Funding opportunity  The Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia is offering its third annual Rural Leadership Initiative grants.  Rural Leadership Initiative: promotes rural leadership development in the process of serving community needs. The intent of these grants is:  to enhance leadership within rural communities. to develop skills relating to leadership capacity. to clearly identify and build on existing resources in the community. to …

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The inaugural issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) is now online. The first issue of this international, peer-reviewed journal of applied research and policy analysis is open and available free to the public at www.AgDevJournal.com until the end of September. This allows you to check out the first issue before subscribing. “Growing New Farmers” Is First Special TopicThis inaugural issue is on …

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Host Tim Merry breaks into a spoken word piece during a recent conference at Windhorse Farm in New Germany, Nova Scotia. The conference was the start to a five year Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project to “Activate Policy Change for Community Food Secuirty”