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Josh Lohnes

Research Assistant Professor of Geography

WVU Center for Resilient Communities

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jlohnes@mail.wvu.edu

Profiles and Info

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Categorized As

Role: Faculty,
Focus or Research Area: Geography,

My work supports local, national and international coalitions that seek to advance the Right to Food through principles of Food Sovereignty and Food Justice. As a broadly trained human geographer I am committed to participatory action research that advances more just and equitable economic relationships through the food system, particularly for those vulnerable to food insecurity and hunger. My research centers on the moral, political and economic role of state nutrition assistance programs with a particular focus on the expansion of public and private humanitarian food networks.

Current and ongoing action research projects:

  • The Global Solidarity Alliance for Food Health and Social Justice
  • The National Right to Food Community of Practice
  • West Virginia Food for All
  • Seeding Sparks Toward the Right to Food in West Virginia
  • Engaging West Virginia Communities in expanding and strengthening farm to school initiatives
  • Improving the Reach and Resiliency of West Virgina's Emergency Food System
  • Nourishing Networks - Local Food Policy Council development and support in partnership with
  • WVU Family Nutrition Program - SNAP Education.

Representative Publications:

Lohnes, J. & Steele, M. (2024). The Uneven Legal Geographies of Nutrition Entitlement

Programs in the United States. Realizing or Hindering the Right to Food?. University of  Miami International and Comparative Law Review.

Wilson, B. R., & Lohnes, J. (2023). Food justice accompaniment research: theory and social  praxis in West Virginia. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Lohnes, J., & Pine, A. (2023). Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food  regime. Human Geography.

Lohnes, J. (2023). The contested politics of food banking in the United States. Food, Culture  & Society.

Cohen, A. Garthwaite, K. Lohnes, J. Wolpold-Bosien, M. (2023). Rights not Charity: A Human  Rights Perspective on Corporate Food Aid. FIAN International.

Lohnes, J., & Béja, A. (2022). Unis contre la faim? Associations caritatives, pouvoirs publics  et industrie dans l’économie politique des banques alimentaires. Politique américaine, (2), 19-50.

Lohnes, J. D. (2021). Regulating surplus: charity and the legal geographies of food waste  enclosure. Agriculture and Human Values, 38(2), 351-363.

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