From carolinebrand at hotmail.fr Tue Aug 2 07:02:55 2022 From: carolinebrand at hotmail.fr (caroline Brand) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] SAVE THE DATE_Conference Operationalising the food transition_30.09.22 Message-ID: The Inter-Territorial Food Project of the Greater Grenoble Area (FRANCE), Caroline Brand (lecturer in geography at ISARA- agroschool) and H?l?ne Caune (lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Grenoble) for the Scientific Council of Grenoble Green Capital are pleased to invite you to the Conference "Operationalising the food transition", to be held on 30 September 2022 at the MACI* amphitheatre, on the campus of Grenoble Alpes University. On the occasion of Grenoble European Green Capital and the Month of Food Transition in Grenoble, Olivier de Schutter, professor at UCLouvain / Co-chair of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and Roberta Sonnino, professor at the University of Surrey will present us a state of the debates on food transition. Their rich international and multi-scale experience on sustainable and inclusive food systems will shed light on the current challenges of a transition that is being called for by all but which is struggling to be operationalised in the territories. The conference will be followed, after an eco-local buffet, by a round table on the theme of private sector involvement in the food transition. The conference is open to all, upon registration. It will also be broadcast live. All the practical information will come in a second time in september. For any questions: mta@grenoblealpesmetropole.fr * Maison de la Cr?ation et de l'Innovation, 339 Av. Centrale, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'H?res, conference times: 9.30am-12.15 am and of the round table : 2-5pm (CET). Thank you, Caroline BRAND Enseignante-chercheure en g?ographie ____________________________________________ AGRAPOLE - ISARA 23 rue Jean Baldassini 69364 LYON CEDEX 07 www.isara.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jnasr at ryerson.ca Thu Aug 4 10:42:09 2022 From: jnasr at ryerson.ca (Joe Nasr) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] Three new Books from the Springer Urban Agriculture Book Series Message-ID: Greetings, We are very pleased to announce that three new books have been published recently in the Springer Urban Agriculture Book Series. They are listed on our website at https://www.springer.com/series/11815. While all of them deal with urban agriculture, they cover very different topics and their nature is quite varied, ranging from quality of life, to soilless techniques, to hybrid governance. The books are the following: ? *Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life: Examples from Bulgaria*, edited by Dona Pickard ? *Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe*, written by Silvio Caputo ? *The Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements: Learning from Toronto and Brussels*, written by Alessandra Manganelli. Ten other books have been published in this series since 2014. We welcome submissions of book proposal s as further contributions to this unique Book Series on urban agriculture and related topics. If you have any question about the series or the book proposal process, feel free to write to us as Book Series Editors or to our Publishing Editor, Markus Spaeth . Regards, Joe Nasr, Christine Aubry and Eric Duchemin PS: Sorry for cross-postings of this announcement. -- Joe Nasr jnasr@ryerson.ca / joenasr@sympatico.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joenasr at sympatico.ca Thu Aug 4 11:07:35 2022 From: joenasr at sympatico.ca (Joe Nasr) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] Three new Books from the Springer Urban Agriculture Book Series Message-ID: <12c9d0fd.16e29.1826a0a97d2.Webtop.25@sympatico.ca> Greetings, We are very pleased to announce that three new books have been published recently in the Springer Urban Agriculture Book Series. They are listed on our website at https://www.springer.com/series/11815 . While all of them deal with urban agriculture, they cover very different topics and their nature is quite varied, ranging from quality of life, to soilless techniques, to hybrid governance. The books are the following: ? Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life: Examples from Bulgaria, edited by Dona Pickard ? Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe, written by Silvio Caputo ? The Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements: Learning from Toronto and Brussels, written by Alessandra Manganelli. Ten other books have been published in this series since 2014. We welcome submissions of book proposal s as further contributions to this unique Book Series on urban agriculture and related topics. If you have any question about the series or the book proposal process, feel free to write to us as Book Series Editors or to our Publishing Editor, Markus Spaeth . Regards, Joe Nasr, Christine Aubry and Eric Duchemin PS: Sorry for cross-postings of this announcement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at lysoncenter.org Fri Aug 5 09:56:36 2022 From: info at lysoncenter.org (Info-Lyson Center) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Article Heads-up: Produce prescription programs for Tribal communities; Ikerd on affording good food; 2 book reviews; Position postings! In-Reply-To: <0.0.44.DF4.1D8A8E7FFD4F3EA.0@drone127.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.44.DF4.1D8A8E7FFD4F3EA.0@drone127.