1. From the editor

   • Harvey James

   EditorialNotes 22 January 2008 Pages: 145 - 146

2. Introduction to symposium—charting fault lines in US agrifood systems: what can we contribute?

   • Jill Harrison
   • Steven A. Wolf

   EditorialNotes 05 March 2008 Pages: 147 - 149

3. The emancipatory question: the next step in the sociology of agrifood systems?

   • Douglas H. Constance

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 151 - 155

4. Mining for justice in the food system: perceptions, practices, and possibilities

   • Patricia Allen

   OriginalPaper 24 January 2008 Pages: 157 - 161

5. Lessons learned from pesticide drift: a call to bring production agriculture, farm labor, and social justice back into agrifood research and activism

   • Jill Harrison

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 163 - 167

6. Unlikely allies against factory farms: animal rights advocates and environmentalists

   • David M. Holt

   OriginalPaper 24 January 2008 Pages: 169 - 171

7. Identifying vulnerabilities, exploring opportunities: reconfiguring production, conservation, and consumption in California rice

   • Dustin R. Mulvaney

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 173 - 176

8. The illusion of control: industrialized agriculture, nature, and food safety

   • Diana Stuart

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 177 - 181

9. Resilience and vulnerability in US farm policy: parsing the payment limitation debate

   • Larry L. Burmeister

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 183 - 186

10. Resilience in the US red meat industry: the roles of food safety policy

    • Michelle R. Worosz
    • Andrew J. Knight
    • Craig K. Harris

    OriginalPaper 24 January 2008 Pages: 187 - 191

11. The local industrial complex? Questioning the link between local foods and energy use

    • Matthew J. Mariola

    OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 193 - 196

12. “Chasms” in agrifood systems: rethinking how we can contribute

    • William H. Friedland

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2008 Pages: 197 - 201

13. Professionalization of agriculture and distributed innovation for multifunctional landscapes and territorial development

    • Steven A. Wolf

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2008 Pages: 203 - 207

14. Interdisciplinarity and boundary work: challenges and opportunities for agrifood studies

    • C. Clare Hinrichs

    OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 209 - 213

15. Nanotechnologies, food, and agriculture: next big thing or flash in the pan?

    • Lawrence Busch

    OriginalPaper 22 January 2008 Pages: 215 - 218

16. The community effects of industrialized farming: Social science research and challenges to corporate farming laws

    • Linda Lobao
    • Curtis W. Stofferahn

    ReviewPaper 18 December 2007 Pages: 219 - 240

17. Still a time to act: A review of institutional marketing of regionally-grown food

    • Rainbow A. Vogt
    • Lucia L. Kaiser

    OriginalPaper 19 December 2007 Pages: 241 - 255

18. Virtual water: Virtuous impact? The unsteady state of virtual water

    • Dik Roth
    • Jeroen Warner

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 October 2007 Pages: 257 - 270

19. Non-governmental organizations, strategic bridge building, and the “scientization” of organic agriculture in Kenya

    • Jessica R. Goldberger

    OriginalPaper 31 October 2007 Pages: 271 - 289

20. Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, and Jonathan Murdoch: Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain

    • William H. Friedland

    BookReview 08 March 2008 Pages: 291 - 294

21. Books Received

    Announcement 12 March 2008 Pages: 295 - 296