@article{Hilchey_2014, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={In This Issue: A Challenging New Profession: Food Systems Development Practice}, volume={5}, url={https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/293}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2014.051.017}, abstractNote={<p><em>First paragraph:<br /></em></p><p>In this issue of the Food Systems Journal we offer a bountiful fall harvest of papers on subjects ranging from urban soils and supply chains to social networks and community building. A cursory look at the titles in this issue would probably not yield a common theme, but it is there in plain sight. It’s the same theme that cuts across all our accepted papers and across all issues we publish. That theme is <em>people </em>— us — food systems development practitioners, working hard and enjoying our work (as this fall issue’s cover image depicts). We are scholars, farmer-activists, land-use officials, organizers, nutritionists, farmers market managers, food service directors, planners, program volunteers, extension educators, graduate students, and the list goes on. We are stewards of a vast, complicated, and fragile system that is linked to food security, livelihoods, culture, open space, quality of life, and many other multifunctional benefits. Yet as people we have our needs as well....</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Hilchey, Duncan}, year={2014}, month={Dec.}, pages={1–3} }