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The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development calls for papers on a wide range of topics (and geographic areas) that explore the intersection of cooperatives with alternative food systems initiatives.

Papers could include topics related to:

• Consumer cooperatives, farmer co-ops, worker co-ops, cooperative food hubs, fair-trade co-ops, multistakeholder co-ops, cooperative farms
• Challenges, barriers, best practices, key tools, strategies
• How these initiatives embody new forms of "food citizenship" and alternative governance structures that bridge the production-consumption divide
• The role of technology (e.g. websites, new media, video, RFID tags, matchmaking/logistics software platforms)
• Innovative organizational structures and governance
• Policy, advocacy, or regulatory issues
• Economic, social, and/or environmental impact assessments
• Economic viability or new institutional economics
• How these initiatives are incubators of social innovation and inform changes in wider society
• Cooperation among cooperatives and cooperatives' support organizations
• Transformative learning in cooperatives
• Organizational design to protect social justice goals
• Concerns about gender, race, culture, class, and justice
• The relationships between farmers, consumers and workers in and across cooperatives
• The relationship between cooperatives and food democracy, food justice, and food sovereignty
• Social capital or social embeddedness

More information.

Deadline (full manuscripts): August 1, 2013

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