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King County, WA, Local Food Initiative
2015This report presents five quantitative targets, 35 strategies, and more than 140 action items for food systems planning. -
Multnomah County, OR, Multnomah Food Action Plan
2010This food action plan was one of the first in the country. -
Richmond, VA, City Food Policy Analysis and Recommendations: A Report to the Richmond Food Access and Equity Task Force
2016This report is the outcome of a local food policy analysis and offers policy recommendations for the city's planning documents. -
Building a Deep-Rooted Local Food System: A Food System Analysis for Douglas County, Jefferson County & Leavenworth County in Kansas
2011This food system analysis identifies the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for a successful and sustainable local food system. -
Cabarrus County Food System Assessment
2011by: Sydney Cruze, Jennifer CurtisThis food system assessment offers eight recommendations for building a local food economy. -
Regional Food System Assessment for South Central New York
2012This regional food system assessment from south central New York offers 15 vision statements in four broad areas. -
What's Cooking in Your Food System? A Guide to Community Food Assessment
2002by: Kami Pothukuchi, Hugh Joseph, Hannah BurtonThis publication offers guidance and resources for conducting a community food assessment. -
Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities
2012by: Emily LeibThis toolkit for food policy councils and other users, including planners, addresses seven main food-related policy areas. -
Cutting Through the Red Tape: A Resource Guide for Local Food Policy Practitioners and Organizers
Policy Brief no. 19, 2011by: Beth Sanders, Annie ShattuckThis guide offers "toolkits" of strategies to support food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste recovery. -
Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
E-FAN-02-013, 2002by: Barbara CohenThis report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. -
Food Access Policy and Planning Guide
2011by: Eva Ringstrom, Brendan BornThis guide explains the roles of planners in improving food access and offers a "menu" of planning and policy options. -
Building a Common Table: The Role for Planning in Community Food Systems
Journal of Planning Education and Research 23: 341–355, 2004by: Marsha CampbellThis article explores the conflicts within the U.S. food system but then explores potential food system complementarities among stakeholders. -
Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
2010by: Steve Martinez, Michael Hand, Michelle Da PraThis USDA report offers a comprehensive overview of local food systems with an emphasis on economic impacts. -
Growing Home: A Guide to Reconnecting Agriculture, Food and Communities
2002by: Duncan Hilchey, Joanna GreenThis guide offers a wide range of programs and tools to support local farmers and food system development. -
Harvesting Healthier Options: State Legislative Trends in Local Foods 2012–2014
2015by: Amanda Essex, Douglas Shinkle, Mindy BridgesThis report examines state legislation in all 50 states enacted between 2012 and 2014 related to local food systems. -
Trends in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems: A Report to Congress
2015by: Sarah Low, Aaron Adalja, Elizabeth BeaulieuThis USDA report assesses the scope of and trends in local and regional food systems across the country. -
Growing Food Connections Local Government Food Policy Database
2017This online database is a searchable collection of local public policies that explicitly support community food systems. -
Food System Planning
Municipal Implementation Tool #18, 2010This guide provides local governments with tools and resources to conduct local food systems planning. -
Food Policy Resources Database
2017This online database is a searchable collection of food-related articles, reports, and sample policies from the U.S. and Canada. -
GO TO 2040 Chicago Regional Comprehensive Plan
2010The Chicago region’s comprehensive plan’s theme of Liveable Communities offers a recommendation to "promote sustainable local food." -
Asheville, NC, Resolution No. 13-17: Resolution Establishing the City of Asheville's Food Action Plan in Support of the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Agenda
2013This city council resolution approves a list of food policy goals and actions developed by the local Food Policy Council. -
Capitol Regional Plan of Conservation and Development
Adopted 2014Chapter 7 of this regional plan for the Hartford, CT, metro area focuses on food systems and food security. -
San Francisco, CA, Executive Directive 09-03: Healthy and Sustainable Food for San Francisco
2009This mayoral directive creates a food policy council and tasks city departments with specific actions to help promote food access. -
Salt Lake City, UT, 2013 Community Food Assessment
2013This local food assessment examines indicators and local initiatives for food production, distribution, consumption, food security, and food waste. -
Assessing the San Diego County, CA, Food System: Indicators for a More Food Secure Future
2010by: Gail Feenstra, Susan EllsworthThis food system assessment discusses trends and establishes goals and indicators for three overarching food system visions. -
Parks that Protect: Leveraging Waterfronts for Resilient Communities
March 2023This report uses case studies of waterfront park projects that were designed to improve health and quality of life while also reducing the threat of rising water levels and severe weather. -
