Adam Calo
Adam is a researcher in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) research group. He is a scholar of food systems interested in the forces that shape agricultural landscapes, most notably the constraints placed on farming constituencies. Adam is currently a Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Fellow as part of the Landscape Decisions Programme. His fellowship project is titled : The role of property, ownership & land tenure on landscape decision making, the case of Scotland’s ‘low carbon farming’ policies. For his dissertation work at UC Berkeley, Adam focused on understanding the character of government and non-profit efforts to "create new farmers" amidst a global trend of ageing rural communities. He is interested in how new entrants navigate a variety of access barriers like capital, land, and compliance with agricultural regulations. In particular, Adam seeks to understand how new entrant farmers are (un)able to hurdle the land access barrier as regimes of private property and ballooning land costs make small scale agriculture an increasingly trying land use category.
Current research interests
Landscape Decisions Programme - The role of property, ownership & land tenure on landscape decision making
NEWBIE - New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture (2018-2021)
EPIC: The Scottish Government's Centre for Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks. ST2.4.1 Understanding attitudes to biosecurity: Exploring the challenges of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) detection and response. This work will explore how cattle farmers in the Scotland are experiencing the scheme to eradicate BVD. Work will feed into the next phase of the BVD eradication scheme. Research is carried out through qualitative interviews and audio visual ethnographic methods.
Bibliography
- Calo, A.; McKee, A.; Perrin, C.; Gasselin, P.; McGreevy, S.; Sippel, S. R.; Desmarais, A. A.; Shields, K.; Baysse-Laine, A.; Magnan, A.; Beingessner, N.; Kobayashi, M. (2021) Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes., Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, Art. 683544
- Calo, A. (2021) Who will do the labor in an agroecological transition? The new American farmer: immigration, race, and the struggle for sustainability, by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, MIT Press, 2019, 216 pp, $30.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780262537834. Open access edition available., Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 45(10), 1582-1585
- Shortall, O.; Calo, A. (2021) Novel industry-government governance mechanisms for the eradication of bovine viral diarrhoea in the UK and Ireland, Journal of Rural Studies, 81, 324-335
- Sutherland, L-A.; Calo, A. (2020) Assemblage and the ‘good farmer’: New entrants to crofting in Scotland, Journal of Rural Studies, 80, 532-542
- Blackstock, K.L.; Calo, A.; Currie, M.; Dinnie, L.; Eastwood, A.; MacLeod, K.; Matthews, K.B.; McKee, A.; Miller, D.R.; Nijnik, M.; Sutherland,L-A.; Waylen, K.A. (2020) Issues arising from SLC’s Interim Report on Regional Land Use Partnerships - Evidence from the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021, Scottish Land Commission, Advice to Scottish Government on Regional Land Use Partnership, Appendix 3, 33pp.
- Hopkins, J.; Sutherland, L-A.; Calo, A.; Barlagne, C.; Wardell-Johnson, D.; Barnes, A.; Thomson, S.; McMillan, J.; Spencer, M. (2020) New entrants: their potential contribution to farming in Scotland by 2023., Farmer Intentions Survey Briefing Note, March 2020, 8pp.
- Carlisle, L.; de Wit, M.M.; DeLonge, M.S.; Calo, A.; Getz, C.; Ory, J.; Munden-Dixon, K.; Galt, R.; Melone, B.; Knox, R.; Iles, A.; Press, D. (2019) Securing the future of US agriculture: The case for investing in new entry sustainable farmers., Elementa - Science of the Anthropocene, 7, Article No. 17.
- Shortall, O.; Calo, A. (2019) Exploring challenges to Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) eradication in the UK and Ireland., Report published on EPIC Website, 11pp.
- Calo, A.; McKee, A.; Perrin, C.; Gasselin, P.; McGreevy, S.; Sippel, S. R.; Desmarais, A. A.; Shields, K.; Baysse-Laine, A.; Magnan, A.; Beingessner, N.; Kobayashi, M. (2021) Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes., Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, Art. 683544
- Calo, A. (2021) Who will do the labor in an agroecological transition? The new American farmer: immigration, race, and the struggle for sustainability, by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, MIT Press, 2019, 216 pp, $30.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780262537834. Open access edition available., Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 45(10), 1582-1585
- Shortall, O.; Calo, A. (2021) Novel industry-government governance mechanisms for the eradication of bovine viral diarrhoea in the UK and Ireland, Journal of Rural Studies, 81, 324-335
- Sutherland, L-A.; Calo, A. (2020) Assemblage and the ‘good farmer’: New entrants to crofting in Scotland, Journal of Rural Studies, 80, 532-542
- Carlisle, L.; de Wit, M.M.; DeLonge, M.S.; Calo, A.; Getz, C.; Ory, J.; Munden-Dixon, K.; Galt, R.; Melone, B.; Knox, R.; Iles, A.; Press, D. (2019) Securing the future of US agriculture: The case for investing in new entry sustainable farmers., Elementa - Science of the Anthropocene, 7, Article No. 17.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Calo, A.; Currie, M.; Dinnie, L.; Eastwood, A.; MacLeod, K.; Matthews, K.B.; McKee, A.; Miller, D.R.; Nijnik, M.; Sutherland,L-A.; Waylen, K.A. (2020) Issues arising from SLC’s Interim Report on Regional Land Use Partnerships - Evidence from the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021, Scottish Land Commission, Advice to Scottish Government on Regional Land Use Partnership, Appendix 3, 33pp.
- Hopkins, J.; Sutherland, L-A.; Calo, A.; Barlagne, C.; Wardell-Johnson, D.; Barnes, A.; Thomson, S.; McMillan, J.; Spencer, M. (2020) New entrants: their potential contribution to farming in Scotland by 2023., Farmer Intentions Survey Briefing Note, March 2020, 8pp.
- Shortall, O.; Calo, A. (2019) Exploring challenges to Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) eradication in the UK and Ireland., Report published on EPIC Website, 11pp.
- Barlagne, C.; Calo, A.; Holstead, K.; Hopkins, J.; Sutherland, L-A.; Matthews, K.B.; Miller, D.; Wardell-Johnson, D.; Barnes, A.; McMillan, J.; Spencer, M.; Thomson, S.; Toma, L. (2020) Farm Intentions Survey: Outputs and ongoing research from our work on rural industries., Key Rural Industries - WP2.4, End of Year Workshop, Saughton House, Edinburgh, 12 March 2020. (Poster and discussions with Scottish Government stakeholders).
