Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) is the world's only peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal focused solely on food- and farming-related community development. JAFSCD uses a double-blind peer review process, with expert reviewers who include researchers, scholars, and food systems professionals in the field. JAFSCD emphasizes best practices and tools related to the planning, community economic development, and ecological protection of local and regional agriculture and food systems, and works to bridge the interests of practitioners and academics. Articles are immediately published online as they are accepted, but are aggregated into quarterly issues for indexing purposes. JAFSCD is an online-only journal; subscribers access the content online and may download or print any articles. As the journal focuses on the practice of agriculture and food system development, empirical and methodological content are emphasized over the theoretical. Applied research-based papers, case studies, project post-mortems, effective strategies, impact analyses, new possibilities (problems-solving, opportunity-taking, and the like) are examples of what professionals in government, the nonprofit sector, and private practice find helpful in their work. JAFSCD is committed to working toward a more equitable and just food system. As such, our Equity Agenda guides our pro-equity and anti-racist decision-making and assessment processes. To enhance and forward the Equity Agenda, we have released our Statement on Anti-Black Racism (June 18, 2020) and our Anti-Oppression Policy Statement (December 18, 2020).

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