Chesapeake, VA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated October 2021These regulations belong to the Food Systems, Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Niagara Falls, NY, Local Food Action Plan
October 2018This functional plan presents agriculture as one of the priority areas, with sub-themes on urban agriculture, community gardens, and farmer markets. -
Guide to Urban Farming in New York State
2016by: Hannah Koski, Elizabeth Gabriel, Molly RiordanThis guide provides information to help understand and address the challenges associated with urban food systems and resources to support food production in urban and peri-urban areas. -
Urban Farm Business Plan: Handbook
September 2011This guide provides information for developing business plans intended to support the start-up and operations of urban farms. -
Can We Be Partners? A Case Study of Community Action and Local Food Systems Planning in Los Angeles
Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(3): 202-217, 2019by: David Sloane, Breanna Hawkins, Jacqueline IllumThis article presents a case study of how a heath advocacy organization in Los Angeles, CA, Community Health Councils (CHC), partnered with city planners and other allies to integrate food issues into three community plans. -
Urban Farming Is Going High Tech: Digital Urban Agriculture's Links to Gentrification and Land Use
Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1): 47-59, 2020by: Michael CarolanThis article looks into where traditional urban agriculture and digital urban agriculture converge and diverge from one another as it relates to gentrification and inequitable land-use patterns. -
Regulatory Practices of Urban Agriculture: A Connection to Planning and Policy
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(4): 389-403, 2017by: Mahbubur Meenar, Alfonso Morales, Leonard Bonarek, AICPThis article reviews policy and regulatory practices of urban agriculture in metropolitan and micropolitan areas. -
The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(3): 277-295, 2017by: Megan Horst, AICP, Nathan McClintock, Lesli HoeyThis article explores the potential that planning for urban agriculture has on fostering food justice for communities. -
Urban Farming: An Introduction to Urban Farming, from Types and Benefits to Strategies and Regulations
2017This report provides an overview of the characteristics of urban agriculture, including benefits and challenges and production, processing, and distribution considerations. -
The Promise of Urban Agriculture: National Study of Commercial Farming
August 2019by: Anu Rangarajan, Molly RiordanThis report explores the commercial and economic viability of urban agriculture. -
Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems
2015by: Pay Drechsel, Henk de ZeeuwThis book presents a worldwide overview of urban food systems and intends to help planners, urban developers, and policy-makers plan for sustainable and resilient urban food systems. -
Rochester, NY, Rochester 2034
Adopted November 2019This comprehensive plan belongs to the Climate Change, Food Systems, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Thurston County, WA, Code of Ordinances
2017The county’s zoning code establishes an Agritourism Overlay District. -
Surry County, NC, Code of Ordinances
2017The county’s zoning ordinance allows agritourism-related uses as conditional uses in certain districts. -
Spring Grove, IL, Municipal Code
2017The village’s zoning ordinance addresses agritourism through an agritourism overlay district. -
Rockingham County, NC, Unified Development Ordinance
2017The county’s unified development ordinance provides development standards for agritourism activities. -
Baltimore, MD, The 2019 Baltimore Sustainability Plan
Adopted January 2019This functional plan belongs to the Food Systems, Social Equity and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Mussey Township, MI, Code of Ordinances
2016The township’s zoning ordinance addresses agritourism by allowing agricultural tourism and agriculturally related production uses. -
Milton, GA, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code addresses agritourism through “agricultural-related activities” and “rural or agricultural event facility.” -
A Toolkit for Incorporating Food Waste in Municipal Climate Action Plans
July 2021by: Linda Breggin, Akielly Hu, Sam KoenigThis toolkit belongs to both the Climate Change and Food Systems collections. -
Defining Agritourism: A Comparative Study of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Missouri and North Carolina
Tourism Management 37 (2013): 39e47, 2013by: Claudia Gil Arroyo, Carla Barbieri, Samantha RichThis article seeks to identify preferred definitional elements and types of agritourism activities. -
Kentucky Agritourism Market Study: Executive Summary and Recommendations
2005This report offers an interesting look at factors needed for a successful agritourism program within a state. -
Characteristics of New Jersey Agritourism Farms
Journal of Food Distribution Research 45(2): 161–73, 2014by: Brian Schilling, Kevin SullivanThis article examines the characteristics of New Jersey farms engaging in agritourism using 2007 Census of Agriculture data. -
Facilitating Innovative Agricultural Enterprises: Considerations and Example Language for Vermont Municipalities
2012This guide and model was produced to help support and foster agricultural expansion through “agripreneurism,” or the diversification of on-farm businesses.