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Please contact Anne Palmer at apalmer6@jhu.edu or Karen Bassarab at kbanks10@jhu.edu if you are looking for specific materials.

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Photo: Campus-community hub

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Adams County Food Policy Council
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Photo

Gettysburg College transitioned one acre of land and designated resources to create a campus-community hub for food justice. Students and immigrant families work together on the Painted Turtle Farm to grow vegetables, increase the availability of fresh, culturally desirable food, and share food traditions while creating pathways toward larger-scale farming. The initiative is financially supported by produce sold through a ten-member Certified Naturally Grown Community Supported Agriculture program.

Image credit: Kim Davidson, Adams County Food Policy Council; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

By downloading this image, you agree to use the photo within the context that it was taken. You also agree to never use it for commercial purposes. The image always belongs to the original photographer and should be attributed to the photographer and Center for a Livable Future Food Policy Networks Photo Contest.

Photo: Chefs and Farmers Summit

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Montgomery County Food Council
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Photo

The work of the Food Council is accomplished primarily through its five Working Groups, led by Council Members and populated by local residents committed to our mission. The goal of our Food Economy working group is to develop and sustain an economically viable local food system in Montgomery County that supports producers, distributors, retailers, and consumers of local foods. The group is coordinating a year-long Eat Local Challenge, featuring four seasonal recipe challenges, in partnership with local farmers, restaurants, and markets to connect local producers with local purchasers, promote place-branded marketing, and highlight the quality of county products. To kick off the challenge, in February 2015, the Food Council hosted a Chefs and Farmers Summit at the Universities at Shady Grove, hosted by Food Council member Susan Callahan, chef instructor for the Hospitality and Tourism Program at UMES, and her Food Service Purchasing class.

Over 50 food producers, purchasers, and local government and non-profit leaders were brought together to develop business opportunities and discuss the barriers to buying local products. Local farmers and food producers brought their products with them (including beets, eggs, milk rabbit, apples, and salad dressing). After a morning of networking and brainstorming potential means to better connect local purchasers and producers, the farmers and local chefs worked side by side in the kitchen to prepare a buffet lunch utilizing only seasonal, local ingredients. Dishes included a crispy rabbit tostada, a kale salad with spicy beef jerky, and a dark chocolate cake made with local eggs and complemented with rich chocolate milk. Lunchtime included a presentation from students on a summary of the outcomes from the morning's discussions, with additional commentary provided by Jeremy Criss, Agriculture Services Manager for the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, and Dan Hoffman, Montgomery County Chief Innovation Officer, and Heather Bruskin, Food Council Manager. Overall, the day was a perfect illustration of the Food Council's mission in action, connecting a wide variety of stakeholders, highlighting Montgomery County food products, and inspiring all attendees to collaborate and build a stronger, more sustainable local food system. Pictured: Jeremy Criss, Montgomery County Agricultural Services Division; Mary Fendrick, Woodbourne Creamery;  Jeff Eng, Clyde's Tower Oaks;  Mark Mills, Chocolates & Tomatoes Farm. 

Image credit: Randie Hovatter, Universities of Shady Grove; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: Freedom Farmers' Market

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Mandela Foods Cooperative
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Photo

Pictured here are Ms. Maddy's hands, revealing her pea shelling wisdom, in route to win Freedom Farmers Market's first annual black-eyed pea shelling contest. Mandela Foods Cooperative vends healthy locally made products at FFM on Saturdays and partners in marketing Freedom Farmers' Market - a cooperative in its own right, bringing legacy foods from black farmers and other underserved farmers to Oakland. Over 50 people attended this fun-loving multi-generational pea shelling competition. Ms. Maddy took home 5lbs of the esteemed purple hull peas grown on Scott Family Farms in Fresno, CA, as her prize.

Image credit: Adrionna Fike, Mandela Food Cooperative; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: Fresh Corners

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Appetite For Change
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Photo

This photo is of Reggie, one of the urban farmers we work with through our Fresh Corners initiative. He was testifying before a City of Minneapolis City Council Committee to advocate for changing the Urban Agriculture policy to allow growers to sell produce on their property in a market garden/farm stand more than 15 days out of the growing season. The council made the change, and now urban farmers can host market gardens at their site 75 days per year. 

Image credit: Michelle Horovitz, Appetite For Change; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: Girl Power: Urban Farming

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West Broadway Farmers Market
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Photo

Girl Power: Urban Farming. Three young women push a wheelbarrow of freshly picked lettuce to opening day of the West Broadway Farmers Market in North Minneapolis, MN. These and other local youth working with WBFM partner, Appetite for Change, grow produce at various urban gardens just blocks from the site of the market.

