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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)

The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD: ISSN 2152-0801) is an online-only transdisciplinary scholarly publication published by the Food Systems Development Project of the Center for Transformative Action, affiliated with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The mission of JAFSCD is to provide cutting edge research-based content on regional food and farming issues that will lead to more equitable and sustainable food systems, and serve as a publishing vehicle for researchers, development professionals, policy-makers and activists to enter their work into the research literature. Contributors and readers span fields from the traditional social and biological sciences to emerging fields such as environmental studies, sustainability, and planning. The peer-review process is double blind and reviewers are both researchers and food systems development practitioners from around the world. JAFSCD has a strong social mission and to that end has several unique features:

Presubmission Reviews and Editorial Coaching. JAFSCD requires a query form and presubmission review of all papers conducted by the editor-in-chief to ensure a manuscript is topically appropriate and that neither the time of the author or journal staff is wasted. For promising papers that need editorial assistance the editor-in-chief will work with authors to help them prepare their manuscripts for their best chances for a positive peer review experience.

Accessible Scholarship. JAFSCD also requires its authors to utilize a writing style that is engaging, has a minimum of jargon, and uses the active voice, referred to as "accessible scholarship." As a transdisciplinary journal it is essential that a wide range of scholars, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners be able to fully understand and benefit from its published content.

JAFSCD Consulting Editor Program. JAFSCD's Consulting Editor Program (CEP) assists new authors or non–native English-speaking authors who have an important contribution to make to the agriculture, food system, and community development literature, but whose manuscript fails to meet JAFSCD editorial criteria or has other weaknesses (e.g., poor writing, structure, logic, nonstandard usage of English). It helps match these authors with editors around the world who can help improve their manuscripts and maximize their chances of being accepted for publication (depending on the outcome of the blind peer-review process).

JAFSCD and the Global South. JAFSCD available free for institutional members of AGORA, which is an initiative of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization established to make research-based publications available in the Global South.

Food Systems Briefs. JAFSCD Food Systems Briefs summarize particularly practical JAFSCD papers into 2-page briefs that encapsulate their critical points for quick reference. Papers chosen to be summarized into Food Systems Briefs are ones that practitioners can benefit from on the local or regional level.

Tiered Subscriptions and Licenses. In the interest of offering the most affordable and affordable subscriptions to individuals and licenses to institutions, JAFSCD uses a tiered system that is based on occupations and on numbers of students.

JAFSCD papers are indexed in: CAB International databases (CAB Abstracts and others) Google Scholar EBSCOhost (Environment Complete, Food Science Source, Sustainability Reference Center) ProQuest (Academic Research Library, ProQuest Central, and others)

Forthcoming: National Agriculture Library (AGRICOLA) and CNKI (CNKI Scholar, one of China’s leading databases) 	DOIs are deposited for all papers for persistent web linking. 	Perpetual access to content via LOCKSS or Portico. 	We are a SERU Participant.