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <082001d8a8ec$56509720$02f1c560$@lysoncenter.org> Read about the latest articles published in JAFSCD! View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Article Heads-up ~ August 5, 2022 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, L ibrary Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website Food sovereignty, health, and produce prescription programs in tribal communities JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Nadine Budd Nugent (Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition), Ronit A. Ridberg (U of California, Davis), Hollyanne Fricke and Carmen Byker Shanks (both at GSCN), Sarah A. Stotz (Colorado School of Public Health), Amber G. Jones Chung (Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation), Sonya Shin (Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health), Amy L. Yaroch (GSCN), Melissa Akers (UC San Francisco), Roger Lowe (Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp.), Carmen George (Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health), Kymie Thomas (Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment), Hilary K. Seligman (UC San Francisco) Full article Residents in Tribal communities in the U.S. are more likely to experience barriers to healthy food access as a result of persistent structural inequalities. Recently, produce pre?scription programs have emerged as a promising intervention to food insecurity. In a new JAFSCD article, " Food sovereignty, health, and produce prescription programs: A case study in two rural tribal communities," Nadine Budd Nugent (corresponding author) et al. present findings from a case study of two federally funded Produce Prescription Pro?jects, or PPR, under the U.S. Department of Agri?culture (USDA) Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incen?tive Program (GusNIP) in two rural tribal communities: the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region in Alaska, and the Navajo Nation. KEY FINDINGS * Both programs consistently face the following challenges: lack of dependable or accessible transportation systems; few food retail sites, which span large geographical distances; increased costs of food procurement for retailers due to geographic distance; inadequate supply chain logistics to store perishable food items optimally in transit; and limited broadband internet that affects telehealth opportunities. * However, PRR also offers both communities local and cultural tailoring of program design, messaging, and education. Locally developed messaging can also communicate pride of place, rather than communicate the stigma sometimes associated with a chronic disease or receiving federal benefits. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH * Actively promote food sovereignty through local messaging. * Engage community partnerships to facilitate program delivery, community acceptance, and development of partnerships with individuals and organizations for PRR incentive issuance and redemption. * Embrace creativity in implementation. * Seek funding from local and national agencies. Suggested Facebook post or Instagram story: Can produce prescription programs (PPRs) help address food insecurity in rural tribal communities? Read the JAFSCD article for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.014 Suggested tweet: Can #produceprescriptionprograms address #foodinsecurity in #rural #tribalcommunities? #YukonKuskokwimDelta #NavajoNation #GusNIP Read @JAFSCD article for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.014 Photo above: Warehouse Worker Robert Paschal fills the fresh produce with fruits and vegetables at the Food Distribution Program at Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Nov. 6, 2018. Public domain photo from the USDA Flickr account The North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN) is a professional association for people working together to strengthen local and regional food systems. NAFSN is a sister program of JAFSCD. See NAFSN's new website to learn about our projects: * Events, including 2 webinar series and "Seasonal Sips & Job Tips" sessions * The upcoming launch of 3 NAFSN student chapters * 984 jobs posted so far this year on the only curated jobs board for food systems positions?updated daily! * 1-on-1 & other networking opportunities and job coaching for members Become a member today! Free trial available! We use science to make change happen. And we?re hiring. Director of Policy & Government Affairs, Food & Environment Program Operations Manager, Food & Environment Program Can we afford good food? Can we afford good food? John Ikerd's latest Economic Pamphleteer column explores this question. As he notes, "we can afford enough good food . . . [but] many people will need to make some very different food choices. National and global food systems do not change very quickly or easily, but individuals can change their food choices. Changes in individual food choices can lead to changes in local food systems, and changes in local food systems can lead to changes in national and global food systems." According to Ikerd, "making good food affordable means fundamentally changing their individual food systems, from production through to consumption: changing from depending on a system that prioritized 'quick, convenient, and cheap' food to one that priorities food 'quality, integrity, and value.'