| Jurisdiction Name: | Santa Fe |
| State/Province: | NM |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 83,776 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2018 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | climate change, food economy, food security, health, healthy food, local food system, nutrition education, sustainability plan |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Santa Fe City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Santa Fe Food Policy Council; Santa Fe Department of Public Works |
| Support Entity(s): | Sustainable Santa Fe Commission |
| Funding Amount: | unknown |
| Funding Sources: | Santa Fe Community Foundation and McCune provided grants to conduct the Community Conversations |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Sustainable Santa Fe is a 25-year plan that uses the Triple Bottom Line framework to build a carbon-neutral and sustainable community. The three components of the framework are: environmental resilience, economic vitality, and quality of life/social equity. Under the elements quality of life and social equity, ‘food systems’ is outlined as its own objective to support and strengthen the connection between and within local food systems by working with system actors and consumers to enhance sustainable practices, support the local food economy, and ensure food security. The food system objective has specific targets of: achieving annual increases in the City of Santa Fe’s procurement of New Mexico grown produce, increasing community access to food retail outlets, and expanding opportunities for local food producers to sell and distribute food locally. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
