[BCFSN] Fw: new 'Food Systems Academy'

[Barbara Seed]

Food System Professionals,​


I am pleased to announce the launch of a new searchable database containing
enacted local government food policies. The database contains
​over ​
100 newly adopted local government policies aimed to strengthen food
systems.
​

The *Growing Food Connections Policy Database, *hosted by the School of
Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, will assist local
governments as they work to broaden access to healthy food and help sustain
local farms and food producers.



Growing Food Connections, a federally-funded research initiative to
strengthen community food systems nationwide, has compiled over 100
policies governing issues as diverse as public investment in food systems,
farmland protection, local food procurement and food policy council
resolutions. The Growing Food Connections Policy Database was launched
​yesterday
 at the American Farmland Trust’s national conference, which includes
sessions on food systems policy, in Lexington, KY, and is available online:
http://growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resources/policy-database/
​.​

​
​For more information click see
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/10/028.html.

Kim

*Kimberley Hodgson, MURP, MS, AICP, RD*
Founder / Principal, Cultivating Healthy Places | Vancouver, BC
w. cultivatinghealthyplaces.com
e. kim at chplaces.com
t. @planning4health

*Read about Growing Food Connections, a new 5-year food systems project,
at growingfoodconnections.org <http://growingfoodconnections.org/>.*
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