- Added: December 14, 2021
- Reports (5+ pages)
- Community food access, emergency food, local, restaurants
Impact report for the Vermont Everyone Eats Program….
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In 2020, to capture innovations and support adaptation and recovery the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service along with university- and organization-based partners, worked to document local and regional food system responses to Pandemic disruptions and disseminate innovations to local and regional food system practitioners across the country.
Building on the insights gained and successful impacts of this project, the Local and Regional Food System Recovery and Resilience project is headed into a second round of programming. This project focuses on translating lessons learned during the pandemic and simultaneous social crisis into an intentional and collaborative strategy for supporting recovery and fostering equitable approaches to resilience.
The project is organized into three action teams – Resiliency Playbook, Data and Metrics, and Network of Networks. While distinct in their focus, each action team is designed to inform and reinforce the others. The results of their efforts can be found throughout the website. Specific information about the action teams and ways to get involved can be found at About.
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health and social distancing mandates caused unprecedented shifts and disruptions for Local and Regional Food Systems (LRFS). Impacts on farm enterprises, value chain stakeholders, market channels, and food system infrastructure are both vast and varied, and require rapid adaptation by all involved. The pandemic has also brought new and heightened attention to our food system, and LRFS may be positioned to significantly increase the scope and scale of their market reach as a result.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) along with the cooperating research team led by the University of Kentucky seek to enrich existing efforts within LRFS communities of practice who provide essential support to our nation’s local food producers. During this moment of simultaneous disruption and rapid innovation, our project supports LRFS communities of practice by documenting and disseminating innovations and best practices developed on the ground and drawing on LRFS thought leaders to frame research on COVID-related shifts in LRFS markets with the aim of supporting long term resilience.
Webinars
Upcoming Webinar: February 11, 2022
12-1:30pm EST
Making lemonade out of local lemons: Innovative multi-sector strategies for leveraging emergency supply chain funds.
Join us each month for a facilitated cross-sectoral discussion on topics including customer retention and engagement, emergency food, cooperative business models, state policies and consumer behavior.
(Webinars will be recorded and posted on our website)
March 11, 2022 – The Local Food Environment: Data Sharing Across Local Food Networks
April 8, 2022 – Tracking Consumer and Market Trends
May 13, 2022 – Going far by going together: Building a network of food system networks.
June 10, 2022 – Looking Ahead at Innovations and Programs Targeting Local and Regional Supply Chains
Latest Resources
- Added: November 18, 2021
- Datasets, Factsheets Briefs & FAQs
CHOICES Data Visualization Series Quarter 4 2021….
- Added: November 18, 2021
- Factsheets Briefs & FAQs, Reports (5+ pages)
- Article, Journal
The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health and social distancing mandates caused unprecedented shifts and disruptions for local and regional food systems (LRFS). The pandemic also brought new and heightened attention….
- Added: November 16, 2021
- Blog Articles
- adaptation, climate change, farming
City Seed, in New Haven, CT interviewed farmers from the markets and conducted research on the impact of climate change on farmers, particularly on pricing, production, and supply…..
- Added: November 10, 2021
- Webpages
Feed the Second Line in New Orleans is working to develop a coordinated network of solar-panel powered restaurants in New Orleans that can continue to operate during/after hurricanes, becoming the "first responders for [the] community." Locating this solar power….
- Added: October 28, 2021
- Webpages
- climate, county government, regional planning, resiliency
After years of extreme weather events in the region and three consecutive years of devastating floods, Monroe County formed the Climate Change Task Force, the fourth such county-led effort in Wisconsin and the most rural. It is now a….
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