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.
2022
Edited by Kawika B. Winter, Kevin Chang, and Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
This edited volume brings together scholarly and community-grounded work on biocultural restoration in Hawaiʻi, framing restoration as a decolonizing process that reconnects people, place, culture, and ecology. Across philosophical, theoretical, and empirical contributions, it highlights Indigenous knowledge, community-based stewardship, agroecology, traditional agriculture, fisheries, and collaborative governance as pathways toward ʻāina momona and the long-term health of Hawaiian social-ecological systems.
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.
2025
By Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
This chapter, published in the book Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems, explores how Hawaiian worldview shapes agriculture through reciprocal relationships between people and ʻāina. It highlights Indigenous knowledge and foodways in Hawaiʻi as vital to broader conversations about sustainability, ecological balance, and planetary health.
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.
January 27, 2024
By Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Tiffany M. Lee, Seth Quintus, Thomas P. Haensel, and Qi Chen.
This article examines how agroforestry and food forests shaped ancient Hawaiian agriculture across the archipelago. It argues that these tree-based systems were more important than previously recognized, expanding our understanding of production, land use, and political ecology in pre-contact Hawaiʻi.
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.
September 4, 2022
By E. H. Berning, C. V. H. Andersen, O. Mertz, N. Dickinson, M. Opgenorth, N. K. Lincoln, J. H. Rashford, and N. Rønsted
This article examines how breadfruit agro-ecosystems in Hawaiʻi responded during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that breadfruit became more valuable as a subsistence crop during the crisis. It also points to cooperatives and food hubs as important supports for resilience in Hawaiʻi’s local food system.
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.
2020
By Kawika B. Winter et al.
This article presents the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve as a model for adaptive comanagement grounded in reciprocal collaboration with Indigenous people and local community members. It shows how weaving Indigenous and conventional science can support ecosystem-based management, conservation, and sustainability in Hawaiʻi.
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.
September 2016
By Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Nicole M. Ardoin
This article examines the diversity of farmers in South Kona and argues that recognizing differences in who is farming, how they farm, and what motivates them is important for better policy and engagement. It frames small-scale agriculture as multifunctional and emphasizes that farmers’ varying drivers and priorities matter for supporting broader social benefits from agricultural lands.
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.
June 3, 2015
By Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Nicole M. Ardoin
This article examines how environmental values and sense of place relate to sustainable farming practices in South Kona, Hawaiʻi. It finds that both are significant correlates of stronger farm sustainability, with sense of place explaining more of overall farm performance, and suggests that understanding farmers’ place connections and values can help support more socially and environmentally beneficial agriculture.
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.
July 6, 2020
By Seth Quintus and Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
This essay argues that the enduring infrastructure of precolonial Hawaiian agriculture—such as terraces, embankments, ditches, and remnant agroforestry plantings—still has practical value today. It suggests that restoring and adaptively reusing these landscape legacies can strengthen food sovereignty, cultural stewardship, and local agricultural productivity across Hawaiʻi.
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.
July 6, 2020
By Seth Quintus and Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
This essay argues that the enduring infrastructure of precolonial Hawaiian agriculture—such as terraces, embankments, ditches, and remnant agroforestry plantings—still has practical value today. It suggests that restoring and adaptively reusing these landscape legacies can strengthen food sovereignty, cultural stewardship, and local agricultural productivity across Hawaiʻi.