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This online toolkit includes 27 tools, created between 2001 and 2017, aimed at reversing patterns of segregation and disinvestment, preventing displacement, and promoting equitable revitalization. They're organized under four broad categories: affordable housing, economic opportunity, health equity and place, and land use and environment.

January 2018

Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation for Food Policy Initiatives

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PowerPoint preapred by John Hopkins Center for Livable Futures on monitoring and evaluation basics for food policy councils.

December 2017

County Office

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County Office is your quick reference guide for accurate, up-to-date information about all government offices and public records sources in your local area.

If you're trying to reach city, county, and state government offices anywhere in the Unites States, County Office providers users with accurate, reliable, and up-to-date information available.

This searchable database includes all types of government offices, including administrative, legal, health, tax, finance, commerce, education, property, social services, public works, law enforcement, emergency services, and judicial offices.

November 2017

Running a Food Hub: Learning from Food Hub Closures

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The fourth volume in the USDA's food hub technical report series, the report draws on national data and case studies to understand why some food hubs have failed in an effort to learn from their mistakes and identify general lessons so new and existing food hubs can overcome barriers to success.  

November 2017

Healthy Food Policy Project

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The Healthy Food Policy Project (HFPP) identifies and elevates local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food, and also contribute to strong local economies, an improved environment, and health equity, with a focus on socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups.

The Healthy Food Policy Project is a four-year collaboration of Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, the Public Health Law Center, and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut. This project is funded by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

This web site helps healthy food advocates, local policy makers, and local public health agencies in their quest to champion healthy food access in their communities and inclues a curated, searchable database of local healthy food policies.

October 2017

Built Environment Journal Special Edition: Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems

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How does and can planning and design enhance the freedom and wellbeing of marginalized actors in the food system – low-income residents, people of colour, small-holder farmers, and refugees – the very people the alternative food movements purport to serve? That is the question of concern in this special issue in which authors from across the Global North and South explore the role of planning and design in communities’ food systems, while explicitly considering the imbalances in equity, justice, and power.

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