? Suggested Facebook post: John Ikerd considers the role of individual food choices in global food systems. Read the full column at JAFSCD for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.002 Suggested tweet and Instagram post:? John Ikerd considers the role of individual food choices in global food systems. @John_Ikerd #agriculture #foodchoice Read the full @JAFSCD column for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.002 Book review: How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, by Priyah Fielding-Singh Review by Jules Hathaway (University of Maine) Full article Book review: Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, by Liz Carlisle Review by Natasha Shannon (University of California, Berkeley) Full article Position Posting: Land Use and Protection Research Initiative Director We are seeking a Director of Land Use and Protection Research to lead the development and implementation of a land use and farmland protection research agenda that informs AFT's programs and public policy development. As an integral part of the AFT Program Team, the Land Use and Protection Research Director leads the Land Use and Protection Research Initiative which includes and builds upon the existing Farms Under Threat (FUT) portfolio of projects. The Director will ensure that AFT's land use research addresses the top organizational priorities and is strategic, coordinated, efficiently delivered, well-received, academically defensible, and impactful. This email is sent to you as a notification of newly published content and other JAFSCD news. Were you forwarded this JAFSCD Article Heads-up and you'd like to join the mailing list? Sign up! JAFSCD is an open access, community-supported journal! Your library, program, or organization can become a shareholder to help make JAFSCD's content available to all, regardless of their resources. We welcome individual shareholders as well. JAFSCD is published by the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, a project of the Center for Transformative Action (an affiliate of Cornell University). CTA is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts donations on our behalf. We welcome donations , which are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. FOLLOW US Questions or comments? Contact us at info@LysonCenter.org Unsubscribe This message was sent from info@lysoncenter.org JAFSCD Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 295 Hook Place Ithaca, NY 14850 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Three in particular are relevant to this group because those new colleagues will work with our team on food systems related projects: - Officer: Sustainable Food Systems - deadline: 21 August - Senior Officer: Sustainable Food Systems - deadline: 21 August - Officer Communication and Member Relations - deadline: 4 September It would be great if you can circulate these adverts through your networks and channels. Thank you. Cheers, Gio [image: https://iclei-europe.org] *Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori (she/her)* Buy Better Food Campaign Coordinator ? Food Cluster Europe ? Food & Health ICLEI Brussels Office ? Rue du Luxembourg 19 ? 1000 Brussels ? Belgium *Telephone *+32-(0)4 95 76 2500 ? *Email* giorgia.dalla-libera-marchiori@iclei.org Web | Twitter * Apply for the Transformative Action Award 2022 | * *Become an ICLEI Member * *| Join the Buy Better Food campaign * *ICLEI ? Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network working with more than 2500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development. Active in 125+ countries, we influence sustainability policy and drive local action for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development.* ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH GF Wolfgang Teubner HRB 4188 Freiburg i. Br. [image: Footer] You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community Food for Cities . View this contribution on the web site A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Food for Cities. Reply to all community members | Unsubscribe -- *I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and recreate on the traditional and unceded land of Coast Salish Peoples, past and present. 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We seek empirically based, transdisciplinary contributions at the intersection of scientific, policy, political, legal, practice, and civic arenas that validate regenerative agriculture practices that are ecologically and socially resilient. We are particularly interested in how transdisci?plinary research networks can foster food and farming systems that maximize social and environmental goods related to health, fairness, and care. Examples of topics: * How to best use process-based standards (require continuous improvement with trans?parent ?plan-do-check? reporting) or practice-based standards (e.g., the National Organic Standard) to best document and achieve goals of health, fairness, and care. * How systems-based and participatory networks can increase the societal value of research and breeding. * How to support participatory research that adheres to organic principles (health, fairness, care). * How the excluded methods framework (i.e., no use of genetically modified organisms and non-natural materials) aligns or does not align with public wants for agriculture. * How research networks can empower participants to achieve equity and justice goals. All manuscripts require presubmission review and approval by the special issue guest editors. Note that JAFSCD?s article publication charge (APC) of US$750 will be covered by the sponsors for approximately 12 papers accepted for the special issue. Special issue guest editors: * Jessica Guarino, LL.M, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Julie Dawson, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin?Madison * Carmen Ugarte, Assistant Research Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Michelle