In 2015, the Community, Local and Regional Food Systems Community of Practice launched four (4) working groups. If you would like to become involved in these national groups, please contact the leader of the group for additional information.
1. Undoing Inequality in the Food System
- Leader(s):
- Lucy Diekmann,Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University
- Working group aim:
- Become involved:
2. Economic Impacts of Community, Local and Regional Food Systems
- Leader(s):
- Dawn Thilmany,Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- Becca Jablonski, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- Working group aim: The aim of the Toolkit on Economic Impacts of Local Food Initiatives is to guide those engaged in food system assessments through a standardized set of best practices that may help to increase the effectiveness of their project (including evaluation of the economic impacts of local and regional food system initiatives).
- Learn more: http://www.localfoodeconomics.com/
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Attend one of our upcoming presentations, listed here: http://www.localfoodeconomics.com/contact/upcoming-presentations/
- Become involved: Provide your contact information @ http://www.localfoodeconomics.com/contact/sign-up-for-e-list/
3. Urban Agriculture
- Leader(s):
- Lucy Diekmann, Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University
- Working group aim: To share ideas, programs, and opportunities around urban agriculture. First project: to create a national inventory of the research and Extension education being done on urban agriculture.
- Become involved: Contact Lucy to sign up and participate.
4. Webinars and Networked Communications and Learning
- Leader(s):
- Jennifer Jensen, Community and Regional Development Institute, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
- Working group aim:
- Become involved:
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