Increasing Local Food System Participation: Policies & Programs That Improve Access & Affordability
Progress on 'next steps' since 2016:
GOAL 1: Establish and support coordinating bodies such as food policy councils to identify and collaborate on shared community food system goals
- Local Food Leaders Group has been established and meets quarterly
To get involved, contact:
Colette DePhelps cdephelps@uidahho.edu
GOAL 2: Assist Idaho schools in applying for community eligibility provision and assist them in becoming hubs for youth and families to access healthy food and food education
To get involved, contact:
Heather Blume hblume@sde.idaho.gov
GOAL 3: Lower food waste by creating a food recovery network organization that will partner with entities that generate food waste to transport food resources to low-income communities
To get involved, contact:
Jackie Yarbrough jyarbrough@idahofoodbank.org
Presenter Mark Winnie
Mark is a co-founder of a number of food and agriculture policy groups including the City of Hartford Food Policy Commission, the Connecticut Food Policy Council, End Hunger Connecticut!, and the national Community Food Security Coalition. He was an organizer and chairman of the Working Lands Alliance, a statewide coalition working to preserve Connecticut’s farmland, and is a founder of the Connecticut Farmland Trust. Mark was a member of the United States delegation to the 2000 World Conference on Food Security in Rome and is a 2001 recipient of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary’s Plow Honor Award. From 2002 until 2004, Mark was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a position supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Mark serves part time as a Senior Advisor to the Food Policy Networks Project at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future.
Mark currently writes, speaks, and consults extensively on community food system topics including hunger and food insecurity, local and regional agriculture, community food assessment, and food policy. He also does policy communication and food policy council work for the Community Food Security Coalition. His essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Hartford Courant, the Boston Globe, The Nation, In These Times, Sierra Magazine, Orion Magazine, Successful Farming, Yes! Magazine, and numerous organizational and professional journals. Mark blogs regularly at www.markwinne.com and is a regular contributor www.civileats.org. He is the author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty (Beacon Press 2008) and the forthcoming Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture(Beacon Press, 2010).
Mark now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
