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   Local & Regional Food Systems

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The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Market Eggs Produce
Photos Courtesy of Greg Clary, Ph.D., Economist, Texas A&M University

Local Foods
Resources

Local Foods Web Sites

Local Foods Bibliography (this section is still growing)

Local Food and Local Taste: A study of supply and demand, A Report for the Greater Lehigh Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapter

Study evaluating Jamie Oliver's school food campaign in England. http://cesswb.nuff.ox.ac.uk/downloads/schoolmeals.pdf

"Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes," a report released by PolicyLink, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research, and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
http://www.policylink.org/documents/DesignedforDisease.pdf?msource=CHIS,

World Watch Institute.  Good overview and links http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4132

Buy Fresh Buy Local http://www.foodroutes.org/buy-fresh-buy-local.jsp

Duncan Hilchey’s Growing Home http://pelennor.leopold.iastate.edu/news/pastevents/hilchey/hilchey.htm

Local Harvest (www.localharvest.org) provides a comprehensive directory of farmers’ markets, farm stands, U-Pick Farms, and Community Supported Agriculture programs in the U.S.

Food Routes (www.foodroutes.org) is a U.S. non-profit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food—the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to their tables.

Kellogg Foundation http://wkkf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=90&CID=4&ItemID=40205&NID=61&LanguageID=0

Leopold Center – Marketing and Food Systems initiative – a particularly good site esp related to the science of all this http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/marketing.htm

Whole Foods Market – Northeast http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/locallygrown/northeast/index.html

Glynwood’s Guide to Serving Local Food http://glynwood.org/assets/PDF's/localfoods.pdf

Cornell’s Regional Food Guide – a little outdated but still relevant http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/

NESAWG’s The Northeast Food System Partnership http://www.nefood.org/

PSU’s Ag Map http://agmap.psu.edu/

Connecting Local Food Systems to Youth http://www.joe.org/joe/2008february/iw3.shtml

Market Maker http://www.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/

Cornell’s Small Farm – marketing etc – strong links http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/

The Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurs http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/necfe/basics/basics.html

New York Times – How local is local? http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/foodguide/archive/index.html

Clare Hinrich’s “Embeddedness and local foods systems

UNL Food Processinig Center http://fpc.unl.edu/Entrepreneur/index.shtml

Slow Food International (www.slowfood.com) is an international organization that promotes food and wine culture and aims to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life.

Mercatus Policy Series," Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the 'Food Miles' Perspective," Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu.

Joan Thomson's Publications

The Center for Environmental Farming Systems, CEFS, Goldsboro, NC

The items on this page are for informational purposes only and are not necessarily endorsed by the Northeast Regional Center.

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