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| Community and Regional Food
Planning |
| Dr. Deanna Glosser, in
collaboration with Professor Emeritus Jerome Kaufman and
Dr. Kami Pothukuchi, has worked to integrate food system
planning into mainstream planning.
This effort has included the following key
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Writing the American Planning
Association’s
Community and Regional Food Planning Policy
Guide,
which was approved by the APA Board of Directors in
April 2007
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This policy guide provides an
overview of the latest findings and trends that
illustrates why planners should become more engaged in
the food system.
The policy guide then outlines seven general
policies, each containing 3-6 specific policies which
provide more detail, and specific examples of how
planners can help to achieve that specific policy. The
seven general principles are:
The American Planning
Association, its Chapters and Divisions, and planners
support…
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1.
A
comprehensive food planning process at the community and
regional level
2.
Strengthening
the local and regional economy by promoting community
and regional food system
3.
Food
systems that improve the health of the region's
residents
4.
Food
systems that are ecologically sustainable
5.
Food
systems
that are socially equitable and just
6.
Food
systems that preserve and sustain diverse traditional
food cultures of Native American and other ethnic
minority communities
7.
The
development of state and federal legislation that
facilitates community and regional food planning,
including addressing existing barriers
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Following the approval of the policy guide, assembling a
Food Planning Working Group to
prepare a Food Planning
Implementation Plan to ensure these policies are
achieved.
A
long list of possible action items was assembled and
prioritized.
Planners and other
professionals across the country are
working on issues related to integrating food planning
into economic development and comprehensive plans, and
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Publishing items to promote food system planning:
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APA’s Food Planning Policy Guide in Action,
published in the Summer 08 issue of Private Practice
Perspectives, the American Planning Association’s
Private Practice Division newsletter.
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Community and Regional Food Planning by Deanna Glosser,
Jerome Kaufman and Dr. Kami Pothukuchi, published as a
PAS Memo by the American Planning Association.
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The Food System: A New Addition to the Planning
Field by Deanna Glosser and Jerome Kaufman, published in
the American Planning Association’s The Commissioner.
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Contact Deanna Glosser for more information on this new
exciting addition to the planning profession:
deanna_glosser@comcast.net or call 217-629-8949.
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Illinois State Museum’s Oral History of Illinois
Agriculture Project
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Dr. Deanna Glosser participated in the Illinois State
Museum’s Oral History of Illinois Agriculture (OHIA)
project, which produced an online Audio-Video Barn.
This site is full of stories about Illinois
agriculture. It contains audio and video recordings of
more than 130 oral-history interviews with people
involved in agriculture and rural life in Illinois.
You can visit this site
HERE or read the interview of Dr. Glosser
HERE. |
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