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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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This special section of commentaries includes the article, Agroecology beyond the statist quo? Transforming U.S. imperial agricultural policy. Authors Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American U) and Antonio Roman-Alcalá (California State U East Bay) write, "the USDA warrants skepticism, particularly from critical anticolonial, anticapitalist, antiracist, and antipatriarchal perspectives ... Many communities impacted by USDA’s harms continue to seek changes to policy, often as a defensive imperative required to avoid even worse and continued dispossession. Compromises compose the contradictory work of demanding changes from institutions built off of your community’s back, including sometimes working with people whose politics are incompatible with your own." Read the entire commentary for free.
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Participants at the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 sit in a circle outside (of the “Empire” conference room) to hold dialogue about moving Outside Empire altogether. Photo by author Antonio Roman-Alcalá, May 23, 2023. |
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Huerta del Valle (HdV) provides a service for local businesses when HdV employee Nicolas Reza picks up organic waste such as nectarine and cut cabbage from a food distributor for the compost area of the 4-Acre organic Community Supported Garden and Farm in the middle of a low-income urban community. From the USDA Flickr account.
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In another new JAFSCD commentary in the special section, authors Sarah E. Lloyd (U of Minnesota), Jordan Treakle (National Family Farm Coalition), and Mary K. Hendrickson (U of Missouri) write, "Agroecology is a deeply political, social movement–driven, and transformative framework with clear principles linked to social equity, economic justice, and political governance, keenly attuned to the power dynamics in food systems. While less well-known in traditional U.S. agriculture and farming spaces, we argue that agroecology, because of its attention to people power, self-governance, co-creation of knowledge, and engagement with grassroots communities, provides an effective framework for both countering corporate agribusiness power and advancing a climate agenda oriented to social justice in the U.S. agriculture sector." Read the full commentary, Agroecology and corporate power in the U.S., for free.
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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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