Jill Clark

Shoshanah Inwood, Jill Clark and colleagues focus on the significance of social infrastructure for food system resilience by drawing on the insights and experiences from positions as emergency management practitioners and land-grant university social science food system researchers working with emergency management agencies, food system and food security organizations in this commentary. 

Jill Clark and colleagues, using nationally representative data, find that the potential for differential treatment by race and ethnicity in the food retail environment is associated with lower nutritional quality of food acquisitions for Black and Hispanic households.

Jill K. Clark and colleagues investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, proposes a critical framework for urban food governance, emphasizing five interconnected principles, time, place, relationships, diversity and power, to guide just and sustainable outcomes in urban food systems.

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, investigates community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, explores the social equity of public participation environments, emphasizing the importance of inclusive and equitable practices in public administration to ensure fair representation and engagement of marginalized communities.

Jill Clark evaluates the extent to which Know Your Farmer Know Your Food changed the way the USDA implements local and regional food systems policy. 

Published by Jill Clark, this assessment of government-adopted food system plans in the U.S. examines which topics, across the three dimensions of sustainability (social, environmental, and economic), are included in local food system plans and conducts an exploratory analysis that asks whether the community capitals (built, cultural, social, financial, human, and natural) available in a community are associated with the content of food system plans.

Jill Clark studies how international actors consider and engage with negotiations that influence the food system and how they can reframe the global food governance narrative.

Jill Clark identifies nutrition equity as an overarching goal for local food systems, which reflects a state of having freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions resulting in people and communities healthy in body, mind, and spirit. It is a transformative goal designed to spur system-level interventions that further racial equity through improved local food system dynamics.

Professor Jill Clark examines the use of multidimensional power to promote social justice and equity.

This study, helps to visualize and understand how Ohio state government agencies, civil society, nonprofits and the private sector intersect with the food system to respond to disasters in Ohio.

Jill Clark and Aiden Irish aim to inform state emergency management responses in order to better prepare for and mitigate medium- and long-term negative social and economic impacts resulting from future disasters and disruptions.

Jill Clark empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and public participation in a collaborative policymaking process.

Professor Jill Clark uses the concept of relational fields to conduct a post-hoc analysis of nine cases, examining how social movement organizations and other actors actively create new deliberative governance spaces. 

Professor Jill Clark examines the role of subnational governments in community food infrastructures.

Professor Jill Clark provides a narrative interpretive tool for unveiling complexity within the food system and interdependencies with racialized systems such as criminal justice and labor market.

Professor Jill Clark develops a framework to understand the landscape of municipal urban agriculture policy, focusing on authority, policy instruments, and topic areas.

Professor Jill Clark investigates whether shopping close to home moderates the relationship between the proximate food environment and diet.

Professor Jill Clark examined a U.S. Healthy Food Financing Initiative funded food hub that was designed to be implemented by a community development corporation in an urban neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor Jill Clark examines values-added food, agriculture and rural development. 

Professor Jill Clark uses qualitative data to provide insight into emergency food provision developed in five cities to serve children and families. 

Professor Jill Clark examines the relationship between a Food Policy Council's organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities.

Professor Jill Clark provides a theoretical framework that links public managers' and community leaders' perspectives on their own political efficacy and sources of their efficacy, yielding four types of “designers.” 

Professors Jill Clark and Neal Hooker compare the consumption patterns and diet quality of foods and beverages obtained from various sources by food security status.

Jill Clark demonstrates that locally-facing firms are associated with greater levels of civic and political engagement compared with locally owned firms that sell their products to customers elsewhere.

Professor Jill Clark describe current distribution systems within Ohio, identifies firms interested in scaling-up distribution and inform state-level policy efforts by identifying opportunities to better target any state-level policy and program efforts.

Professor Jill Clark evaluates the emergence of agrifood system policy in the U.S. and suggests future evaluative policy research and comparative analysis with other domains of food policy research.