Local Food Initiatives: Assets, Benefits

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Local Food Initiatives Assets, Benefits
Challenges in SE North Carolina

• CIRA Local Food Systems Collaboration/UNC-CH
• Dorothy Holland
• Center for Community Action
• Mac Legerton
• Dept of City Regional Planning Workshop Course
  on Economic Development
• Sara Safransky Zoe Hamstead

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Local Food Initiatives Assets, Benefits
Challenges in SE North Carolina

• CIRA Local Food Systems Collaboration

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CIRA NC Sustainable Development Persistent
Poverty Project
SD/ACJSC/BRWIA
CIRA- UNC
CCT
CCA
Locations of Regional Partners CCA Center for
Community Action (Southeast) CCT Concerned
Citizens of Tillery (Northeast) SD/ACJSC ASU
Sustainable Development Program/Appalachian
Coalition for Just and Sustainable
Communities/Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
(Northwest)
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Local food production consumption

• Source of local income
• Means of making higher quality food available
  to economically poor people
• Avenue to better diets/health in low-wealth
  areas.

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CIRA COLLABORATION 2006 ConferenceSustainable
Development and Poverty Reduction
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CIRA COLLABORATION 2006 Conference Sustainable
Development Poverty Reduction
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CIRA COLLABORATION 06-07Quarterly Meetings

• SE (Lumberton) 9/06
• NE (Tillery) 1/07
• narrowed focus to rebuilding local food
  systems
• WEST (Boone) 3/07

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CIRA COLLABORATION 2007 Conference Rebuilding
Local Food Systems

• Keynote speaker Deborah Webb,
• Community Farm Alliance, KY
• Diana Lee
  facilitates discussions

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CIRA COLLABORATION 07-08Quarterly Meetings

• Lumberton 10/07
• Tillery 2/08
• Boone 5/08
• 08 Conference TBD

Possible topics Food initiatives Economic
Development? Universities institutional buying?
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TWO TYPES OF UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• Cross-Region Collaboration Model
• Curricular Model