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Urban Agriculture Education and Youth Civic Engagement in the U.S.: A Scoping Review
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Urban agriculture education is increasingly used to foster civic engagement among youth. To better understand empirical research on this topic, we analyzed peer-reviewed journal articles that focus on civic engagement among high-school-age students in ...
Alex Russ, Madeline B. Gaus
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 “Civic agriculture,” a term first coined by rural sociologist Thomas Lyson, refers to forms of agriculture that occur on a local level, from production to consumption, and are linked to a community’s social and economic development.
Allison Kaika, Alexis Racelis
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IN THIS ISSUE: Celebrating new farmers and gardeners
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022 First paragraphs: In this issue, we celebrate the extraordinary contributions that new farmers and gardeners make to their host communities. Immigrant farmers and gardeners, military vet farmers, young BIPOC farmers … all are increasingly joining the
Duncan Hilchey
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In This Issue: Planners Coming to the Table
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 In this issue, “Planners Coming to the Table,” we focus on how the planning community has come in recent years to embrace food systems as a legitimate focus of their profession.
Duncan Hilchey
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2017 First paragraph: In this issue of JAFSCD, we wrap up our 7th volume of JAFSCD with a group of papers that focus on food systems development as a professional practice, plus our first of two installments of the Enhancing Food Security in the Northeast ...
Duncan Hilchey
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IN THIS ISSUE: Weaving Western and Indigenous Knowledge for resilience
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022 First paragraph: In this issue, our articles explore the often-fragile interaction of scholars, local activists, and practitioners who are blending ideas and philosophies at home and abroad to find a more just and equitable food system that can help ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Welcome — and Thanks To So Many!
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development! JAFSCD is an international, online, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on agriculture and food systems and bridges the interests of development ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Community farming in Northern Ireland
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentThis paper explores the extent to which community farming can be a component of a community-based circular food system. Community farming is part of a broader pattern of civic agriculture, whereby more localized food production and consumption are ...
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IN THIS ISSUE: The Power of Food Justice
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019 First paragraphs: In this winter-spring issue, we feature a number of papers that illustrate The Power of Food Justice, including two papers about young African American farmers as well as the perspectives of food project stakeholders of color and of ...
Duncan Hilchey
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IN THIS ISSUE: A Smörgåsbord of Fresh Applied Research Papers
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 First paragraph: Sometimes you just have to improvise. We received such a strong response to our call for manuscripts on food system planning that we decided to squeeze a group of excellent additional papers on the topic into this winter issue ...
Duncan Hilchey
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