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 June 18, 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-summer 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. Photo above courtesy of the UVM Institute for Agroecology.

Agroecology in the belly of the beast: Reflections and contradictions from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023

In a newly published JAFSCD commentary, Agroecology from the belly of the beast: Reflections and contradictions from the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023, authors Catherine E. Horner, Martha Caswell, Colin R. Anderson, V. Ernesto Méndez (all at U of Vermont) and Janica Anderzén (U of Maine and U of Vermont) leverage their privilege as scholars within the Institute for Agroecology at the University of Vermont to provide insight in the 2023 Agroecology Summit. "This commentary attempts to reflect, identify lessons to take forward into future efforts, and model the kind of reflexivity that we feel is essential for researchers who seek to collaborate with and support social movements in the struggle toward agroecology and food sovereignty."  Read the entire commentary for free. 

From the Northwest College of Agriculture Flickr account. 

Blending knowledge systems for agroecological nutrient management and climate resilience

Indigenous field technicians Monroe Fox and Tyrus Brockie braid sweetgrass during the BLM/Fort Belknap Indian Community Grassland Restoration Project led by Cristina Eisenberg. From the Oregon State University Flickr account. 

In a newly published JAFSCD commentary, Blending knowledge systems for agroecological nutrient management and climate resilience, authors Jennifer Blesh (U of Michigan) and Meagan Schipanski (Colorado State U) advocate for the  integration of three paradigms to support food system transformation. "Agroecology links multiple ways of knowing in order to understand and manage farms as the ecosystems that they are—agroecosystems. Farmers often have deep, place-based knowledge of their agroecosystems that informs how to manage ecological interactions for multiple benefits."  Read the entire commentary for free. 

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