from the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development |
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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. |
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Amaranthus at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Demonstration Garden on the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) campus, a 1994 Land-Grant Tribal College and University (TCU) Land-Grant member, in Santa Fe, NM, on Sept. 11, 2019. Learn more at the USDA Flickr site.
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Image from the article: Maíz willkaparu is an Indigenous maize (sara) variety of gray color from the Andean altiplano. Photo by Karen Crespo Triveño . |
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In a newly published JAFSCD commentary, authors Ana Fochesatto (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Karen Crespo Triveño (U of California Santa Cruz), Jesús Nazario (U of California Berkley), Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American U), Ryan Tenney (Sankara Farm), and Mariel Gardner (West End Women's Collective) "recognize and value the crucial role of art in agroecology movements and to center the power of artistic expression in our teaching, community organizing, and research. We invite you to take a seat with us on that sunny day near Kansas City ... as we each share a short insight from our unique perspectives into how art shapes agroecology." Read the full commentary — and view the art — in Growing change at the intersection of art and agroecology for free.
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News from JAFSCD's Partners |
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The Carolina Hunger Initiative of JAFSCD Partner University of North Carolina Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is supporting innovations that help schools and community organizations put food directly in the hands of North Carolinians who need it. It uses programming, applied research, and compelling communications to support policy, systems, and environmental changes that more readily connect people with the food they need.
Learn more about the Carolina Hunger Initiative's research and programming here. |
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A project of JAFSCD Partner Center for Environmental Farming Systems, EmPOWERing Mountain Food Systems (EMFS) launched in 2019 to focus on expanded opportunities and capacity for food and farm businesses across western North Carolina. In 2024, a new program phase was launched in 12 regional counties and with the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. A regional supply chain assessment led by Appalachian State University provides the structure to enhance the regional food supply chain, focusing on food hubs, farmers markets, commercial kitchens, and commissaries. The assessment will inform infrastructure and training programs for stakeholders throughout the region. Learn more about this project and CEFS here.
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JAFSCD is seeking additional partners to support our open-access publishing of evidence-based food systems research through an annual contribution. Contact Editor-in-Chief Duncan Hilchey for details!
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