IN THIS ISSUE: Fostering Access to Local Food Data

Authors

  • Duncan Hilchey Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2018.081.017

Keywords:

Data Analysis, GIS, Mapping, Contents

Abstract

First paragraphs:

Our cover for this issue depicts the growing adaptation of statistical, infographic, and geographic information systems tools to local food system data. As a city and regional planning student with a specialty in food systems back in the mid-1980s, I could only have dreamed of such technology. We had Excel, of course, and I made the most of its charting tools, but nothing tells a story like a 3D color-coded data map!

At JAFSCD, we like to think we are fostering access to local food data. Every year we see new applications of the burgeoning technology available. Frankly, it is comforting to think that visual displays of information like the one on this issue’s cover provide not only a means for experts to discover new spatial information, but also for sharing information with lay people and allowing them to identify and contribute critical insights as well. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words; most of us are visual learners. In the not-too-distant future, we will be asking JAFSCD authors to make their data available for use by other researchers and practitioners for the benefit of the greater good—as part of our new open access, community-supported journal model....

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Author Biography

Duncan Hilchey, Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

Publisher and editor in chief of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Ithaca, New York.
Cover of volume 8, issue 1 (spring 2018)

Published

2018-04-09

How to Cite

Hilchey, D. (2018). IN THIS ISSUE: Fostering Access to Local Food Data. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2018.081.017

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