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 June 11, 2024

from the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

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Special section: Commentaries from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

The JAFSCD spring issue contains a collection of commentaries that emerged from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 (held in Kansas City, Missouri, in May 2023).

This collection provides insights into the dynamics of organizing in the U.S. toward agroecology, within research and outside of it. The guest editors are Karen Crespo Triveño, Ana Fochesatto, Catherine Horner, Ivette Perfecto, and Antonio Roman-Alcalá. 

The publication in JAFSCD of the special section of commentaries from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 is supported by The University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center and the UVM Institute for Agroecology. 

Finding synergies between agroecology and industrial ecology toward sustainable agricultural systems

Photo by Flickr user Jan Fidler entitled "Modern Harvest Time'."

In a newly published JAFSCD commentary, Finding synergies between agroecology and industrial ecology toward sustainable agricultural systems, author Christine Costello (Penn State University) addresses the question of how humans will co-create better food and agricultural systems with the goal of sustainability. Costello defines sustainability as "realizing systems that are equitable, just, minimize harm to, and ultimately support healthy ecosystems for current and future generations" through lifecycle assessments. Read the entire commentary for free. 

Grassroots agroecology advocates challenge funding objectives focused on the U.S. Department of Agriculture

In a new JAFSCD commentary, Grassroots agroecology advocates challenge funding objectives focused on U.S. Department of Agriculture, authors Mollie Wills (Rural Vermont), J. Antonio Tovar-Aguilar (Farmworker Association of Florida) and Patti Naylor (Family Farm Defenders), explore our sometimes latent responsibilities to the planet, saying, "Here in the United States, it is our responsibility to ourselves and to peasants around the world to insist that any research, promotion, or discussion of agroecology be grounded in food sovereignty, feminism, Indigenous knowledges, and biodiversity, and to defend its fierce demand to end imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, neoliberal market-based economies, free trade, false climate solutions, and corporate control of globalized food systems and resources." Read the entire commentary for free. 

Photo from Global Justice Now's Flickr account:  La Via Campesina's 20-year anniversary conference in Indonesia.

News from JAFSCD's Partners

The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems new YouTube channel hosts past webinars and research-related videos across the breadth of ISFS's programming, such as:

• Planning for Food Systems in Canada (webinar)
• Okanagan Bioregional Food Systems Study Webinar and Discussion
• KPU Farm Schools and Immigrant Farmers
• Community Supported Agriculture at KPU
• Bring Pasture to Production Field Day

The Center for a Livable Future has several news items and info to share.

How Transparency Can Transform Food Systems viewpoint by Adam Sheingate in the CL Perspectives on Food Animal Production series.

Unconfined podcast: Regenerative farming might hold the key to keeping our farms humming as the climate warms, while addressing our epidemic of diet-related health troubles. 

You Had to Be There: Working on Equity in Jackson, Mississippi: A community of learning and practice convened in Mississippi to deepen practices of justice.

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