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Title: Why a food policy council


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Why a food policy council?
  • Food Policy Council Models

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Winnes 3-Ps of Developing Just and
Sustainable Local Food Systems
  • Projects the programs, activities, businesses,
    and initiatives that make up local food systems
  • Partnerships the process, collaborations,
    coalitions, and multi-stakeholder efforts that
    are formed to accomplish something that no single
    entity can accomplish alone
  • Policy the actions and in-actions of government
    at all levels (local, state, federal) that
    influence the supply, quality, price, production,
    distribution, and consumption of food

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Lots of groups try to fill gaps with food
projects like
  • Non-profit organizations (farmers markets, CSAs,
    community gardens)
  • Community Development Corporations (supermarket
    development, new farm enterprises)
  • Faith-based institutions (food pantries, food
    banks)
  • Government Services and Programs (food stamps,
    WIC, farmland preservation)
  • Schools (child nutrition programs,
    farm-to-school)
  • Cooperative Extension (farmer assistance,
    nutrition education)
  • Private entrepreneurs (market-based enterprises,
    coops)

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But still no effort to develop coordinated food
policy
  • Since state and local governments dont have
    Departments of Food, FPCs can
  • -    represent a variety of private and public
    food system interest groups and agencies
  • -    cut across government department lines and
    focus on food, nutrition, and agriculture issues
  • -    serve as a food system planning venue and
    promote coordination between food system
    stakeholders
  • - accept responsibility for ensuring that major
    food and farming goals, e.g. food is a human
    right, farmers are protected, are met

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Food Policy Councils General Purposes and
Mission
  • Develop, coordinate, and implement a food system
    policy
  • Connect economic development, food security
    efforts, preservation and enhancement of
    agriculture, and environmental concerns
  • Ensure universal access to healthy and affordable
    food for all citizens
  • Support development and expansion of locally
    produced food
  • Review proposed legislation affecting the food
    system
  • Make recommendations to the governmental
    leadership
  • Employ research and information gathering, policy
    analysis, and public education methods
  • Serve as a public forum for the discussion of key
    food system issues

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3 models for Food Policy Councils
  • State or municipal level created by statue
  • E.g. Connecticut Food Policy Council, Hartford
    Food Policy Council
  • Representation on council mandated, split
    government and public
  • Advantages Statues are law, perhaps more
    permanence, sometimes can gain funding from state
    appropriation
  • State or municipal level created by executive
    order
  • Executive appoints members, come up with
    recommendations
  • Disadvantages no funding, no force of law to
    implement recommendations
  • Self-organized coalitions
  • Membership open to everyone, can encompass a
    large geographical area without political
    boundaries
  • Disadvantages Not functioning from within
    government, need funding

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What we chose for Kansas City
  • A coalition that can develop policy
    recommendations -- can advocate, educate and
    coordinate
  • Membership widespread from different
    constituencies in the Kansas City area
  • Farming, food banking, schools, health and
    hospitals, nutritionists, supermarkets, private
    entrepreneurs, university extension, state,
    county and municipal departments,
    intergovernmental cooperative bodies,
    restaurants, distributors, neighborhood groups,
    elected and appointed officials, food and food
    production related industries
  • To provide coordination and to develop
    partnerships to make sure food policy happens
  • Policy is more than ordinances and laws, its
    also about policies within organizations,
    implementation and the like

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General Structure Discussions
  • 501 c(3) ?
  • Interest group under organization like MARC?
  • One of the next steps we need to decide
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