The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) announces a call for papers and essays for a Special Issue, “COVID-19 and the Food System”. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2020. JAFSCD is calling for four types of submissions: For publication in the 2020-2021 Winter Issue: Research Papers (4,500 to...

The study shows a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional farms in Benito Juarez, Buenos Aires (Argentina). The research shows the evolution of direct costs per hectare and gross margin in both models over a 14-year period. It concludes that conventional farms' expenses tend to rise due to the increased...

Several innovative farming systems have been identified to promote global food and ecosystem security that better balance multiple sustainability goals. The most rapidly growing and contentious of these systems is organic agriculture. Whether organic agriculture can continue to expand will likely be determined by whether it is economically competitive with...

Today’s food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems; high GHG emissions; biodiversity losses; persistent hunger and micro-nutrient deficiencies alongside the rapid rise of obesity and diet-related diseases;...

The present study aims to build a framework and provide a quantitative overview of the effects of adopting selected agroecological practices at the farm level. A literature review has been conducted to identify scientific work addressing agroecology's contribution to a set of socio-economic indicators, which affect human, financial, and social...

The study shows how Brazil's National School Feeding Programme (PNAE, its acronym in Portuguese)  contributed to fostering: on-farm transitions from low agrobiodiversity, input-intensive farming oriented to diversified farming systems (i.e., horticultural production), and a significant increase of the cultivated area under diversified farming systems. The horticultural output conversion favored the...