In This Issue: Sustainable Livelihoods: An Evolving Asset-based Strategy for Food Systems Development

Abstract

First paragraph: We are very pleased to announce that noted food systems consultant and researcher Kate Clancy has just become a columnist for JAFSCD. Kate is a food systems consultant, visiting scholar at the Center for a Livable Future, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, and senior fellow at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture. I first met her in 1987 while she was helping organize the Onondaga County (New York) Food Policy Council — one of the first county-based FPCs in the U.S . Her column, Digging Deeper: Bringing a Systems Approach to Food Systems, will focus on regional food systems, food security, agriculture of the middle, and policies at all levels to encourage the development of resilient food systems....

Keywords

• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Asset-based Development