From info at lysoncenter.org Thu Mar 9 18:55:21 2023 From: info at lysoncenter.org (JAFSCD) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Article Heads-up: Growing new food system competency; Municipal food policies In-Reply-To: <0.0.187.12F.1D952C26C45E492.0@drone115.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.187.12F.1D952C26C45E492.0@drone115.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <03c201d952fb$c58580b0$50908210$@lysoncenter.org> Read about the latest research published in JAFSCD! ? ? View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Article Heads-up ~ March 9, 2023 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, Library Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website Growing new food system competency in Extension programs ?JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Hannah Dankbar (North Carolina State Extension), Courtney Long (Iowa State U), Dara Bloom (NCSU), Kaley Hohenshell (Iowa State U), Emma Brinkmeyer (NCSU), and Bre Miller (Iowa State U) Full article In a new JAFSCD article, " Applying emerging core competencies to extension training courses for local food system practitioners" by Hannah Dankbar ( corresponding author), Courtney Long, Dara Bloom, Kaley Hohenshell, Emma Brinkmeyer, and Bre Miller, NC State Extension and Iowa State University Extension & Outreach apply a newly created food system core competency framework to their existing curricula. This framework is available for food system practitioners and educators to identify which competencies they hold as individuals, and what they teach within individual curricula offerings to be shared in a new Food System Practitioner and Educational Resource Database. Sharing curricula and resources in this national database helps food system practitioners identify others in the field and find resources and training opportunities that meet their specific needs. KEY FINDINGS * Educational resource providers can use the framework as a flexible guide to identify which competencies they address. Each educational resource provider reviews and evaluates their individual curricula to determine if it addresses a particular competency. While the tool is useful, there can be different ways to interpret terms and concepts in the core competency matrix. * A universal core competency framework allows practitioners and educational resource providers to share their materials with a wider audience. * The framework provides a structure for comparing foundational local food system training opportunities across different teaching methods. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH * Create a glossary and other guidance for practitioners and educational resource providers to self-identify which competencies are addressed. * Develop a way to showcase the place-based nature of local and regional foods within the core competency matrix because of the intersectionality that place has in equity, culture, climate, and general food system practices. * Implement evaluation tools across food systems trainings that can measure the level of learning that occurs, so food system professionals can check whether they meet the competency addressed in the training. Photo above: National gathering of food system educators in 2019. Photo courtesy of Courtney Long. What should residents know to transform municipal food policies? JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Carol E. Ramos-Gerena (U at Buffalo, SUNY) Full article Food policies should be informed by those who they intend to serve, but policy-making processes remain exclusive to specific voices, knowledge, and experiences. The new article " Critical food policy literacy: Conceptualizing community municipal food policy engagement" bridges food and policy scholarship with the critical literacy work of Paulo Freire to answer: how do we understand literacies tied to food policy? What does (or, what could) it mean to be food policy literate? In a new JAFSCD article, Carol E. Ramos-Gerena proposes five principles for conceptualizing critical food policy literacy that support food system transformations. KEY FINDINGS The article suggest that efforts to promote critical food policy literacy must facilitate communities to (a) ?read the world,? (b) ?read the word,? (c) be critically aware of food policy processes and systems, (d) learn contextually and through authentic practice, and (e) enable people to negotiate and transform the world (their context) collectively. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH Possessing knowledge of engaging with food policy processes is not commensurate with actual engagement. Thus, structural barriers to community participation must also be addressed. Food system planners and educators, particularly at the municipal level, should support locally based citizen food organizations to engage in food policy. This support must go beyond assessing communities? food policy literacy. Instead, it must intend to bridge the gap to ensure critical readiness for food policy engagement. Photo above: Food system policy workshop led by the Food System Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (UB Food Lab). Photo by Dr. Samina Raja. Participate in a survey to support agroecology initiatives Survey closes March 20! If your work touches on agroecology in the U.S. context?as a practitioner, activist, researcher, or educator?you're invited to complete this survey. The results will support the design of an Agroecology Summit (May 2023) and also inform a road map for improving support for agroecology in U.S. Department of Agriculture policies and programs. For any questions or concerns, contact Catherine Horner or Colin Anderson. See the research info sheet about the survey before taking it. 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 / LIKE / RETWEET / SHARE 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 info at lysoncenter.org Wed Mar 22 07:14:33 2023 From: info at lysoncenter.org (JAFSCD) Date: Sun Mar 17 22:50:41 2024 Subject: [Foodplanning] JAFSCD Announcement: NEW special section on Justice and Equity Approaches to Student Food (In)Security In-Reply-To: <0.0.17.345.1D95CC31261C292.0@drone109.ral.icpbounce.com> References: <0.0.17.345.1D95CC31261C292.0@drone109.ral.icpbounce.com> Message-ID: <10bdca01d95cc8$a2be37d0$e83aa770$@lysoncenter.org> Read about this special section of papers published in JAFSCD! ? ? View this email in a web browser Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JAFSCD Special Announcement ~ March 22, 2023 JAFSCD is published with support from the members of the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, Library Shareholders, and our seven JAFSCD Partners: JAFSCD Website New special section of papers on Justice and Equity Approaches to College and University Student Food (In)Security just published! Co-edited by Rachael Budowle, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech), Christine Porter, Ph.D. (University of Wyoming), and Caitlin McLennan (Utah State University) Go to the Special Section Food insecurity among college and university students is pervasive, affecting nearly half of all students and impeding their ability to succeed and thrive in higher education and beyond. Hstorically marginalized and underrepresented populations of students, however, are inequitably at greater risk for experiencing food insecurity than the general student population. Research has surged on food insecurity prevalence, student outcomes, and strategies. However, food insecurity inequities and strategies to address them; student-led strategies that would lend themselves to justice; and non-emergency, systemic, and more radically transformative strategies have received less attention. Overall, student food (in)security has largely lacked the overt equity- and justice-based lenses more frequently applied to broader food security and systems scholarship and practice. In the JUSTICE AND EQUITY APPROACHES TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENT FOOD (IN)SECURITY special section in JAFSCD , guest co-editors Rachael Budowle, Christine M. Porter, and Caitlin McLennan coalesce many authors? empirical and practical contributions on these issues. This is the first section in a new series sponsored by the Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability (INFAS) in partnership with JAFSCD. Corresponding editor Rachael Budowle can be contacted at rbudowle@vt.edu. KEY FINDINGS The six peer-reviewed articles, one commentary, and two practice briefs in this section contribute to and explore: * expanding the literature on underlying factors contributing to student food insecurity and which groups of students disproportionately experience it; * approaches for addressing student food insecurity that are explicitly equity-based for and with historically marginalized and underrepresented student populations; and * student-led and other approaches that contribute to justice (e.g., novel, radical, and systemic, seeking to move beyond emergency support; dignity-based, sharing, and stigma-reducing). RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH Perhaps nowhere is it more in academics? purview?responsibility, even?to do this work than at home at their own colleges and universities, where they can ally with students and collaborate with other partners to make equity and justice non-negotiable principles of student food security. This section of papers aims to advance a research agenda and form a community of practice around equitable, just, systemic, and transformative approaches to understanding and addressing student food insecurity in higher education. 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. 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