We are actively growing a new Community of Practice to help you and your community understand the ag and food enterprise viability, market dynamics and other key socio-economics metrics of local and regional food systems.
This project provides open-access tools and data to illustrate areas of need and opportunities to close equity gaps related to nutrition, food access, food system labor, and agriculture and food business ownership.
To better understand and inform regional approaches to food system governance, this project centers on the contributions and insight offered by participants in a community of practice that includes representatives from 11 regional councils. These councils reflect a diversity of approaches to regional food system work from across the United States.
This community of practice represents a virtual collection of emerging research, program evaluations and initiatives that seek to improve understanding of the complexities and economic potential of local and regional food systems, and their contributions to community and business development.
Through its support of the Toolkit , USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service and its research partners have come to realize the importance and power of gathering community-based evidence that provide real-world illustrations of benefits associated with local food investments, while identifying the most appropriate and effective practices for advancing local food systems development.Â
Economic Impact Assessment of Public Incentives to Support Farm to School Food Purchases
Farm to school is widely supported by policymakers: this webinar shares results on program impacts from Cornell University.
May 18th, 1-2pm (EST)
Register at: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcof-6pqzwpHt12cE49hqy07bYdhc9k-k0r
Call for submission on a new Special Issue: The Role and Scope of Agricultural and Applied Economics Departments @AAEA_Economics https://www.aaea.org/publications/aepp/aepp-special-issue-announcement-and-call-for-participation-the-role-and-scope-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-departments
Communities across the US are seeing shared kitchens as a way to support the food entrepreneurs in their region. These USDA-sponsored case studies and reports share some great insights on successful projects across the country
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/research-publications/shared-kitchens-and-food-startups
We are so happy to have these new resources embedded in our community's website, https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/ including the new data platform, https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/data. Thanks for the support for this project @USDA_AMS
Local Food Systems COVID-19 Response Webinar Series will kick off on Friday, Sept 9th at 12:00 ET. The Data & Metrics Action Team will introduce their innovative new data explorer to improve capacity for data analysis and utilization. Register at:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcOCvrzopHNK8Dw_AxHy7z3So9QfcEQBY
USDA AMS, Ohio State Univ, the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and Colorado State Univ invite you to be a part of a collaborative research project focused on food policy councils’ role in strengthening regional food systems. More info & apply at:
https://localfoodeconomics.com/regional-fpc/
Funding Provided by USDA AFRI and USDA AMS​
