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A Guide to Getting Started: Urban Agriculture in Dallas
This guide presents steps for starting urban agriculture projects in Dallas, TX. -
Vancouver, BC, Growing Food
This web page offers links to additional information and resources on a range of urban agriculture activities and efforts in the city. -
Fort Collins, CO, Urban Agriculture
This web page lists the city's accomplishments in implementing City Plan policies regarding urban agriculture, including land use and city code changes to allow urban agriculture in all zone districts, address urban livestock, and exempt hoop houses from building permit requirements. -
Building Capacity for Urban Agriculture Programs: Tools from the Windy City Harvest Model
by: Elise Benveniste, Eliza Fournier, Emily HestnessThis toolkit belongs to both the Food Systems and Urban Agriculture collections. -
New York Using Special Use Permits and Site Plan Regulations to Allow Large-Scale Solar Installations While Protecting Farmland
This guide offers information to help New York local governments understand tools used for siting large-scale solar systems in agricultural districts while also ensuring that productive farmland remains operational. -
New York Solar Installations in Agricultural Districts
This guide offers information to help New York local governments navigate the development of solar projects that comply with existing farmland protection policies. -
Local Food System Development in Mississippi: How Local Governments Can Support Farmers Markets
by: Rachael Carter, Chance McDavid, James BarnesThis article discusses why and how local government should and can support local farmers markets. -
About Food Systems
This web page talks about what food systems are the key aspects of what makes up a food system. -
New Jersey Model Right to Farm Ordinance
This model right-to-farm ordinance lists a wide range of commercial farm uses protected under the ordinance, addresses dispute resolution, and requires a disclosure statement for real estate transactions for property adjacent to or near commercial farms. -
Massachusetts Model Right to Farm Bylaw/Ordinance
This model right to farm bylaw/ordinance intends to help protect the viability of farming by reiterating the importance of - and support for – farming within towns. -
Wisconsin Model Farmland Preservation Zoning Ordinances
These model ordinances for farmland preservation create a farmland preservation district within a community. -
Food Systems Dashboard
This clearinghouse has resources pertaining to global food system data where you can compare countries with one another. -
Definitions: Sustainability and Food Systems
This web page provides definitions for foods systems and the processes they are connected to it. -
Preserving the Grass Root of Urban Agriculture
by: Kyle MillerUncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing? -
Food and Planning in New Orleans
In this podcast episode, APA's Meghan Stromberg talks with Vanessa Ulmer, policy and advocacy coordinator with the Prevention Research Center at Tulane University. The two discuss food systems planning — specifically how local partners in New Orleans are working to improve food access, fight obesity, and support local and urban agriculture. -
American Farmland Trust’s Julia Freedgood on Planning Sustainable Food Systems for All People
In this episode of People Behind the Plans podcast series, Julia Freedgood, a senior fellow and senior program advisor at the American Farmland Trust, and author of Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems, talks about the complex and fragile web behind the food we eat, and the important role planning plays, especially in rural areas. -
Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Places
PAS Report 563by: Kimberley Hodgson, Marcia Caton Campbell, Martin BailkeyGet authoritative guidance in this PAS Report for understanding urban agriculture and dealing with its implications for urban land-use planning.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Community Food System Assessments
PAS Memo — November-December 2015by: Kara Martin, Tammy MoralesThis PAS Memo article addresses the limitations of the food desert concept and provides guidance for planners on conducting a community food system assessment.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture: Process, Progress, and Innovation
PAS Memo — November-December 2014by: Brian BarthThe November-December 2014 issue of PAS Memo looks at the use of comprehensive urban agriculture zoning ordinances, the need to coordinate food system policy across multiple municipal departments and public agencies, public engagement strategies, and data collection methods to better measure and quantify the successes of the movement.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Planning for Food Trucks
PAS QuickNotes 49by: Patrick Terranova, David Morley, AICPThis edition of PAS QuickNotes summarizes the opportunities and challenges associated with food trucks and discusses four key policy considerations for localities looking to update business licensing and development regulations to clarify rules for mobile food vendors.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
A Planners Guide to Community and Regional Food Planning
PAS Report 554by: Samina Raja, Branden Born, Jessica Russell October 15, 2008Not everyone in the U.S. has equal access to healthy food. This PAS Report shows how planners can play a significant role in shaping the food environment of communities and facilitate healthy eating.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Recipe for Resiliency
