Local Food Systems (in 10 minutes!)

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1 Go Wake County!

2 Why the Growth in Local Foods What is a Food System? What is the Statewide Context in which Wake County is working? Don t forget it s a system Local Food Systems (in 10 minutes!)

3 The Why Job creation Economic development Better health Reduced health care costs Farm viability More green space Enhanced environmental quality Enhanced Food Security

4 Produce Compost Transport Consume Food System Elements Transform Retail Package Adapted from Cornell s Discovering the Food System curriculum.

5 We are Talking about Opportunity Building a Local Food Economy In North Carolina

6 We re Talking about Entrepreneurship The Produce Box

7 We re Talking about Economic Development

8 We re Talking about Health

9 We re Talking about Access During World War II, Americans planted 20 million gardens and produced 40% of our fruits and vegetables

10 More than 1000 participants Broad range of partners Focused on Game Changers Six regional meetings Statewide summit 100+ page Action Plan The Statewide Context

11 Game Changers Legislated Sustainable Local Foods Advisory NC 10% campaign Community Garden in every County (BCBSFNC) Pre-service Teacher Education for Farm to School (ASAP) Recurring Dollars for Farmland Preservation Trust Fund Increased Access and Education in Low-Income Communities Beginning Farmers Food Corps

12 Through that process, stakeholders identified a critical path to a strong local food economy. A Sustainable Local Food Economy in NC requires Structured Planning and Coordination which requires Engaging and Coordinating Agencies & Stakeholders at the State & Local Level to Form State & Local Food Advisory s resulting in Coordinated Local Food System Policies and Regulations

13 Development of Food Policy s NC Farm to Fork NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Sustainable Food NC North Carolina Food Youth Initiative Cabarrus Food Policy Western NC Food Policy Charlotte Mecklenburg Food Policy Durham Prosperity Robeson Farm, Food, & Family Upper PeeDee Farm & Food Fayetteville All-American Homegrown Chatham Food Task Force Asheville- Buncombe Food Hoke Farm, Food & Family Forsyth Local Food Consortium Dare Food Task Force Raleigh Wake Food Task Force Brunswick Food Task Force Alamance Food Task Force McDowell Beaufort Caldwell Carteret Chowan Pitt Greene Rowan Iredell Gaston Cleveland Guilford Orange DATELINE

14 Systems change requires deep collaboration. Human Trust Shared Frame Joint Action Peter Senge Deep Collaboration

15 Nurture processes that foster alignment across decentralized efforts. Expand the base of engaged voices. Build capacity for deep collaboration across the system. Promote collaborative reporting, reflecting, and redirecting.

16 Transformative Systems Change Imagine if We have an agriculture that provides for healthy, vibrant rural communities with a high quality of life. A healthy and active environment to raise kids, where there is a strong sense of community.

17 Transformative Systems Change Imagine if We had regionalized and local food systems with more direct markets, urban farms, valued employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, more jobs, more money circulating in local economies, new businesses, engaged youth, healthy, local, nutritious food (in schools, colleges, hospitals, colleges), lower obesity and diabetes rates, lower health care costs

18 Transformative Systems Change Imagine if we had a multifunctional agriculture that provides all of that plus an aesthetic landscapes, habitat for songbirds and waterfowl, corridors for wildlife, biodiversity, windbreaks.

19 Transformative Systems Change Imagine if. we had an agriculture that also provides important ecosystem services: improving water, air, and soil quality, and mitigating climate change

20 Transformative Systems Change Imagine if. we had an agriculture that provided access to healthy foods for all populations, while farmers made enough money to keep their farms, and workers were paid fairly

21 Agriculture.seen as a public good.