Image credit: DeVon Nolen, West Broadway Farmers Market; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: LA Food Day

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Los Angeles Food Policy Council
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Photo

This past Food Day, stakeholders from across sectors joined City Council members on the South Lawn of Los Angeles City Hall at the LA Food Policy Council's event designed to create broader public awareness on the state of our local food systems, commemorate forward movement on innovative food policies, and highlight the City's leadership in bringing Los Angeles closer to a more equitable and sustainable food system. Pictured are our triumphant Good Food Champions alongside our Leadership Board Chair Michael Flood as he acknowledges each of them for their dynamic contribution toward a better food system.

Image credit: Camille de la Vega, Los Angeles Food Policy Council; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: Laying Hens

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The Mayor's Initiative for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System Portland, Maine
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Photo

This beautiful photo of two laying hens perfectly demonstrates food policy in action. By City ordinance, Portland allows homeowners to keep domesticated chickens, which supports the Mayor's Initiative mission to promote and increase access to locally raised food. These hens live in the St. John Neighborhood of Portland and, with their 4 sisters, provide nearly 3 dozen eggs weekly to their owners and local residents. They are named Click and Clack.

Image credit: Stephanie Gagne, The Mayor's Initiative for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System Portland, Maine; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

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Photo: Urban Ag Zoning

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Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
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Photo

Mayor Bill Peduto and Councilwoman Deb Gross stand alongside representatives from Pittsburgh City Planning, Burgh Bees, Grow Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council, and Pittsburgh Pro-Poultry People after a press conference celebrating Pittsburgh City Council's unanimous approval of amendments to Pittsburgh's Urban Ag Zoning code. The changes will make keeping chickens, bees and goats permitted by right, while significantly reducing the permit fee, and allow for easier sale of produce grown on private lots. Leaders from these groups have worked collaboratively, over the past three years, to craft and eventually pass these changes.

Image credit: Dora Walmsley, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council; CLF Food Policy Networks Photo Contest, 2015.

By downloading this image, you agree to use the photo within the context that it was taken. You also agree to never use it for commercial purposes. The image always belongs to the original photographer and should be attributed to the photographer and Center for a Livable Future Food Policy Networks Photo Contest.

Food Rescue Services, Barriers, and Recommendations in Santa Clara County

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Food Shift
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Report

In early 2015 Food Shift was hired by the Santa Clara County Recycling and Waste Reduction Commission's Technical Advisory Committee to research where and why food is being wasted in the region, to identify community insights and solutions, and to make tangible recommendations to the county to make food recovery more efficient, effective, and equitable. Food Shift's research process consisted of interviewing and surveying numerous food businesses (restaurants, grocery stores, schools, etc.), food assistance groups (soup kitchens, food banks, senior centers, etc.), and food recovery groups (gleaning organizations, food recovery apps, etc.). This report gives a summary of food rescue policies and efforts in Santa Clara County, data and key findings from surveys and interviews, barriers to food rescue, recommendations for the county, and examples of successful programs across the nation.

Created by: Dana Frasz, Hanna Morris, Ruth Abbe, Marie Mourad, and Emily Rehberger.

Community Development Block Grants: Linking Health & Economic Development through Food Retail

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National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), a ChangeLab Solution
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Fact Sheet

Small food retailers in low-income neighborhoods often want to sell healthier, more affordable food, but many lack the resources necessary to do it. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is a flexible federal funding program that provides communities with resources to address a wide range of needs. Initiatives to support small store owners who wish to carry healthy foods may be eligible for CDBG funding. This fact sheet provides an overview of the CDBG program and discusses which healthy food retail activities might qualify for funding.

Marketing Matters: A White Paper on Strategies to Reduce Unhealthy Food Marketing to Young Children

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ChangeLab Solutions
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Report

This white paper explains the importance of regulating marketing to kids, describes unhealthy marketing practices and their effects, and outlines the different policy options. It equips jurisdictions with the data and tools necessary to combat the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to young children. It provides a detailed legal analysis of the options available, and discusses strategies communities can use to reduce unhealthy marketing.

