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January 28, 2025
By Konstantinos Zougris, Albie Mailes, Rose Benjamin, and Ella Geismar
This article examines how a national community of practice can coordinate food system planning across U.S. states and regions, identifies governance structures, collaboration models, and research priorities needed to align food system initiatives with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is based on interviews and surveys with food system planners and researchers.
January 6, 2025
By Jason Shon and Albie Miles
This article uses a Delphi expert consensus method to identify and rank priority indicators for monitoring food security in Hawaiʻi. In doing so, it provides a framework for evidence-based food system planning and state-level policy evaluation, while also contributing to the development of stronger indicator and metric systems aligned with broader food system sustainability goals.
October 2, 2025
By Albie Miles, Brandy Phipps, and Elliot Berry
This editorial synthesizes the contributions of the Research Topic and situates them within the broader scientific agenda connecting food system transformation to the Sustainable Development Goals. In doing so, it highlights the need for integrated approaches that bring together science, policy, planning, governance, and social movements to support more just, resilient, and sustainable food systems.
April 2024
By Konstantinos Zougris and Albie Miles
This report evaluates household preparedness levels across Hawaiʻi in relation to disasters and potential food supply disruptions. It also offers recommendations to strengthen community resilience, improve emergency planning, and support a more prepared and responsive food system statewide.
A Landscape Assessment of Student Basic Needs Insecurity in the University of Hawaiʻi System
October 2025
By Konstantinos Zougris and Albie Miles
This report examines basic needs insecurity in Hawaiʻi, with particular attention to food access, affordability, and broader household vulnerability. It also identifies structural barriers that shape food insecurity across the state while highlighting policy opportunities to strengthen food access and improve social safety nets.
November 24, 2025
By Konstantinos Zougris and Albie Miles
This paper examines how well Hawaiʻi households meet 14-day emergency supply recommendations and shows that preparedness remains low statewide. It points to the need for stronger communication, outreach, and support to improve household readiness.
This research topic focuses on how food systems can build resilience and improve disaster preparedness and response in the face of climate destabilization, pandemics, economic shocks, and other overlapping crises. It emphasizes the need for stronger planning, governance, coordination, infrastructure, and cross-sector collaboration to protect food security, while inviting research on vulnerabilities, innovations, household preparedness, public-private partnerships, and the indicators and strategies needed to build more resilient and equitable food systems.
March 1, 2026
By Albie Miles and E. R. H. Moore
This editorial synthesizes research on food system resilience, disaster preparedness, and response, showing how food systems can better anticipate, absorb, and adapt to shocks. It highlights the need for stronger planning, coordination, equity, and investment to support food security under growing climate and disaster pressures.
This research topic centers on the need for stronger scientific indicator and metric systems to measure food system sustainability and monitor progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It emphasizes that existing measures are often inconsistent or insufficient, and calls for more rigorous, interdisciplinary frameworks that can support evidence-based decision-making, policy evaluation, accountability, and practical action across public, private, and community food systems.