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• Spring 2022

  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.

• Winter 2021–2022: Weaving Western and Indigenous Knowledge for Resilience

  Vol. 11 No. 2 (2022)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The winter 2021–2022 issue includes commentaries from JAFSCD Shareholders and others, book reviews, and peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of food systems topics.

• Food and Community Wellness

  Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The fall 2021 includes papers, columns, book reviews, and more on a wide range of food systems topics, including on food and community wellness.

• Food as a Tool for Social Change

  Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 This issue 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.

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• 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 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.

• 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.

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• 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.

• More Than Value$ in the Food System

  Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The summer 2020 issue 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.

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  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 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.

• 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

• 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.

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• 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.

• 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 cover: The 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 https://white562.samtaexports.com/roundbarn.farm. Photo copyright © 2007 by Duncan Hilchey.

• The Power of Food Justice

  Vol. 8 No. 4 (2019)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The winter–spring 2019 issue includes open-call papers on a wide range of food systems topics, several of which focus on food justice.

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 On our cover: Rafael Aponte is the owner and operator of Rocky Acres Community Farm in the town of Freeville, just northeast of Ithaca, New York. In this photo from fall 2017, Aponte gives a tour of his 10-acre operation, explaining the cultural significance of raising goats for Black and other communities of color in central Upstate New York. See the article Building Emancipatory Food Power: Freedom Farms, Rocky Acres and the Struggle for Food Justice, by Bobby J. Smith II, in this issue. Photo credit: Bobby J. Smith II; used with permission.

• Economics of Local Food Systems: Utilization of USDA AMS Toolkit Principles

  Vol. 8 No. C (2019)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 This supplemental issue, "Economics of Local Food Systems: Utilization of USDA AMS Toolkit Principles," includes case studies, reflective essays, and other articles about measuring the impact of local food systems through the use of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Services' Local Food Systems Toolkit. The issue is sponsored by Food Systems at Colorado State University and USDA AMS. Guest editors are Dawn Thilmany McFadden and Becca B. R. Jablonski, both at Colorado State University.

• Open Call Papers

  Vol. 8 No. 3 (2018)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The fall 2018 issue of JAFSCD includes open-call papers on a wide range of food systems topics, including on farm-to-childcare programs.

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 On our cover: Zariah enjoys a morning snack of local cantaloupe at the Cary Towne KinderCare childcare center in Cary, North Carolina. This center, along with many other providers from around the country, are enrolling in farm to early care and education programs to help connect low-income families with sources of fresh, local foods. This center committed to feeding children three or more local food items a week through the growing season, exposing children to a variety of new fruits and vegetables while also investing in local farmers and distributors. See the article in this issue, “Farm to Child­care: An Analysis of Social and Economic Values in Local Food Systems,” by Jacob C. Rutz, J. Dara Bloom, Michelle Schroeder-Moreno, and Chris Gunter.  Photo credit: Jacob Rutz; used with permission.

• Supplement 2: Local Government in Food Systems Work

  Vol. 8 No. B (2018)

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  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 This special issue is sponsored by the Growing Food Connections (GFC) national initiative. The 11 manuscripts in this issue were selected for publication in this special issue following a call for submissions developed by the guest editors of this special issue in partnership with JAFSCD and its advisors. Submitted manuscripts underwent the journal’s peer-review process and an additional review by the guest editors of the special issue.

• Special Issue 1: Food Dignity

  Vol. 8 No. A (2018)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 Peer-reviewed papers, commentaries, and reflective essays from the Food Dignity project (funded by USDA–NIFA–AFRI grant no. 2011-68004-30074)

• Open Call Papers: Gleanings from the Field

  Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018)

  🤮😝😕 🙂😛😗 The spring–summer 2018 issue includes open-call papers on a range of topics.

• Open Call Papers: Fostering Access to Local Food Data

  Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018)

  The spring 2018 issue includes open-call papers on a range of topics.