College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Meredith T. Niles, PhD

Assistant Professor

Meredith Niles is an assistant professor and faculty with the UVM Food Systems Program. Meredith examines food systems sustainability and policy with a focus on food security and climate change and farmer behavior and policy perceptions. Meredith thrives conducting applied research that can help bring together diverse stakeholders- whether on a farm or working with policymakers- to help solve pressing problems facing our world's food system. Meredith is a passionate advocate for open access research to make research more publicly available to maximize the potential of science and its benefits for society.

Publications

Niles, M.T., and Brown, M. (2017). A multi-country assessment of factors related to smallholder food security in varying rainfall conditions. Scientific Reports. 7:16277
Niles, M.T. and Courtney Hammond-Wagner. Farmers seek local solutions for California water management and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. (2017). Published online September 8, 2017.Special issue of California Agriculture on “California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act”. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2017a0040
Garrett, R., Niles, M.T, Gil, J., Gaudin, A., Chaplin-Kramer, B., Assman, A., Assman, T., Brewer, K., de Faccio Carvalho, P.C., Cortner, O., Dynes, R., Garbach, K., Kebreab, E., Mueller, N., Reis, J. C., Snow, V.,Valentim, J. (2017). Social and ecological analysis of integrated crop livestock systems: Current knowledge and remaining uncertainty. Agricultural Systems, 155: 136-146.
Kross, S., Ingram, K., Long, R., Niles, M.T. (2017). Drivers of farmer perceptions of wildlife and on-farm conservation actions. Published online April 24, 2017. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12364
Garrett, R., Niles, M.T., Gil, J., Dy, P., Ferreira, J., Reis, J., Valentim, J. (2017). Re-integrating crop and livestock systems: A comparative policy analysis. Sustainability, 9: 473.
Niles, M.T. and N. Mueller. (2016). Farmer perceptions of climate change: Associations with observed temperature and precipitation trends, irrigation, and climate beliefs. Global Environmental Change, 39: 133-142.
Niles, M.T., Brown, M., Dynes, R. (2016). Farmer's intended and actual adoption of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Climatic Change, 135: 277-295.
Prokopy, L., Arbuckle, J., Barnes, A. Haden, V.R. Hogan, A, Niles, M.T., Tyndall, J. (2015). Farmers and climate change: A cross-national comparison of belief and risk perceptions in developed countries. Environmental Management, 56: 492-504
Niles, M.T., Lubell, M., Brown, M. (2015). How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to climate change. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 200: 178-185.
Lubell, M., Niles, M.T., Hoffman, M. (2014). Agricultural education and outreach in the age of connectivity. Journal of Society and Natural Resources, 27: 1089-1103
Niles, M.T., Lubell, M., Haden, V.R. (2013). Perceptions and responses to climate policy risks among California farmers. Global Environmental Change, 23: 1752-1760.