[BCFSN] Public Policy

[John McLeod]

Apologies to those of you on the COMFOOD listserv.

Cathryn

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From: Colin Anderson <colinrayanderson at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM
Subject: [COMFOOD: ] Free in July - Special Journal Issue on Cooperatives
and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives
To: comfood at elist.tufts.edu


Greetings,

A special issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community
Development <http://www.agdevjournal.com> (JAFSCD) on Cooperatives and
Alternative Food Systems Initiatives has just been completed and will be
freely available — no subscription needed! — through the month of July.
http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-4-issue-3.html. We are doing this to
make these papers more readily available to researchers and practitioners.
It also offers prospective subscribers a chance to explore the contents of
JAFSCD. I encourage you to share this notice with your colleagues and
networks.

*The Special Issue: *
*Working Together to Build Cooperative Food Systems*
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 4(3)
*Edited by:  Anderson, C.R., Brushett, L., Renting, H. and T. Gray*
A recent emphasis on cooperation and innovative forms of collective action
within the food movement invokes a community-centered approach to food
provisioning where collective problem solving and democracy take centre
place in the development agenda. Cooperative alternative food networks are
becoming powerful tools for community development and important vehicles
for cultivating democratically controlled food systems at multiple
scales.  The articles in this special issue provide an important
contribution to our understanding of the function, the challenges and
the potential of cooperativism and collective action in enabling more just
and resilient food systems. (from editorial introduction).

*The Journal*: JAFSCD is an online, international, peer-reviewed
publication that 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. As the journal focuses on
the practice of agriculture and food system development, empirical and
methodological content are emphasized over purely theoretical writing.
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 high impact approaches to
publishing that will inform the practice of professionals in government,
the nonprofit sector, the private sector and in academia while also
developing a broad knowledge base and conceptual models.

*Submit:* JAFSCD is eager to publish work from around the world. Please
consider submitting: http://www.agdevjournal.com/submissions.html

*Subscribe: *For those who are affiliated with a university, but do not
have institutional access to this journal, please consider recommending it
to your library. Individual subscription options are also available as are
rates for non-profits and other agencies. Visit here for more details:
http://www.agdevjournal.com/subscribe.html

Regards,

*Colin Anderson*
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University
ab7359 at coventry.ac.uk
*http://www.farmtoforkresearch.com <http://www.farmtoforkresearch.com>*



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