, nutritional monitoring, and chronic and life-threatening illnesses (Campbell, 1991;Gunderson and Ziliak, 2015;Seligman etal., 2007, 2010), which are generally attributable to economic disparities (Coleman-Jenson etal. 2018). [...]food insecurity has increased as a result of labor market pressures, leading to joblessness, income losses, and supply chain disruptions (United Nations 2020;Cardoso etal., 2021;Udmale etal., 2020). [...]varying aspects of agricultural disparities have warranted much attention because of their global implications for food insecurity (O’Hara and Toussaint, 2021;Power etal., 2020;Battersby, 2020;Liverpool-Tasie etal., 2021). [...]behavioral food demands and agricultural supply chains have become important for the social justice perspective in agriculture. If teaching healthy food habits has a limited impact on sustainable demand for healthy food (Janda etal. 2021), then areas where food worries, supplemental assistance, poor access to healthy food options, and environmental health concerns are insurmountable experience institutional barriers to agricultural demand (Clay and Rogus, 2021;Wolfson and Leung CW, 2020 (1 and 2);Niles etal. 2020;Rosas etal. 2022).