Wander, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Alice Formiga, Assistant Professor (Practice), Oregon State University Questions? Email the lead special issue guest editor, Jessica Guarino Deadlines: Submission for presubmission review: 9/30/2022 Notification of invitation to submit a full paper: 10/31/2022 Submission of final manuscript: 2/28/2023 See this call for papers and a PDF version on the JAFSCD website * About the special issue sponsors: The Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability (INFAS) connects food system scholars, educators, and action-researcher activists across the United States to catalyze frontier work in food systems research, higher education, extension, and institutional change; increase our capacity to help build U.S. food system resilience, sustainability, and equity; raise the visibility of research-based insights into food system problems and solutions; and diversify who is doing academic and action-focused research, education, and extension. eOrganic is the Organic Agriculture Community of Practice (CoP) for the Extension Foundation (formerly eXtension). eOrganic is dedicated to the publication of reliable information about certified organic farming in a variety of media formats on its public website. eOrganic?s virtual community and online collaborative workspace supports university researchers, extension educators, farmers, certifiers, and agricultural professionals across the U.S. as they network, communicate, collaborate, learn, and work together on organic agriculture projects. The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) is the world?s only peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal focused on the community development aspects of food and farming. JAFSCD uses a double-blind peer review process with expert reviewers who include research?ers, scholars, and food systems professionals in the field. It 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. Photo above provided by the sponsors. JAFSCD is published with the support of our academic and organization shareholders, and our 7 annual partners: JAFSCD Website This email is sent to you as a notification of newly published content and other JAFSCD news. Were you forwarded this JAFSCD Article Heads-up and you'd like to join the mailing list? Sign up! JAFSCD is an open access, community-supported journal! Your library, program, or organization can become a shareholder to help make JAFSCD's content available to all, regardless of their resources. We welcome individual shareholders as well. JAFSCD is published by the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, a project of the Center for Transformative Action (an affiliate of Cornell University). CTA is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts donations on our behalf. We welcome donations , which are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. FOLLOW US Questions or comments? Contact us at info@LysonCenter.org Unsubscribe This message was sent from info@lysoncenter.org JAFSCD Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 295 Hook Place Ithaca, NY 14850 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jnasr at ryerson.ca Fri Aug 19 14:17:12 2022 From: jnasr at ryerson.ca (Joe Nasr) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] 2 online courses from the Urban Ag Certificate Message-ID: Toronto Metropolitan University (the recently renamed Ryerson University) is offering two online courses this fall in the Urban Agriculture Certificate. ***NEW* In this online course, CVFN420 ? Green/Natural Infrastructure , you?ll explore practices such as street tree planting, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, bioswales, and bioretention plantings. Instructor Sheila Boudreau will reference how greening and urban agriculture can intersect to improve the urban environment. Topics include ecosystem services (including social and economic); triple-bottom-line cost benefit-analysis and natural assets infrastructure valuation; the evolution of urban stormwater management leading to nature-based solutions; and Indigenous engagement and conservation efforts. In the foundation course CVFN410 - Understanding Urban Agriculture , instructors Joe Nasr and Rhonda Teitel-Payne will highlight the practice of urban agriculture in its many forms around the world and show how it enhances and contributes to urban food security, health, community building, sustainable livelihoods and environmental management. This course expands understanding of the potential impacts, constraints, and opportunities of urban agriculture. You?ll also learn how to analyze relevant stakeholders, historical contexts and local, regional and international trends. CVFN420 and CVFN 410 are part of the four-course Urban Agriculture Certificate Program . *For more information on how to register for the certificate program and its courses contact Reg Noble (Academic Coordinator) at **food@ryerson.ca* *. The fall session starts September 12, 2022. * -- Joe Nasr jnasr@ryerson.ca / joenasr@sympatico.