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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2012 Universities and colleges across the United States are making innovative strides in higher education programming to catalyze a more sustainable era of agriculture. This is clearly exemplified through the formation of community-university partnerships as critical illustrations of civic engagement (CE) for sustainable agriculture (SA) education.
Niewolny, Kimberly L. +6 more
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Broadening the concept of civic agriculture
, 2011 A decade ago, Thomas Lyson coined the term civic agriculture to describe how food production and distribution can be embedded in communities through citizen participation (2000).
Otto, Jayson Daniel
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2011 Chile has played a relevant role in neoliberal global food production since the 1980s, using the motto "Chile: An Agro-food Power." Thus, it is relevant to enquire about the exercise of individual and collective citizenship on the part of agricultural producers who attempt to challenge — or at least make a difference — within this dominant economic and
Beatriz Cid-Aguayo
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Food for Local Benefit: Civic Agriculture at the Wea Creek Orchard
The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research, 2022 Th is project is a case study on Wea Creek Orchard, an intergenerational farm in the greater Lafayette area. Because this was an ethnographic project based on grounded theory, I did not have a set research question upon entering the field. After spending a few months volunteering on the Wea Creek Orchard, however, I noticed that this farm operates in a
Curtis, Reese
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Everyday Democracy and Civic Agriculture
Innovation in the Social Sciences, 2023 Abstract This article develops the concept of “everyday democracy” by analyzing how a community-supported agriculture organization in Taiwan (CSA-TWN) practices economic democracy. First, it illustrates how democracy is learned and practiced in daily interactions with the logics of “equality” and “collective decision-making”. Second, it argues that
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, 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 ...
Madeline B. Gaus (11702333) +1 more
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In This Issue: Advancing the Right to Food
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Full text of this issue's editorial: I just returned from the University of Vermont's fourth annual Food Systems Summit, entitled The Right to Food: Power, Policy, and Politics in the 21st Century. The right to food is often misunderstood as meaning that
Duncan Hilchey
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In This Issue: Frontiers in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 First paragraph: Introduction to Urban Agriculture The special topic focus of JAFSCD volume 1, issue 2, is urban and peri-urban agriculture. While urban and peri-urban agriculture are common and often traditional aspects of food systems in the Global ...
Duncan Hilchey
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In This Issue: Open Call Papers and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture — Part 2
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 First paragraph: One of the many benefits of an electronic journal is that it grants us the flexibility to publish additional outstanding papers in response to a special-topic call for papers. Such is the case with volume 1, issue 3.
Duncan Hilchey
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IN THIS ISSUE: Proceedings from the Place-Based Food Systems Conference and More
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019 In this summer issue, we offer our largest single issue to date—48 items, including sections on Place-Based Food Systems, open call papers, columns, commentaries, and book reviews. Phew!
Duncan Hilchey
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