Dr. Schoolman looks broadly at the environmental and social implications of efforts to strengthen alternative food systems, including local and regional production/consumption of food and organic farming. He is also interested in the clean energy potential of agriculture and farmland, and is a member of the Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program. Reforming food systems has enormous potential for helping to address the drivers of climate change; at the same time, the changing climate will have profound consequences for agriculture.
Publications:
Schoolman, E. (2019). Do direct market farms use fewer agricultural chemicals? Evidence from the US census of agriculture. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 34(5), 415-429. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000758
2022 Errickson, Lauren B., Ethan D. Schoolman, Virginia Quick, Sarah Davis, and Anthony Capece. “Engaging farmers,
culinary schools, and community members in value-added production to strengthen local food systems.” Journal of Extension (in press).
2022 Schoolman, Ethan D. and J. Gordon Arbuckle. “Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover
crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 77(4): 403-417. doi:10.2489/jswc.2022.00006
2022 Quick, Virginia, Lauren B. Errickson, Graham E. Bastian, Grace Chang, Sarah Davis, Anthony Capece, and Ethan D. Schoolman. “Preserving farm freshness: Consumer preferences for local value-aded products at urban farmers markets.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 11(2): 113-34. doi:10.5304/jafscd.2022.112.004
2022 Han, Guang, Ethan D. Schoolman, J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., and Lois Wright Morton. “Weather, values, capacity and concern: Toward a social- cognitive model of specialty crop farmers’ perceptions of climate change risk.” Environment and Behavior 54(2): 327-362. doi:10.1177/00139165211026607
2021 Schoolman, Ethan D., Lois Wright Morton, J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., and Guang Han. “Marketing to the foodshed: Why do farmers participate in local food systems?” Journal of Rural Studies 84: 240-253. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.055
