Post-Disaster Food & Nutrition Security: The Disaster Food Security Framework (DFSF)

Lauren Clay, PhD, MPH

In a post-disaster setting, food security is about much more than whether households have enough money for food. There are disruptions to the environment that create physical, social, and economic barriers to food accessibility; supply chain and nutrition assistance barriers to food availability; gaps in nutritionally, culturally, or medically acceptable foods; and challenges that can limit agency or self-efficacy. The Disaster Food Security Scale (DFSS) is a tool for thinking about food security post-disaster…

Local and Regional Food Systems Impacts & Innovations Guide

Resilience Playbook Project Team

This guide outlines the different sectors within a local or regional food system and provides insights into the types of impacts and adaptations observed within those sectors during times of disruption. It also highlights innovations and adaptations taken that demonstrate resilience in action….

Solidarity Gardens CU

National Farm to School Network

Beginning with an idea by Danielle Chynoweth, supervisor for the Cunningham Township Supervisors Office (CTSO), and her team, Solidarity Gardens CU is a coalition of community partnerships and volunteers, that has demonstrated that the soil found in the Midwest can be used to grow an abundance of food for those most in need….

Local Food Incentive Programs Necessary and Highly Effective for Iowa Farm to School and Early Care

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Farm to School in Iowa was first legislated in 2007, when lawmakers established a program to one, link elementary, secondary, public and non-public schools with Iowa farmers; two, provide schools with fresh and minimally processed Iowa-grown food for inclusion in school meals and snacks; and three, encourage children to develop healthy eating habits and provide them with hands on learning activities. Realizing the need for the early childcare sector to receive the same support…

Project Overview 2022 – Local Food Systems Response to Covid

LRFS

“What would 2020 have looked like if a collaborative network of research, engagement, and outreach across local and regional food system stakeholders, university researchers, and USDA leadership had been in place?” This is the question the Local and Regional Food System (LRFS) Recovery and Resilience project asks as the team reflects upon and examines the lessons, impacts, and successes of the first phase of the LRFS Response to COVID-19 project and frames its future…

Novel methods for an interesting time: Exploring U.S. local food systems’ impacts and initiatives to respond to COVID

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 to the structure and resiliency of US food systems, and LRFS appeared to be positioned to significantly increase the scope and scale of their market reach as a result. Researchers from three universities collaborated with…

With heat waves, unpredictable weather, and soil degradation, climate change threatens local farmers

Wallace Center at Winrock International

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….

Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Program

USDA

The Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant Program provides grants to specialty crop producers and processors, other select producers, meat and other processors, distributors, and farmers markets to respond to coronavirus, including for measures to protect workers against novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID–19)….

2020 Farmers Market Summary

Farmers Market Coalition

In 2020, FMC piloted an annual report to highlight farmers market adaptations and trends in the era of COVID-19. These types of reports can be used to demonstrate a market’s flexibility and highlight its successes stemming from market innovations or other changes implemented by an organization in response to COVID to funders and other stakeholders. This infographic-style report is modeled after the reporting design embedded in FMC’s Farmers Market Metrics software….

Ticketed Entry for Agritourism

NAFDMA Agritourism Association

Agritourism operators developed timed, ticketed entry systems to manage the flow of visitors. These systems were often mediated by online platforms. By restricting visitor capacity, farm operators could better allocate resources to create safe conditions for visitors….

Reclaiming Innovation in Indigenous Food Systems: Navigating COVID-19 disruptions and enacting post-colonial foodways

Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative

Tribal nations collaborate through coordinating entities, such as the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative (IFAI) to develop policy-based innovations while supporting new programming and sharing best practices. Important areas of work during COVID-19 include targeted efforts to expand livestock processing facilities, coordinating the development of model food and agriculture codes for tribal nations, and reconfiguring food aid and distribution programs for elders and children….

CSA Ideas Lab: CSA as a Vehicle for Food Access

CSA Innovation Network

This webinar explores the basic principles of food access and features CSA farmers and support organizations that have developed best practices to connect the CSA model to a broader, more inclusive audience. Speakers include Garrett Ziegler from Michigan State University Extension & West Michigan Growers Group, Mike Edwardson of Plainsong Farm (MI), Liv Froehlich from FairShare CSA Coalition (WI), and Linda Davies of Winter Green Farm (OR)….

PreK & K-12 Schools as Access Points for Local Food

Farm To Institution New England and National Farm To School Network

Communities with existing farm to school initiatives and multi-agency collaboratives were able to quickly pivot to provide urgently needed food access while re-investing local, philanthropic, and federal dollars into a local food economy reeling from pandemic disruptions. It is precisely because of community-scale networks and ongoing partnerships (rather than large scale or consolidated efforts) that initiatives highlighted in this brief were able to provide hundreds of thousands of pounds of locally produced, fresh, and…

Alternative Farmers Market Models

Farmers Market Coalition

Farmers Markets were compelled to alter their models in a variety of ways at the onset of the pandemic. They conformed to social distancing guidelines and other public safety requirements which allowed them to remain open and continue serving vendors and customers safely and effectively. Some changed to contactless drive-thru or curbside models, where customers pre-ordered products online or by phone and picked it up in their vehicle. Others opted for crowd control measures…

State and Federal Policies that Support Food Security in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Association Of State Departments Of Agriculture Foundation

State departments of agriculture are working with federal agencies, corporations, and nonprofits to purchase food surpluses from farmers to distribute at food banks. This brief explores the unique strategies and partnerships four state departments of agriculture have used to develop and administer these purchasing programs….

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Post-Disaster Food & Nutrition Security: The Disaster Food Security Framework (DFSF)

Lauren Clay, PhD, MPH

Local and Regional Food Systems Impacts & Innovations Guide

Resilience Playbook Project Team

Solidarity Gardens CU

National Farm to School Network

Local Food Incentive Programs Necessary and Highly Effective for Iowa Farm to School and Early Care

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Project Overview 2022 – Local Food Systems Response to Covid

LRFS

Novel methods for an interesting time: Exploring U.S. local food systems’ impacts and initiatives to respond to COVID

With heat waves, unpredictable weather, and soil degradation, climate change threatens local farmers

Wallace Center at Winrock International

Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Program

USDA

2020 Farmers Market Summary

Farmers Market Coalition

Ticketed Entry for Agritourism

NAFDMA Agritourism Association

Reclaiming Innovation in Indigenous Food Systems: Navigating COVID-19 disruptions and enacting post-colonial foodways

Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative

CSA Ideas Lab: CSA as a Vehicle for Food Access

CSA Innovation Network

PreK & K-12 Schools as Access Points for Local Food

Farm To Institution New England and National Farm To School Network

Alternative Farmers Market Models

Farmers Market Coalition

State and Federal Policies that Support Food Security in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Association Of State Departments Of Agriculture Foundation

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