Recent Academic Publications

2026

Park, Alex, and Philip H. Howard. “The Bank Takes the Lead?” Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 23 June 2026.

IPES-Food. 2026. The New Geopolitics of Food: Navigating Policies for Resilient Self-Reliance.

IPES-Food. 2026. Head in the Cloud: Challenging the False Promise of Digital Agriculture and Cultivating Resilience from the Ground Up.

Howard, Philip H. Price fixing by dominant meat processors and the global concentration of agrifood power. Journal of Rural Problems, 62(1), 37-43.

2025

Howard, Philip H. Concentration and power in food systems. Pp. 98-101 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society (Lewis Holloway et al., eds). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

IPES-Food. 2025. Fuel to Fork: What Will It Take to Get Fossil Fuels Out of Our Food Systems?

Sievert, Katherine, Philip H. Howard, Alexandre San Martim Portes, and Marina Yamaoka. ‘National champions’ in global meat supply chains: implications for governance and corporate power in food systems. The Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2471084

2024

Bardenhagen, Chris, Philip H. Howard, Marie-Odile Nozières-Petit, and Loïc Sauvée. Factors leading to differences in the internal structures of French agricultural quality groups: a typology. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 30(2), 5-26. doi:10.48416/ijsaf.v30i2.542

IPES-Food. 2024. Food from Somewhere: Building Food Security and Resilience Through Local Markets.

IPES-Food. 2024. Land Squeeze. What is Driving Unprecedented Pressures on Farmland and What Can Be Done to Achieve Equitable Access to Land?

2023

Staples, Aaron J. Staples, Philip H. Howard, David S. Conner, J. Robert Sirrine, Marcia R. Ostrom, and Michelle Miller. Apples to advocacy: Evaluating consumer preferences for hard cider policies. Journal of Wine Economics, 18(4), 286-301. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-economics/article/apples-to-advocacy-evaluating-consumer-preferences-for-hard-cider-policies/F9FC0BDB6A89C2506F52281118C6A389

Gerhart, Jennifer Anne, and Philip H. Howard. Assessing the profitability of scaling up for retail access: Lessons from local salad mix in Southeast Michigan. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 12(4), 1-18. https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1173

Howard, Philip H. The myth of “feeding the world:” subsidizing agricultural overproduction and industrial technologies, and marginalizing alternatives [review of The Agricultural Dilemma, by Glenn Davis Stone]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 12(3), 259-260. https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1157

Ashwood, Loka and Phil Howard. Sorting out ownership questions – the ultimately unclear beneficiaries of power in industrial agriculture. Institutional Landscapes. February 18.

IPES-Food. 2023. From Plate to Planet: How Local Governments are Driving Action on Climate Change through Food.

IPES-Food. 2023. Who’s Tipping the Scales?

IPES-Food. 2023. Breaking the Cycle of Unsustainable Food Systems, Hunger, and Debt.

2022

Howard, Philip H. 2022. The politics of milk: examining claims about dairy in China. November.

Howard, Philip H. Cellular Agriculture Will Reinforce Power Asymmetries in Food Systems. Nature Food 3(10), 798-800.

IPES-Food. Lead author Philip Howard. The Politics of Protein: Examining Claims About Livestock, Fish, ‘Alternative Proteins’ and Sustainability. Brussels, Belgium: International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.

IPES-Food. 2022. Smoke & Mirrors: Examining Competing Framings of Food System Sustainability.

IPES-Food. 2022. An ‘IPCC for Food’? How the UN Food Systems Summit is Being Used to Advance a Problematic New Science-Policy Agenda.

IPES-Food. 2022. Another Perfect Storm?

Ostrom, Marcia R., David S. Conner, Heleene Tambet, Katherine Selting Smith, J. Robert Sirrine, Philip H. Howard, and Michelle Miller. Apple Grower Research and Extension Needs for Craft Cider. HortTechnology 32(2), 147-157.

2021

Bardenhagen, Christopher J., Philip H. Howard & Marie-Odile Nozières-Petit. France’s Organisme de Défense et de Gestation: A Model for Farmer Collective Action Through Standard Development and Brand Management. Journal of Food Law & Policy 17(2), 1-40.

Howard, Philip H. Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? Revised edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Ajena, Francesco and Philip Howard. “Lab Meat: Cellstock vs. Livestock. Pp. 60-61 in Meat Atlas: Facts and Figures About the Animals We Eat. Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, Germany; Friends of the Earth Europe, Brussels, Belgium; Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Berlin, Germany.

Howard, Philip H., Francesco Ajena, Marina Yamaoka & Amber Clark. “Protein” Industry Convergence and Its Implications for Resilient and Equitable Food Systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Social Movements, Institutions and Governance section) 5, 684181.