“Good Food for All” Summary Report

Publication

NESAWG Publication, Food Access

Authors: Margaret Christie, CISA and Kathy Ruhf, NESAWG,

“Good Food for All in Southern New England” is a planning and assessment project that allowed Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA), NESAWG and partner organizations to review the current status of healthy, regionally grown food with respect to increasing the market share of this food, and simultaneously improving access to this food for low income residents of our region through large-scale market outlets.

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Regionalizing the Food System for Public Health & Sustainability

Publication

NESAWG Publication, Farming, Food Security, Land Use, Mapping, Supply Chains

Authors: 
Michael Conrad and Kubi Ackerman, Urban Design Lab

This presentation by The Urban Design Lab, part of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, makes a case for regionalizing the food system to effect positive change on our public health. The presentation was made at NESAWG’s 2010 It Takes a Region Conference.

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Vermont Meat Processing Inventory – 2010 Findings


Publication

Food Safety, Food Systems, Livestock, NESAWG Publication, Supply Chains, Sustainable Agriculture

Authors: Sam Fuller, NOFA Vermont and NESAWG Processing Infrastructure Workgroup

This report represents outcomes of the Processing Infrastructure Workgroup formed at NESAWG’s November 2009 It Takes a Region Conference and reflects the group’s meat production and processing research and planning efforts at two scales: the Northeast region and the state of Vermont.

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A NEW ENGLAND FOOD VISION

Publication

Food Systems

Authors: Food Solutions New England

A New England Food Vision describes a future in which New England produces at least half of the region’s food—and no one goes hungry. Developed by Food Solutions New England, it proposes changes in food production, distribution, and consumption reaching from the most rural areas to the densest cities—across the entire food system.

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Evaluation for Transformation

Publication

Food Systems, Policy & Advocacy

Authors: The National Farm to School Network

The National Farm to School Network (NFSN) launched a pioneering and highly anticipated new resource, Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm to School, that defines the outcomes that farm to school has the potential to achieve and offers common language, guidelines and metrics to understand those outcomes for the first time. The framework is organized around four key sectors: public health, community economic development, education and environmental quality. Beyond the four sectors, the framework is also structured around three levels of action: program, research and policy.

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