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Agriculture and Human ValuesAbstract Civic agriculture is often credited with strengthening democratic life by encouraging civic and political engagement, yet this claim has scarcely been tested in socioeconomically marginalized regions. Using original survey data collected through a combination of random and purposive sampling, this study assesses that ...
Allison Kaika +4 more
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Sustainable Agriculture Education and Civic Engagement: The Significance of Community-University Partnerships in the New Agricultural Paradigm [PDF]
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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Towards a network around civic agriculture in the Province of Pisa [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims at exploring the pathway towards the creation of a network around the principles of civic agriculture in the Province of Pisa (Tuscany, Italy). The research is part of the process towards a local Food Plan, aimed at coordinating public policies, civil society and private initiatives, to foster the access to a healthy and sustainable ...
Silvia Innocenti +2 more
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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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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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Comparing civic competence among European youth: composite and domain-specific indicators using IEA civic education study data [PDF]
, 2011 Addressing the European Union monitoring of civic competence, this article presents a composite indicator of civic competence and four domain indicators. The data usedare from the 1999 IEA Civic Education study of 14-year-olds in school.
Hoskins, Bryony Louise +8 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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