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Photo at top: A Concord grape vineyard overlooks Lake Erie in the Concord Grape Belt outside Westfield, New York. Photo copyright © 2007 by Duncan Hilchey.
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New Leaf Consulting Services Brochure 2009.pdfSurvey of Potential Journal Subscribers
As a key part of our planning for publishing an agriculture and food system development journal, New Leaf conducted an on-line survey of potential subscribers, including NGO and agency staffers, farmers, and academics. We recently tabulated the results of the first 1,000 respondents. We were pleased - though not surprised! - at the level of interest in a peer-reviewed journal on agriculture and food system development. As a group, respondents leaned toward a traditional peer-reviewed journal that includes both a set of articles on a theme as well as a smorgasbord of non-theme content. Naturally, there were a couple of questions raised by respondents about how this new journal would relate to existing publications and networks. We will design the new journal to complement the content of existing publications and support the critical work of collaborative networks that have been established in recent years.
Please let us know if you have any questions or thoughts to share about the journal (duncan@newleafnet.com). Visit our Publishing page to get more details.
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LATEST NEWS FROM
NEW LEAF:
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development announces
a new Call for Papers
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is a NEW online, international, peer-reviewed journal focused on applied research and best practices in the development of thriving farming communities and sustainable food systems. Peer reviewers include development practitioners, organization and agency staff, faculty, graduate students, consultants, and farmers from around the world with expertise in a wide range of agriculture and food systems issues as they relate to community, ecological sustainability, and economic development. The Journal is online at www.AgDevJournal.com.
Authors are invited to submit papers under one of two categories:
1. OPEN CALL
The Journal welcomes papers at any time on any subject related to the development aspects of agriculture and food systems.
2. SPECIAL TOPIC CALL
BEST PRACTICES IN URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT
JAFSCD welcomes research or policy briefs, case studies (up to 2,500 words) and full articles (up to 8,500 words) on best community-development practices related to:
- Urban livestock management and regulation
- Urban market gardening and backyard gardening
- Marketing and value-adding
- Waste management and reuse
- Urban farming by immigrant or other special populations
- Farming on the fringe
Submissions will be accepted through July 15, 2010.
Click here to visit the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development website.
AgDevONLINE is Coming!
Agriculture Development Online (AgDevONLINE), a companion website to the practitioners' journal of agriculture and food system development, is also under development. AgDevONLINE will will provide practitioners with a vehicle for sharing ideas, tools and resources to enhance their projects and professional development. The site will include polls, statistical data, and news — but the real highlights will be practitioners' white papers, student papers, and theses and dissertations that can be uploaded and shared with the world. Material can also include gray or "fugitive" material such as project reports, evaluations, articles, and the like — anything useful to other practitioners.
You may not have time to produce a peer-reviewed paper for the journal, but you just might have time to hunt around your office or computer for useful material. Who knows, you may inspire the next best practice!
We'll be blogging about the development of the journal and the AgDevONLINE website so check back periodically to get the latest news.