Putting Food Systems
on the Urban Map
Four Wednesdays: May 10 - June 7, 2006
Urban and community-based food systems in
New York City and the emerging field of food system planning were the focus of this four part series. Topics included: community food assess-
ments, resource mapping, wholesale and retail farmers’ markets, youth in urban agriculture, innovative food bank programs, farm to school initiatives, and food policy councils.
LYNN FREDERICKS,
Community food specialist,
Family Cook Productions;
JESSICA WURWAG, planner;
LOREN TALBOT, planner; and special guests.
Materials
> Download Flyer (PDF)
Reference Links
> World Hunger Year Food Security Learning Center
> Community Food Security Coalition
> Community & Economic Development Toolbox, Agriculture Economic Development
> Food and Planning, Progressive Planning, Winter 2004
Related Books and Articles
Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community,
Thomas A. Lyson, Tufts University Press
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket,
Brian Halweil, WW Norton & Company
The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture,
Andrew Kimbrell, editor, Island Press
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