The Food, Environment, and Economic Development (FEED) Act aims to close the grocery gap and capture those opportunities while also enabling more residents to eat a healthy diet. In creates incentives to draw full-service grocery stores to low-income food deserts and provides funding for a Healthy Food Retail Program.
The Farmers Market Promotion Program offers grants to help improve and expand existing market opportunities. Agricultural cooperatives, producer networks, producer associations, local governments, nonprofit corporations, public benefit corporations, economic development corporations, regional farmers’ market authorities and Tribal governments are among those eligible to apply.
This report contains recommendations developed by the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. The recommendations address ways the city and state officials can support increasing the number of retail outlets that sell fresh fruits and vegetables in communities that desperately need them.
Tithe California Financial Opportunities Roundtable (CalFOR) organized to identify roadblocks and develop recommendations for leveraging existing resources and expanding opportunities for sustainable economic development, job growth and wealth creation – the result of those deliberations is this guidebook. Solutions range from micro-finance to new bonding authorities as well as innovations within traditional investment classes.
Provides resources and support for communities that want to start new food co-ops.
The USDA website on food hubs and links to additional resources. Also includes descriptions of the many benefits that food hubs offer to small and mid-size producers.
A press release announcing a statewide initiative aimed at spurring supermarket development throughout New Jersey’s urban centers The initiative is part of Governor Corzine’s overall Economic Recovery and Assistance Plan .
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno formally launches an expanded New Jersey Food Access Initiative (NJFAI) at the site of New Brunswick’s first full service supermarket in two decades.
The Colorado Health Foundation, The Food Trust and the Denver Department of Environmental Health Denver Healthy People Program have worked to bring together the needed stakeholders to ensure that all Denver residents live in areas that provide access to safe, healthy and affordable food.
The study looks a values-driven wholesale distributor of food grown in Philadelphia can fit the needs of consumers and markets, it also develops a model that allows start-ups to grow their distribution enterprise.