CFFPI - Research Team

Our research team examines social, economic and political issues of agricultural viability at the rural-urban interface. 

Highlighted Research Projects

• Agricultural Adaptation at the Rural-Urban Interface: Can Communities Make a Difference?
• Scaling-up Connections between Regional Ohio Specialty Crop Producers and Local Markets: Distribution as the Missing Link
• Evaluating Knox County’s Food System:  Opportunities to Grow

Highlighted Research Briefs and White Papers

• A Metropolitan Agricultural Supplement for US Food Systems
• Local Food Systems: The Birth of New Farmers and the Demise of the Family Farm?
• The Persistence of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface:  Does the Cost of Health Insurance Make a Difference?
• Exurban Farming in the Current Market: Past Effects, Future Possibilities– Prepared for the Baldwin Center Inaugural Symposium, October 16, 2009
• Succession and Enterprise Adaptation at the Rural Urban Interface
• Planning on Farming Ohio:  A Model for Understanding the Opportunities for Innovation
• Ohio's Dairy Industry: The Geography and Impact of a Key Sector

Also, check out the Center's projects page for applied project summaries and policy briefs.

Research Team

• Jill Clark, Director, Center For Farmland Policy Innovation, OSU
• Shoshanah Inwood, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Social Responsibility Initiative, OSU
• Douglas Jackson-Smith, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology , Utah State University
• Jeff Sharp, Associate Professor, Dept. of Human & Community Resource Development, OSU

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e: cffpi@osu.edu; p: 614.247.6479; f: 614.292.0078
m: Center for Farmland Policy Innovation, Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Econ.
103 Agricultural Administration Bldg., 2120 Fyffe Rd., Columbus, Ohio  43210  USA