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Regular Column in Anthropology Newletter (AN)

"CAFE" (formerly "Culture and Agriculture" )

Beginning in 2011, C&A’s journal gets a new home and new editors. It also has a new
name: CAFE. As announced recently by President Anita Spring, "Culture, Agriculture, Food
and Environment (CAFE), is intended to widen the journal’s purview and attract additional
participation and submissions. C&A hopes that current and future members think of the
subject 'agriculture' as larger than crop and animal production, and pays increasing attention
to forestry, fishing, and food…The journal will aim to present articles about the new theories,
enhanced methods, and major controversies on food management in peace and crisis. We hope to
bring you lively discussions, positive case studies, and lessons learned."

Food security and its related concerns of nutrition, environment and sustainable cultural
practices are the pressing local and global issues engaging academics and the communities in
which they work; and hence, broadening the focus of the journal is a logical change. To begin
this process, the journal relocates to Wake Forest University where it will be edited by Jeanne
Simonelli, with the assistance of Bill Roberts, from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Wake
Forest is happy to house the journal, as the university inaugurates a new Center for Energy,
Environment and Sustainability.

Bill and I are pleased to join the Culture and Agriculture team. The small sections and
their related publications are the pulse of AAA, and for many they are what keeps us involved
and engaged with the larger association. In taking over editorship of CAFE, we will need all of
your help and contributions. We also expect to rely heavily on the guidance of outgoing editor
Kendall Thu, who worked hard to shape the journal during his term.

Bill and I completed a successful six year tenure editing the journal Practicing
Anthropology. With Bill’s continuing focus on Africa, and mine on Latin America and the
American Southwest, we hope to be able to reach out geographically, as well as thematically.
With the AAA’s help, the journal’s logo will expand to include its new name, and we will work
to expand our editorial and review boards. We need your assistance in reviewing submissions
and new books in all of the extended journal areas. Please let me know that you want to get
involved by emailing: cafe@wfu.edu

C&A will have a table at the upcoming AAA meetings in New Orleans, and I will
join the others there to greet you. Please drop by to talk about your interests, current work and
willingness to join the team. Look for updated news on the website and through the C&A list
serves prior to the meetings. We look forward to working with all of you over the next three
years.

Jeanne Simonelli and Bill Roberts