Created by Sabrina Adler, Rio Holaday, Seth Mermin, and Amy Ackerman

The Legal Basis for a Land Bank in Kansas: A Discussion of the Legal Requirements and Sample Language

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Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Report

Local governments across Kansas are interested in ways to manage vacant and derelict land, perhaps even converting that land into sites dedicated as community gardens or open space. In 1996 and 2009, the Kansas Legislature addressed this by authorizing cities to create land banks via ordinance and authorizing counties to create land banks via resolution. This resource discusses the legal requirements set forth by state law and provides sample language to help cities and counties draft an ordinance or resolution establishing a land bank.

Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Food Policy to Work in the Navajo Nation

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Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, COPE, The Navajo Nation
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Toolkit

This toolkit aims to bolster the efforts to increase food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation by describing existing laws and policies that impact the Navajo food system, highlighting innovative efforts to improve food policy by other tribal and local communities, and offering strategies to advocate for policy change. The toolkit is intended to serve as a reference for community leaders, food advocates, and members of the Navajo government, federal government, state governments, and local Chapter governments.

Created by Sarah Downer, Ona Balkus, Emily Broad Leib, and Kelliann Blazek

Sustainable Food Cities Network Call for Government Action on Food Poverty

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Sustainable Cities Network
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Policy

This declaration is a call to action on food poverty for Sustainable Food Cities Network local food partnerships and other city-wide organisations in the United Kingdom. The call if for urgent action by government to reduce benefit delays, review how benefit sanctions and welfare reforms are being implemented, and eliminate unnecessary hardship, hunger and distress.

The Role of Partnerships in U.S. Food Policy Council Policy Activities

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PLoS ONE
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Article

Food Policy Councils (FPC) help to identify and address the priorities of local, state, and regional food systems with the goal of improving food systems through policy. There is limited research describing FPCs' strategies for accomplishing this goal. As part of a larger study examining FPC policy efforts, this paper investigates the role of partnerships in food systems policy change. We conducted interviews with representatives from 12 purposefully selected FPCs in the United States and 6 policy experts identified by the selected FPC representatives to document and describe their policy work. One theme that emerged from those interviews was the role of partners. Interviewees described a range of partners (e.g., stakeholders from government, business, and education) and credited FPC partnerships with advancing their policy goals by increasing the visibility and credibility of FPCs, focusing their policy agenda, connecting FPCs to key policy inputs (e.g., local food community knowledge and priorities), and obtaining stakeholder buy-in for policy initiatives. Partnerships were also described as barriers to policy progress when partners were less engaged or had either disproportionate or little influence in a given food sector. Despite these challenges, partnerships were found to be valuable for FPCs efforts to effectively engage in the food policy arena.

Community Food Security in the United States: A Survey of the Scientific Literature Volume II

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Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
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Report

This reports documents and synthesizes research on community food security (CFS) in the United States. It includes research on assessing the impact of food policy councils and other CFS initiatives including CSAs, farmers markets, community gardens, and healthy food retail.

Created by: Wei-ting Chen, Megan L. Clayton, and Anne Palmer.

District of Columbia Act 20-483: Food Policy Council and Director Establishment Act of 2014

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Council of the District of Columbia
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Policy

This legislation establishes a District of Columbia Food Policy Council with 13 voting members to promote positive food policies to advance food access and to build a local food economy in the District. It also establishes a Food Policy Director in the Office of Planning to oversee policies promoting positive food policy, to collaborate with other jurisdictions on food policy, and to advocate for new food ventures in the District.

California Assembly Bill 359 (2015): Protecting Middle Class Grocery Jobs Through Worker Retention

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California State Assembly
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Policy

This proposed assembly bill provides protection to eligible employees from being terminated during a 90-day transition period if a grocery store (15,000 sq. ft. or larger) undergoes a change of ownership. It was modeled after similar ordinances that have were enacted at the local level across California. The bill was signed into law on August 17, 2015.

Local Governments & Local Food Systems Case Studies

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International City/County Management Association and Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems
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Report

This new case study series highlights examples of how local governments in four states are improving economic resiliency, environmental sustainability, public health and social equity by their commitments to local food systems. Although motivations, approaches, and allocated resources vary across the communities profiled--which include Catawba County, NC; Decatur, GA; Topsham, ME; and Ann Arbor-Washtenaw County, MI--common themes emerged as leading practices for local leaders. Lessons learned may be helpful to those interested in working within or with their local governments on marketing, coordination, policy and funding for food system activities.

Created by Laura Goddeeris, Abigail Rybnicek, Katherine Takai

Equitable Development Toolkit: Local Food Procurement

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PolicyLink
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Toolkit

This toolkit provides an overview of how stakeholders can advocate for and implement local food procurement policies in a manner that ensures the equitable improvement of local and regional food systems.