Cover of the fall 2025 issue: Sheep graze peacefully on a golden fall afternoon at Talus Wind Ranch in northern New Mexico, USA. Photo by Timothy Willms, owner of Talus Wind Ranch.

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Vol. 14 No. 4 (2025): Fall 2025: Making Food Systems Fundamentally Better
On our cover: Sheep graze peacefully on a golden fall afternoon at Talus Wind Ranch in northern New Mexico, USA

The fall 2025 issue includes open call papers on a wide range of food systems topics, all aimed at making food systems fundamentally better, to quote columnist John Ikerd.

On our cover: Sheep graze peacefully on a golden fall afternoon at Talus Wind Ranch, which overlooks the Galisteo Basin in northern New Mexico, USA. The ranch participated in the New Mexico Grown Meat Pilot Program reported in the article in this issue, Farm-to-institution in the Southwest: An evaluation of the New Mexico Grown Meat Pilot Program. Learn more about Talus Wind Ranch. Photo by Timothy Willms, Owner, Talus Wind Ranch

Published: 2025-10-06

Open Call Paper

Papers on Fostering Resilient Food and Farm Systems Through Research Networks

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JAFSCD Quick Facts

Discipline: Agriculture
Language: English
Editor in Chief: Duncan Hilchey

Publication details:
History: 2010–present
Publisher: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
Frequency: Quarterly (with advance online publication)
Open access: Yes, gold
ISSN: 2152-0801
License: CC BY 4.0
Impact Factor: 3.2 (2022)

Standard abbreviation:

ISO 4: J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

Indexing:

CABI

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EBSCOhost

FSTA

ProQuest

USDA National Agricultural Library's AGRICOLA

Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)