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Urban Agriculture Tool Kit

Food Access, Food Systems, Local and Regional Food Systems

This urban agriculture toolkit lays out the common operational elements that most urban farmers must consider as they start up or grow their operations.

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Vacant Lots to Vibrant Plots

Food Justice, Food Systems, Land Use

Raychel Santo, Anne Palmer, Brent Kim

This review provides an overview of the documented sociocultural, health, environmental, and economic development outcomes of urban agriculture.

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Instituting Change: An Overview of Institutional Food Procurement and Recommendations for Improvement

Farm to Institution

Claire Fitch and Raychel Santo

This report reviews the literature and key information resources regarding institutional food service procurement systems, presents the potential benefits of a large-scale shift among institutional procurement policies, discusses some of the existing barriers to the adoption of policies that favor regionally and/or sustainably produced food, and provides recommendations and tools for influencing institutional food procurement practices

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