Become a JAFSCD Individual Shareholder

Get your share of fresh weekly JAFSCD content delivered directly to your email inbox from the world’s only community-supported local food systems journal!

Borrowing from the community supported agriculture (CSA) model in the local food movement, we invite you to join with others to contribute what you can in order to keep JAFSCD free to all.

We have many shareholders that are academic programs or departments, nonprofit organizations, academic libraries, etc. But for those who are unaffiliated or don't have a budget to draw from, we welcome your individual share!

Click here to become an individual shareholder

Your share helps JAFSCD grow and have greater impact:

  • Maintains our open access model — no paywall for anyone around the world
  • Supports outreach and engagement programs for emerging authors
  • Supports a new column on Indigenous food sovereignty
  • Expands Voices from the Grassroots commentaries
  • Launches our Wicked Problems webinar series
  • Helps us buy a new publishing platform

Your share also supports our . . .

  • Author mentoring program for new authors, especially those with nonacademic backgrounds
  • English as a Second Language support for authors whose first language is not English
  • Engagement with historically Black, Hispanic, and Tribal institutions as well as with underserved communities
  • Outreach to authors of color
  • Upgrades to our website
  • Equitable pay for our editors and honoraria for key volunteers

Shareholder benefits include . . . 

  • Receiving our JAFSCD News Flash when new content is published
  • Participating in an annual equity and impact survey of the journal
  • Getting published by submitting your own Voices from the Grassroots commentary
  • Being listed annually as a personal shareholder in JAFSCD


One simple act can make a world of difference

Share amount: No amount is too small

Click here to become an individual shareholder!

JAFSCD has had enormous impact since its inception! The journal is pioneering, integrative and relevant. Im glad to support this innovative effort to ensure its reach and accessibility for all interested scholars and practitioners.

—Clare Hinrichs, Penn State University

  

Thank You to All Who Have Joined!

Were making steady progress toward our goal of US$5,000 from individual shareholders: