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Institute News
  Fall 2006 (pdf format) Text
  Winter 2007 (pdf format) Text
  Spring/Summer 2007 (pdf format) Text
  Fall 2007 (pdf format) Text
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  Fall 2009 (pdf format) -- Text
   
Disaster Relief, Recovery & Redevelopment
  The Texture of Local Disaster Response: Service Providers’ Views Following Hurricane Katrina (article published in Southern Rural Sociology, 10/07)
  Enhancing the Capacity of Nonprofit Organizations in the Aftermath of Disaster (project fact sheet, 05/07)
  From Vulnerability to Resiliency: Assessing Impacts and Responses to Disaster (article published in Southern Rural Sociology, 12/06)
  Voices from the Frontlines: Service Providers Share their Experiences from Working in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (report published by the Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness, 11/06)
  Investigating Responses to Hurricane Katrina through a “Sociology of Community Development” Lens (presentation, 10/06)
  Review of Famines that Kill: Darfur, Sudan, rev. ed., by Alex de Waal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (book review published in Rural Sociology, 9/06)
  Small Cities and Rural Communities: The Livelihoods Framework for Moving from Vulnerability to Resiliency (presentation to International City/County Management Association, 5/06)
  Assignment Gulf Coast: Building a Foundation in Public Health Practice (report published by the University of Michigan School of Public Health Office of Public Health Practice, 5/06)
  Informing Redevelopment After Hurricane Katrina: The Role for Community-Based Research (meeting notes, 10/05)
   
   Health & Food Security
  Challenges to Accessing Health Care in the Mississippi Delta: Analysis of Data from a Survey of Emergency Room Patients Seeking Non-Emergency Care (PowerPoint presentation in PDF, 10/08)
  Socioeconomic Resources and Self-Rated Health: A Study in the Mississippi Delta (article published in Sociological Spectrum, 08)
  Socioeconomic Status, Access to Care and Perceived Health: A Multi-Year Study from the Mississippi Delta (PowerPoint presentation in PDF)
  Access to Health Care in the Mississippi Delta: A Summary Report from the 2003 Delta Rural Poll (pdf format) Text
  Delta Health System Assessment: An Overview of Perceptions Obtained from Focus Groups and Key-Informant Interviews (pdf format) Text
  Cooperative Community Food Security: Evaluation of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives and Member Organizations. Cleveland, MS: Institute for Community-Based Research (pdf format) Text
   
Underemployment and Persistent Poverty
  Community Development Finance and the Mississippi Delta (PowerPoint Presentation, 08/09)
 

A Community Based Framework for Understanding Problems and Exploring Alternatives: Connecting Underemployment, Poverty and Access to Health Care in the Mississippi Delta (working paper published by the Rural Poverty Research Center, 3/06)

  Community and Transportation in the Heart of the Mississippi Delta (PowerPoint Presentation, 03/05)
 

Underemployment and Workforce Development in the Mississippi Delta: Community-Based Action Research for Program Planning to Increase Livelihood Security (article published in Southern Rural Sociology, 04)

   
  Livelihood Needs and Interests of Traditionally Underserved Food Producers
  Exploring Global Agrifood Politics and the Position of Limited Resource Producers in the United States (book chapter published in The Politics of Globalization, edited by S. Dasgupta and J.N. Pieterse)
  Escaping the Bondage of the Dominant Agrifood System: Community-Based Cooperative Strategies (article published in Southern Rural Sociology, 09)
  Expanding the Marketing Opportunities and Sustainable Production Potential for Minority and Limited-Resource Agricultural Producers in Louisiana and Mississippi (article published in Southern Rural Sociology, 08)
  Assessing the Needs and Interests of Women in Agriculture: A Summary Review of Results from Community-Based Research (htm format) Text
  A Multi-Community Assessment of the Risk Management and Insurance Needs of Small, Limited Resource and Minority Farmers: A Summary Report with Aggregate Tables from Survey Data (pdf format) Text
  Developing Programs from the Grassroots: Assessing the Needs and Interests of Limited Resource Farmers (pdf format) Text
  Small, Limited Resource and Minority Farmers Discuss Conservation: Analysis of Focus Groups  (pdf format) Text
  Crop Insurance Testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
   
   Organizing Cooperative Alternatives
  Community Development as Social Movement: A Contribution to Models of Practice (article published in Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 08)
  The Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural: Assessment of a Network in the Community-Based Cooperative Movement (pdf format) Text
   

   Research Ethics

  Notes on Research Ethics, Participant Protection and the Institutional Review Process (PowerPoint Presentation)