Pick up your SHARE of JAFSCD!

The world’s first community-supported journal on local food & farming

A fundraising campaign for Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems - a project of CTA

$25

Suggested share amount for students, farmers, activists, and others

$35

Suggested share amount for Extension, nonprofit, or agency staff

$45

Suggested share amount for faculty members and consultants

Are you passionate about local food and farming?

Become an individual shareholder in the world’s first community-supported journal on local food and farming!

The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development became open access on January 1, 2018 — in our 8th year of publication. This meets our mission of providing research-based information to people on the ground working to build equitable and resilient local food systems.

Borrowing from the CSA model in the local food movement, we're spreading the cost broadly to make JAFSCD free to all as a community-supported journal. We welcome you to become an individual shareholder!

Your Share Supports Our...

author mentoring program for new authors, especially those with nonacademic backgrounds
consulting editor program for non-native English-speaking authors
outreach to historically Black, Hispanic, and Tribal institutions as well as to underserved communities

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Any donation of $25 or more makes you an individual shareholder! (We welcome contributions from organizations, agencies, and university libraries as well. Learn more about program shareholding.)

Our second year of open access proves the concept

November 26, 2019

We are so grateful for the support that has allowed us to go open access! As we wrap up our second year of being freely accessible to all, worldwide, we've seen a huge jump in both readership and submissions. Now there's no paywall between our content and our readers; a volunteer organizer of community gardens can read evidence-based research just as easily as a college professor doing research on community gardens. We think that means that JAFSCD can make a greater difference on the ground and in people's lives.

Thanks for playing a part in that.

—Amy Christian and Duncan Hilchey

Managing editor and Editor in chief

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About the Organization

Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems - a project of CTA

The Lyson Center is a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by governing laws.

The Lyson Center supports the collaboration of scholars, professionals, and active residents engaging in food systems-based community development. We publish the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD), and facilitate the North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN).

We are named in honor of Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Thomas A. Lyson, Cornell University, who coined the term "civic agriculture" to express the importance of strengthening connections between farms and their communities. Read more about Tom's work at http://www.lysoncenter.org/index.php/about-the-lyson-center/layout.

In 2018, JAFSCD transitioned to open access using an innovative "community-supported journal" model. Borrowing from a successful model in the local food movement—community supported agriculture (CSA)—will are asking college and university programs, libraries,...