Community Food Security

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Goal Statement   

  • To ensure that everyone in the community has access to healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.

 

 

Policy Options / Model Programs   

A. Model Programs

 

B. Policy Options

 

 

Local / State / National Information 

 

 

Glossary of Terms   

  • Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) - Agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. Congregate animals, feed, manure and urine, dead animals, and production operations on a small land area. Feed is brought to the animals rather than the animals grazing or otherwise seeking feed in pastures, fields, or rangeland.[1] 

  • Community Food Security - A condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally sound diet through an economically and environmentally sustainable food system that promotes community self-reliance and social justice.[2] CFS is both a goal and a method that embraces the full range of food chain activities and promotes a systems approach to food problems. It is about ending hunger in a socially, economically, and environmentally just way.[3]

  • Community Garden - Any piece of land gardened by a group of people. It can be urban or rural, grow flowers or vegetables, be at a school or in a neighborhood, but it always provides an opportunity to build community and more.[4]

  • Community Kitchen - A public place where members of the community can process fresh food by preserving it (canning, freezing, etc.) and by creating new foods (i.e. salsa from tomatoes and chilis). Can also serve as a place for people to learn about these methods and eat delicious, nutritious local food.

  • Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) - An agreement between farmers and families or individuals to supply local food fresh from the farm straight to costumers. [5]

  • Farm to School Programs - Initiatives to get more fresh local produce into schools. This can be done through a combination of policy work, community outreach, and education.
  • Farmers' Markets - A designated public place where, once or twice a week, farmers gather to sell their produce.[6]

  • Food Policy - Any decision made by a government agency, business, or organization that affects how food is produced, processed, distributed, purchased, and protected.[7]

  • Food Policy Council (FPC) - A forum in which people from different parts of the food system and local government can examine how the food system operates and make recommendations on how to improve it through public policy.[8]

  • Healthy Corner Store Initiatives - Efforts to bring healthier foods into corner stores in low-income and underserved communities.[9]

  • Monoculture - The practice of growing the same crop each year on a given acreage, relying on a single genetic strain of a crop to feed a population.[10]

  • Redlining - The practice of arbitrarily denying or limiting services to specific neighborhoods, generally because its neighborhoods are people of color or poor.[11]

 

 

Bibliography    

 

Footnotes

  1. United States Environmental Protection Agency website. What is a CAFO? August 2009. http://www.epa.gov/region7/water/cafo/index.htm ▲
  2. Based on a definition by Mike Hamm and Anne Bellows. Community Food Security Coalition. Community Food Security Programs: What Do They Look Like? July 2009. (Available in the bibliography) ▲
  3. Winne, Mark. Community Food Security: Promoting Food Security and Building Healthy Systems. Introduction. http://www.foodsecurity.org/pubs.html ▲
  4. American Community Garden Association. What is a Community Garden? July 2009. http://communitygarden.org/learn/ ▲
  5. Local Harvest. Community Supported Agriculture. July 2009. http://www.localharvest.org/csa ▲
  6. Local Harvest. Farmers' Markets. July 2009. http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/ ▲
  7. Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition. What is Food Policy? July 2009. http://www.cccfoodpolicy.org/what_is_food_policy.html ▲
  8. Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. Food Security Begins at Home. Chapter 4: How Food Policy Councils are Organized and Operate. July 2009. http://www.foodsecurity.org/FPC/HowFoodPolicyCouncilsAreOrganizedandOperate.pdf ▲
  9. Healthy Corner Stores Network. About Us. July 2009. http://www.healthycornerstores.org/about.php ▲
  10. Encyclopedia Britannica online. Monoculture (agriculture). August 2009. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389793/monoculture ▲
  11. Encyclopedia of Chicago. Redlining. August 2009. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1050.html ▲

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