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News from our East Coast Partners

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Ecology Action Center’s Our Food Project

from the 2013-14 Annual Report [pdf 5.5 mB]

The overarching goal of the Our Food Project is to strengthen communities’ relationship to food by helping to build what we call “positive food environments”. Positive food environments are the physical and social spaces that help to normalize healthy eating by making it easier to grow, sell and eat good food. We work at the individual, community and systemic level to increase the availability of nutritious food as well as our access to it.In doing so, we actively involve people in the development of more localized food systems. Read more…

The local food movement

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Setting the stage for good food

From our friends at the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems:

This publication provides a brief history of the U.S. local food movement and its link to “good food” – food that is healthy, affordable, fair, and green – within the contexts of food access and health, food justice and sovereignty, the environment, and racial equity. The publication also contains a timeline that provides a sample of important U.S. events, policies, and statistics over the past 70 years that mark the growth of local food through the lens of the four elements of good food. Download the report [pdf]…