James Baxter, Dalhousie University

Research

food systems collaborative governance local government farmland tenure agriculture property

Latest funding

Common Ground Canada Network
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$599,088
The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000
Development and implementation of tools and strategies to address greenhouse gas emissions in Canada's food system: Decarbonizing Canada's Food Supply Chain
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000

Common Ground Canada Network

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Social Sciences and Humanities Research Network on Sustainable Agriculture in a Net-Zero Economy

Principal investigators: Foster, Karen

$599,088

The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Heung, Brandon BL

Keywords: applied behaviour analysis; chemometrics; cost-benefit analysis; data mining; data sharing & privacy; digital soil data management; machine learning; pedometrics; predictive digital soil mapping; soil spectroscopy

$2,000,000

Development and implementation of tools and strategies to address greenhouse gas emissions in Canada's food system: Decarbonizing Canada's Food Supply Chain

Co-investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Price, Gordon GW

Keywords: climate change science; food loss and waste; food production; food systems; greenhouse gas emissions; industrial commercial &institutional; municipal solid wastes; sustainable food systems; waste management

$1,000,000

Collaborative Food Systems Governance in Atlantic Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Baxter, James R.G.

Keywords: food systems; collaborative governance; local government

$156,250

Governing Farmland Commons: An Institutional Analysis

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Baxter, James

Keywords: (1) Institutions; (2) Commons; (3) Property rights; (4) Agriculture; (5) Socio-ecological systems; (6) Farmland access; (7) Institutional analysis and development

$68,374

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: food systems Dear Professor Baxter, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on food systems connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Collaborative Food Systems Governance in Atlantic Canada" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]