Free Journal on Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives
From the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD). A new issue 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 […]
Registration Open for NOFA Summer Conference
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New Farm Beginnings Course Accepting Applications
From The Land Connection: The Land Connection is pleased to announce it has entered its tenth year of farmer training and is accepting applications for its Central Illinois Farm Beginnings course, which begins in October. This year-long farmer training program includes classroom, field day, and mentorship components that are designed to help new farmers plan […]
A Call to Action to Preserve California Farmland
Last week, the California Roundtable on Agriculture and the Environment (CRAE) released A Call to Action to Preserve California Agricultural Land, which describes a suite of policy recommendations to slow the loss of farmland in the state. Although California has the most productive farmland in the world, it is being converted to nonagricultural uses at a rate of 30,000 […]