MEETINGS & CONFERENCE CALLS: Archive

April 9th, 2008
Topic: Food and Farm Assessments: Know the Way Before You Go Astray
Speakers: Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center; Anne Palmer of the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Joyce Smith of Operation Retail Southwest in Baltimore, MD
Call Notes (PDF)

Links to resources Ken Meter mentioned in the call:

• Crossroads Resource Center
• Starting point for local economic analysis
• The data sets Ken uses for a local economic overview (PDF)
• Sample PowerPoint: from "The Home Grown Economy," an agriculture forum sponsored by Rep. Collin Peterson, which Ken keynoted in 2007. This focuses on one regional study and illustrates some of the national and global dilemmas in our food system. (PDF)
• Some dry, but useful data summaries covering local regions Ken has researched where local partners can be linked from
• Suggestions for evaluating a Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign, which has some good insights about measurement of sucess in a local foods initiative. (PDF)
• Leopold Center guidebook: Developing a Vibrant and Sustainable Regional Food System (PDF)

Surveys used by Anne Palmer & Joyce Smith (in Word format):

• Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (stores)
• Community Food Assessment Survey (community members)

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