There’s more to community food systems than farmers markets.August 01, 2017A look at community food, beyond farmers' markets toward complex systems that are healthy, local, sustainable, and just. -
The Farmland Protection Toolbox
PAS QuickNotes 36by: Jennifer DemseyThis edition of PAS QuickNotes presents an overview of the tools most commonly used locally to reduce farm and ranch land conversion and to permanently protect agricultural land.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
The Commissioner — October 2017
In The Commissioner's October 2017 issue: "Setting the Stage for Our Urban Public Spaces," "Recognizing Climate Change as a Planning and Law Challenge," "Planning Equitable and Safe Routes to Healthy Food," "The Father of the National Wildlife Refuge System," and food access resources.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
Food Systems Toolkit
September 01, 2017This toolkit offers a snapshot of reports, webinars, toolkits, community examples, videos, podcasts, and more about active living in Plan4Health. -
Eat Better, Move More, Work Together
Cities and towns of all sizes are creating healthier communities through planning and systems-level change.February 01, 2017Planners and public health officials are working throughout the U.S. to increase access to healthy foods and opportunities for regular physical activity. -
Food Systems Planning
PAS QuickNotes 24This edition of PAS QuickNotes provides a primer on how planning affects the development of healthy, sustainable local and regional food systems.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
The Evolution of Food Systems Planning in Kansas
by: Helen Schnoes, AICPHow Douglas County, Kansas became a nationally recognized leader in food systems planning. -
Turning Blight to Beets at the Roosevelt Row Growhouse
by: Samantha SchipaniThe Growhouse in Phoenix's Roosevelt Row, named a Great Neighborhood in 2015, turned a dry, vacant lot into a productive urban farm. -
Chicago's Pullman Neighborhood Ventures into a Greener Industrial Age
by: Samantha SchipaniChicago's Pullman neighborhood is turning a new leaf with green rooftops from New York's Gotham Greens. -
New Resources for Local Food Systems Planning
by: Ann Dillemuth, AICPAs a part of the Growing Food Connection partnership, APA recently unveiled a series of policy briefs for planners and decision makers that help tackle local issues in food systems planning. -
On the Health Track
Plan4Health puts local coalitions in the vanguard.October 01, 2015The fusion of public health and planning isn't new, but it's gaining steam. -
Zoning for Public Markets and Street Vendors
Zoning Practice — February 2009by: Alfonso Morales, Gregg Kettles February 01, 2009This issue of Zoning Practice places markets and merchants in a historical context, examines regulatory approaches, and makes recommendations for zoning practice.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Welcome to Beer Country
Small breweries are a big deal — and some cities are courting them.February 01, 2015Demand for craft beers is on the rise, and as a result craft breweries have been popping up across the nation. Their presence is having a big impact on some local economies and is presenting zoning and policy challenges. With a sidebar on efforts to build a "food corridor" in Raleigh, North Carolina. -
APA Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
APA Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning adopted in 2007. -
Growing Food Connections
By increasing food security, strengthening economic resilience in urban and rural communities, and supporting farms engaged in sustainable practices, planners can inform new methods for reintegrating the food system. -
Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System
In June 2010, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Diatetic Association), American Nurses Association, American Planning Association, and American Public Health Association met to develop a set of shared food system principles. -
Healthier, Wealthier, and Wiser
Local food systems provide more than one kind of sustenance.July 01, 2014Communities across the country need food processing and distribution infrastructure that provides markets for farmers and access to consumers. This article discusses how several communities are grappling with and solving these challenges. -
Urban Agriculture and the (New) Land-Grant University
February 01, 2017The University of the District of Columbia’s CAUSES presents an unusual case of a land-grant university taking on the food and sustainability challenges of a major city. -
Beacon Hill’s Enchanted Food Forest
Sandy Pernitz, the Seattle city staff person who works directly with the Beacon Food Forest, tells the tale of how the community rallied around an innovative project in food systems planning. -
Fast Food’s Bad Rap
July 01, 2016Planners should rethink their opposition to fast food and try to understand the role it plays in communities with few food options. -
The Ten-Foot Diet: The Emerging Hyperlocal Food System
May 01, 2016Hyperlocal food production is moving to a commercial scale in cities like New York and Chicago. -
Planning for Agriculture, Not Just Around It
January 01, 2016In the Viewpoint column from Planning’s January 2016 issue, Julia Freedgood with the American Farmland Trust encourages planners take agriculture into account in their planning efforts.
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