Ryan Galt

I'm Ryan Galt, professor of Human Ecology and director of the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute, as well as the PI of the COAR Transitions project. I am a geographer by training. I investigate the ways in which communities and organizations — farmer networks, NGOs, and universities — and the local agricultural context — farm size and resources, marketing relationships, and the biophysical environment — constrain and/or enable farmers' responses to changing social contexts and demands, and farmers' attempts at reshaping the food system.  I am also interested in empirically understanding the effects of these changes on production practices, rural livelihoods and communities, and sustainability at the local level.