Archives

  • Winter 2024: Organic Research Networks and Open Call Papers
    Vol. 13 No. 2 (2024)

    The winter 2023-2024 issue of JAFSCD (volume 13, issue 2) includes additional articles in response to our special call for papers on "Fostering Socially and Ecologically Resilient Food and Farm Systems Through Research Networks," sponsored by INFAS, eOrganic, and USDA NIFA. It also includes open-call papers on a wide range of topics.Special section sponsors

  • On our cover, Michael Gavin uses a seeder to plant a spring crop in one of the SPIN (Small plot IN-tensive) back-yard plots in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

    Fall 2023: Organic Research Networks and More!
    Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023)

    The fall 2023 issue of JAFSCD (volume 13, issue 1) includes additional articles in response to our special call for papers on "Fostering Socially and Ecologically Resilient Food and Farm Systems Through Research Networks," sponsored by INFAS, eOrganic, and USDA NIFA. It also includes open-call papers on a wide range of topics.Special section sponsors

    On our cover, farm owner (and article co-author) Michael Gavin uses a seeder to plant a spring crop in one of the SPIN (Small plot IN-tensive) back-yard plots in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. See more in the article in this issue, Growing in relation with the land: Experiential learning of Root and Regenerate Urban Farms. Photo by article co-author Chelsea Rozanski and used with permission.

  • On our cover, Rebecca Ivanoff, left, and Nicola Inglefield, right, kneel with their farmer-researcher sign in a pepper patch that was part of Rebecca’s multifarm sweet pepper breeding project in cooperation with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s (EFAO) Farmer-Led Research Program. Photo by Rebecca Ivanoff.

    Summer 2023: Fostering Socially and Ecologically Resilient Food and Farm Systems Through Research Networks (and Open Call Papers)
    Vol. 12 No. 4 (2023)

    The summer 2023 issue of JAFSCD (volume 12, issue 4) includes articles in response to our special call for papers on "Fostering Socially and Ecologically Resilient Food and Farm Systems Through Research Networks," sponsored by INFAS, eOrganic, and USDA NIFA. It also includes open-call papers on a wide range of topics.Special section sponsorsOn our cover, Rebecca Ivanoff, left, and Nicola Inglefield, right, kneel with their farmer-researcher sign in a pepper patch that was part of Rebecca’s multifarm sweet pepper breeding project in cooperation with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s (EFAO) Farmer-Led Research Program. Rebecca and Nicola also conducted a trial in cooperation with EFAO testing different methods for cabbage seed production. See more in the article in this issue, “Farmer knowledge as formal knowledge: A case study of farmer-led research in Ontario, Canada.” Photo by Rebecca Ivanoff and used with permission.

  • On our cover: Samantha and Chris Kemnah enjoy a moment with their cows on Clover Bliss Farm, their 190-acre farm in South Argyle, New York. Photo by Joan Lentini.

    Spring 2023: Small Is Beautiful, But . . .
    Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023)

    The spring 2023 issue (volume 12, issue 3) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics, as well as John Ikerd's column and several book reviews.

    On our cover: Samantha and Chris Kemnah enjoy a moment with their cows on Clover Bliss Farm, their 190-acre farm in South Argyle, New York. Photo by Joan Lentini.

  • On the cover of the winter 2022-2023 issue, University of Wyoming students sharing food from the Bim Kendall House Food Share Cabinet. Photo by Kellyn Chandler.

    Winter 2022-2023: Justice and Equity Approaches to College and University Student Food (In)Security
    Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023)

    The winter 2022-2023 issue (volume 12, issue 2) includes a special section of papers on the topic "Justice and Equity Approaches to College and University Student Food (In)Security." The special section sponsor is the Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability (INFAS) and is guest-edited by Rachael Budowle (Virginia Tech), Christine Porter (University of Wyoming and INFAS executive committee chair), and Caitlin McLennan (Utah State University). In addition, open-call papers on a wide range of food systems topics are included. On our cover, University of Wyoming students share food from the Bim Kendall House Food Share Cabinet. See “Narrowing the equity gap in student food security: A student-led approach at the University of Wyoming” by Christine M. Porter, Kami Grimm, and Rachael Budowle, in this issue. Photo by Kellyn Chandler.

