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Introducing the Farm and Food Policy Project
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In June/July 2005, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) made four grants totaling $4.675 million to American Farmland Trust, the Community Food Security Coalition, Environmental Defense, and the Northeast-Midwest Institute "to work collaboratively to advance four interlocking policy initiatives that will unite diverse constituencies and help to build a more sustainable agriculture and food system in the United States."
CFSC is convening the Healthy Food and Communities Work Group, the purpose of which is to identify and develop policies that will ensure fair access to healthy and affordable food for all Americans, especially the poor, children, and elderly; that promote new opportunities for farmers to sell their goods to schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, and all public institutions; that protect the land, environment, and other food producing natural resources; and that rebuild and restore regional food and agriculture systems to enhance the economic livelihoods of family farms and rural communities. The working group will research, analyze, develop and prioritize policy options in close cooperation with the other three working groups.
To learn more about the exciting work that the Food and Farm Policy Project (FFPP) is engaged in, please visit the following links:
Overview of FFPP
Diagram of the structure of FFPP [PDF]
Explanation of the Healthy Food and Communities Initiative. [PDF]
Differences between the HFC Work Group and the
CFSC Policy Committee [PDF]
Learn more about the Farm Bill Listening Session [PDF] that FFPP
held at the CFSC Conference in Atlanta to hear people's priorities
regarding the Farm Bill.
If your organization would like to hold its own listening session and you would like more information about what questions to ask, click on one of the following:
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