Student Paper Awards

Both sponsoring societies, AFHVS and ASFS will give awards for the best student papers. See the ASFS site http://food-culture.org/student.html for the call for ASFS Student Prize Papers. NOTE: No double submissions (see below)

I. Agriculture Food and Human Values Society Student Essay Competition

Eligibility. Students who submit abstracts to present at the 2008 Joint Annual Meeting may also submit a full version of their paper to be considered in the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society student essay competition. The AFHV Society Student Paper Award Committee will select up to one undergraduate student and one graduate student to receive awards for contributed papers of scholarly excellence.

Theme. Papers should be related to the production, distribution, or consumption of food, fiber, and natural resources. AFHVS promotes open discussion of questions such as the sustainability of modern food production practices; alternative visions of food systems; the benefits and risks of biological technologies; and food security in developed and developing countries.

Award. Each award will include a $400 stipend and payment of the registration fee and banquet ticket for the 2008 AFHVS Annual Meeting Meeting (June 4-8, 2008) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Requirements. Award winners are expected to present their paper at the annual meeting. Each submission must be accompanied by an e-mail or letter from the student's academic supervisor verifying that the author is an undergraduate or graduate student, and that the student was the primary person responsible for the paper's genesis, development, and writing.

No Double Submissions: Papers submitted to AFHVS cannot be submitted to the Association for the Study of Food and Society Student Paper Award (and vice versa). AFHVS reserves the right to refer papers to ASFS.

Opportunity for Publication. Based on the recommendation of the Student Paper Award Committee recommendation, the papers may be forwarded to the journal of Agriculture and Human Values for further peer review. Note that papers submitted for the student paper competition do not have a required format. To be submitted to the Society's Journal for publication, however, papers should be full-length and in the format specified by the journal. (For full details, see www.afhvs.org).

Deadline. Submissions must be e-mailed or postmarked by March 28, 2008. It is preferred that abstracts be submitted on disk (Corel Word Perfect, MS Word, or a text file) or as a file attachment by electronic mail to Dr. Marcy Ostrom, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, 1100 N. Western Ave., Wenatchee, WA 98801. E-mail: mrostrom@wsu.edu. Please include no embedded codes. Clean typewritten submissions are also welcome. Include your name, full address, email address, and affiliation after the paper title and before the text of the abstract. Notification of awards will be made by April 30th, 2008.