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John Smithers
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Latest papers
Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada.
Environment and planning. E, Nature and space · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $304,900
Solving the global food crisis: exploring future food scenarios to develop sustainable and secure food systems in Canada
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
- $115,800
Closing the farm to plate gap: needs and prospects in the short food supply chain
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
- $111,300
Assessing the role of local food systems in re-linking agriculture and rural communities
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada.
Calvert K, Smit E, Wassmansdorf D, Smithers J
Solving the global food crisis: exploring future food scenarios to develop sustainable and secure food systems in Canada
Principal investigators: Fraser, Evan D.G.
Keywords: global food crisis; sustainable development; human security; food security; local food; industrial agriculture
Closing the farm to plate gap: needs and prospects in the short food supply chain
Principal investigators: Smithers, John A.
Keywords: local food; agriculture; supply chain; rural community; sustainability
Assessing the role of local food systems in re-linking agriculture and rural communities
Principal investigators: Smithers, John A.
Keywords: local food; family farming; rural community; rural development; agricultural adjustment
Toward rural sustainability: linking agriculture and community in an era of restructuring
Principal investigators: Smithers, John
Keywords: agriculture change; restructuring; rural community; livestock agriculture
Sustaining Agriculture in the 21st Century: Thinking Outside the Box
Principal investigators: Smithers, John
Keywords: environmental management; agricultural economics; quality of life; rural community; farming systems; sustainable agriculture; sustainable development
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
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