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sibella at sagecenter.org Sat Aug 20 14:03:11 2022 From: sibella at sagecenter.org (Sibella Kraus) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE) is hiring Message-ID: SAGE is hiring, for two positions: Executive Director and Project Manager . These positions are also posted on LInkedIn (Executive Director , Project Manager ). Conceivably, with the right fit, these two positions could be co-directors. Ideal candidates will have multidisciplinary skills and experience working on regenerative agriculture and equitable, resilient food systems at the regional scale. ABOUT SAGE Founded in 2001, SAGE revitalizes sustainable urban-edge agriculture, fosters healthy local and regional food systems, and connects diverse urban communities with the people and places that grow their food. As a lean, entrepreneurial nonprofit organization, our approach is to generate big-vision ideas and implement them through collaboration with diverse stakeholders. SAGE has two program areas: Urban Edge Agricultural Revitalization and Urban-Rural Connections. Through these two linked programs, SAGE aims to make multifunctional, urban-edge agriculture and robust local and regional food systems key elements of resilience planning and investment in regions throughout California and beyond. Over its 22-year history, SAGE has effectively advanced local-serving sustainable agriculture through pioneering and replicable place-based projects and systems-based tools, frameworks and assessments. As a result, SAGE has been instrumental in strengthening the economic viability and visibility of metro-region agriculture and deepening the engagement of diverse audiences with their local foodsheds. As our work is highly collaborative, SAGE?s portfolio includes projects we have led, co-led and on which we have been a subcontractor. Work that SAGE conceptualizes and conducts with funding and implementation partners includes place-based projects, foodshed and agricultural economic viability assessments, feasibility studies and business plans, toolkits, white papers, and conceptual frameworks that support and promote a sustainable food system. SAGE has produced dozens of publications and presented our work at conferences and meetings large and small. Our reports and presentations share the concepts, frameworks and tools we have developed and the knowledge we have gleaned through on-the-ground projects to model these concepts. In our fee-for-service work, which is an increasingly important part of our portfolio, SAGE assists clients in developing place-based agriculture and local food projects and studies. Our consulting and technical services include existing conditions analysis, strategy documents, stakeholder engagement and facilitation of multi-party collaborations. Our partners and clients, some of whom we have worked with for decades, include public agencies, land trusts, farmers and agricultural associations, planning and economic consultancy firms, public-interest organizations, educators, health experts, and urban and rural community groups. Partner organizations and leaders have cited SAGE?s ability to conceptualize models, operationalize vision and convene diverse partners to find common ground as unique in the ecosystem of sustainable agriculture organizations. -- Sibella Kraus Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE) David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Suite 320 Berkeley, CA 94704 Office 510-526-1793 #3 Mobile 510-928-2927 www.sagecenter.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at lysoncenter.org Fri Aug 26 14:42:04 2022 From: info at lysoncenter.org (Info-Lyson Center) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Article Heads-up: Small-farm resilience during COVID-19; Agritourism conference; Position postings! In-Reply-To: <0.0.114.1AF.1D8B98D4C2435F2.0@drone047.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.114.1AF.1D8B98D4C2435F2.0@drone047.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <055101d8b994$b2e09270$18a1b750$@lysoncenter.org> View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Article Heads-up ~ August 26, 2022 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, L ibrary Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website Food systems practitioners nationwide can ramp up their skills by enrolling in the Local Food Leader (LFL) certification program, offered entirely online by the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Farm, Food and Enterprise Development Program. It includes cohort workshops (through Zoom) and online curricula (through Moodle). Topic areas include equity in food systems, leadership, facilitation and coordination, evaluation, and creating teams and tools for success. The fall 2022 online workshop series runs Sept. 29, 2022, to Feb. 2, 2023. Registration closes Sept. 15, 2022. Limited scholarships are available. See the certification webpage for more information. Experiences of small farms in Washington State shed light on resilience during COVID-19 JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Dani Ladyka, Yona Sipos, Marie Spiker, and Sarah Collier (all at the University of Washington) Full article The 2020 growing season presented new and significant challenges for farmers across the U.S. as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. This afforded an unexpected opportunity to explore how resilience was manifested in real time. Understanding the sources and drivers of farm-level resilience is of paramount importance to the broader goals of translating lessons learned during the pandemic into measures that enhance preparedness for future disruption and build overall resilience in the food system. In a new JAFSCD article, ? A qualitative investigation of resilience among small farms in western Washington State: Experiences during the first growing season of COVID-19,? Ladyka, Sipos, Spiker, and Collier (corresponding author) present findings from their interview-based study assessing the impact of the pandemic on directly-marketing small farms in western Washington State, with a focus on what farmers? experiences can tell us about farm-level resilience. This adds much-needed qualitative depth to what is becoming an otherwise robust body of literature on impacts to U.S. farms and farmers during COVID-19. KEY FINDINGS * Impacts on farms were varied, and some apparently positive impacts warrant careful interpretation. * Farmers reported increased feelings of appreciation from consumers related to small farms and local food systems. * Flexibility, diversity, autonomy, and openness were important resilience attributes for farms during the first growing season. * Farm size and farm values influenced resilience. