About AFHVS The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS) is a prominent professional organization which provides an international forum to engage in the cross-disciplinary study of food, agriculture, and health, as well as an opportunity for examining the values that underlie various visions of food and agricultural systems. From a base of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, AFHVS has grown to include scientists, scholars, and practitioners in areas ranging from agricultural production and social science to nutrition policy and the humanities. AFHVS encourages participation by the growing community of researchers and professionals exploring alternative visions of the food system from numerous perspectives and approaches, including local and regional food systems; alternative food movements; agricultural and food policies, agricultural sustainability, food justice, issues of local and global food security, and food sovereignty. In a series of visioning sessions and membership surveys between 2012 and 2015, the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society has collaboratively discussed its vision and values as a learning community, putting our mission into practice more operationally via an emphasis on:
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| IN THE SPOTLIGHT The Food Justice Curriculum Project is an ongoing, collaborative effort between the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association. Together, we collect curricular materials (syllabi, assignments, activities) that address justice in the food system and make those materials publicly available to educators and community practitioners. Link: Repository of food justice curricular materials Link: SAEA's Teaching Resources page Do you have food justice curricular materials to share? Please send PDF(s) to FoodJusticePedagogy@afhvs.org. Recent forum postings
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