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Rural Food Deserts

Proposed Actions

Building Community Capacity

References

How Regional Food Sheds Change the Game

  • Use pioneer spirit to frame
  • Ethnography

  • Assess needs for education
  • Extend the season
  • Strengthen farmers markets

  • Greenhouses
  • Small and Medium Farms
  • Supporting Businesses

Planning and Policy

  • city, state and federal governments and planning offices

  • Redesign current land and water policy

  • Bring agri-business on board

Tools of the Food Shed

Bitler, M & Haider, S.J. (2010). An economic view of food deserts in the United States. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (.30), 1, 153-176. DOI: 10.1002/pan.20550

Conrad , M. & Ackerman, K. (2010). Regionalizing the food system for public health and sustainability. Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference Presentation. Albany, NY.

Dizikes, P. (2009, 11 9) . Good food nation. MITNews. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/foodshed.html

Headwaters Economics. (2011). The Agricultural Economy and Public Lands Ranching Strategies in Southern Utah. [PDF]. Retrieved from http://headwaterseconomics.org/land/reports/ranching-southern-utah/

Godfrey, B.E. (2008). Livestock Grazing in Utah: History and Status. [PDF]. Retrieved from http://governor.utah.gov/PublicLands/PLPCOStudies/LivestockGrazinginUtahHistory&Status.pdf

Headwaters Economics. (2011). The Agricultural Economy and Public Lands Ranching Strategies in Southern Utah. [PDF]. Retrieved from http://headwaterseconomics.org/land/reports/ranching-southern-utah/

Noroian, N.D. (2011). Prior Appropriation, Agriculture and the West: Caught in a Bad Romance. Jurimetrics (51)2. p. 181- 215

Salkin, P.E., Lavine, A. ( 2011). Regional foodsheds: Are our local zoning and land use regulations Healthy? Fordham Environmental Law Review 22599.

Torrez, M. (2012). Cows, congress and climate change: Authority and responsibility for federal agencies to end grazing on public lands. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, 141.

Weber, B., Jensen, L., Miller, K., Mosley, J., Fisher, M., (2005). A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is there truly a rural effect? International Regional Science Review, 284) 381-414. DOI: 10.1177/016001765278996

Farm stands

Farmers markets

CSAs

Mobile markets

Community gardens

Green roofs

Food terminals

Vacant lots

Chickens

Beekeeping

Tool for social justice

Food Sheds are a revolutionary idea, but many communities are starting to implement the building blocks:

Little Rock

Topeka

Ann Arbor

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Austin

Oakland

Baltimore

Concord

Chicago

  • Lowers price
  • reduced transportation

  • Healthy food = healthy people

  • Improves environment
  • greenhouse gases
  • Strengthens local economies
  • Small and medium farms
  • Supportive industries
  • Reduces health costs

New York City

Cleveland

San Diego

Kansas City

Game Changer: Regional Food Sheds

Root Causes

Shift from food as commodity to food as an infrastructural system

Each region is producing the food for their kitchens

Access, Affordability & Awareness

  • High Poverty
  • 67% of Utah's Agriculture is devoted to livestock
  • Inadequate rural policy
  • Small communities= reduced purchasing power
  • Geography
  • Rural shift from producers to consumers
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