Editorial Announcements: Seeking Input on New Policy and Practice Briefs in Food Systems Work

2025-02-06T11:23:42-08:00

Futher Details
Briefs will be peer-reviewed, and we will encourage authors to team up with experienced researchers, practitioners, professionals, and government officials to co-author the briefs. Briefs will be short and will distill currently best-known practices in local and regional food systems development work across the key food system domains: food production, distribution, and consumption. Briefs will summarize well-researched and well-established policies and practices that address wicked problems (or ”wicked solutions”) in food systems development, and, to the maximum degree possible, emphasize circularity (waste minimization and reuse). References and links to lengthier reports and peer-reviewed literature must be included as well.

Please note that although they are intended to be authoritative, JAFSCD Briefs are not intended to be adopted as the final word on a model program, policy, or practice. Their purpose is to inform and inspire food system development adaptations. In so doing, briefs may be revised, and possibly even retracted if their utility becomes questionable over time.

Example of JAFSCD Briefs might include a case study of a successful and long-running food prescription (food as medicine) program, a successful year-round farmers market, food hub, grower cooperative, farmer-to-farmer program, farm incubator, corner store selling produce in an underinvested neighborhood, an agrihood, a community-owned grocery, policy guidelines for institutions, or approaches to governance and great intergovernmental coordination. They may also be postmortem analyses of a failed initiative, diagnosing the barriers and challenges.

A JAFSCD Brief could include a case study, survey results, policy analysis, or model practice, but will be required to include practical benefits, challenges, specific recommendations, and, where applicable, financial information. Briefs should be matter-of-fact and not be self-congratulatory, or promotional. We will require conflict of interest disclosures about the authors, and the limitations of the adoptability or adaptability of the policy or practice.

The general criteria for peer review will be quality of the information and writing, practicality, universality, and timelessness. Each JAFSCD Briefs series will have its own international peer review team of experts.

Your Input Is Valued!
Our first step in developing JAFSCD Program, Policy, and Practice Briefs in Food Systems is securing input from potential authors and users of the briefs.

Please take 5-8 minutes of your time to answer a few questions and share your thoughts.

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Editorial Announcements: Seeking Input on New Policy and Practice Briefs in Food Systems Work