  • Kanoa Dinwoodie (at right), the owner and operator of organic-certified Feral Heart Farm in Sunol, California, shows children how to properly harvest blackberries.

    Fall 2022: Scaling Up Through Economies of Community
    Vol. 12 No. 1 (2022)

    The fall of 2022 issue (volume 12, issue 1) includes open-call papers on a wide range of food systems topics, with a cluster focused on the concept of economies of community.

    On our cover: Kanoa Dinwoodie (at right), the owner and operator of organic-certified Feral Heart Farm in Sunol, California, shows children how to properly harvest blackberries. Kanoa specializes in seed pro­duction and diasporic Asian crops. He participated in the “agroecology encounters” research described in author Antonio Roman-Alcalá’s commentary in this issue, “Five practical strategies for those who work for food systems change.” Photo by Antonio Roman-Alcalá

  • Farmer Julia Slocum in a field in her farm in Iowa, Lacewing Acres.

    Summer 2022: Fragility — and Resilience — in Food Systems
    Vol. 11 No. 4 (2022)

    The summer issue (volume 11, issue 4) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics, many of which relate to both the fragility and resilience of food systems. On our cover: Julia Slocum was the owner and operator of Lacewing Acres, a small certified organic vegetable farm in Ames, Iowa, from 2012 to 2019. She is now a first-year doctoral student in counseling psychology at Iowa State University. Read about the decision to close her farm operation in Ending Lacewing Acres: Toward amplifying microperspectives on farm closure, by Abby M. Dubisar and Julia A. Slocum, in this issue. (Photo by Andrea Rissing)

  • Cover of volume 11, issue 3, spring 2022

    Spring 2022: Celebrating New Farmers and Gardeners
    Vol. 11 No. 3 (2022)

    The spring 2022 issue includes peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of food systems topics, book reviews, and other articles. On our cover, Dhan Maya Subba is a participant in the New Farms for New Americans’ agriculture and education program for refugees. Subba is one of nearly 100 families from throughout Asia and Africa who participate in the program to grow food to feed their families. NFNA, a program of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, helps families who have been resettled in northern New England to access land, continue their agricul­tural traditions, and grow culturally significant crops. See “Nepali Bhutanese refugee gardeners and their seed systems: Placemaking and foodways in Vermont” by Junru Guo, Daniel Tobin, and Teresa Mares (all at the University of Vermont) in this issue. Photo by Alisha Laramee, Program Manager, NFNA

  • Cover of volume 11, issue 2, displays a graphic weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Life's Principles

    Winter 2021–2022: Weaving Western and Indigenous Knowledge for Resilience
    Vol. 11 No. 2 (2022)

    The winter 2021–2022 issue (volume 11, issue 2) includes commentaries from JAFSCD Shareholders and others, book reviews, and peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of food systems topics.

  • Cover of volume 11, issue 1, features the work of the Farmacy Project

    Food and Community Wellness
    Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)

    The fall 2021 issue (volume 11, issue 1) includes papers, columns, book reviews, and more on a wide range of food systems topics, including on food and community wellness. On our cover, Karla Berger (front office assistant at the Brandon Community Health Center in Brandon, Vermont) helps distribute Farmacy Project shares to patients of the clinic. In 2021, the Farmacy Project had 200 members who received 15 weeks of local produce at no cost, grown by farms in the Rutland county area, purchased, bagged by volunteers, and distributed from the Vermont Farmers Food Center, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the local food system. The Farmacy Project is an innovative program building relationships between community health and local agriculture, and creating a new preventative healthcare model in the heart of Vermont. See the article in this issue: Empowerment, love, and connection: Lessons learned from the Farmacy Project, a food-is-medicine program in Rutland, Vermont. Photo by Miriam Berkson, University of Vermont student intern for the Farmacy Project.

  • Cover of the summer issue on the topic "Food as a Tool for Social Change"

    Food as a Tool for Social Change
    Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)

    This summer 2021 issue (volume 10, issue 4) is on the special topic of “Food as a Tool for Social Change." It’s dedicated to the memory of Professor Evan Weissman of the Food Studies Department, Falk College, Syracuse University. It also includes open-call papers, commentaries, and papers on the impact of COVID-19 on the food system.

