Publications

Academic Publications (* for student co-authors)

Bacon, C. M., Gleicher, A*., McCurry, E*., & McNeil, C. (2024). Toward a justice approach to emergency food assistance and food waste: Exploring pantry–urban gardener partnerships in California’s Santa Clara County. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 13(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.017

Bacon, C. M., Flores Gomez, M. E., Shin, V.*, Ballardo, G.*, Kriese, S.*, McCurry, E.*, Martinez, E* & Rivas, M. (2023). Beyond the bean: Analyzing diversified farming, food security, dietary diversity, and gender in Nicaragua’s smallholders coffee cooperatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1-42.

Guzmán A.L. Bacon, C.M., V. E. Méndez, M-E. Flores Gómez, Anderzén, J., Mier y Terán, M.,Hernández, J. Rivas, M. Alberto Duarte, and H.Benavides, A.(2022) Towards transformative agroecology: Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Diversification with farmers and members of coffee cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6(810840), 1–19.

Rhiney, K., Guido, Z., Knudson, C., Avelino, J., Bacon, C. M., Leclerc, G., Aime, M.C., and Bebber, D. P. (2021). Epidemics and the future of coffee production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (27) e2023212118.

Bacon, C.M., L. C. Kelley, and I. T. Stewart. 2021. Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua. Ecology and Society 27(1):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12716-270116

Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E., & Kelley, L. C. (2021). Towards smallholder food and water security: Climate variability in the context of multiple livelihood hazards in Nicaragua. World Development, 143, 105468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105468

Bacon, C.M., W. Sundstrom, I. Stewart-Frey, and D. Beezer.* Vulnerability to Cumulative Hazards: Coping with the Coffee Leaf Rust Outbreak, Drought, and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua. World Development, 2017, 93: 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.025

Maurer, E.P., N. Roby,* I.T. Stewart-Frey, and C.M. Bacon, Projected twenty-first-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled climate projections Regional Environmental Change, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10113-017-1177.

María Eugenia Flores Gómez, Christopher M. Bacon, Salatiel Valdivia,
Misael Rivas, Ruddy Espinoza, Raúl Díaz, Erika Pérez. (2016) Alimentación culturalmente preferida: Conocimiento local y transición agroecológica en Nicaragua. LIESA: Revista de Agroecologia. June. 32(2): 24-27.

Bacon, C. M. (2015). Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperatives. Third World Quarterly, 36(3), 469-488.

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. A., Flores Gómez, M. E., Ernesto Méndez, V., Santos, R.,* Goldoftas, B., & Dougherty, I*. (2014). Explaining the ‘hungry farmer paradox’: Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua’s corn and coffee markets. Global Environmental Change (25): 133-149 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937801400034X

Conference Presentations

Stewart, I.T.. & Bacon, C. M. (2024). Experiences launching a faculty-led initiative to foster university-community action research & learning partnerships for environmental justice. Duality of Environmental Justice Conference. Stanford University.

Bacon, C. M., Ursua-Garcia, P,. Duffy, K., Xang, M., Amore Rojas, A., Pugh, M., Felix, P., Svendahl, E., , Holland, J., Wood, K.,. (2024, March). Student food and basic needs insecurity at SCU and beyond. California Higher Education Basic Needs Alliance Conference. Sacramento, CA

Bacon, C. M., & Sundstrom, W. A. (2023, July). Smallholder Diversification, Food Security, & Agroecology: Climatic and Market Hazards in Central America. Scientific Meetings. Assoc for Environmental Studies & Sciences (AESS). Portland, OR.

Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., & Díaz, R. (2023, April). Farmers Learning Diversification for Food Security, Sovereignty and Resilience. .Climate and Environmental Justice Conference. SCU.

Bacon, C. M., Amore Rojas, A., Pugh, M., Felix, P., Svendahl, E., Key, T., Holland, J., Wood, K., & D’Hers, C. (2023, July). Three Years of Unpacking the Complexities of Student Food Security at SCU AESS Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.

