Publications


Journal Articles and Major Reports

    • Tyson, R., Ferguson, R. (2023) Up From the Roots: Centering Racial Justice to Build Transformative Agroforestry. Interlace Commons. https://tinyurl.com/4yxm7vz6
    • Gutwein, S., Zaltzberg-Drezdahl, K., Toensmeier, E., & Ferguson, R. S. (2022). Estimating land cover-based soil organic carbon to support decarbonization and climate resilience planning in Massachusetts. Soil Security9, 100076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100076
    • Ferguson, R. (2021). Losing Ground: Farmland Consolidation and Threats to New and Black Farmers and the Future of Farming. Union of Concerned Scientists. tinyurl.com/29b39754
    • Spangler, K., McCann, R. B., & Ferguson, R. S. (2021). (Re-)Defining Permaculture: Perspectives of Permaculture Teachers and Practitioners across the United States. Sustainability13(10), 5413. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105413
    • Toensmeier, E., Ferguson, R., & Mehra, M. (2020). Perennial vegetables: A neglected resource for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and nutrition. PLOS ONE15(7), e0234611. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234611
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2015). Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability: diversity and modes of participation in the international permaculture movement. Ecology and Society20(4), 39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08048-200439
  • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2013). Permaculture for agroecology: design, movement, practice, and worldview. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development34(2), 251–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-013-0181-6

Book Chapters

    • Ferguson, R. S. (2019). Permaculture as grassroots network and farming system: 5 years of research. In Designing the World We Want: Permaculture Perspectives. Permaculture Association and Coventry University.

Conference Papers

    • Ferguson, R. S., & DeLonge, M. (2020). Farmland Concentration as a Barrier to Resilient Agriculture. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Virtual / Salt Lake City, USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZI18Q1CzyU
    • Ferguson, R. S. (2017). Labor productivity of perennial cropping systems on US permaculture farms. 15th North American Agroforestry Conference. Agroforestry for a Vibrant Future: Connecting People, Creating Livelihoods, Sustaining Place, Blacksburg, Virginia USA.
    • Ferguson, R., & Lovell, S. (2015). Permaculture as a Catalyst for Agroforestry Adoption: Perennial Production Systems on Diversified Farms. 14th North American Agroforestry Conference, Ames, IA.
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2014). Land use and livelihood diversity on permaculture agroecosystems in the US. From Ocenas to Mountains. 99th ESA Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA. https://tinyurl.com/5a5sxtdm
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2013). Conservation contra Permaculture: Alternative Ecologies of Multifunctionality and Resistance to Neoliberal Agriculture. Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society, Lexington, KY. https://tinyurl.com/3zyjzx53
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2012). From Garden Ecology to Sustainable Agriculture: the Emergence of Permaculture Farms. 2nd International Food Studies Conference, Urbana, IL. https://tinyurl.com/hy7zuhwf
  • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2012). Hybrid Ecological Knowledge: Permaculture and the Political Ecology of Landscape Regeneration. Dimensions of Political Ecology, Lexington, KY. https://tinyurl.com/zfrh8ybe

Invited Talks

    • Ferguson, R. S. (2020). Farmworkers at Risk. Invited presentation for House Committee on Education and Labor., Washington, DC.
    • Ferguson, Rafter Sass. (2015). Permaculture as movement and practice: research frontiers and transition strategies. Coventry University Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience, Coventry, UK.
    • Ferguson, Rafter Sass. (2015). Permaculture in Theory and Practice: Grassroots Agroecology and Diversified Farms. Permaculture et agroécologie. AgroParisTech, UMR SAD-APT., Paris, France.
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Toensmeier, E. (2014). Perennial agriculture now: a global review of perennial staple crops by climate region and nutrient profile. American Society of Agronomy International Annual Meeting: Great challenges, grand solutions., Long Beach, CA.
    • Ferguson, R. S. (2013). Permaculture and Agroecological Transition. Invited presentation for Berkeley Center for Diversified Farming Systems.
  • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2013). Recovering the Future: food system transition pathways on (and around) US permaculture farms. Yale Food Systems Symposium 2013: Urbanization and Food System Transformation, New Haven, CT. https://tinyurl.com/z9nd3ht8

Conference Posters

    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2017). Livelihoods on US Permaculture Farms. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
    • Lovell, Sarah Taylor, Bennet, Ashley, Ferguson, Rafter Sass, & Taylor, John Robert. (2015, August 11). Multifunctional urban agriculture – Supporting earth stewardship in human-dominated ecosystems [Poster]. 96th ESA Annual Convention 2011, Austin, TX.
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2015). Multifunctional Landscapes on US Permaculture Farms: Land Use and Practice on 48 Sites. 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Montepelier, France. https://tinyurl.com/39p5r4kn
    • Ferguson, R. S., & Lovell, S. T. (2013). Engaging Ecological Literacy from the Ground Up: The Influence and Impacts of the Permaculture Movement. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013: Sustainable Pathways: Learning From the Past and Shaping the Future, Minneapolis, USA. https://tinyurl.com/54fp4ndc
  • Sears, E., Warburton-Brown, C., Remiarz, T., & Ferguson, R. (2013). A Social Learning Organisation Evolves a Research Capability  in Order to Study Itself. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research’s Radical Emission Reduction Conference, Tyndall, UK. https://tinyurl.com/2uv6rtd7
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