    Falk College at Syracuse University

  • Cover of volume 10, issue 3

    Open Call Papers, and More Papers and Commentaries on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Food System
    Vol. 10 No. 3 (2021)

    The spring 2021 issue (volume 10, issue 3) includes additional peer-reviewed papers and commentaries on the impact of COVID-19 on the food system, and open call, peer-reviewed papers on a range of topics.

  • Cover of volume 10, issue 2

    Special Issue: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Food System
    Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021)

    The winter 2020-2021 issue (volume 10, issue 2) contains peer-reviewed papers along with commentaries and other items analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food system, worldwide. This content is cosponsored by INFAS, the Inter-Institutional Network for Food and Agricultural Sustainability. The issue also includes open-call peer-reviewed papers, a column, book reviews, and other items.

    INFAS logo

  • Cover of volume 10, issue 1

    COVID-19 Commentaries and Open Call Papers
    Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)

    The fall issue of JAFSCD (volume 10, issue 1) includes open-call papers, commentaries on COVID-19 and the food system, as well as John Ikerd's column, book reviews, and Voices from the Grassroots essays.

  • Cover of the summer 2020 issue of JAFSCD

    More Than Value$ in the Food System
    Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020)

    The summer 2020 issue (volume 9, issue 4) includes a set of papers on the topic "More Than Value$ in the Food System" from the University of Vermont College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (a JAFSCD partner), as well as papers on a range of topics and additional commentaries and Voices from the Grassroots essays on the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Logo of UVM Ag & Life Sciences

    On our cover: Taylor Barker and Arielle Luckmann of Waxwing Farm in Skagit County, Washington, participated in the Farm Fresh Food Box (F3B) community supported agriculture (CSA) pilot program to offer access to their produce to a wider range of individuals and families. (Photo by Diane Smith, Washington State University Extension, and used with permission.)

  • Open Call Papers and Early Responses to COVID-19
    Vol. 9 No. 3 (2020)

    The spring 2020 issue includes papers, viewpoints, and book reviews on a wide range of food systems topics, plus early commentaries and Voices from the Grassroots essays on the COVID-19 pandemic and the food system.

  • Issue cover of Rhode Island fisherman dumping catch of squid

    Open Call Papers, Winter 2019-2020
    Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020)

    The winter 2019-2020 issue (volume 9, issue 2) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics.

    On our cover: Squid are loaded onto a conveyor belt by a Rhode Island fisherman. Rhode Island is fortunate to have a vibrant, year-round fishery steeped in tradition. The state’s Port of Galilee is one of the largest commercial fishing ports on the East Coast of the U.S. and is home port to over 250 commercial fishing vessels, including the Eastern Seaboard’s largest squid-fishing fleet. The Rhode Island Seafood Marketing Collaborative is actively engaged in a host of programs and activities aimed at fostering increased interest in and demand for local seafood products. See the article in this issue, Rhode Island Branding Program for Local Seafood: Consumer Perceptions, Awareness, and Willingness-to-Pay.      Photo by M. Stultz, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

  • Cover of volume 9, supplement 2 (fall 2019)

    Indigenous Food Sovereignty in North America
    Vol. 9 No. B (2019)

    This supplemental issue includes papers in response to our call on Indigenous Food Sovereignty in North America, sponsored by the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University. The cover shows members of the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, USA, harvesting wild rice. Photo copyright © 2009 by Duncan Hilchey.

    ASU-Swette-Center-logo.png

  • Cover of volume 9, supplement 1 (fall 2019)

    Proceedings from the Place-Based Food Systems Conference
    Vol. 9 No. A (2019)

    This supplemental issue includes papers, keynote addresses, peer-reviewed papers, and snapshots of presentations and posters from the Place-Based Food Systems Conference. The conference was sponsored and hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and the Department of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Surrey, British Columbia) in August 2018.

  • Cover of volume 9, issue 1 (summer 2019)

    Open Call Papers, Summer 2019
    Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019)

    Volume 9, issue 1 (Summer 2019) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics.

    On our coverThe Historic Round Barn & Farm Market in Biglerville, Pennsylvania, USA, is seen from South Mountain. This section of the mountain is known for its extensive fruit belt on the southeast face. Round barns are increasingly rare, but this well-preserved example is the centerpiece of a quintessential Appalachian agricultural landscape. For details on this one, visit http://roundbarn.farmPhoto copyright © 2007 by Duncan Hilchey.

1-20 of 55