Bacon, C. M., McCurry, E., Rose, B., Gleicher, A., McNeil, T., Rocha, S., Gil, R., & Fernandez Leiva, F. (2022, March). Bridging Food Access and Food Justice Initiatives: A Pilot Study with a California Home Gardening Program and Food Pantry. In the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. (Virtual Paper)

Bacon, C. M. (2021, April). Food Justice Narratives, Agroecology, and Emergency Aid: Incremental and Potentially Transformation Responses to COVID Exacerbated Hunger in California. In the AAG Annual Conference. (Virtual Paper)

Bacon, C. M., Flores Gomez, M. E., Ballardo, G., Rivas, M., Espinosa, R., Kriese, S., Chad, N., Martinez, E., Anaya, A., Shin, V., & Hamm, G. (2020, December). Assessing Diversification, Food Security, & Dietary Diversity w/ Organized Smallholders in Nicaragua. 4th Intl’ Conf. on Global Food Security. Elsevier, University Montpellier, Wageningen University Poster.

Bacon, C. M.. Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I.T., & Maurer, E. P. Raul Diaz, and Misael Rivas (2020, March). Food and Water Security in the Context of Climate Variability and Other Livelihood Hazards: Community-Based Participatory Action Research Assessment and Adaptation Planning in Nicaragua (Invited Keynote presentation) Loyola University Chicago. Workshop at their Climate Conference.

Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart-Frey, I. T., & Maurer, E. P. (2019, Spring). Assessing Smallholder Food and Water Access in the Context of Cumulative Hazards and Stressors: An Integrated Approach. In the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Progress in Household Water Insecurity Experiences 5: Quantitative Approaches (Sponsor: Water Resources Specialty Group).

Kelley, L. Bacon, C.M. Stewart, IT., and Sundstrom, W. (2018). Gender, Institutions, and Access to Food and Water in Lean Times: A Comparative Case Study in Northern Nicaragua. Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Sponsored by: Geographic Perspectives on Women, Cultural and Political Ecology, Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Groups. New Orleans, 4/14/18.

Bacon, C.M. Sundstrom, W. Stewart, IT., Maurer, E., and Kelley, L. (2018). Vulnerability and response of small farmers to environmental hazards: A longitudinal analysis of agricultural livelihoods and access to food and water. Contextualizing Variability: Enviro-Climatic Perception and the Potential for Adaptation (Kelley, C. & Eisenhart, A, organizers). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans. 4/13/18.
Bacon, C.M. (2018 invited presentation). Water and Climate Justice: In Pursuit of Equity (Panel). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, 4/11/18.

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. and Stewart-Frey, I.T. (2017) Smallholder solidarity and strategies to secure food and water access in Central America. Panels on the Geographies of Bread and Water. AAG 2017 meeting, Boston, MA. 4/8/2017.

Stewart-Frey, I., Bacon, C.M., and Smoker, C. (2017) Assessing Water Resources for Climate Adaptation through Community-Based Monitoring in rural Nicaragua. Poster #100: AAG 2017 meeting, Boston, MA. 4/6/2017.

Maurer, E.P., Stewart-Frey, I.T., W. Sundstrom, C. Bacon (2016), Climate Change and the Central American Mid-summer Drought – The Importance of Changing Precipitation Patterns for Food and Water Security, Presentation GC43C-1171 at AGU Fall 2016 meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/15/2016.

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. and Stewart-Frey, I.T. and Maurer, E. (2016) Vulnerabilidad y Resiliencia de hogares de Productores de pequeña escala frente a Riesgos Ambientales. Foro Construyendo Resiliencia en Comunidades que Dependen del Café en Centroamérica y el Caribe, Managua, Nicaragua. 9/20/2016. http://resilienciacafe.com/

Bacon, CM., Sundstrom, W., Stewart-Frey, I, Beezer, D, (2016) Vulnerability or Resilience: Smallholders Respond to Drought and the Coffee Rust Outbreak in Nicaragua. Presented at the 2016 American Association of Geographers San Francisco, CA, 3/31/2016.

N. Roby, Maurer, E.P., and C.M. Bacon, 2015. Projected 21st-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled daily CMIP5 precipitation. poster presented at 2015 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/16/2015.

Bacon, CB, Sundstrom, W, Stewart, I., and Beezer, D. 2015. Smallholder Food and Water Security in the Face of Climatic Stress and the Coffee Leaf Rust: Lessons from Nicaragua. Presented at 2015 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, Session: Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture III /Focus Group: Global Environmental Change. 2015 12/19/2015