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Local Foods
Resources
Local Foods Bibliography (this section is still growing)
"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Cornell’s Regional Food Guide – a little outdated but still relevant http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/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.nesawg.org/2006/08/activities.html
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.