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH * The highly diverse forms of assistance utilized and resilience exhibited underscore the value of needs assessments to more deeply understand the forms of support that will be most impactful in promoting resilience among small farms. * Better understanding the waxing and waning of consumer support for small-scale and local/regional production during and after crises is an important area for future research. * This study examines factors that contributed to resilience, emphasizing positive experiences. Future research should also explicitly explore more negative experiences and factors that undermine resilience. Suggested Facebook post or Instagram story: Fifteen Washington State farmers told their stories about how they were impacted during the first growing season of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new @JAFSCD article ? authored by researchers at the University of Washington ? shares these impacts and contextualizes them in resilience frameworks. Read for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.007 Suggested tweet: How did #smallfarms weather #COVID19? New @JAFSCD article from @UWSPH @MarieSpiker @ysipos explores farm-level #resilience during the 2020 growing season. Read for free: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.007 Photo above: A vendor's wares at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington. Photo ? 2018 by Amy Christian. JAFSCD Featured Shareholder Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona The Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona has just published a commentary in JAFSCD, " Leveraging university resources to build awareness, support regional food policy, and disrupt dominant narratives guiding food-based development: Examples from University of Arizona?s Center for Regional Food Studies." Authors Laurel Bellante, Megan A. Carney, and Gigi Owen argue that "University researchers can play a key role in raising awareness about these issues, inform food policy needs, and create university-community partnerships that can disrupt dominant narratives and support local initiatives that build capacity, equity, and resilience in regional food systems." CRFS?s recent initiatives include: * Food Systems Research Lab, which fosters town-gown collaboration on local food policy, and * Future of Food and Social Justice Project, which focuses on storytelling, especially by those voices less heard in the food system, such as Indigenous stakeholders. CRFS has been a JAFSCD Shareholder since 2017, the first year of our innovative community-supported journal model to support open access of all JAFSCD content. CRFS's support, along with our annual partners, other shareholders, and library shareholders, make open access possible! ?Photo: Bundle of cactus leaves, courtesy of the University of Arizona Center for Regional Food Studies. The North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN) is a professional association for people working together to strengthen local and regional food systems. NAFSN is a sister program of JAFSCD. See NAFSN's new website to learn about our projects. * Events, including 2 webinar series and "Seasonal Sips & Job Tips" sessions * The upcoming launch of 3 NAFSN student chapters * 984 jobs posted so far this year on the only curated jobs board for food systems positions?updated daily! * 1-on-1 & other networking opportunities and job coaching for members Become a member today! Free trial available! Position Posting: Land Use and Protection Research Initiative Director We are seeking a Director of Land Use and Protection Research to lead the development and implementation of a land use and farmland protection research agenda that informs AFT's programs and public policy development. As an integral part of the AFT Program Team, the Land Use and Protection Research Director leads the Land Use and Protection Research Initiative which includes and builds upon the existing Farms Under Threat (FUT) portfolio of projects. The Director will ensure that AFT's land use research addresses the top organizational priorities and is strategic, coordinated, efficiently delivered, well-received, academically defensible, and impactful. This email is sent to you as a notification of newly published content and other JAFSCD news. Were you forwarded this JAFSCD Article Heads-up and you'd like to join the mailing list? Sign up! JAFSCD is an open access, community-supported journal! Your library, program, or organization can become a shareholder to help make JAFSCD's content available to all, regardless of their resources. We welcome individual shareholders as well. JAFSCD is published by the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, a project of the Center for Transformative Action (an affiliate of Cornell University). CTA is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts donations on our behalf. We welcome donations , which are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. FOLLOW US Questions or comments? 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