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Predicting Grocery Access After a Hurricane
by: Grant Holub-MoormanUncovering JAPA: As disaster storms increase, discover how they significantly impact food access for vulnerable communities. -
Eliminating Food Insecurity With Aquaponics
by: Dina WaltersEquity in Practice: East Oakland partners to address food insecurity. -
Healthy Soil for Urban Farm Production: Building from Scratch
Cornell Small Farms Program, January 11, 2021by: Kyle RittenburgThis blog post explores the challenges and opportunities of turning vacant or underutilized land into productive farmland. -
Planning For Local Food Systems: A Whatcom County Case Study
May 2023by: Lisa Pool, AICP, Ali JensenThis blog post discusses and analyzes the Whatcom County Food Systems plan and how integral local governments are in the process. -
Combating the Climate Crisis Through Conservation
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, July 10, 2020This blog post discusses the changes in two of the country's land conservation programs under the Agriculture Resilience Act and how these changes can help address climate change concerns in working farmland. -
A Brief Guide to the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production
Yale Climate Connections, September 18, 2019by: Daisy SimmonsThis blog post explores the impacts of climate change on agricultural production and land. -
Climate Change and Agriculture: A Perfect Storm in Farm Country
The Union of Concerned Scientists, March 20, 2019This blog post explores the impacts that the combination of climate change and inadequate farming practices has on the agriculture industry. -
Preserving the Grass Root of Urban Agriculture
by: Kyle MillerUncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing? -
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. -
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.
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