Publisher: American Planning Association
Author(s): Hodgson, Kimberley
Document Type: Report
Format: Electronic
Free of cost: Yes
Description:
This report provides an overview of results from a multi-year study that identified and evaluated how local comprehensive and sustainability plans are supporting food related goals and policies. The report identifies 105 plans that explicitly address food access and other aspects of the food system; analyzes how a subset of these plans support and advance healthy, sustainable food systems; identifies common themes and innovative features for implementing plan policies and achieving plan goals; offers sample plan language of food systems related vision statements, goals, policies, action items and implementation mechanisms; and provides data collection and assessment tools to monitor and evaluate changes in the local food system over time.
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Growing Food Connection Topic: community food connections, community food production, community food security
Main Food Topics: agriculture, agriculture preservation, food access, food assistance, food availability, food distribution, food processing, food procurement, food production, food retail, food security, food system
Sub Food Topics: Affordability, SNAP, WIC, agricultural practices, animals, buy local, commercial kitchen, community garden, community kitchen, corner store or bodega, farm, farm to school, farmers market, fast-food, food bank, food infrastructure, food pantry, food stamps, grocery store, liquor store, low-income, mobile market, supermarket, underserved population(s), value-added, vulnerable population(s)
Public Policy Topics: Non-binding policies, Physical projects, Plans, Programs, Public investment, Regulations/laws
Geographic Scale: County, Municipality, Suburban, Urban
Local government or Regional resource focus:
Does the resource address the food security needs of underserved populations in rural, suburban, or urban settings? YES
