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Emerging Assessment Tools To Inform Food System Planning

by Julia Freedgooda, Marisol Pierce-Quiñonezb, Kenneth A. Meterc

http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2011.021.023, pp. 83–104

 

Abstract

Food system planning is an emerging field engaging planners and planning organizations, civic leaders, citizens, food policy councils, and others interested in creating more sustainable food systems. Planning practices are being developed to address the complex soil-to-soil food system, which spans production to consumption to reuse and recycling of waste. Community engagement is critical to fostering interactions within the full spectrum of food system stakeholders — from farmers and ranchers to planners and local officials to individual and institutional consumers. A growing body of assessment tools is being developed to inform this process. As most of these tools are relatively new, there is little research that addresses the different methodologies or evaluates their use as planning tools. This paper outlines a variety of approaches and suggests further research to evaluate their efficacy.

 

Keywords: community food assessment, comprehensive planning, food system assessment, food system planning, food systems evaluation, foodsheds, local food and farm economies

 

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a Managing Director, Farmland & Community Initiatives, American Farmland Trust, 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington DC 20036 USA; +1-202-378-1205; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

b Corresponding author: Marisol Pierce-Quiñonez, M.A. candidate in Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning, and M.S. candidate in Agriculture, Food & Environment. Tufts University, 97 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02144 USA; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

c President, Crossroads Resource Center, 7415 Humboldt Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55423 USA; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


 

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