The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well-being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive risks, define and seek to solve problems, and develop the knowledge necessary to clear new pathways for rural livelihoods and urban development. In Urban Expansion, Agrarian Shifts, and Decentralized Governance in Thailand's Isaan Region, Gregory Gullette and Sayamon Singto examine the multi-faceted effects of urbanization and structural changes on natural resource availabilities and how those changes affect the livelihood options of agrarian families. Their rich ethnographic data show how agrarian families in Thailand negotiate a recently decentralized system of governance to adapt their households; these households discover opportunities, but also develop new anxieties related to urban expansion and changing markets. Kaoru Fukuda takes us into the lives of small-scale farmers in The Advantage of Natural Farming as an Eco-Friendly Way of Living: Practice and Discourse on the “Learners’ Fields” in Fukuoka, Japan. The author spent time working alongside followers of Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, whose Natural Farming techniques included a reverence for the natural balance of the ecosystem. Practitioners avoid soil tillage, fertilizers, and pest eradication to produce food for their own consumption. Fukuda's research shows the deep commitment of the farmers in the Learners’ Fields, as well as some inherent contradictions in their beliefs and practice. Unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), more commonly known as “fracking,” has recently caused upheavals in rural communities throughout the U.S. Nowhere is the presence of fracking more deeply felt than in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania, where Melissa N. Poulsen, Lisa Baily-Davis, Joseph DeWalle, Jacob Mowery, and Brian S. Schwartz conducted research exploring differences in perception of UNGD held by conventional and sustainable farmers. In Agricultural Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development: Divergent Perceptions of Sustainable and Conventional Farmers, the authors present the results of their mixed-methods research and explore how UNGD affects agricultural production in three Pennsylvania communities. In Coffee Landscapes: Specialty Coffee, Terroir, and Traceability in Costa Rica, Julia Smith shows how coffee farmers blend two concepts that are usually seen as contradictory. As Costa Rican coffee producers work to set themselves apart from the rest of the global commodity trade, they use strategies of traceability to identify the specific origins of their coffee, sometimes down to a corner of a field. While traceability is more commonly an impersonal mechanism used to identify otherwise faceless commodities in global supply chains, Costa Rican farmers have adopted the strategy to show the world that theirs is a coffee that “tastes of something.” In Offsetting Risk: Organic Food, Pollution, and the Transgression of Spatial Boundaries, Giovanni Orlando explores the reasons why people living in the Southern Italian city of Palermo consume organic foods. Palermitans choose to eat organic to offset risks posed by an urban environment that they see as polluted by many harmful substances that cause poor health. Orlando argues that organic consumption in Palermo reveals the breakdown of boundaries between nature and society in a post-Pasteurian world where risks become spatially incalculable and detached from social positioning. Organic foods become a way to offset or partially mitigate the ubiquitous risks posed by the urban environment. Jennifer Sweeny Tookes, Peggy Barlett, and Tracy Yandle explore Georgia farmers market shoppers’ concepts of local in The Case for Local and Sustainable Seafood: The Georgia Example. In Georgia, as elsewhere in the U.S., shoppers are seeking out food that is locally or sustainably produced. The authors of this article show how distribution mechanisms, as well as consumers’ lack of knowledge about seafood produced in Georgia's waters, has led to an underdeveloped local, sustainable seafood market in the state. They propose a three-tiered, values-based model to show how and where consumers can become knowledgeable actors and successfully intervene in the local seafood supply chain. Finally, Emily McKee's research report, “It's the Amazon World:” Small-Scale Farmers on an Entrepreneurial Treadmill, describes how farmers in northern Illinois negotiate the emergence of new marketing schemes and online sales outlets for organic, heirloom, and locally produced foods. CSA memberships and farmers market sales have dropped markedly in the last two years as consumers purchase food and ready-made meal kits online. Small-scale farmers in Northern Illinois worry about these “tectonic” shifts and scramble to adjust to new consumer tastes by hopping on what McKee calls an “entrepreneurial treadmill” that takes their time and resources away from the fields. McKee calls for engaged anthropological scholarship to help farmers better understand and adjust to emerging market trends and to help eaters better comprehend the people and processes that bring local and sustainable foods to their tables. This issue marks an editorial transition, as CAFE bids farewell to Stephanie Paladino, who began her tenure as co-editor in 2013. Stephanie's keen editorial eye and commitment to work closely with authors to help them bring out their best work has been a significant asset to the journal. We now welcome Megan Styles, who joined Brandi Janssen as co-editor in January of this year. Megan's research on horticulture in Kenya and U.S. food systems is an excellent fit for CAFE and we are enthusiastic about CAFE's position as one of very few outlets for anthropologists and other social scientists to share their work on global agricultural and environmental issues.