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BC’s Farming and Food Future: Local Government Toolkit for Sustainable Food Production 
BC’s Farming and Food Future: Local Government Toolkit for Sustainable Food Production shares innovative and effective actions that are being taken in British Columbia, Canada, and elsewhere to promote sustainable local food production.
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Government's Seat at the Dinner Table
The Norman Rockwell painting “Freedom from Want” is a tribute to one of the four freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared people ought to enjoy in his 1941 State of the Uni0n speech. For Roosevelt, this freedom meant having ...
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Los Angeles Food Policy Council
The LAFPC is a collaborative network working to make Southern California a good food region for everyone- where food is healthy, affordable, fair and sustainable. Through policy creation and cooperative relationships, its goals are to reduce hunger, ...
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P-Patch community gardens, Seattle
The P-Patch Community Gardening Program, in conjunction with P-Patch Trust, a nonprofit organization, oversees 78 P-Patches distributed throughout the city on 44.5 acres of land. Community gardeners grow food on 13.5 acres of the land and s...
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Toward a Food Policy "First Step" in Oakland, California: Efforts To Promote Urban Ag Zoning
by Nathan McClintocka,c, *, Heather Wootenb,c, Alethea (Harper) Brownc
http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2012.024.009, pp. 1–28
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Urban agriculture (UA) is cropping up in backyards, vacant lots,...
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Public Harvest: Expanding the use of public land for urban agriculture in San Francisco
Urban agriculture has captured the imagination of San Franciscans in recent years. More than 20 new urban farm and garden projects have launched since 2008, and in 2011 the city changed its zoning code to permit urban agriculture in all neighborhoods...
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Land Use Planning
Land use planning addresses how land is utilized for any human activity or other purpose defined in a city or town’s Comprehensive Plan which governs the long-term physical development of that city or town. Land-use regulations can also affect ...
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Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens (policy links)
There are many opportunities to provide urban agriculture at the local, state, and federal level. Policies should be developed in ways that ensure that low-income communities and communities of color will benefit. To achieve this, low-income communit...
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Sustainable Food Systems Survey
In 2010, FCM's Green Municipal Fund conducted a survey to learn whether Canadian municipalities are considering sustainable food systems in their planning process
We wanted to find out:
Are sustainable food systems important to municipaliti...
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Regional Foodsheds: Are Our Local Zoning and Land Use Regulations Healthy?
Governments at all levels have become increasingly interested in fostering healthy eating habits and sustainable agricultural production. Promoting access to locally grown produce is an important part of many policy goals seeking to address these con...
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Homegrown Minneapolis: Building a Healthy, Local Food System for All Minneapolis Residents
Homegrown Minneapolis is an initiative of the City of Minneapolis to improve the growth, sales, distribution, and consumption of healthy, locally grown foods within the city and the surrounding region. Under the leadership of Mayor R.T. Rybak and the...
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Market Forces: Creating Jobs through Public Investment in Local and Regional Food Systems
While the number and influence of local and regional food systems have grown substantially, many issues must be resolved if they are to continue increasing in scale and become more integrated into the existing food system. Further, future efforts to ...
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Food Systems: Portland Plan Background Report
This Food Systems Existing Conditions Report represents the first attempt to characterize a wide range of food issues as part of the City’s comprehensive planning efforts. It includes a summary of what is currently known about Portland&rs...
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Food Urbanism: a sustainable design option for urban communities
The goal of this project was to research urban food systems and design based on the theory Food Urbanism; how food relates to the organization of a city and how it becomes infrastructure that transforms the urban experience. Productive landscapes as ...
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Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field
Planning lays claim to being comprehensive, future-oriented, public-interest driven, and desirous of enhancing the livability of communities. It is concerned with community systems-such as land use, housing, transportation, the environment, and the e...
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The Case for State Food Action Plans
We argue that states’ food systems and nutrition needs—particularly the food-insecurity and obesity-reduction needs of low-income citizens and the plight of struggling family farms—are worthy of attention and deserving of such a ...
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Food System Planning
This guide provides local governments with the tools and resources to conduct local food system planning. There is no “one size fits all” to any approach, as each community is unique. Communities should reflect on their distinct challenge...
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Healthy Planning
Land use, economic development, and redevelopment policies offer a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. Local governments, private developers, and community groups can all work to create patterns of development that im...
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Local Food Procurement Policies: A Literature Review
This report examines the environmental, economic and social benefits of local food, showcases existing procurement policies in Italy, Britain, the United States, and Canada, and examines lessons learned in other jurisdictions. It is a preliminary rev...
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Zoning for Urban Agriculture [US]
As sustainability has moved up the municipal agenda, cities have begun to take an interest in urban agriculture as a way to promote health, to support economic and community development, and to improve the urban environment. This article places urban...
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