Spreading the word: A survey on local food innovation from the Wallace Center: We would appreciate your help as a leader in the national movement toward a more sustainable and just food system. Through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Wallace Center at Winrock International, Changing Tastes and Common Market are embarking on a national scan of community-based food system innovations. Additionally, as a parallel effort, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative is separately conducting a scan of community-based Native food system innovations. Our aim is to compile a scan of the most innovative and promising projects and programs throughout the nation in a report that will be available for public distribution in the spring of 2015. We are hopeful that this document will inform food systems planning throughout the US and provide a record of the great efforts that are helping move the needle toward a more sustainable and just food system. We would like your input on the most promising community-based, regional, or state food system innovations of which you are aware. In appreciation for your contributions, we will send you a copy of our final report in advance of its public release. We are focusing on community-based projects and programs that represent a significant shift toward more healthy, fair, affordable, and green methods of production, distribution, and/or consumption. We seek to learn of projects and programs that are innovative and novel, yet sufficiently established for us to collect credible data and tell a compelling story about their successes for others to learn from. By innovative, we mean novel models or practices that empower and engage food businesses and organizations to change their practices and also provide food that is healthy, fair and green. Types of projects and programs we are looking for include but are not limited to the following: * Community-based * Representative of a significant shift toward more healthy, fair, affordable and green methods of production, distribution and/or consumption * An innovation along any of the segments of the supply chain: production, manufacturing, distribution, retail and consumption * On-the-ground projects * Local policy * Local financing mechanism, that brings healthy food to an area that was formerly without * A project and program that builds community resilience, local capacity, local economies and/or sustainable wealth Please take a few moments to complete this survey . We expect that it should take about 10-15 minutes to complete from start to finish. We encourage you to recommend more than one organization and to forward this survey to others who you think should fill it out. If you have any questions about any aspect of the survey, please contact [email protected] for more information. Thank you. Best regards, John Fisk, Wallace Center at Winrock International; Cynthia Pansing, Changing Tastes; and Haile Johnston, Common Market Complete Survey Now
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:11:37 +0000
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