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IN THIS ISSUE: The Wellbeing of Its Children: The Ultimate Expression of a Nation’s Wealth

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018
First paragraphs: It seems like just yesterday that I attended a very early farm-to-school workshop in the mid-ʼ90s at a national conference. I don’t remember the name of the conference or where it took place, but I vividly recall the animated ...
Duncan Hilchey
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In This Issue: Open Call Papers

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020
First paragraph: Earlier this winter, the Alaska cod fishery—once considered robust and resilient—was closed for the entire 2020 season. It has been a blow to coastal communities’ economies and ways of life, and to the food supply chain North America ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Unraveling the Interplay Between Collaborative Governance and Experimentation for Transformative Potential in Circular Water Systems: A Dutch Case Study

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater availability is a critical climate change challenge in coastal delta regions. This challenge requires a transformative change toward circular water management. While experimentation and collaborative governance are recognized as enablers of transformative change, their interaction remains complex and insufficiently understood ...
Flavia Simona Albu Cosoveanu, Kirsty Holstead, Jean‐Marie Buijs, Dave Huitema   +3 more
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The Ecological U‐Turn in Nordic Forestry: Policy Learning, Measurement, and the Retrenchment of Ecological Ambitions

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, environmental policy has shifted toward ecosystem protection and biodiversity conservation, a development often described as an ecological turn. This article argues that in practice this turn has taken the form of an ecological “U‐turn,” as environmental ambitions are subordinated to production‐oriented objectives.
Gisle Andersen, Monika Berg, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen   +2 more
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Policy's Role in Socioagricultural Transition: A Community Study in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia

Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2012
In Atlantic Canada, as in rural areas around the world, many citizens are engaged in ways to adapt innovative local level solutions to the challenges posed by globalized industrial agriculture. To prevent the further unraveling of community fabric and to
Louise Hanavan, Greg Cameron
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In This Issue: Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Full text of this issue's editorial: Quite by happenstance, the challenges, barriers, and limitations of local/regional food initiatives emerged as a thematic thread in this final issue of 2015.
Duncan Hilchey
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Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
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In This Issue: Peer2Peer

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Full text of this issue's editorial: This open call issue of JAFSCD is slightly smaller than our usual 15 to 20 items. We've been busy working to transition our publishing platform to one hosted by Public Knowledge Project (PKP; http://pkp.sfu.ca), as ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Civil Society Advocacy and Climate Change in Kenya: The Question of “Local Voices” and Their “Amplification”

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
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In This Issue: Race and Ethnicity in Food Systems Work

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Full text of this issue's editorial: It is no secret that despite the best intentions of many, the food movement manifests levels of whiteness and privilege that tend to exclude significant parts of society, and thus does not address the needs of those ...
Duncan Hilchey
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